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Less is more!
Shrink your digital photos before you post them...
I'm on an internet cafe connection in shitsvill and I click on a thread with a boat load of images... Great, till these bloated pics start to load and crash my browser or simply stall! Some of the worst offenders are you buggers who see your pics on yourt computer and think they'll look great on here! Well - they WOULD look better here if they were smaller!
I always am careful to post pics NO LARGER than 730 pixels wide... This should make them fit nicely in most browsers and screen resolutions...
Generally, the better the camera you have, the worse the problem! You see, a six-megapixel camera might be wonderful in your hands but posting one or two of your photos and I can kiss goodbye to most of my bandwidth allowance in an internet cafe. In short, these photos should never be posted on the forum without being shrunk first!
One tool I like is ResizR
ResizR takes your image, uploads it and resizes it to the width you specify. If you don't like the result, select a new size and this time you won't have to wait for the file to upload because it's already there.
What's nice about ResizR is you can see on the screen just how big the photo is, so you know exactly what you're sending your recipient.
Once an image is resized, open the forum (or email program) and drag the image onto the 'upload picture' space. If you prefer, you can drag and drop the resized file onto your desktop. Your image will be deleted from ResizR after an hour so you'll have plenty of time to do what you need to do before its time expires.
ResizR has other tricks. If your photo needs to be rotated, click the image rotation link and choose 90, 180 or 270 degrees clockwise.
ResizR can also resize images from the web if you have a browser that lets you easily locate an image's link. Firefox can do this, so view the web page with the image on it in Firefox, right click the image and choose Copy Image Location. Return to ResizR, click the From Web tab and paste the copied URL into the dialogue box. Set the size for the image and click the ResizR button to resize it.
ResizR works only on JPG format images. This won't be a problem for the bulk of digital camera owners as most cameras save photos in this format and the majority of photos on the web are also saved as JPGs. You can shrink or enlarge images - you'll get better results from making them smaller.
If you need to work with GIF images or if you want to crop as well as resize, you'll find a similarly named but different program at http://www.resizr.com. This version has more options including different levels of image quality and size as well as cropping. This site is a little more complex to use but has more features too.
Good luck and please help us all out by making use of this free service that is so simple to use even for non computer types!
GO HERE!
Stogie Bear
Less is more!
Shrink your digital photos before you post them...
I'm on an internet cafe connection in shitsvill and I click on a thread with a boat load of images... Great, till these bloated pics start to load and crash my browser or simply stall! Some of the worst offenders are you buggers who see your pics on yourt computer and think they'll look great on here! Well - they WOULD look better here if they were smaller!
I always am careful to post pics NO LARGER than 730 pixels wide... This should make them fit nicely in most browsers and screen resolutions...
Generally, the better the camera you have, the worse the problem! You see, a six-megapixel camera might be wonderful in your hands but posting one or two of your photos and I can kiss goodbye to most of my bandwidth allowance in an internet cafe. In short, these photos should never be posted on the forum without being shrunk first!
One tool I like is ResizR
ResizR takes your image, uploads it and resizes it to the width you specify. If you don't like the result, select a new size and this time you won't have to wait for the file to upload because it's already there.
What's nice about ResizR is you can see on the screen just how big the photo is, so you know exactly what you're sending your recipient.
Once an image is resized, open the forum (or email program) and drag the image onto the 'upload picture' space. If you prefer, you can drag and drop the resized file onto your desktop. Your image will be deleted from ResizR after an hour so you'll have plenty of time to do what you need to do before its time expires.
ResizR has other tricks. If your photo needs to be rotated, click the image rotation link and choose 90, 180 or 270 degrees clockwise.
ResizR can also resize images from the web if you have a browser that lets you easily locate an image's link. Firefox can do this, so view the web page with the image on it in Firefox, right click the image and choose Copy Image Location. Return to ResizR, click the From Web tab and paste the copied URL into the dialogue box. Set the size for the image and click the ResizR button to resize it.
ResizR works only on JPG format images. This won't be a problem for the bulk of digital camera owners as most cameras save photos in this format and the majority of photos on the web are also saved as JPGs. You can shrink or enlarge images - you'll get better results from making them smaller.
If you need to work with GIF images or if you want to crop as well as resize, you'll find a similarly named but different program at http://www.resizr.com. This version has more options including different levels of image quality and size as well as cropping. This site is a little more complex to use but has more features too.
Good luck and please help us all out by making use of this free service that is so simple to use even for non computer types!
GO HERE!
Stogie Bear
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