Photo Uploading (my photos are too small!)

[ArtistJess]

Help! I am having a terrible time trying to upload photos on here. I know that I''m supposed to keep them below 100K and all that, but that makes them really small. I have tried renaming them, which works.. but they''re still small. I even tried gray-scaling to see if that would make the file size smaller. I have lots of pics I''d like to post on certain threads, but can''t figure out how everyone else gets their photos so much bigger.

 

[stone-cold11]

try open your photo to full screen, then use the print screen button to copy it. Paste it in Paint and then crop it down in size and save in jpg until you get the size down to 100kb. I usually managed to get the images to quite a significant size.

 

[ArtistJess]

i don''t have paint.. i''m on a mac. i wonder if photoshop would work?

 

[stone-cold11]

Should work, just maybe have to tweak the compression ratio yourself, between quality of image and size of the file. In paint, jpg is a standard compression ratio, not sure how much though.

 

[Loves Vintage]

I''ve had success using this free site in the past: http://www.shrinkpictures.com/. Previously, I too struggled with shrinking photos for posting here.

 

[tyty333]

Date: 1/19/2010 9:31:13 AM
Author: Loves Vintage
I''ve had success using this free site in the past: http://www.shrinkpictures.com/. Previously, I too struggled with shrinking photos for posting here.

Yep, this is what I use too!

 

[princesss]

Date: 1/19/2010 9:28:35 AM
Author: ArtistJess
i don''t have paint.. i''m on a mac. i wonder if photoshop would work?

Photoshop will definitely work.

I don''t have a lot of experience with stuff like this, but what I do is I upload pictures to another site (Facebook, Flikr, stuff like that), let them compress the image, and then save their copy of my image to my desktop and upload that.

 

[Tacori E-ring]

I use photoshop. You are a Graphic Designer right?

 

[mrssalvo]

are you trying to export out of iphoto? I do it all the time and can help you if that''s what you are trying to do. I don''t have photoshop so can''t help you there.

 

[ArtistJess]

yep! i figured out how to do it in photoshop and was also able to use the shrinkpictures.com site. you guys are so helpful! thank you!