40 Sizes of photographs in folders

Knowing how big your photos are is always useful. Frequently we set or our cameras are set to take high resolution photos, or conversely cameras are set to take lower resolution photos. Simple logistics also means the higher the resolution your camera is set to, the smaller the number of photos you can take onto your card and vice versa, the smaller the resolution setting the greater number of photos one can get on a card.

Knowing too, how big the images you have in a particular folder is also helpful, especially as we are about to create Year Book pages and need to use high resolution photos.

To find out:
1. Open the folder containing the images you want to use or want to know about their size.

2. Click on the small icon on the end of the tools menu that has the tiny coloured squares, and scroll down to details.

3.The computer will automatically calculate the size of your images as well as giving you other details of your images, eg when they were taken, when they modifies, where they are kept etc.
Anything over 1,000k or 1 Mg is though of as high resolution. With newer more powerful cameras images can be 3 and 4 Mg

Another way, somewhat slower.
1. Open your folder of photos and hold your curser over the image, without clicking. A small window will open and tell you details of that photo, including its size and the date it was taken.

By the way:
Using that small coloured  icon on the tool bar allows you to change the view of your photos from a list to small icons to large icons/ thumbnails. This is a useful tool when looking for particular photos or files, and particularly useful for small children to find their files, if they can't read the text tile.