resizing pics for posting?

[PoohJen]

Hi All,
I posted a pic on another board, and it posted HUGE (I linked it to photobucket).

Anyone know how I should resize an image to make it suitable for posting?

TIA!

 

[Michele]

I hope someone answers this because I have been trying to figure it out for weeks.

TIA also.

 

[amid chaos]

You can resize it in photobucket by clicking EDIT. Or you can resize it in whatever photo editing software you use.

 

[Furgus]

If you have Photoshop, here is a great way to resize

http://www.worth1000.com/tutorial.asp?sid=161115

 

[handicap18]

There are a few options that I've used to "fix" this. Click on edit, the go to the resize option. Try it at 75% of original. If its still to big, try it at 50% of original (this one usually works for me). Another options is to go to account options (very top of page on right side), then change the Max Picture Size. I have mine set to 512kb. This (for me) gives the best size. YMMV. Its really not a huge picture size, but as long as you have the original picture on your hard drive and backed up on a CD, DVD or media card you'll never have to worry about losing the original size of the picture for full editing, printing and/or enlarging. Your really just using photobucket for viewing.

 

[taximomfor4]

here is the first picture I used my new camera for. I zoomed (obviously) and took it in Sepia to try it out.

 

[mhutchinson]

I just resize it in photobucket using the edit button. The best part is you keep making it smaller until its the right size and you don't even have to remove the link from the posting.



Mike

 

[JR6ooo4]

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One of the benefits is I can upload large file sizes for buyers to print a large size with good detail (no file spacce limit on smug, they charge by bandwidth used by you uploading and pictures being viewed) even with the most basic account.
Then when I link a photo into a post I can choose one of 5 different sizes to post.

Viewers of my photos can also choose the file size to view. Large for high bandwidth folks and smaller for dialup. I can also restrict the viewing or allow acces to the full file and even enable or disable right-click downloads. but that might be the pro version... I pay about $0.40 per day

I believe they have a free trial period. and if you like it you I can offer a discount with this code EDfLfDAAygNVM I also get a little something from it. I think Its $5 each.

MIkeeee

 

[PoohJen]

Thanks, y'all. I found the resizer on photobucket; for some reason some (not all) pics when posted on dis and other board are coming out huge, even though I can see on photobucket it has definitely been resized. hmmmm; i'll keep trying!

 

[Dznefreek]

If you use XP go here

 

[KathyTX]

We get lots of questions about resizing photos on the Tech Support forum. Here's a post that was meant to help people resize images on their PC before uploading so they'd be able to meet the signature guidelines.

For viewing online, I'd try to keep the width of the photo to around 500 pixels or so.

Here's the link to the thread: http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=749679&page=1&pp=15

Today's digital cameras take great photos, and save them as large files. That's great for printing and graphics work, but not so great for displaying your photos on the web.

Our signature guidelines say that you can have up to three separate images in your sig, the total file size of all of the graphics in your sig have to be 50K or less, and each image can be up to 550 pixels wide and 200 pixels tall. If you take a digital photo and upload it to use in a post, you're probably going wind up with a HUGE image.

So what do you do? You'll need to edit the photo on your computer before you upload it to your photo sharing site.

The actual commands to do this are going to be a little different from program to program, but I can explain how to do it in a couple of common software applications, and you should be able to figure out how to do something similar in whatever graphics software you have. Pretty much every digital camera comes with a graphics editor. Drawing programs and tools like Adobe Photoshop and Photoshop Elements are also very popular. Microsoft Photo Editor is bundled in with Microsoft Office.

Regardless of which program you're using, these are the basic steps you'll follow:

1) Launch your graphics editor.

2) Open the file containing your photo

3) Crop the photo so that only the part of the image you care about is showing. No sense wasting limited screen space on background stuff!

Usually, cropping is done by drawing a box around the part of the image you want to keep, then choosing commands like "Edit, Crop" or "Image, Crop."

4) Adjust the IMAGE SIZE so that it is less than 550x200 pixels

Once you've cropped the picture, reduce it to the precise size in pixels that you want. Look for commands like "Image, Resize" and some sort of box that will let you adjust height and/or width. Often, you can choose whether these numbers are pixels, inches, or centimeters. You should be able to enter either height or width, and the other will adjust automatically.

5) Save the file (as a .jpg image), adjusting the FILE SIZE to less than 50K.

This could be very different from program to program. In Photoshop Elements, choose SAVE AS, specify JPEG as the file type, and click SAVE. You'll then get a JPEG OPTIONS box that displays the current file size, and has a slider bar you adjust to reduce the file size.

6) Upload your image to www.wdwinfo.com/photopost, or another web site that will allow you to create a link to your image.

7) Place a link to your photo in your signature, surrounded by

tags.

 

[Stitchless]

Oh! Nice find, Dznefreek!

 

[aunt kelly]

Thanks, y'all. I found the resizer on photobucket; for some reason some (not all) pics when posted on dis and other board are coming out huge, even though I can see on photobucket it has definitely been resized. hmmmm; i'll keep trying!

I have the same problem and I can't figure out why. Some photos come out fine after I resize them on photobucket and then post and some are huge when I try to post them, even though photobucket shows that they have been resized.

Can anyone explain why this happens?

 

[MarkBarbieri]

I'll second the recommendation for smugmug.com. Your photos are displayed in four sizes - original, large, medium, and small. I find that the large and medium sizes work great for linking here.

 

[Dan Murphy]

If after you have resized in Photobucket your picture still looks large in a thread or post, just refresh the page with the refresh icon at top of browser or F5 key, this clears your cache.