A quick tutorial for taking photos with your phone for use on the web. Most phones today take amazing photos with great color and clarity. My Galaxy S6 active can take 16meg pixel photos. lets look at what photos are used for and why we might need a photo that big. a 16mega pixel photo is 73"x 41" in actual size. HUGE! and yes if you are going to make a print that size you need that much data to keep the photo clean.
Now on my phone it has a 2.4mega pix setting. That renders a photo that is 28" x 16" still pretty big and more than big enough for any web use. The size of the file is is less than a quarter of the size of the full high quality photo, 4meg vs 715KB.
have you found your self running out of room on your phone? turn the camera down to a setting someplace around 2 to 3 mega pixels. and you will have 4 times the space or more for photos.
now there are times when a full resolution photo is wanted. IF you are making a big blow up print then by all means take as big a photo as you can. If you are posting to the web and texting friends set it low and save space
here are two photos one at 16megs and one at 2.4
you see if you can tell on the web what one is what....
Now on my phone it has a 2.4mega pix setting. That renders a photo that is 28" x 16" still pretty big and more than big enough for any web use. The size of the file is is less than a quarter of the size of the full high quality photo, 4meg vs 715KB.
have you found your self running out of room on your phone? turn the camera down to a setting someplace around 2 to 3 mega pixels. and you will have 4 times the space or more for photos.
now there are times when a full resolution photo is wanted. IF you are making a big blow up print then by all means take as big a photo as you can. If you are posting to the web and texting friends set it low and save space
here are two photos one at 16megs and one at 2.4
you see if you can tell on the web what one is what....
