I think I'm Going to Freak !!! "Kodak Imaging"

[DANIMAL]

I am trying to get a picture from Kodak Picture disk. (you can get this anytime you get pictures developed there is an option to get doubles on picture disk) to be a:

1-.bmp
2-640X480 dpi
3-100000 bytes or smaller
4-and still look clear and decent.

I was using Kodak imaging with in windows and I can get all these 4 things except getting it under 100000 bytes.
Can anyone give me some help?
I have cropped the image to the smallest possible size without losing the picture.
what property of the image can I lower to get a smaller size file?

[MacGyver]

BMP is the worst image format for file size. I hate it because everyone in our company uses it instead of JPEG, and they wonder why the email system is overloaded and I needed to install another 10 gigs of disk space in the server last month. LOL. BMP is a Microsoft creation I believe, so what more did you expect than bloat.

The only thing I can think of is to reduce the colour depth to 256 colours in an optimized pallette. Because BMP has no built in compression scheme, a 640x480x256 BMP is always going to be exactly 308,278 bytes. Dropping it down to 640x480x16 (which is the next lowest colour depth) is 153,718 bytes.

So basically what you're asking with BMP is impossible. I tried the photo-disks available from the photo labs, as well as scanning services at places like Kinkos. I found that nobody could do a decent scan the way I wanted, so I bought my own scanner instead so I can do it my way. The right way, every time.

[DANIMAL]

Originally posted by MacGyver:
<STRONG>BMP is the worst image format for file size. I hate it because everyone in our company uses it instead of JPEG, and they wonder why the email system is overloaded and I needed to install another 10 gigs of disk space in the server last month. LOL. BMP is a Microsoft creation I believe, so what more did you expect than bloat.

The only thing I can think of is to reduce the colour depth to 256 colours in an optimized pallette. Because BMP has no built in compression scheme, a 640x480x256 BMP is always going to be exactly 308,278 bytes. Dropping it down to 640x480x16 (which is the next lowest colour depth) is 153,718 bytes.

So basically what you're asking with BMP is impossible. I tried the photo-disks available from the photo labs, as well as scanning services at places like Kinkos. I found that nobody could do a decent scan the way I wanted, so I bought my own scanner instead so I can do it my way. The right way, every time.</STRONG>

Well that is what I thought. Impossible.
So the site <A HREF="http://www.hotornot.com/" TARGET=_blank> http://www.hotornot.com/[/url] that my wife would like her pic on is screwed, they ask these things to get your picture uploaded to thier site. how is everyone doing it. they want .bmp 640x480 dpi or less and 100000 bytes or less.
there has to be a way .
PS. if you drop to 256 colors the picture looks like crap. any one would get a 10 on that site if they were all 256 color.

[MacGyver]

When I got www.hotornot.com , all the pictures are JPG. And the pictures aren't even located on the hotornot website, they are on each picture owner's website. I wouldn't use BMP in a million years on a webpage!

[USA 1]

You could bring the image up and then do a Print Screen and then paste it in word and then save as a JPEG

[DANIMAL]

Some one do me a favor and try to put a picture on that site and tell me what happens.