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Which reminds me, have a zillion photos so have to do a couple of diaries. Does the FAQ show how to determine size of the image ? cos I don't want to drown people's connections with bandwidth hungry images.

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 11:19:19 AM EST
pc or mac?

do you have MS office?

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 11:42:36 AM EST
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PC and no I can't afford msOffice.

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 12:03:58 PM EST
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For the photo blogs, the guideline is to post photos no more than 600 pixels wide, (so as not to push the column wide), and no more than about 100Kb for bandwidth reasons.

The best thing is to use an image editor (like IrfanView if you haven't got a fancy one) to reduce width to 600 pixels. That will usually be enough to reduce the size in Kb. Then put the pics into an image server like Photobucket and copy the Direct Link they offer for each photo.

The syntax is:

<img src="(paste in Direct Link here)">

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 11:55:45 AM EST
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don't image editors cost money ? and don't they require several hours trying to work out how to translate the "instructions" from hardcore techie know-all-ese into "english for normal people" ?

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 12:01:50 PM EST
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IrfanView is freeware for Windows. Open a pic in it and press Ctrl-R, which will allow you to specify width 600. Then hit S to save. On the quality scale you're offered, choose about 80-85.

No more complicated than that.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 12:05:18 PM EST
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Ah, okay. I'll give it a go later. I'm still catching up.

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 12:09:10 PM EST
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Sorry, had visitors, so didn't reply earlier.

one thing to do, if you are making a copy for the web, copy them into a separate folder before you  shrink it for web use, so you still have the original left at full quality

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 02:05:21 PM EST
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You can even use MS paint for resizing. The JPG compression ratio is fixed, but it's about right for web presentation.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 01:07:39 PM EST
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Explain more. I like stuff I don't have to download.

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 01:17:30 PM EST
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Photobucket has it's own editing feature now - you can resize easily and no downloads needed.  Do you have a photobucket account yet?

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 01:21:29 PM EST
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Yes, that is one thing I managed. All I have to do is find the welcome email so's I can find out where it is.

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 02:20:19 PM EST
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Assuming you are starting with JPGs from your camera (as in you don't have an SLR outputting RAW format), open the JPG with MS paint, click on the "image" tab, and select "stretch/skew". In the stretch fields, type in a % less than 100 for both the horizontal and vertical fields to shrink it.

you are the media you consume.

by MillMan (millguy at gmail) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 01:23:19 PM EST
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Isn't it easier just to use html?  Like this:

width="500"

< img src="(paste in Direct Link here)" width="500" >

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 01:33:26 PM EST
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No because changing dimensions alone doesn't reduce the file size in kb.  It can be only 100 pixels wide from 800 but will still be 600kb if that was the original file size.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 01:53:34 PM EST
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What happens is that the html gets the picture file as it is on the server, then reduces it for display. So it still has to download all the bytes of the original file, ie same bandwidth as if it were displaying it full size.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 02:48:50 PM EST
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Thank you and In Wales for clearing that up.  Frankly, I have no idea what In Wales meant, but she's a photographer, so I am sure whatever she said was correct.  Your comment is a bit clearer.  

Well, that's how I've been doing it all along, resizing things.  

Helen, if it is some consolation/encouragement, I think photobucket is easy to use.  And I don't speak photographer.  A monkey could use it.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 03:02:44 PM EST
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Thanks for the encouragement. I'm still in catch-up mode but will want to post some stuff in the next day or so.

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by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jul 17th, 2008 at 03:26:47 PM EST
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