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Stupid question regarding photos - 7/8/2006 10:01:19 AM

SargeantTex

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I was wondering if any of you had any advice how I can scale down my photos to post on threads I have some very rare battleship photos I want to put on here but when I try to embed them in the thread it says they are too large I have adobe photoshop and regular windows XP photo editor plus lexmark editor that came with the scanner any advice is appreciated.

sorry to ask what is probably a stupid question but I was a jock not a computer geek.who would think that a computer geek holds the world by the balls I.E. BILL GATES the dark lord of the world. lol

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RE: Stupid question regarding photos - 7/8/2006 10:14:40 AM

Roger Neilson

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Use Photoshop. The command you want is Save for web, it is in the file menu. This will allow you to resave the pic as a GIF (far smaller file size) and also adjust the size of the actual picture to fit the space available.

If you need any more help email me.

didactylos at bigfoot dot com

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RE: Stupid question regarding photos - 7/8/2006 11:44:54 AM

dtravel

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I would suggest using an image hosting site. ImageShack (www.imageshack.us) is a good one. Go there, upload the pictures and they will give you a list of "posting codes". Copy the one labeled "Direct link to image" and paste that into the dialog box you get when you click on the "Add Image" button here. ImageShack can handle up to 1.5 meg files and pictures hosted there are not subject to the Matrix forum's limits and don't use Matrix server file space or bandwidth.

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RE: Stupid question regarding photos - 7/8/2006 1:52:12 PM

captskillet

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Photoshop or any photo editing software should have an Image resizing feature, just size it down till you get it inder the 200KB (I think) limit for posting.

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RE: Stupid question regarding photos - 7/8/2006 4:25:57 PM

rtrapasso

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quote:

ORIGINAL: SargeantTex

I was wondering if any of you had any advice how I can scale down my photos to post on threads I have some very rare battleship photos I want to put on here but when I try to embed them in the thread it says they are too large I have adobe photoshop and regular windows XP photo editor plus lexmark editor that came with the scanner any advice is appreciated.

sorry to ask what is probably a stupid question but I was a jock not a computer geek.who would think that a computer geek holds the world by the balls I.E. BILL GATES the dark lord of the world. lol

Best/easiest solution i've found is Irfanview- use ctrl-R (resize option). i've gotten unpredictable results from other programs. This allows for quick and easy (and standardized (if desired)) resizes.

This one is reliable and free (a tip of the hat to Mr. Frag for this one!)

http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm

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RE: Stupid question regarding photos - 7/8/2006 5:52:30 PM

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So is this one of terminus's relatives from Texas.

You post out of nowhere with nothing relevant about this game.

Kicking useful topics off the header page..
STOP IT!!!

Go use the general discussion thread on the main forum.

My 2 cents.

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