Today I went out and bought a digital camera. Well, to be precise I purchased a Canon Digital IXUS V from the lovely people at Paxtons.
I got a digital camera so that I could take lots of quick photos and easily post them on the web, either here, or at my other site. We now run into our first hurdle.
Even on a reasonable setting the jpg files the camera produces are 200k or so in size. Not the kind of thing you want to slot into a blog. So I had a look in the box to see what software came bundled with the camera to allow me to manipulate these images and make them small enough to include here. All we get is PhotoImpression 3.0 from ArcSoft. This, of course, allows you to perform all sorts of image manipulations apart from the one I want. You can reduce red eye, you can layer your photo, you can add textual captions to your photos, you can even add a fancy border to your photo. You cannot, as far as I can tell, resize it from 1024×768 pixels to something like 256×192 pixels. Which would be nice. So no pictures here.
Luckily I have a copy of Paint Shop Pro. All I need to do is transfer it to this machine and we should be up, up and away. I bet you can’t wait now, can you?