pics

[spike]

How do you make pictures smaller. i have a couple of pics that i want to post but there are 1meg+
taken with a sony 5.1 megapixel camera

[elizabeth]

A simple way to reduce your picture in size is to go into a photo editor such as PAINT

Open the picture in there
Then under the IMAGE tab you will look for (STRETCH/SKEW) click there
that opens a box
You want to work within the (STRETCH) Portion
I start by putting the number 50 in the vertical and horizontal box then click OK
This will reduce your photo by 50%
If it needs more repeat the process...

(**NOTE- the smaller the number you put in will be a larger reduction (ie placing 20 in both the vertical and horizontal box will make it smaller than if you were to put in 80 in both boxes**)

Another option is to use a site like Photobucket.com
in there you can upload your photos then just hit the edit and choose to reduce it either 25% - 50% - 75% of the original size...

Personally I like the first option because you can still hit the undo button if it is too small and then just redo the last action you took with another number till you get it the size you want...

And if all else fails... Email it to me I will reduce it to a good size and email it back to you....

[e-mail]

[spike]

Hi,
i went to that photobucket site and clicked on make my own account, but i couldnt find the button to make the free account, it only came up with the button to make a premium account ... do you know where it is??

[elizabeth]

spike said:

Hi,
i went to that photobucket site and clicked on make my own account, but i couldnt find the button to make the free account, it only came up with the button to make a premium account ... do you know where it is??

Well this is what I found when I went there...
Over the next few weeks we will be upgrading our infrastructure to better serve our users.
Therefore we are currently accepting new "free" accounts between 11am-1pm and 11pm-1am mst!
So you just have to hit it between those times and that time zone and I am sure that you will have the link for signing up for the free account

[spike]

ooh. Thanks i didnt see that
so do i just load the pictures into the page then post the url on this website??... does it show me step by step how to do it on the website??
sorry for the all the questions

[elizabeth]

Once you have uploaded your photos you can either use the img link generated on there or you can use the one on here with the url for the photo

when you place it on here is will look like this

(URL GOES HERE)

there wont be any spaces in the command I just put them there to show you...

Here is a demo I will use the banner from here to show you...

(command with spaces to show you what it will look like)
www.geocities.com/little_dragon_keeper74/GDbanner1.JPG

(command without the spaces to show you how it works)

[DaremoAlpha]

this place is free and very user friendly

www.pixfiles.net/

and to reflect Elizabeth's offer you may also email picture to me to be reworked via PhotoImpact and if you have any ideas on something you would like to see ie framing or special effects I can work with you to edit your pictures to something you may like, ( I am a rookie as you can see by my signature but I am always willing to try )

[e-mail]