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Post by emm on Jan 6, 2010 0:34:14 GMT
testing
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Post by emm on Jan 6, 2010 0:36:05 GMT
nope... I followed the facebook directions exactly, and all I ended up with was as you see above. I'll try other things... after all, I managed an avatar following directions
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 6, 2010 2:24:56 GMT
nope... I followed the facebook directions exactly, and all I ended up with was as you see above. I'll try other things... after all, I managed an avatar following directions Emm, here's the problem: snc1/hs177.snc1/6654_1162656581332_1075350244_30508744_8098357_n.jpg That is what you took from facebook. The reason it won't work is because you did not copy the full url. See how there is no http at the beginning of it? Those fb Location urls are really long, so you have to double-check to make sure the whole thing gets copied. This is how an fb Location url should look: http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs237.snc1/8425_1224581785229_1549557426_583245_6892504_s.jpg
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Post by lola on Jan 29, 2010 17:06:36 GMT
Hi, bixa,
Last night I tried a few times to post an internet photo of Coral Court on the streamline moderne thread. When I posted the large size photo, it resized itself nicely during the preview but stayed maybe too large when I posted, didn't resize. Any thoughts?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 29, 2010 17:25:37 GMT
Hi, bixa, Last night I tried a few times to post an internet photo of Coral Court on the streamline moderne thread. When I posted the large size photo, it resized itself nicely during the preview but stayed maybe too large when I posted, didn't resize. Any thoughts? Lola, I think I have an idea of what happened. The problem with this Picture Posting Workshop Thread is that as it grows, it gets more unwieldy. I remembered this problem from having encountered it around the forum, & addressed it on page 1, reply 18, but it definitely bears repeating here: ================================================ One note here about picture sizes: PLEASE, if you are using an image from the internet, CHECK THE SIZE BEFORE POSTING.If you've found the picture in Google Images, for instance, it will tell you the size right below the thumbnail, for instance. To illustrate my point, here is a url from a Google Images picture: www.wallpaperpimper.com/wallpaper/Animal/Pigs/Pig-6-IAARIUBXLX-1680x1050.jpgWhen you open it, it seems big, but not that big, right? Okay, now look at it again. If you move your mouse around, you'll see that your pointer has become a little magnifying glass with a + in it. That's a big clue right there. Click on the picture and it will expand to its true size -- the size you will be foisting onto a thread if you post that picture here. That monster will horribly slow the loading of the entire thread. To drive the point home, click on the picture again. It will return to a more sedate size, but look at the top frame on your monitor. In Firefox it says "(JPEG Image, 1680x1050 pixels) Scaled (53%)". IE only shows the pixel size, but that should be shocking enough. ================================================ Please let me know if that is not the problem, Lola, & we'll do more sleuthing.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 31, 2010 2:26:29 GMT
Here is another problem related to picture size. Don Cuevas posted three lovely pictures here in the On the Menu board (Reply #167) Although the forum is coded to display large photos at a manageable size, large pictures will nevertheless stretch the screen and cause loading problems for people with slower connections. When asked about possibly resizing his photos, Don Cuevas very reasonably replied: About the pictures: they are set to a certain size in Picasa when I upload them. They are not the biggest, but the next smallest size. I'd hate to have to modify my Picasa pictures just so they could be better accomodated on APIAS. Maybe I could just post links to the pictures. I don't mind doing that. So, what to do? He has pictures, we want to see the pictures, but he'd prefer not to alter his originals. As far as links go, the whole beauty of this forum is not having to go somewhere else to see a picture. For those people who wish to store photos of a certain size -- a size not easily accomodated here, perhaps the most straightforward solution is to re-host them at a smaller size somewhere else. It's not necessary to sign up at a host site to do so. (Although I feel it's better to have ones own account.) If you are only posting two or three pictures at a time, you might want to go to the bottom left corner of any page in Any Port and click on the TinyPic icon there. You can host them at TinyPic at the "message board size" of 640x480 without changing the size of your originals. Another option is to resize your photos right on your computer, whether or not you are doing it with the idea of posting them. I just checked in my own Documents and was appalled to see how much space is wasted on pictures that should be re-sized. Some of my photos have been re-sized, and some are saved on the computer in the same size in which they came out of the digital camera. Mouse over your Document thumbnails, or set the page to Details for a shocking revelation on the size of some of those pics. For instance, I have one picture in My Documents that I re-sized because I wanted to post it. It's a nice manageable 135 KB. There's another one right next to it that I never altered and it's a bloated 1.49 MB. The re-sized one would be easy to attach to an email, along with several others in the same size range. The one in the big original size might well be problematic, especially if other pics were to be attached as well. I hope the two suggestions above are helpful.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jan 31, 2010 10:47:49 GMT
Bixa, thaks for the suggestions. Part of the problem, I think, is that I stopped using PhotoShop Elements and began using Picasa. (I can no longer use PSE 3 on my current Mac because it crashes soon after it starts up. Plus, Picasa is SO much easier for me.) I have ordered an update PSE 8 but won't have it installed until June.
One of the many advantages of PSE* is that in the File Menu> Save As dialog there's an option, "Save for Web". That gives an easy way to resize the picture, as well as view it in various browsers you may have installed on your computer. I don't know of that degree of finesse with Picasa.
*Among the disadvantages is that it's often overkill with so many features and tools.
I also have Apple's Preview, both a PDF viewer and graphics viewer and a simple editor. There's a sliding scale for resizing in the Save As dialog. I can look into trying that. Just yesterday, I found a registration code for GraphicConverter, a venerable but updated photo editor. (Meaning I can use it on my current Mac without waiting 30 seconds every time I start it.) I'm fairly certain GC has a resize function, but as a program it has a very odd interface.
But I'll be looking into those.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Jan 31, 2010 10:52:55 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 31, 2010 17:16:49 GMT
This is interesting. I'm posting both of them below, along with your comments. Scrutinizing them very closely, I can see a touch of graininess in the fork & spoon in the second photo that is not there in the first. But overall, I think the reproduction is actually better in the 2nd photo and, as it only has to be forum-reduced by 13%, is not a screen stretcher. The first one, with its forced reduction of 24%, stretches my screen before finally settling down. If you want to get rid of the little sentence in red letters above each picture announcing, "this picture has been reduced by X%", you could experiment with this, if one of your programs allow it: Set everything that you want to preserve in a large size to 700 x 700. Some programs will automatically adjust those two measurements to the appropriate proportions and the resulting picture will take up the maximum room allowed on a post without the forum resizer's kicking in. Don Cuevas wrote: I have made a fast test, using Apple's Preview. Here is an unedited photo, 1.8 mbs uploaded to Picasa Web Albums at "Better Quality 1600 pixels". Here the same picture, after cropping and a few adjustments, Saved As at a lower quality, but still uploaded at !600 pixels. Now it's only 288 kbs.
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