size matters - NP (no picture)

[kickingfrog]

What do I need to do to post a photo that is a reasonable size?

 

It seams that I have to do a lot of manual resizing just to post a small, low quality photo. Most of the other post have nice sized photos that can then be "clicked" on to enlarge to a proper size.

 

It can't be as hard as I'm making it, can it?

[fatherof3]

try using photobucket.com

[brandon]

I resize all mine in photoshop then upload to photobucket and then post.

[kickingfrog]

Could I do the same with Google's Picasa?

[brandon]

I myself am not familiar with the Picasa program but I know even the photo editor that comes installed with windows operating systems has a photo resize option

[kickingfrog]

I've done that with these poor results...

[tbayboy]

Picasa is usable but a bit of a pain in that it doesn't let embed the photo URL directly like flickr or photobucket does. That said, its not too hard to get the result you want:

 

Step 1: Navigate to your picture on Picasa's web album (this one for example).

Step 2: If your using firefox right click on the picture and select 'copy image location'. If your using internet explorer right click on the picture, select properties then copy the 'address' value.

Step 3: click the image button in your post and paste in the URL you just copied, for example:

 

[img=http://lh5.google.com/smaurik/Rkx6Azdlv8I/AAAAAAAAAAw/mFJAJ6B1i1Y/s400/bigfish.jpg]

 

And then you'll get:

 

 

Bit of a pain but it works though I'd recommend Flickr or photobucket if you have a choice.

 

hope that helps

Sean

Edited October 15, 2007 by TbayBoy

[danc]

Here's a link to a nice free photo editing program.

 

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