Picture Of The Day Feb 08

[quincyg]

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[Atany]

Dear guys
I know, it's really not my task to moan here about your pictures. I'm only a foreigner and a guest. But I think the pictures of this forum have too many byte. 800 kb for instance for one picture. And if there are 5 pictures on one page, then we have 4000 kb. I'm sure my computer sheds hidden tears.

And I wonder if nobody of you has a little fear, someone could snitch your pictures for commercial use? If you would publish only small pictures in a low quality then won't be such a danger.

[A.D.W]

Dear guys
I know, it's really not my task to moan here about your pictures. I'm only a foreigner and a guest. But I think the pictures of this forum have too many byte. 800 kb for instance for one picture. And if there are 5 pictures on one page, then we have 4000 kb. I'm sure my computer sheds hidden tears.

And I wonder if nobody of you has a little fear, someone could snitch your pictures for commercial use? If you would publish only small pictures in a low quality then won't be such a danger.

Valid point, Atany. I try to keep my posted pictures below 100kb.

[gregs dad]

[IMG][/IMG]
Sitting on the dock of the bay.
Taken from Waterloo Dock

[Atany]

Valid point, Atany. I try to keep my posted pictures below 100kb.

oh, very much thanx! Unfortunately has gregs dad not the same opinion. Again more than 800 kb. I would say that's an invitation to sell his pictures somewhere.

[gregs dad]

oh, very much thanx! Unfortunately has gregs dad not the same opinion. Again more than 800 kb. I would say that's an invitation to sell his pictures somewhere.

I am afraid to tell you I am strictly an amateur I have never sold any of my pics at anytime. It takes me all my time to post them never mind worrying about the size.

[naked lilac]

I am afraid to tell you I am strictly an amateur I have never sold any of my pics at anytime. It takes me all my time to post them never mind worrying about the size.

Thats funny Gregs Dad.. I also feel the same when I post a picture.. They look fine on my screen...

[taffy]

posted in wrong place

[taffy]

[IMG][/IMG]
Sitting on the dock of the bay.
Taken from Waterloo Dock

Should be in March not Feb. Has Feb been completed? No dates on some pictures

[gregs dad]

Thanks Taffy,I really must stop drinking wine with my tea ,it should have of course been March

[Atany]

I am afraid to tell you I am strictly an amateur I have never sold any of my pics at anytime. It takes me all my time to post them never mind worrying about the size.

yes, it takes all your time because the pictures are so very big.
At first you have to download Gimp, for instance, or Paint shop, Photo shop, whatever....
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html Gimp is free
Then you have to open the file (File -> Open) Okay?
Then click at Picture -> Scaling or Resize (not canvas-size!)
Then make it smaller - type in a smaller length and height
Then save your picture with another name in your folder, but with a .jpg extension
Then it will ask you for the quality, with Gimp 100 means very good quality but more kb. In Paint Shop is 1 the best quality and many kb. Try it a few times and observe how it looks!
Then upload that smaller picture and we all will be very happy.

Attention! Give your picture always a new name if you save it after any changing, or your genuine picture will be lost. It's the same as in Word and so on. The program will remind you moreover.

[gregs dad]

yes, it takes all your time because the pictures are so very big.
At first you have to download Gimp, for instance, or Paint shop, Photo shop, whatever....
http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html Gimp is free
Then you have to open the file (File -> Open) Okay?
Then click at Picture -> Scaling or Resize (not canvas-size!)
Then make it smaller - type in a smaller length and height
Then save your picture with another name in your folder, but with a .jpg extension
Then it will ask you for the quality, with Gimp 100 means very good quality but more kb. In Paint Shop is 1 the best quality and many kb. Try it a few times and observe how it looks!
Then upload that smaller picture and we all will be very happy.

Attention! Give your picture always a new name if you save it after any changing, or your genuine picture will be lost. It's the same as in Word and so on. The program will remind you moreover.

First let me thank you for the lesson but you make it sound harder than what I am doing now,which is only 2 moves from flickr or photobucket. If our admin
team didn`t like how I was posting my pics I`m sure they would have told me by now.
By the way there is quite a lot posted in a large size by other members.
I myself don`t like thumbnails because they have to be enlarged for viewing
I would rather see large ones anytime, after all they are all resized to 800.

[quincyg]

I think the problem is in the how many bytes the photos are. the better quality the picture the bigger the file. although the size of photo is pretty much the same on the page the sizes of the files are different. I checked mine against other photos posted and found mine were smaller files.

right click on a photo and then properties and you'll see the difference in file sizes.

My camera is 7.2 mega pixels. perhaps others have better quality cameras with more pixels.

Just a thought.

[Atany]

First let me thank you for the lesson but you make it sound harder than what I am doing now,which is only 2 moves from flickr or photobucket. If our admin
team didn`t like how I was posting my pics I`m sure they would have told me by now.
By the way there is quite a lot posted in a large size by other members.
I myself don`t like thumbnails because they have to be enlarged for viewing
I would rather see large ones anytime, after all they are all resized to 800.

Maybe the admins are having high-end computers, which never have problems to display pictures.
And if you never do any image editing with your computer, then is that as you would have a Mercedes, but you're driving each day only one circuit around your house and then you're parking that car again.

There are so many things you can do with your pictures with Gimp. You can enlarge details. Changing the colours, brightness,.... Correcting mistakes. You can make photomontages. Whatever. Never done that?
You could create greetings cards for Christmas. Maybe also a calendar as a gift. Or booklets and covers for your burnt CDs. If you haven't a printer, the copy shops will print that too.

And with Animation Shop you can make animations. For instance that a ship navigates along the Mersey.
Or such rubbisch:

[gregs dad]

Maybe the admins are having high-end computers, which never have problems to display pictures.
And if you never do any image editing with your computer, then is that as you would have a Mercedes, but you're driving each day only one circuit around your house and then you're parking that car again.

There are so many things you can do with your pictures with Gimp. You can enlarge details. Changing the colours, brightness,.... Correcting mistakes. You can make photomontages. Whatever. Never done that?
You could create greetings cards for Christmas. Maybe also a calendar as a gift. Or booklets and covers for your burnt CDs. If you haven't a printer, the copy shops will print that too.

And with Animation Shop you can make animations. For instance that a ship navigates along the Mersey.
Or such rubbisch:

Hi Antany,I do have a few programs which I sometimes use to do the things you can do with your Gimp,for example Picasa,Photofiltre,Photoimpression,
but I try to take my photos as I would like them look without alterations.
If I wanted to alter them that much I think I would have taken up painting
instead years ago.