marcus Posted July 28, 2005 Posted July 28, 2005 With a limit of 100000 bytes on attatchment files, how do I best compress or format photos/scans to fit? And how do I paste them directly onto the post, rather than folks having to click on an 'attatchment' button? Quote
mattp Posted July 28, 2005 Posted July 28, 2005 TO display an image, you have to put a complete address between image tags in the text of your post. . I believe there can be no spaces before and after the address, but that may not matter. Medium compression of a jpg file with photoshop results in a very viewable image for the web, and I think 600 x 800 will fit just fine. It will also fit the browser window unless somebody has some extremely narrow screen settings (try it to confirm the file size). Then you have to post it to a website somewhere so that it has a URL. If you want to put it in the photo gallery here, you may want to submit a slightly larger image than medium compression 600 x 800, but if you do and if the large size image as viewed in the photo gallery takes up an entire screen or more, it is more considerate to link the medium sized image from the photo gallery so that the thread remains readable without scrolling right and left. TO use an image from the photo gallery for viewing in a post, you will have to right click the photo as viewed in that gallery to get the actual URL for the photo iteself, rather than that for a page which loads the photo with all the photo gallery navigation and etc. appearing (if you just copy the address while viewing a picture in the gallery, it won't work). Quote
olyclimber Posted July 28, 2005 Posted July 28, 2005 you've got to have the full path to the photo http://www.blahblahblahblahblahblahblah/picture.jpg Quote
mattp Posted July 28, 2005 Posted July 28, 2005 Now go back to that gallery page and right-click the image. You'll get a URL that ends in ".jpg" and if you insert that between the image tags, you'll get a picture. Quote
marylou Posted July 28, 2005 Posted July 28, 2005 I hope it gets easier after the upgrade--this is what I get if I try to use the image tag tool. Quote
chucK Posted July 28, 2005 Posted July 28, 2005 Wow, what a pain in the ass. Oh but please know we really do appreciate what you do for us! Quote
olyclimber Posted July 28, 2005 Posted July 28, 2005 I hope it gets easier after the upgrade--this is what I get if I try to use the image tag tool. That is because the system only recognizes the .jpg extension and not the .jpeg extension...even though the files are the same. If you rename it to image.jpg (instead of image.jpeg) it will work. Quote
mattp Posted July 28, 2005 Posted July 28, 2005 Not to make excuses for a clumsy system or anything, but is there anything about computers that is NOT a pain in the ass? Quote
archenemy Posted July 29, 2005 Posted July 29, 2005 You're the one with the white hat next to the lady with the red sweater, right? Quote
AlpineK Posted July 29, 2005 Posted July 29, 2005 No, I'm the 10th guy to the right of the flag. Quote
snoboy Posted July 29, 2005 Posted July 29, 2005 www.irfanview.com is a very good utility for resizing images. Well technically, it's a website about a good utility... Quote
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