[RadioAstronomer]

Many of the space photo tiffs I work with are between 50 and 500 megs each.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Jeez, now THAT is some resolution!

[Congressman Billybob]

You would know the composite NASA photograph entitled "Earth at Night." I have a column planned for maybe a month from now which is based on that photograph. It shows a Mercator map of the world, done solely in the lights from cities at night.

Do you know a version of that which is not a bandwidth hog, or a greedy hard disk creature? I hope so, since I need that to send out with my column.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Double Crossing at the Rio Grande II."

[Publius6961]

Many of the space photo tiffs I work with are between 50 and 500 megs each.

Have you discovered any reasonably-priced graphics software that can manipulate those size images at reasonable speeds?
CorelDraw and Photoshop do not qualify as "low-priced".

[MikeD]

Many of the space photo tiffs I work with are between 50 and 500 megs each.

Before I go on, a big public "shout-out" to Radio Astronomer. Just to clarify, the astronomical pictures are only in one color. To get the full color pictures like those seen above, three or four of these 50-500 MB images must be combined. Lots and lots of data to sift through...