blonde Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Hi, Can anyone point me in the rite direction so i can learn how to post photo's of decent size-mine seem to be all small compared to what other people are putting up. I am keeping the size under 200 but then i see huge photo's that look great -and i am wodnering how do people do that...any help would be appreciated. Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redial Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Get a Tinypic account and upload a photo form your PC but resize it to "message board' which is an option to the right of the upload button. It keeps it around 600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weasels Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Hi Blonde I use a free program called 'irfanview' to resize and crop my pictures quickly, and sometimes to auto-adjust the colours if they are a bit too dark or light. Then I upload them to my Photobucket account and just copy the image URL into my post. This might help too - http://www.dolforums.com.au/topic/140213-adding-an-image-to-your-post/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 slightly OT..Just a query..why does everyone recommend posting photos from an internet photo hosting site, and not just adding them from your hard drive? I just use this, IMAGE RESIZER or other program ..and attach from whatever folder it's in...no double handling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redial Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 I don't like doing that just for the fact that it's a connection straight to your computer's files. By using a proxy middleman such as a hosting site it takes out your file information and connection to your computer. *paranoia* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weasels Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 (edited) Pers I was under the impression that a direct upload only resulted in the small image Blonde was referring to, since there are much more strict file size limits? I like that with the 'linking' method I can set the photo to the size I want it to appear and preview how it will look at that size. I haven't played around with it though so I'm not certain Edited December 11, 2011 by Weasels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 I can make my photos any size , in cms .. but , obviously to get under 200kb, quality needs to be decreased markedly. S'OK- posting from a site is probably the 'right' thing to do - but most photos I post here don't ever get put online . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weasels Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Hmm lets try with a 100kb image... Photobucket: Upload: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weasels Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 (edited) The photobucket upload was much quicker. Either way is fine of course Edit: sorry Blonde for hijacking your thread with my image experiments! Edited December 11, 2011 by Weasels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 The photobucket upload was much quicker. ;) if you have real broadband :p some of us poor country bumpkins don't . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
persephone Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Yep, sorry, Blonde ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plan B Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Flickr is one of the best image hosting sites. I used Tinypic before but they randomly delete images, which was causing havoc for the websites. You also get the BB Code to post images on forums like these and can choose various sizes. slightly OT..Just a query..why does everyone recommend posting photos from an internet photo hosting site, and not just adding them from your hard drive? With most forums there's a size limit to what you can upload. When you're linking, you can link to any size, so you don't need to lower the quality of the image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisygirl Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 I use photobucket and really easy to just save from Iphoto and then copy and paste the link from photobucket. Takes about 10 seconds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blonde Posted December 11, 2011 Author Share Posted December 11, 2011 Thanks everyone- i am not too computer savvy and have never been on photo bucket or flickr-but i suppose it's time to get with the times and learn soemthin new>>> Sheesh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tdierikx Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 I use Easy Thumbnails - free image resizing software that will happily do batch resizing. I resize to 1024x768 using a bicubic algorithm and set the jpeg quality to 80% - all of my images come in under 200k and are still very nice quality to be viewed on a PC screen. Nice size for sending in emails as well. I them upload the resized images to Photobucket - I have a paid account there so I can store as many images and have lots of available bandwidth for people viewing them - and post the img links in the forum posts... once you've done it a few times, it's dead easy... honest! The following pic is only 78kb... T. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Baggins Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 I hate thumbnail pics. Photobucket is great and very easy to use. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blonde Posted December 11, 2011 Author Share Posted December 11, 2011 Ok well I have now found this photobucket website -says me soundin positively ancient- but now i dont know how to get the photo's from that website to this forum-can anyone ie me a step by step instruction? Like from this point where i am writing-i go below and it asks "attach file" but it goes straight to my computer files-how do i get to my photobucket album...sorry to be a pain in the #@%! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redial Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 (edited) You'll see it has a list of links... choose and copy the link with [/img] around it then paste it straight into your post. Edited December 11, 2011 by redial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weasels Posted December 11, 2011 Share Posted December 11, 2011 Have you uploaded your photos to photobucket? (just to clarify, the link is on the photobucket site, not DOL ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blonde Posted December 11, 2011 Author Share Posted December 11, 2011 O ok then, so i have to send it from the photobucket website to this one/? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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