Posting Photos - Resizing - Please Read Even IF You know how

[scuzzy]

I've received a number of requests recently about problems posting photos.

The forum does have a size limit of 10Meg per post. This means all photos. Sometimes even when posting less than that problems occur. Not sure if this is a forum bug or not. It could even be an internet problem at times.

Regardless - Many people are posting HUGE photos, 2 to 3 Meg each, which really isn't necessary. The solution is to 'resize' your photos. Unless you know how to use image editing software this might be difficult.

Today I found an easy way to resize your photos if you use windows. Extremely easy to use. I did a test of this software with a 2meg photo. It resized to 1/10th the file size and still looked good. It was 1366x800 pixels after the resize. But the disk space size was really reduced. I used both small and medium resize settings. These are both plenty big for posting pics.

See these howtos:

http://www.wikihow.com/Easily-Resize-Photos-in-Windows-XP

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/7784/how-to-resize-your-photos-the-easy-way/

Please consider resizing photos before posting. Huge photos are not needed. Heck, most people don't have monitors that big to display some I've seen. And the big photos eat up disk space like crazy. And people with slower connections really suffer.

[George Hacker]

A good approach would be to post a few scaled down (800x600) photos in the AAR, then point the shooters to an off-site photo album like Picasa where the high-resolution, comprehensive library is kept.  This would save a ton of network bandwidth (the pics will load faster on the AAR) and disk space (makes scuzzy happy and defers the need for additional disk storage).

- ShadowMan

[JOEMORGAN]

I use MS Paint. I open the photo with it and then the resize button is right there. If you do this make sure to reduce by percentage not pixels.

[TaosGlock]

I use I-Photo in my MAC, then host with Imageshak.  I always re-size before posting.
Don't know the size but they are one size up from the smallest.
Good post!
TG

[TaosGlock]

Oh and also I try and spread the wealth of pics in more than one post as to not have too many per post. See my last AAR in Raton here:
http://appleseedinfo.org/smf/index.php?topic=31696.0
Will this also work to save space?
TG

[2 clicks low]

I use MS Paint. I open the photo with it and then the resize button is right there. If you do this make sure to reduce by percentage not pixels.

Thanks JOEMORGAN,
Just tried this and it works really well.
2 clicks low

[Nero]

A good approach would be to post a few scaled down (800x600) photos in the AAR, then point the shooters to an off-site photo album like Picasa where the high-resolution, comprehensive library is kept.  This would save a ton of network bandwidth (the pics will load faster on the AAR) and disk space (makes scuzzy happy and defers the need for additional disk storage).

- ShadowMan

I put everything on Picasa.  It offers a choice of external links by size of image, and it scales them on the fly.  I put the link to the scaled Picasa image inside of <img></img> tags (replace the angle brackets with square brackets) in my AAR post.  Works perfect, and Google gets to pay for the storage and bandwidth, not RWVA.