Amaltas

[A.S.Chandrashekaran]

Kodak Z 740, Closeup

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I love the composition. Just a little bit of space on both the sides would have made it better there would have been separation from the frame. Similarly a few flowers are cut at the top of the frame. A bit of more space at the top would have been good as well.

[A.S.Chandrashekaran]

Had to crop to keep the pic less than 200KB.

[Sabyasachi Patra]

I am uploading this just to show that you need not crop an image to reduce the file size. I downloaded this image from your email. I reduced the quality level and the image size came down to 193kb.

I am trying to pointout that you need not crop a photo to reduce its size. There are several variables like the dimension of a file (length and breadth pixel size). I have constrained the longest dimension at 800 pixel.

In this image, I just increaesd the contrast. No other changes are made to the image.

[A.S.Chandrashekaran]

Thank you for all the tips. What I did do was to reduce quality using "Faststone". Even at 640x480 the size came to 245 KB. However, after seeing your reply I tried Nero; and I stepped down from 2536x1932 to 800x600 to get a picture size of 193 KB.
It was as a last resort that I cropped while using Faststone.
Thank you for taking all the trouble
A.S.Chandrashekaran