posted August 03, 2005 10:05 AM               

If you absolutely must post an image, then at least have the courtesy to compress the image be fore posting it. That way, we don't have to deal with the waste of bandwidth any more than is necessary.

posted August 03, 2005 12:07 PM               

Might I make a suggestion. After about 6 pics have been posted to one thread, we start another thread. Sunday Sailor's suggestion of using Irfanview is a good one. If the pics are under 150kb, they should load faster, and quality for the purposes of the forum, shouldn't change.

Eric

posted August 09, 2005 11:45 AM               

First, we know that everybody likes to post pictures, and everybody likes to see them.

So we must learn how to reduce both the density (is this a correct term?) as well as the image size (so that we can see the whole picture without scrolling - for almost all pics).

I've been trying to work on this since Sunday Sailor started this thread. Here are my findings so far, my not being a computer whiz. So please help me where my knowledge stops.

1. I couldn't figure out how to use Irfanview, so I abandoned that until I get more assistance.

2. I opened my large pictures into an LE version of Photoshop, where I could brighten up the dark spots, and reduce the pixels, and select a print size.

This process gave me what I thought was a nice postable size picture, but at 500 pixels, I don't know if it's still too big for dial-up users.

Here is a test photo:
Pixels: 504k
Print size: width: 6.625 inches
height: 5 inches
resolution: 72 pixels

Please let me know how this is opening for you.

"Jon freshens up Wind Chime's trailer"

What needs to be done to improve this? Am I out to lunch here, or is this a worthwhile exercise?

posted August 09, 2005 10:53 PM               

Just my 2 cents worth