Adding Pictures

[Skywatcher]

Greetings All

In the general rules, it is stated that pictures may be no larger than 600 pixels x 600 pixels.
What does this equate to on the settings for my camera?
The picture size options on my camera are:

12M
8M
5M
3M
2M
1M
VGA
13:9L
16:9S

Any help much appreciated. Thanks and all the best,

Sky

[NO0C]

None of them. Take them as you do any other pictures and resize them.

I like the free program Free Picture Resizer from freepicturesolutions.com

http://download.cnet.com/Free-Picture-R ... 97789.html

I'm sure there are lots of freebies out there.

You will also have to store them on a host site like photobucket as they cannot be stored with the forum.

Good luck

[okie]

1...Get you an account on photobucket.com http://photobucket.com/

2...Use the tool bar on photobucket to up load a pic from your computer

3...one click to open the pic in photobucket. Click edit on tool bar

4...Click resize--On the width, change it to 600.then click apply onright side of screen.
then click save.

5...then mouse over small pic --until menu pops up--click share--then click links.

6...then left click on img link at the bottom--This copies the img link

7...open topic in small engine and paste....Then hit preview and you should see your resized picture

Maybe this will help

Travis

[bgsengine]

Greetings All

In the general rules, it is stated that pictures may be no larger than 600 pixels x 600 pixels.

Yes that refers to dimensional size (width x height)

What does this equate to on the settings for my camera?
The picture size options on my camera are:

12M
8M
5M
3M
2M
1M
VGA
13:9L
16:9S

Any help much appreciated. Thanks and all the best,

Sky

Those are your Resolution settings which determines the detail and quality of the pictures that are produced by the camera (the size of the dots that make up the picture).. and also affects file size.. so a picture that is resized 150 x 150 , but the photo quality is set to 600 megapixels will take a MUCH LONGER time to download than a photo that is resized 150 x 150 but stored at 75 megapixels. as a general rule, photos uploaded to photobucket and resized, are also saved as "Web-Ready" images by photobucket - basically focused on making pictures as small in file size as possible - which is one of the reasons the board has those requirements - if someone on a fast connection uploaded a picture of high quality - it might be no problem for others with similar very fast connections.. (but burn up the server account's bandwidth like crazy) - However, for others on slower connections (dial-up, DSL , Hughesnet, etc) the board would become practically unusable because it would take forever for those images to load.

So... we have those board requirements...

[NO0C]

Another good free program for picture viewing and resizing plus many more functions is IrfanView.

If you want to keep the detail the picture was taken in, there are other ways of grabbing an image from the full sized or partial sized picture. Windows 7 has 'Snipping Tool' and another free program I use for screen captures is MWSnap3.

Good luck.