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Taking and Posting Pics
Senator:
So I searched around a little for a better place to post this and I searched for relevant posts and I feel really lame for posting this so go easy on me.
How do you all go about taking and posting pics. I used my daughters camera, shes 13 and knows this sh1t a lot better than me, took some pics for my project announcement, but they are over a meg and won't post.
Some questions, do you lower the res on the camera before taking the pics or do you take and then reduce using software, and if so what software. My kid says Paint will do it but I tried and that dont work too well. Do I need to buy some software or is there a freeware that'll reduce the resolution of a jpg? It seems the camera software won't do it either.
I know equipment has a lot to do with it but also, what settings do you use on your camera? Again, I don't really even know what I'm asking but any friendly help is appreciated.
How do you post em so that the click enlarges, that is a nice feature.
I gained a lot of knowledge here and used it to build an awesome cp so I want to share and its very frustrating that my technological ignorance is holding me back. :-[ :-[ :-[
ahofle:
In your software, look for an option to 'resize' the image. Make it around 1024x768 or so and that should bring the size way down.
You could also use a free web hosting service like http://imageshack.us/ which will resize it for you and host it for free.
superbigjay:
--- Quote from: ahofle on September 20, 2007, 01:10:28 am ---In your software, look for an option to 'resize' the image. Make it around 1024x768 or so and that should bring the size way down.
You could also use a free web hosting service like http://imageshack.us/ which will resize it for you and host it for free.
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I usually do ahofle trick, I keep the full res on the original pic (about 1mb) and then use acdsee (or any image editor that allow you to resize) to 600x480, 800x600 or 1024x768 depending on how detailed the picture needs to be.
At those dimensions, the files are way smaller in size...
And again, as ahofle said, if you need to host a real big image (more than the 512K limitation), you could use a web hosting service and use the "insert image" button on top of the smiley icons.
Jay. :cheers:
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I use Irfanview since it's free, lightweight, opens just about anything and doubles as a nice fast-to-load viewer. Let me know if you need help finding the right screen in it.
A colleague recommended Faststone the other day but I'm yet to try it.
Regards the autosizing-in-place thing, I think that's a built-in feature of the forum software which works automatically on any image as small as 640 x 480 (or 480x640).
Rabbi Bob:
Along with the resolution, 72dpi is usually enough for web content pictures. Irfanview has a slide setting when saving to accomplish this. :applaud: