Or, you can go to www.photobucket.com, sign up for a free account, download your pictures regardless of size and attach a link onto your messages.
Al DeMarzo Visit the Ercoupe Swap Page - Free and Easy http://www.ercoupeowners.com/swap/swapbook.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Ed Burkhead To: ety Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 1:22 PM Subject: [ercoupe-tech] photo info for all Frank sent pictures to the forum yesterday and also asked me to post them in the forum's photo section. Here's my response and it may be of interest to everyone. -Ed Frank, Since photos can be enormous and we have limited space, we had limited uploading to moderators. A .jpg photo that is 750kb can be compressed down to 50-100kb. First, it's important to set the size to how it should be viewed, such as 10" wide by whatever and SET THE PIXELS PER INCH TO 72, the resolution of monitors (more or less). Then, do "save as" and choose quality level from 0 to 3. This really saves space on the hard drive and greatly improves download speed. Your files weren't too enormous but they did reduce a fair amount. Here are the comparisons in kb: Photo Original reduced 01 99 60 02 128 69 03 139 76 04 138 71 05 165 86 contrast reduced, image lightened 06 181 109 contrast reduced, image lightened 07 110 69 I compressed those photos you sent and posted them. Good ones. Thanks. Ah, phooey! Having gone to all that trouble and explained it all and uploaded them, I find that Yahoo has an automatic program that takes the photos and resizes and compresses them anyway. So none of what I wrote about size applies to the Yahoo website's photo albums. Still, it does apply to posting pictures on the forum. Better to put them in the album than to send them to everyone in a message - doubly so if they haven't been already resized. Exception: if the Yahoo resizing program takes out so much detail out of the photo album pictures that the critical information can't be seen. Even so, if your photo sizes are bigger than 100k and you can't resize them, PLEASE send them to me first and I'll resize them and send them back to you for you to post. I can usually do this for you within a day. I've changed the photo access to allow members to upload pictures. (Don't worry about size when uploaded to the forum's photo section.) For now, I keep a review process and approve all photos before Yahoo actually posts them. (That'll prevent mischievous posting of improper material.) Please be sure to post social photo, such as flyin photos, on the flyin website. Remember that everyone can view, use and modify the links in the links section. Ed
