At
Garden Organic for Schools we are keen to receive photographs of the
work that schools are undertaking. It is possible to send these photographs
using e-mail if your school has the facilities. However, sending photographs
in some formats can cause difficulties with the HDRA computer system. If you
would like to send photographs via e-mail please use the following procedure.
Pictures scanned into the computer and saved in the usual Bitmap format (with
the .bmp extension) can be very large
- often taking up several Megabytes of disk space. The same applies
to .tif files. Files of this size attached
to an email can cause considerable bottlenecks on a busy email server like
the one we have at Garden Organic for Schools - especially if you
want to send us more than one photo at a time.
Depending on what computer resources you have, you can considerably reduce
the size of an image file.
If
you are using a digital camera, or are scanning from print photographs,
check to see if your software gives you the option of saving your pictures
in a JPEG format (extension .jpg). JPEG
uses a mind-bogglingly complicated compression system that can reduce the
size of the finished file by 90% or more.
When you save a picture as a JPEG file, you may be given the option to set
the amount of compression. Depending on your software, you will be asked to
choose a percentage value for compression or you may be shown a scale ranging
from small file size/poor quality at one
end and large file size/good quality at
the other. Whatever software
you use, setting the value somewhere above the mid-point (at around 60%) should
be fine.
If
you have Microsoft Office 2000 installed on your computer you can use
MS Word 2000 to optimise an image file for you, by following the steps below.
If none of the above options are available to you, please don't be put off,
send your images anyway.
