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Title: Question about adding pictures to post Post by: shaggy on March 02, 2006, 03:11:14 PM This is for all you picture gurus out there. Whenever I try to add a pic to the post it's too big of a file. Can anyone give tips on howe to reduce the size of the file for pics? Any help is appreciated and thanks to everyone for there advice.
Title: Re: Question about adding pictures to post Post by: Izret101 on March 02, 2006, 03:13:21 PM The easiest way is to open it in a image program and save it as a jpg or better yet a png.
If you use Paint it tends to mess with quality and colors from time to time but it should get the job done :) EDIT! DO NOT use Paint to resize images though. It will do more distorting that resizing. Title: Re: Question about adding pictures to post Post by: Speedy_NES on March 02, 2006, 03:14:12 PM I use Adobe Photoshop, and when you save a file, or 'save as', you can select a range of 1-10 for picture quality..the lower the quality, the smaller the file ;)
Title: Re: Question about adding pictures to post Post by: bum-man on March 02, 2006, 04:00:39 PM If you want to play around with the image and/or resize I use an open source program named "The Gimp" http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ It has the features of Photoshop (I am not a pro on Photoshop so I don't know what might be missing) but the price is right - Free |D
To just resize you could try EasyThumbnails v2.8 from http://www.download.com/Easy-Thumbnails/3000-2192_4-10285473.html?tag=lst-0-1 Title: Re: Question about adding pictures to post Post by: Hydrobond on March 02, 2006, 04:07:06 PM Also, you don't have to rely on RFGen to host the pictures.  You can use sites like photobucket.com or imageshack.com to host the pictures and link to them on the forums. They should provide you with a link to the picture once it is uploaded, all you have to do is use the [ IMG ] tag to display it ib the thread.
edit: like I said, I dont proofread... Title: Re: Question about adding pictures to post Post by: Izret101 on March 02, 2006, 04:10:05 PM I use photobucket.
It works wonders. BTW the other one is imageshack not imagechack Title: Re: Question about adding pictures to post Post by: Speedy_NES on March 02, 2006, 04:26:04 PM Quote I use photobucket. It works wonders. Me too...they used to automatically resize your images to a certain pixel width/heighth IIRC, but they don't do that anymore I think, so I can definitely recommend their free service! Title: Re: Question about adding pictures to post Post by: Izret101 on March 02, 2006, 04:33:42 PM Unfortunately the still do auto resize your larger images.
I was very dissapointed because when my PC crashed i thought i would be able to recover images that i had uploaded but they where all too small :-/ Of course they where 1200+ by 1200+ before i uploaded them. I used the pics for desktops and such. Title: Re: Question about adding pictures to post Post by: Tynstar on March 02, 2006, 05:13:49 PM Microsoft Photo Editor works good for resizing.
Title: Re: Question about adding pictures to post Post by: CatchFiveBats on March 02, 2006, 06:15:34 PM I use a program called IrfanView to resize images and really like it. It's free, and I can send you the installer if you'd want it. PM me if you're interested.
800th post yay. Title: Re: Question about adding pictures to post Post by: shaggy on April 02, 2006, 10:03:56 AM Quote The easiest way is to open it in a image program and save it as a jpg or better yet a png. If you use Paint it tends to mess with quality and colors from time to time but it should get the job done :) EDIT! DO NOT use Paint to resize images though. It will do more distorting that resizing. My file is already a Jpg. When I saved it as a Png it actually increased the size by 1k!!! Title: Re: Question about adding pictures to post Post by: Pop Culture Portal on April 02, 2006, 11:47:12 AM Quote I use a program called IrfanView to resize images and really like it. I'll second that...InfranView is a great little program. Title: Re: Question about adding pictures to post Post by: shaggy on April 02, 2006, 05:28:45 PM Quote I use a program called IrfanView to resize images and really like it.  It's free, and I can send you the installer if you'd want it.  PM me if you're interested. 800th post yay. Send it to me, man. |