Need help with jpegs

[Slim Pickins]

I am trying to upload some photos in jpeg form. I am told that the files are too large. Any way to make them small enough to upload? Any help is appreciated. Thank you

[Tom C]

If you have Windows, Under accessories you probably have "Imaging".
Laod file into that. Go to menuitem "Page" ---> "Properties".
Click on Compression tab. and change to Low Resolution/Medium quality.
Click on Resolution tab and change to 100X100.

[f5loar]

That's my problem too. I can't seem to find "Images" under anything related to Windows XP I have. Any other suggestions? I've got Kodak picture/Adobe picture and nowhere I look can I find a tab to allow me to resize,recompress or anything to change related to making image smaller.

[AW Meyer]

You can go to this site. It has worked well for me:
here (http://www.resize2mail.com)

[Tom C]

Try "Help" and RTFM (Technial computer term) http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

[grandmainger]

Bill, have a look at this page:
http://www.grandmainger.com/picpost/resize.htm
It's all fully explained with screenshots, with link to easy free software if you need it.
Germain

[ajh]

I had been having problems posting the pictures of my new mando....

I'm pretty much of a doofus when it comes to computers, so I had another guy show me how to do it (on this computer at least).

You have to have Microsoft Office Picture Manager.

-Click on the picture in your file and copy it to another name.
-Open the new file and you should see "Edit Picture" at the top of the screen.
-To the right of your screen a box opens up....click "Compress".
-You'll get a choice of 4 buttons to choose from. Clicking each one in turn will tell you the size it will go to. You have to get under 100kb.
-Save it at the best setting.
Come into the Cafe and either hit the reply or new button in the upper right corner.
-Go down to the bottom of the screen and hit Browse. Your picture files will come up. Double click the one you want to attach and the file name will come up in the box next to the Browse clicky.
-You have to add some kind of text to the main text box before you can hit "Add Reply"....you can't "Preview Post", just have to go straight to "Add Reply" and off it goes.

Only one picture per try.

Hope this works out for someone out there.
Tony

[markishandsome]

This issue comes up often enough around here (like every other day) that I think it might be worth pinning a locked "Here's how to post pictures" thread at the top of this page or in some other really obvious place so people new to the board can learn how to use this board's confusing picture posting function.

[f5loar]

That would be fine if all computers/photoshops/etc. were created equal. They are not. There are so many ways to do it and telling non-geekheads how to do it without being there putting their finger on the dozens of buttons out of thousands of buttons to push ain't going to get it. It was hard enough just getting the photo into this thing and to have it rejected cause mandocafe says it's too big and you find no resize/recompress/etc. buttons to re-do you loose patience. I think mandocafe should have some sort of automatic resize thing that will resize it for us.

[Bill Snyder]

This issue comes up often enough around here (like every other day) that I think it might be worth pinning a locked "Here's how to post pictures" thread at the top of this page or in some other really obvious place so people new to the board can learn how to use this board's confusing picture posting function.
There is this. (http://www.mandolincafe.net/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=23;t=13102) That gives the How To Post A Picture instructions in a nut shell.
Resizing the photos so that they meet the forum criteria is not so simple as f5loar points out and one size fits all directions for that will not work because as he also points out we do not all have the same photo editing software.
That is why grandmainger has a link at the bottom of all of his posts offering guidance to those that do not know how to resize, etc. their photos.

[markishandsome]

Resizing the photos so that they meet the forum criteria is not so simple as f5loar points out and one size fits all directions for that will not work because as he also points out we do not all have the same photo editing software.


I agree, all I'm saying is that someone new to the board isn't going to know to look for these links on the catch-all page or Germain's signature line. I think the proof of this is in the "help i can't post a picture" posts that show up almost daily all over the board. Someone with trouble figuring out their computer is going to have trouble finding these resources unless they're in plain sight.

[Antlurz]

I was under the impression that all software that comes with your camera to transfer images to your computer contained that stuff. Might check with the directions?

Another option might be to not automatically set your camera to it's highest resolution. Kind of nonsensical to save a picture to that degree of clarity,(read: size) only to have to throw most of it back out in order to actually be able to see all of it on the screen at once. That's like renting a truck to take home a dozen eggs.

Ron

[Soupy1957]

I have a freebie program called Irfanview that works very well at reducing the size of .jpg files. It's as simple as using the drop down menu and selecting "resize."
-Soupy1957

[markishandsome]

You can resize things in Paint, a program that I think has been on every windows machine ever made.

[Eric F.]

My Mac asks me what size I want them to be when I click "export."

[James P]

There's a nifty resizer in Windows Powertoys (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx) that also puts resizing in the context sensitive (iow right click) menu. #

I'm pretty adept at using MS Digital Image Pro and the wife's a wiz with Photoshop. #Still, I have to admit that we both find Picasa (http://picasa.google.com/) a lot more fun. #Picasa has an export button with a resizing slider in the dialog box. #And the new web album feature is really nice.

Or you can just use Flickr or Photobucket. #They'll both do the resizing for you.
http://www.flickr.com/
http://photobucket.com/

[Lee]

I was stumped, but this worked on a Windows 2000 machine.
- Make a new copy of the photo and save it.
- Then right click on the file name, chose Edit, which opens Paint.
- Then choose Image, and go into Attributes.
- Make sure the buttons indicate Pixels as the Units, then change the Height to a number smaller than 460 and the Width smaller than 410.
- Then back out and save the changes.
- The new file uploaded to the Classifieds OK for me.