100k limits on picture attachments

[Tacfarinas]

Hi,

I've looked through the long sticky on posting pictures and can't find an answer. I can't figure out how to post pictures (in jpeg format) that are larger than the 100k limit. Not that I want to clutter up the world with large pictures; but I also can't figure out how to get my digital camera to take pictures with less bandwidth.

Is there any handy guide to doing this. I feel distinctly pathetic asking this, since everyone else seems to be happily posting pictures like there was not tomorrow. But I thought I'd ask. (Got a new-old bike I want to talk about ....)

[East Hill]

Photobucket is your friend!

Sign up for a free account, upload your photos there. You can size them so that they don't overwhelm those who are still on dial up.

When you've uploaded the photos, click on the bottom link ("IMG"). It'll turn yellow, and say 'copied'.

Come back here, hit the little yellow icon that shows a mountain and sun, hit 'control' + 'v', and your photo will be pasted into your post.

If you have problems, send me a PM!

East Hill

[Catweazle]

Photobucket is about the worst of the freebie image storage services on offer. They have excessive restrictions on image size, and they also have a "use it or you lose it" policy about freebie accounts, which is responsible for a helluva lot of 'broken' image links in this and other forum databases.

ImageShack is a considerably better service, which allows you to upload bigger pictures, leaves your account alone even if you don't access and use it for lengthy periods of time, and which will easily generate 'forum code' for you to copy/paste, so that you can include 'thumbnail preview' clickable links into your forum posts, allowing those people who don't want to view the picture to have the thread load faster for them.

[SweetLou]

Is there any handy guide to doing this.There is usually a setting in your camera, but I don't know which camera you have. And if I did, I probably couldn't help you. But that doesn't matter, take the higher resolution pictures. But when you want to upload a picture, resize the image to be smaller and maybe a little less resolution. This should be fine. Most, if not all imaging software allows you to resize the image.

I don't know what OS or imaging programs you have, but if you have Windows, you can use Paint to do it. http://www.wikihow.com/Resize-an-Image-in-Microsoft-Paint

I use GIMP and it is basically the same.

[Rowan]

Do you have Paint on your Windows?

Open the picture file with Paint, go to Image, select Attributes, and it will tell you the current saved size of the image on the computer or you camera or your storage device.

Then select Image again, go to Stretch/Skew, key in a percentage on both the Horizontal and Vertical Stretch dialogue options, press enter and the picture will resize (don't touch the Skew boxes).

If you want the original to remain the same size on your computer, use the Save As function to create a new file, and tag on something like "small" to the filename. Save. Then check the Image-Attributes again to see the file size. You can go lower again by keying in another percentage.

If my camera is taking large shots such as at A4 size, (and that can be adjusted down to ordinary picture size but at the expense of quality), I usually reduce the original picture size in Image-Stretch/Skew to 33%. Just note that if you go too small for what you want, keying in something like 150% can work, but the picture quality suffers. If you make a mistake, just press Ctrl-Z to undo the resizing or go to Undo on the drop-down menu.

Fiddle around with it. Paint gets ignored by all the whizzbang lot out there, but for resizing pictures, and even cropping, for internet use, it is mightily useful, especially if the whizzbang stuff intimidates you.

Edit: Oops, sorry Lou, I didn't fully read you post.

[04jtb]

I have used photobucket, but I have found flickr to be a better service, but you need a Yahoo account to sign up and get a 100mb limit each month, but lets you download them in different sizes to the ones you uploaded.