Thread: Adding A Pic To Your Post

Grunt

Thank's Grunt, on refelection your probably right on the money with that info,I'll give it a go first thing tommorow, too tired now "IT" has worn me out,(that pic you posted ..he's one good looking dude ).
Thank's Again Rod

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Anyone have a simple step by step process for reducing pics to a decent size for this forum using Paint Shop Pro 8?[/QUOTE]
OK this is a loose explanation of the major elements that effect image size on computers...first a bit of back ground - Monitors display graphics at a rate of 72 pixles per inch, so an image that measures 640 x 480 pixles will display pretty nice in a web page if your monitore is less than 17" confused already?
Imagine this: when windows sets up your screen it asks for a resolution, as most of us use 17" monitors a good res is 800 x 600 so anyimage less than that should fitr into the screen part of a web page. Now how to get that resolution into your image posting...

From your favourite image manipulation application

open your picture

find the menu bit that tells you what its resolution is ( try right clicking the image) now in Photshop it gives you two main figures one is pixles/inch the other is the actual pixle size ie 300ppi and 10"/10". which at 72ppi ( remember this is the res of you monitior) this will display as 41.67 inches wide a lot wider than needed, the math is simople enough and you dont kneed to know it anyway.
get back to the graphic app - from the image size part of your menu choose RESIZE & if your app allows it - set the pixle depth to 72 and the overall pixle dimensions to no larger than 700 wide or if its an up and down image no more than 550 pixles high.

That accomplishes part one which has resized your image display dimensions

You now have to save it as a JPG ( pronounced JayPEG) jpg's are the smallest file size (Bytes this time) available for true colour images When you select jpg from the "save as" option look for an options box in which you can set the Compression ratio of the image. The more you compress the image the smaller the file size becomes . jpg compression (sometimes called quality) is usually is shown as a sliding bar or text field the lower the number the more it compresses. anything between 2 and 65 is suitable comprtession for a website imge. That concludes part two image compression 101.

Now to recap and consolidate

1. Open your image
2. Resize it to 72 ppi
3. Change the dimensions to less tha 700 wide or if portrait 550 high
4. Choose jpg as the file type to save as
5. Set the compression to low 2 - 65
6. Save the image with a different name to your original (important)
7. Close the original images and open the new compressed on if its too blotchy re-open your original and do it all again but this time use less compression try 40% and have a look

The above technique can transform a typically 1 meg byte digital camera or scanned image to about 20Kbytes and keep your network administrator so happy!

Allan Cooloolabin Qld.
if you want to see some of my work heres my web site
http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~midisoul
There's some of my woodwork images and some jokes too

Originally Posted by A-Marks

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Allan Cooloolabin Qld.
if you want to see some of my work heres my web site
http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~midisoul
There's some of my woodwork images and some jokes too

Well that link didn't work. Big green screen with a white rectangle. Very interesting!

Bazza,

Must be your end as it works for me.


Peter.

yeah I got into it ok too

I haven't used PSP for a while but all the graphics programs I have used seem to work the same way.
Click File/Save As
In the dialog box that opens you should see (usually buttom left) a More button.
Click on the More button. A new window should open up and there should be a sliding scale (from 0 to 100%).
Adjust this to say 20% and save the file (under a new name in case you make a mistake). Then check the size. If too big or too small, redo it.
Hope this works for you.
Regards
Don

Just a quick update on good graphics programs. University of Washington PHD students, funded by Microsoft, wrote a replacemant program for the old Paing in Windows.

The program is available FREE from http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

I think it is a good as Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop.

The beauty of this program is that when saving a jpg it gives you a slider to adjust the saved size and tells you exactly what size the saved pic will be.

Don

Thanks for that Don. It looks an excellent program - I have just had a quick look at it.

Incidentally, a good program for resizing images is JPEG Resampler. It is free as well. Just Google for it.

Regards from Perth

Derek

Agree with you, Don, have been using paint.net for a little while.

For anyone looking to install it, you will need to download or source the .NET framework as well.

I found it on a cover disc on a computer mag, saved downloading the program & the framework, which would have taken a while on my dialup.

Paint.net can be used for a lot of adjustments to your images, uses layers, unlimited undo, etc.

I find my most common sequence is:

Download pic from camera to computer
Right click pic & Open With Paint.net
Perform any image adjustments - brightness, color cast, etc
Crop image
Resize pic to 800x600 pixels
Save As, set compression/resultant file size as Don mentioned using the slider.

I vary the compression for the forum from 50kb for the pics in my wip woodrack thread, to 80-90 kb for pics needing max detail.

The above is quite quick to do & only needs the one program.

Obviously not as feature rich as Photoshop but has some powerful capabilities, opens a lot faster, and the price is right.


Cheers...................Sean

Hi all, new here and finding the forum enjoyable and very informative.
What I'd like to know re; Pics in Posts is how do you add them 'Thumbnails' I've noticed in quite a few posts please?

I have an FTP site through my ISP and find its a great place to store them high res photo's to link off to for those with higher bandwidth.

Any help much appreciated, thanks.

G'day Paul,
First off, welcome to the Woodwork Forums. Just keep your sense of humour with you at all times & enjoy the fun.
In regards to posting pictures perhaps the best option would be to go here
and read the posts, I reckon that you'll get the drift of how it's done. It worked for me. If I can do it, anyone can..
If you would like to post pictures from an online Photo Album, eg, PictureTrail, Photo Bucket etc, just click on the Insert Image button ( the one with the mountains & sun ? ) on the tool bar and type in the URL of the image from your photo album & click on the OK button. Bingo, your picture should then be displayed in your post.
Hope that this is of some help to you Paul.
Regards,
Barry.

Thanks Barry, unfortunately the go here link doesn't work.
I'm assuming the thumbnails also link off to a URL same as the Insert Image?

Hello Paul,
Damn, sorry 'bout that. Try this link. http://woodworkforums.com/showthread.php?t=3945

Go down to "Additional Options" below & click on "Manage Attachments". Click on "Browse". This shows the folders which you have your files / images stored on the computer. Select the file / image which you wish to add to your post & click on "Save". You should see the URL of the file / image in the box to the left of the "Browse" button. When you have selected all the files etc that you require, click on the "Upload" button. Once all the files have uploaded onto UBWWF's server, close the window.
Once you have finished compiling your post, click on the "Preview Post" button to check. Click on the "Submit Reply" button & the images will display as thumbnails in your post .
This is probably as clear as mud to you Paul. Sorry
Read through thread above & all will be clear - I hope.:confused:
Regards,
Barry.

Hey no probs thanks Barry, much appreciated