2018-01-24, 01:48 AM
Kirk - Thanks for the tip. I have some 2-part epoxy laying around. Although 3D printing a solution might be more fun!
As far as the pictures go, it is not so much the resolution as it is the compression. I take photos with my smartphone (high res), import them into the GIMP (open source photoshop), do some annotation on them, crop off some excess background, and then re-save them. During my save, I get to give it a "quality" value. The lower the image quality, the better the compression. I'm feeding in ridiculous numbers (like, 25% quality), and I am STILL getting pretty good pictures. I am compressing multi-megabyte images down to hundreds (or even tens) of kilobytes.
As far as the pictures go, it is not so much the resolution as it is the compression. I take photos with my smartphone (high res), import them into the GIMP (open source photoshop), do some annotation on them, crop off some excess background, and then re-save them. During my save, I get to give it a "quality" value. The lower the image quality, the better the compression. I'm feeding in ridiculous numbers (like, 25% quality), and I am STILL getting pretty good pictures. I am compressing multi-megabyte images down to hundreds (or even tens) of kilobytes.
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