Pictures too Big
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Tater Salad
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I dont know if anyone could tell me how to downsize my picture so that they fit the regulations, my camera is like 7.1 megapixels so its way too big of a file.
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medievalman
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use http://www.photobucket.com. it atomatically resizes the pics for you.
Edit: I fixed it. Thanks for catching me Pete!
Edit: I fixed it. Thanks for catching me Pete!
Last edited by medievalman on Tue Jan 02, 2007 9:57 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Pete Zaria
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Medievalman, you meant www.photobucket.com (you missed the K in bucket).
Google produces a free program called Picasa2 for organizing, editing, and sharing photos. It has a great resize tool, along with redeye removal, crop, color balance, brightness/contrast, etc... Much more user friendly than Paint. http://picasa.google.com/
If you have $20 to spend, go on eBay and get a copy of Photoshop Elements. Long link to ebay item
800x600 (pixels) or smaller is a good size for posting images to forums. I always use .jpeg unless I need a transparent background, in which case I use .png. The objective is to keep file size small. A properly optimized 800x600 image can be well under 100kb. Reading on image optimization: http://www.fotofinish.com/resources/cen ... /optimize/
Another good site to host images is http://imageshack.us/ .
Peace,
Pete Zaria.
Google produces a free program called Picasa2 for organizing, editing, and sharing photos. It has a great resize tool, along with redeye removal, crop, color balance, brightness/contrast, etc... Much more user friendly than Paint. http://picasa.google.com/
If you have $20 to spend, go on eBay and get a copy of Photoshop Elements. Long link to ebay item
800x600 (pixels) or smaller is a good size for posting images to forums. I always use .jpeg unless I need a transparent background, in which case I use .png. The objective is to keep file size small. A properly optimized 800x600 image can be well under 100kb. Reading on image optimization: http://www.fotofinish.com/resources/cen ... /optimize/
Another good site to host images is http://imageshack.us/ .
Peace,
Pete Zaria.