Digital Photography Question

[Mitar Precip 0]

Dear STSFers,

 

Forgive the intrusion...Some of you have heard about me having Starships lying around the house. And now I finally have the means to take pictures of them. My first attempt however, has run into a snag.

 

I was curious if there was any way one can shrink an image so it meets the uploadable limit of this board.

Basically my first attempt ended up at 2.96MB. Now for those of you who don't know me..I have professed to being a computer idiot...for a long time. I was wondering why the heck can't shrink the Starship picture to allow it to get by the memory block. We shrink photos all the time for Caption Contests...why not with the one I took.

 

 

I had always thought that boards...when presented with an image too big to fit on a screen...would allow you to shrink the image to a certain amount of pixels to allow an image to be posted.

 

 

Again I am not savy with tech....I was using a 12megapixel camera which probably sentenced me to death posting shots on this board.

 

ANy suggestions would be appreciated and help too.

 

THank you

Precip

"Digital Ditz"

[STSF Kent 0]

I'm not entirely sure how the image uploading works on this board; however --

 

The image shrinking on the boards reduces the size it appears on the screen, but not the actual size of the file (the full-size file is still there to be accessed if you click on the smaller thumbnail, I believe). You'll want to shrink the file in some kind of local program. If you have a Mac, you can do this in Preview; I don't know what's included with Windows these days but I think you can do it in Microsoft Paint.

 

Hope this helps. :P

[will_marx 0]

You can also use Paint.net. Or double check your resolution settings on the camera. A higher quality picture usually results in a larger file. Or to get around the 3.0MB file size, sign up for an account with Photobucket or Imageshack (Personal choice here) and link them in, instead of having the site host them.

[Mitar Precip 0]

Thank you for help and I still need it. I will try to work with Paint...granted I have windows Xp..kinda old. Keep my fingers crossed.

 

Mr. Marx, I kinda wanted to keep them here so one doesnt have to access another site. I'll visit imageshack..I 've worked a bit with them in the past I dont think I've ever shrunk an image using it. Heck I know I could just post these on FB...but Id rather not disclose so much info about myself in the process.

 

Precip

 

THe ditz.

[Mitar Precip 0]

 

 

 

 

This is a test image ...Hot Wheels Klingon BoP I want to call it the "Qob"!

[Cmdr JFarrington 0]

Thank you for help and I still need it. I will try to work with Paint...granted I have windows Xp..kinda old. Keep my fingers crossed.

 

Mr. Marx, I kinda wanted to keep them here so one doesnt have to access another site. I'll visit imageshack..I 've worked a bit with them in the past I dont think I've ever shrunk an image using it. Heck I know I could just post these on FB...but Id rather not disclose so much info about myself in the process.

 

Precip

 

THe ditz.

 

Precip,

 

Working with XP Pro here and I use Photoshop to shrink. Also, if you use Imageshack or Photobucket, the image appears in this window while residing on another site. You use the "insert image" feature on the posting tools bar ::points up::, tell it where to point to and it comes up in your post. But it looks like you've got the hang of it already with your posting of the "Qob."

[Mitar Precip 0]

I imagine when you use imageshack to resize your image you lose resolution?

 

Stilll glad I got one to work. Believe me....I wish I had a Nebula ..just not availble. Same as the Enterprise C.

 

I have to figure out how to make a background. Next ship I want to shoot is the D`deridex Warbird.

 

-Precip

[STSF Kent 0]

If you resize to a larger image you'll probably lose resolution. If you're reducing the image size you probably won't see much degradation.