Everyone,
Many of our members are still on dial up lines and storage on Yahoo and the archive site has costs and limits. (We get the storage for free, but it still costs the providers to give us those services.) It's important to fix your pictures before sending them to the forum so they don't take up so much storage space and transmission time. To change the size of the picture files, you open the picture in your picture editing program - the one that came with your camera, for example. Usually, I change the image size to be about 10"-12" in the longest dimension and, very important, select either 72 or about 93 dpi (dots per inch). This matches the screen resolution. Anything over these numbers is wasted information that'll be discarded before the picture is put on the screen. Finally, instead of just saving the modified picture, you click on <file> then <save as> to change the name of the modified file (so you never loose your high resolution original file. As part of the saving process, your picture editing program will as you to choose the quality level for the .jpg file. For e-mailing pictures and especially when posting on a forum, I choose 3, 2 or 1 for the quality level. This uses compression that greatly reduces the size of the image while keeping the quality so it looks good on computer screens. Doing these things will reduce a 500kb file (or a 5MB file) down to about 70kb, a size that is OK to send through the forum. If you don't have the ability to make these modifications, please send the photos to me and I'll resize them and send them right back for you to post with your message. All the best and thanks for your help. Ed Burkhead http://edburkhead.com/Ercoupe/index.htm East Peoria, Illinois ed -at- edburk???head.??com (remove the ? marks and change -at- to @)
