Go Back  Bike Forums > Bike Forums > Touring
Reload this Page >

Posting a decent picture to the forum?

Notices
Touring Have a dream to ride a bike across your state, across the country, or around the world? Self-contained or fully supported? Trade ideas, adventures, and more in our bicycle touring forum.

Posting a decent picture to the forum?

Old 08-20-05, 11:39 AM
  #1  
Junior Member
Thread Starter
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 16
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Posting a decent picture to the forum?

How do you best put a decent photo in your post. The picture I posted in my last new thread looked horrific.
Glenn Matusz is offline  
Old 08-20-05, 01:20 PM
  #2  
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 72

Bikes: 2 tandems, MTB, Road

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
I HAve the same problem, to get them inder 100k, I make them smaller. But then the quality goes.
Cheers Brian & Sue
twonbike is offline  
Old 08-20-05, 02:23 PM
  #3  
BOATS AND HOES!
 
Medpilot's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Gilbert, AZ
Posts: 666

Bikes: Madone

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Originally Posted by Glenn Matusz
How do you best put a decent photo in your post. The picture I posted in my last new thread looked horrific.
What makes them horrific? Are they grainy or too dark?
Medpilot is offline  
Old 08-20-05, 03:09 PM
  #4  
Junior Member
Thread Starter
 
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 16
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Originally Posted by Medpilot
What makes them horrific? Are they grainy or too dark?
Terrible resolution and blurry. Most likely caused by reducing the image by large amount. I noticed that some people posted there photos into then text message, while others have them as attachments. The photos I saw that were inside the message body looked better. I haven't been able to figure out to put an image in the message body.

I did figure out on my own that if I take a photo using the lowest resolution possible and then attach it, it looks better.
Glenn Matusz is offline  
Old 08-20-05, 03:15 PM
  #5  
Senior Member
 
ht001's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 92
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Here's how you do it. Get a free account at www.imageshack.us
You post your images(up to 1mb) and they automatically build the links for you. Then, you just copy/paste the image in. This way, it automatically comes in full size too, no thumbnail to click. I grab the link for "forums", cuz that's what this is.

Here's an example of what it looks like:

ht001 is offline  
Old 08-20-05, 03:50 PM
  #6  
Papa Wheelie
 
Sigurdd50's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Madison, Wi
Posts: 1,472

Bikes: Jamis Aurora '02; Takara Medalist (650B)

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
if you are on a PC, get this freeware app:
https://www.virtualzone.de/resizer/
to resize your big pics

if you have a mac (yea!), do a google for Freephotoconverter

I can easiy reduce pics from 1MEG (digipic) to 50-70K with no loss of quality
Sigurdd50 is offline  
Old 08-20-05, 04:16 PM
  #7  
Banned
 
Bikepacker67's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Ogopogo's shoreline
Posts: 4,082

Bikes: LHT, Kona Smoke

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 3 Times in 3 Posts
Nice Looking FG!
Bikepacker67 is offline  
Old 08-20-05, 04:35 PM
  #8  
Senior Member
 
ht001's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 92
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Thanks, though I must sheepishly say that it's a single speed. I went the cheap way on the conversion. Would have had to buy a new hub to do fixie. Still, I love it!
ht001 is offline  
Old 08-20-05, 05:21 PM
  #9  
Banned
 
Bikepacker67's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Ogopogo's shoreline
Posts: 4,082

Bikes: LHT, Kona Smoke

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 3 Times in 3 Posts
I'm not a FG/SS aficionado myself, but you do have to appreciate the clean look!

Ohhh... and the background ain't half bad either! (Where is that BTW)

P.S. What kind of HB is that? Is that a bullhorn?
Bikepacker67 is offline  
Old 08-20-05, 06:04 PM
  #10  
Senior Member
 
af895's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Montreal, Canada
Posts: 853

Bikes: 2003 KHS F20-Westwood folding & enough parts to make several more bikes...

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
I've got a few tricks for image sizing!
(bear in mind, I'm using WindowsXP)

1) right click, "send to...mail recipient" - then select a smaller size when it offers to resize (640x480) 90% of the time that does the trick.

2) failing the image resize, Photoshop: open and re-save with higher compression. I try JPG first (it's usually pretty good) and then adaptive GIF if JPG fails. Actually, I've never had to resort to GIF as long as I can remember. Even JPG at "LOW" quality looks pretty good.

BIG ISSUE: cropping! Get it tight or you'll lose detail.
Good source images help a lot. Focus, saturation, exposure and framing. Cropping's easy later but if the data isn't there, it'll never look wonderful.

Here's a few samples!

Last edited by af895; 08-20-05 at 06:53 PM.
af895 is offline  
Old 08-20-05, 06:07 PM
  #11  
BOATS AND HOES!
 
