Every time I try and post a photo I get back that its too large and I have to reduce it to some smaller size.....less than 250x250 or something like that.....and when it shows up on a thread it is so small the details go missing.....take this one for example....but I notice many of you guys get almsot full width ...... how?.......When I put a photo on I use the mamage attachments in the post thread ..... is there another way???

 

David,

I use Photoshop to reduce image size and file size on my Mac. If you're on a PC, I'm guessing there has to be some sort of file management in Word or Publisher.

 

David,
Click on the following icon:



Then simply drop in the URL of the image you are supplying (naturally the image needs to be hosted somewhere). I tend to reduce mine to somewhere around 700 x 600 K or so. If the image comes in too big, I go back to my image hosting site and simply reduce it by 75% or 50% (as needed).

I hope that did not add confusion


Mark: Good morning!

Andreas

 

You can reduce size of image to 640 x 480.

Either save as a jpg and reduce the quality (increase the compression) or save a a gif as they take up less space.

Marc

 

They are not hosted...they are just pulled out of "My Picture" on my pc

 

Thanks Marc

 

A-Ha. Then I'm not sure how to help.

Andreas

 

How do you reduce the size in photo shop??

 

Do you mean pixel width/height or file size in kb?

Marc

 

File size in KB

Thanks

 

Click "File -> Save as"
Format "JPEG"
Click "Save"
Below the Cancel button, tick to select "Preview"
Under Image Options use the slider to reduce (right to left) from "large file" to "small file"
as you move the slider, at the bottom of the dialog box it shows the resultant file size in kb

Hope this helps.

Marc

 

Thanks Marc.

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