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How to upload Images
By: BurtyP Date: October 26, 2010, 11:01 am
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This is a short tutorial on how to reduce picture size for
uploads on the web in general
With today's cameras you get huge maybe 21 megapixel pictures at
perhaps 15 megabyte that requires a lot of space on the computer
and that consequently requires time to download for people to
watch.
There are three things you want to do in order to reduce the
bytewise size of the picture before uploading:
1: Change actual width and height of picture to fit the
screen
2: Change the resolution, the number of "points" within the
picture.
3: Change the quality of the picture.
Starting with No 1:
There is no standard screen width but most have at least set
their screen resolution to at least 800 x 600 pixels. When just
showing your pictures it's therefore unnecessary to make your
pics bigger than that since many will then have to scroll
sideways or up and down to see the whole picture.
No 2:
The resolution is the number of dots in the pictures. On
computer screens more than 72 is a waste since it won't be shown
anyway. That's how a these screens work! Reducing the
pixels/dots per inc (dpi) is therefore important in order to
reduce the size of the image. This is done with "Save for web"
in Photoshop and I'm sure other programs as well.
The last step, No 3, is the one that really is going to help
you. The quality of the picture is determined by the amount of
"shortcuts" done by your photoeditor. Press "save as" and look
for somewhere you can change the quality of the pic. Sometimes
you have to press an additional "Advanced" button for the
quality-option to show up. Now of course at 60% the quality
won't be too good but I think you'll find that the pics are more
than adequate for use on the web.
Uploading your pictures:
Now having resized and saved your pics, hopefully with a
different name than the original so that you're ending up
ruining all your originals, you can upload them either by using
the "Insert Image" button which will upload via a webhost.
I've used both 'Photobucket' and 'Flikr' are popular free image
hosting sites.
With Photobucket when you've uploaded pics there you get a an
'IMG' tagged address line that can be copied and pasted directly
into your post.
Using Flickr you simply select the option to 'share this photo',
and select 'Grab the HTML/BB Code' - Choose BB option - and add
in the URL script displayed as part of your message.
If you have any problems or wish to add to this thread to more
clearly explain the upload process please feel free to do so...
Regards,
Mike BP (Admin)
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Re: How to upload Images
By: Ricardo Date: November 30, 2010, 3:52 am
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I've noticed that if you simply attach photos in the forum, then
they only show to logged on members.
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Re: How to upload Images
By: BurtyP Date: November 30, 2010, 7:29 am
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[quote author=Ricardo link=topic=7.msg91#msg91 date=1291110756]
I've noticed that if you simply attach photos in the forum, then
they only show to logged on members.
[/quote]
i've noticed that too.. BY FAR the best way to display your
photo's on this site is to setup a Flickr account.. (so easy to
do, takes about a minute and it's FREE!!!...)
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