Hi, deej! ( I still owe you a reply from yesterday!)
I normally work sans borders, edits or effects when I am doing the actual TR - and that is not because I think my photos don't need help, because they certainly do need help!
It's simply because of the time it would take to struggle with editing all of them on this particular computer from hades. It would take me a year to get through one TR. If I were working on a normal PC, I might do it.
BUT...when I am posting a random photo here or there - like for a countdown or for the Picture of the Day thread or somewhere where I am only posting one or a few photos that are not part of a TR - I like to play with the effects for certain pictures. (As you know, not all photos look good with edits or effects, though, so I have to choose wisely!)
So when Photobucket introduced their jazzy Holiday Effects section, I thought, "Perfect for countdown photos!" When I am trying to get the color to 'pop' on Facebook (since the photos show up as small on the Facebook News Feed), it's good to pep them up a bit with borders or effects to be more eye-catching.
Have you tinkered with the Holiday Effects on Photobucket yet?
There is a way to get the photos to a smaller size when you first load them to your album. It's underneath the Upload tab - something like "Options" or some such thing. I'll have to check my account again to find the exact wording. And you can pick the size you want to load them to.
As for photos that are already loaded, you'd have to go in and re-size them one by one, which is crazy. Too much time involved to do that. I can view them one by one if I get the silly DISboards e-mail notification that you have posted. I can click on the links that appear in the notification and view each photo separately. Trouble is, I don't always get the notifications so I can end up missing things.
I DID, however, see your scrumptious BBQ photos (remind me that I have got to eat there one of these days AND try the cobbler as well as the shortcake!), and I wanted to let you know that, yet again, you and I are on the same page - I am totally not a coleslaw person either (in its mayonnaise form), but I could get into a vinegar-based coleslaw! I think I could eat that kind of coleslaw.
Oh, and I'm another one who does not care for cornbread! It's not horrible, but I have always found it boring and unnecessary!
Now garlic bread I love. And I love corn itself, as a vegetable. But cornbread I do not like.
Oh, and thank you for the nice comments!
So cute!
