ok- how do i resize photos to post here?
I usually size them at 8’’ maximum dimension, 72 dpi saved as a “.gif” file.
Then, either post them on a photo-sharing site like Flickr or photobucket, and drag them from there into the window, or, if you have a website or webpage, post them there, and then drag from the webpage.
That way (I think) you can post larger images without eating up this site’s bandwidth (correct me if I’m wrong…)
Now, if someone could explain to me how to make an active (hot) link…
Hi Matt,
To resize the photos you need either a photo editor (like iPhoto if using a Mac or something similar) or you can easily do it by getting a photobucket account. Goto www.photobucket.com and then “join now”. It’s free and you can upload photos there, resize them and link them to your posts on Swaylocks or other forums. That’s how I do it. I never upload them directly to Swaylocks. The photos you see (that I post) are hosted by photobucket.com
Being lazy - let me steer you to this rather than rewriting it. If that doesn’t cover it, maybe I can help some…
doc…
Find your photo on your computer, click to download, click to copy the link–post here using this: 
Delete the “http” prefix out of the window before you paste
Thats it.
thanks a ton guys!!!
oK Frenchie…we are waiting!!
rogelio
I also recommend tinypic.com. You don’t have to create an account, and they re-size anything that’s too big, automatically.
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I also recommend tinypic.com. You don’t have to create an account, and they re-size anything that’s too big, automatically.
But its nice to post big pics too. You can do that with photobucket (or other photo hosting sites) because it doesn’t actually upload to Swaylocks. It’s just linked.
another real simple way… use your “Paint” application. you go to your “Start” bar, then to “All Programs”, adn then usually at the top you have “Accessories”
once you open paint, you can go to your menu to select the pic you want.
once you have the pic open, then go up to the menu that says “image”, and in there you have “stretch/skew”. you simply plug in numbers ( like reduce by 80% tall and 80% wide… or increase by 150% tall and 150%wide"
then save.
then just upload regular way to your sways post
tinypic is a linked host too. If you upload a big one, it seems like I remember you can access the biggest file of it too. I hosted some there once, and the file was able to be isolated to the huge file size my camera uploaded–try tinypic–it couldn’t get much easier
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tinypic is a linked host too. If you upload a big one, it seems like I remember you can access the biggest file of it too. I hosted some there once, and the file was able to be isolated to the huge file size my camera uploaded--try tinypic--it couldn't get much easier
You’re right. Tinypic is easy. I recommend it. Easier than photobucket.
Matt,
Try www.tinypic.com its pretty easy. Its like photobucket but you don’t need to register or sign in.
Just know where your pic is on your computer, choose file, resize (I use 800x600), then upload.
Then copy the link for the IMG Code and paste it in your post. Your picture will appear instead of the link you pasted once you submit your post.
So easy–Photobucket and Flickr can do some cool stuff though-- besides saving all your pics in your own account – edit them and crop them – also they can upload like 10 pics at once–
Tinypic is the easiest possible way to throw up a pic I think –
especially if you have tabbed browsing on Firefox so you can do all this without ever closing Swaylocks
again-thank you to all for the tips!!
A few other photo tricks, more for general use than you in particular. Think of it as an overview:
First off, file format. Some digital cameras or scanners save photos in proprietary formats, or bitmapped format . These can be huge file sizes, so re-save them as ‘.jpg’ files which are about the most compact file size for photos…although for black and white or simple drawings, ‘.gif’ format may be smaller.
Then, shrink the picture. You read about 4 megapixel or 10 megapixel cameras…neato, right? Well, the problem is that these are pretty big. For instance, my camera is set to do 4 megapixel pictures. That is 2272 pixels wide by 1704 high…and on most computer screens it’s at least two screens wide and two screens high. Vastly larger than you need. For posting here, 640x480 is pretty much the max size that’ll fit and generally half that works fine. You may not realise it, the computer often automaticly resizes the picture to fit the screen, but behind that is a huge file.
Why do huge, huge pictures? Well, you can zoom in to , say, a small section of the picture, use that and it’s still a perfectly adequate image… or crop out a lot of the picture, do all that sort of stuff. But realisticly, we are all still using these things like film cameras - very few actually bother with the nice stuff that the many, many pixel cameras can do.
Lastly, you can fiddle with the common picture formats some. A .jpg image, your basic photo format, is the end product of some kinda cute mathematics, such that the raw pixels an their color and so on are changed over to several mathematical functions plus some code for exceptions. Just how precisely they do it is something you can turn up or down, and in turn save quite a lot in file size, often at little or no observed drop in the visible photo quality.
But, resizing? Saving as a different format? Messing with the image quality? How ya gonna do that? Well, most but not all digital cameras come with some sort of image software. Many computers do too. It may be relatively simple, or doing some of the more fancy stuff is kinda at the end of a long learning curve.
Or, theres some very good free software out there. Myself, I use and like IrfanView and XNView, both free, http://www.irfanview.net/ and http://www.xnview.com/ - they will both do it all, plus some other goodies in there. I like IrfanView a little better for doing picture manipulation work while XNView will generate some very nice thumbnail pages if you’re doing a few pages of photos.
hope that’s of use
doc…