Is it just me or does everyone

[kc7jty]

have to register with image hosters to get a direct link now?

Image shack is bitching my photos are too big 10mb and flickr is doing them and saying they are under 8mb.
for weeks Tiny Pic keeps telling me "INVALID FORMAT."

[KG4CGC]

I don't know, Bill but you may want to resize. 10mb is pretty damn big.
I try to keep uploaded pics under 1 gig MAX unless it's a panorama.

[W3MIV]

I try to keep uploaded pics under 1 gig MAX unless it's a panorama.

:chin:

:shock:

[kc7jty]

I don't know, Bill but you may want to resize.
how do I do that?
I plug the camera into the pc and pic is transferred.

[KG4CGC]

1 gig is an obvious mistake. 1 MEG.
OK. You should have some kind of editing software. Most editing software will give you options to make the picture smaller. Aspect ratios like 640x480 is pretty standard. For the web, I would not exceed 1024px on the width. Most, if not all cameras should come with some basic editing software. Play around with it and check out what you can do.

[kc7jty]

tnx

Looks like tinypic and photobucket are the same thing now. Photobucket could handle the pic the others bitched about. Why would 3 pics be ok and one too big?

[W3MIV]

Billhelm: JPEG compression is variable depending upon the content of the scene -- lots of plain, blue sky, for example, will compress more than a sky filled with clouds and birds. A desert or ocean scene will compress more than a complex forest or cityscape. Hence, different images will end up different sizes even though they all may be compressed as "4" on the relative jpeg scale often offered when saving the final file.

Bear in mind, too, that jpeg is very lossy and a file that is saved a few times will quickly begin to show the effects of deteriorating quality. Make your edits or size changes and save your files under a new file name as a *.jpg only one time. Keep the original file on your system as either a TIFF or, if you can, as a raw image file.

[NQ6U]

What Albi said, although I would suggest, if you use Photoshop, you save a copy of your photo in the Photoshop native format (.psd) and use that as working copy.

[kc7jty]

Damn. Complications. Tnx for the heads up.

[KG4CGC]

Damn. Complications. Tnx for the heads up.
Keep it simple. If you can find the controls of basic software then you're good to go. Your software may even offer predefined size options.
That's all you're looking for right now, right?

[WØTKX]

Just a recommendation for Irfanview... and get the plugins installed. A favorite freeware imaging application.

http://www.irfanview.com/

[kc7jty]

will look into it, tnx.

[kc7jty]

and get the plugins installed.
ALL of them?
downloaded it with all the plug ins I think. I've got no idea what I'm doin here.

[W3MIV]

I've got no idea what I'm doin here.

Experiment and have fun, Billhelm. If you don't play with a program, you won't really learn how to use it.

One important thing to remember ---> always keep your original file intact. When you open it and begin to make edits, immediately rename the file (e.g. IMG0134_1.tif) and only make the final jpeg for upload once you are satisfied with the edits you've made. You can keep several variations under advancing-numbered file names (IMG0134_2, IMG0134_3, etc) or delete them as you wish. Your original file will remain intact and the end result will not be corrupted by multiple saves as a jpeg. TIFF files can be compressed using a lossless algorithm.

[kc7jty]

k, tnx again.

[KG4CGC]

What Albie said x2.