Image Resizing

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Image Resizing & Uploading

 

DOWNLOAD Picasa

 

The software that came with your camera can resize and reduce your images. Because there are so many different programs, I'll leave this part up to you. However, if your software is awkward to use, Google's free Picasa gets very good reviews from members here. A crash course in Picasa resizing and reducing (most programs should work about the same way):

 

Select the image so that it appears in the Picture Tray at the left. Click on Export at the right. Use Browse to give it a destination folder, or type it in. Set Resize to 640. Set the Image Quality slider to give a filesize of 50k to a 100k for forum posting (you'll have to experiment with this - try 60% to % at first). Click OK and that's it. To examine the new image, go to its folder, right-click it and select Properties>Summary>Advanced.

 

In Photoshop, you can use Image Size or Save for Web. Enter 500 or 600 for the horizontal size (note that when resizing, both the Constrain and Resample boxes should have a checkmark). An advantage to Photoshop is that it will show you the filesize as you move the Quality slider.

 

Remember to use Save As and give it a new name or Photoshop will overwrite your original.

 

Then upload using one of these free upload services:

 

http://imageshack.us

http://www.snapfish.com

http://photobucket.com

 

Copy the direct url link you get once you upload the image, and add IMG tags as shown below...

 

[IMG=http://img425.imageshack.us/img425/7186/bobthebuilderssister9vy.jpg]

[ChrisJones 7,975]

Theres now an option on Imageshack that automatically resizes pics on upload!

[Guest erb]

 

 

:11: that a good pic of bobs sister

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