Medpilot's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Gilbert, AZ
Posts: 666

Bikes: Madone

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Originally Posted by Glenn Matusz
Terrible resolution and blurry. Most likely caused by reducing the image by large amount. I noticed that some people posted there photos into then text message, while others have them as attachments. The photos I saw that were inside the message body looked better. I haven't been able to figure out to put an image in the message body.

I did figure out on my own that if I take a photo using the lowest resolution possible and then attach it, it looks better.
I guess it depends on what kind of photo software you are using and how much you compress the file/picture. I can post an 800x600 pic reduced down to about 50k that looks decent. Here's one that I recently posted. I don't think the pic quality came out too bad. https://www.bikeforums.net/road-cycling/132009-what-do-you-think-my-silver-saddle.html

Or you can use a third party website to host your photos like ht001 mentioned above.
Medpilot is offline  
Old 08-20-05, 06:49 PM
  #12  
Banned
 
Bikepacker67's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Ogopogo's shoreline
Posts: 4,082

Bikes: LHT, Kona Smoke

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 3 Times in 3 Posts
Congratulations...

You've just flucked up the whole page with your horizontal scrolling "masterpiece"

JeeeezusCryyyyyst! Can't you appreciate the beauty of linked thumbnails?
Bikepacker67 is offline  
Old 08-20-05, 06:52 PM
  #13  
Senior Member
 
af895's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Montreal, Canada
Posts: 853

Bikes: 2003 KHS F20-Westwood folding & enough parts to make several more bikes...

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Originally Posted by Bikepacker67
Congratulations...

You've just flucked up the whole page with your horizontal scrolling "masterpiece"

JeeeezusCryyyyyst! Can't you appreciate the beauty of linked thumbnails?

LOL!

Well... some of us viewing this using 1680x1050 screens. There ain't much that makes me scroll horizontally... ;p
af895 is offline  
Old 08-20-05, 07:08 PM
  #14  
In Memory of One Cool Cat
 
Blackberry's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Charlottesville, VA
Posts: 2,722

Bikes: Lemond Victoire, Cannondale.Mountain Bike, two 1980s lugged steel Treks, ancient 1980-something Giant mountain bike converted into a slick tired commuter with mustache handlebars, 1960-something Raleigh Sports

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time in 1 Post



Imageshack rocks! Thanks Ht001!
__________________
Dead last finish is better than did not finish and infinitely better than did not start.
Blackberry is offline  
Old 08-20-05, 07:27 PM
  #15  
Banned
 
Bikepacker67's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Ogopogo's shoreline
Posts: 4,082

Bikes: LHT, Kona Smoke

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 3 Times in 3 Posts
Originally Posted by Blackberry



Imageshack rocks! Thanks Ht001!

MUCH better.
Nice pic.
Bikepacker67 is offline  
Old 08-20-05, 10:13 PM
  #16  
hello
 
roadfix's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 18,685
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 191 Post(s)
Liked 109 Times in 48 Posts
As for cropping and re-sizing, among other things, the only image processing software I use is Photofiltre, a free download software.
roadfix is offline  
Old 08-21-05, 06:18 AM
  #17  
Senior Member
 
af895's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Montreal, Canada
Posts: 853

Bikes: 2003 KHS F20-Westwood folding & enough parts to make several more bikes...

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Originally Posted by The Fixer
As for cropping and re-sizing, among other things, the only image processing software I use is Photofiltre, a free download software.

Got a new one for you that's free and blows all the rest away:
"GIMP"

No, really.

Stands for "GNU Image Manipulation Program" - totaly open source, available for multiple platforms...
comparable to Photoshop!

Info here: https://www.gimp.org/
And the Windows download here: https://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/

Highly recommended.
af895 is offline  
Old 08-21-05, 10:19 AM
  #18  
Senior Member
 
ht001's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Posts: 92
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Originally Posted by Bikepacker67
Ohhh... and the background ain't half bad either! (Where is that BTW)

P.S. What kind of HB is that? Is that a bullhorn?
Breckenridge, CO

Syntace bullhorns.
ht001 is offline  
Old 08-21-05, 10:36 AM
  #19  
Lentement mais sûrement
 
Erick L's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Montréal
Posts: 2,253
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 78 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 3 Times in 2 Posts
no thumbnail to click
I prefer when there's a thumbnail to click, especially when there are many pictures. Think about us on dial-up and small screen. Image Shack also prefer thumbnails. Fromtheir site:

However, in order for ImageShack® to continue providing free image hosting, we ask that you use clickable thumbnails whenever possible.
Erick L is offline  

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off


Thread Tools
Search this Thread

Contact Us - Archive - Advertising - Cookie Policy - Privacy Statement - Terms of Service -

Copyright © 2024 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. All rights reserved. Use of this site indicates your consent to the Terms of Use.