Photography Questions - Help?

dairycreek · November 25, 2002, 02:39 PM

Don't know exactly where to post this topic so moderators do your stuff. I am an "older American" and a lot of this technology stuff is bewildering but I'm trying my best to learn a bit here and there. My immediate challenge is how to sucessfully post a picture of my pistol to TFL. The problem is file size. Whatever picture I have attached I get a message that it exceeds the size allowed for posting. My digital cameral has three levels of resolution (good, better, best) and even at the lowest level (good) using JPEG format the resulting images are about 294,000 bytes and the limit for posting seems to be 206,000 bytes. How do I deal with this problem? Thanks in advance for ideas and suggestions. Good shooting

Flex · November 25, 2002, 02:46 PM

That can be very frustrating for those unfamiliar. I make websites, dvd's, enhanced cdroms etc... You'll need a proram that reduce the image size. Good software can usually reduce the size with no noticable loss. I have to reduce images all the time for ebay. But I contribute great images to my success on ebay. If that is over your head, email me the picture and I will reduce it for you.

Flex

Alerion · November 25, 2002, 03:02 PM

dairycreek,

You might also check to see if your camera allows you to select the image size. I suspect that your good, better, best setting controls .jpeg compression. See if there is an image size setting, probably on either side of the compression setting, and set the image as small as possible. Probably 640X480.

Tom

dairycreek · November 25, 2002, 05:08 PM

And they worked!

FLEX AND ALERION

Read both your suggestions and began to tinker with my camera settings. The Quality Settings (under resolution) were the aformentioned good, better, and best. The next item on the menu was a choice of resolution at "full size" or 1/4 size. Noodling with both your suggestions I chose the "good" quality setting and the "1/4 size" and tried it. Holy Cow it worked! I posted the picture. Many, many, many, thanks. Good shooting

Shmackey · November 25, 2002, 11:25 PM

You can also use pics as big as you want if you store them elsewhere online and use the IMG tag to display them here.

labgrade · November 25, 2002, 11:25 PM

Since dairycreek's got his satisfactory answer, I'll steal this thread & ask where the heck is my darned photoeditor!?

Formatted my drive (all back & snazzt) but the photo editor has taken a leave of absense.

Thought the thing was part of MS98 ..... anybody got a clue?

taco · November 26, 2002, 01:03 AM

dairycreek:

Since you know how to do it now...
LETS SEE SOME PICS

dairycreek · November 26, 2002, 03:21 PM

This is a new CZ 85 Combat with a FIST IWB #44 clip holster. Good shooting

taco · November 27, 2002, 12:18 AM

dairycreek:

Very nice picture... your CZ is nice too.
Thanks for sharing.

Charlie D · December 1, 2002, 11:22 PM

dairycreek,

Looks like you've got it now. Great picture!

sven · December 1, 2002, 11:34 PM

Diary:

Congrats on figuring that stuff out.... have you considered getting Hakan grips for your CZ?

http://www.imageseek.com/hakan

-sven, endlessly promoting Hakan

November 25, 2002, 02:39 PM	#1
dairycreek Senior Member Join Date: November 30, 1998 Location: North Plains, Oregon, USA Posts: 1,867	Photography Questions - Help? Don't know exactly where to post this topic so moderators do your stuff. I am an "older American" and a lot of this technology stuff is bewildering but I'm trying my best to learn a bit here and there. My immediate challenge is how to sucessfully post a picture of my pistol to TFL. The problem is file size. Whatever picture I have attached I get a message that it exceeds the size allowed for posting. My digital cameral has three levels of resolution (good, better, best) and even at the lowest level (good) using JPEG format the resulting images are about 294,000 bytes and the limit for posting seems to be 206,000 bytes. How do I deal with this problem? Thanks in advance for ideas and suggestions. Good shooting

November 25, 2002, 03:02 PM	#3
Alerion Senior Member Join Date: January 13, 2002 Location: Bloomington, IN Posts: 287	dairycreek, You might also check to see if your camera allows you to select the image size. I suspect that your good, better, best setting controls .jpeg compression. See if there is an image size setting, probably on either side of the compression setting, and set the image as small as possible. Probably 640X480. Tom __________________ Well, sometimes we’d travel right down the green river To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie hill. Where the air smelled like snakes and we’d shoot with our pistols But empty pop bottles was all we would kill. -John Prine, Paradise

November 25, 2002, 11:25 PM	#5
Shmackey Senior Member Join Date: October 10, 2001 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 1,117	You can also use pics as big as you want if you store them elsewhere online and use the IMG tag to display them here. __________________ "Kid, watch out for the 'conservative' who decries big government and then tells you what you can put in your body, when you should pray, and where you can put your johnson. And kid, follow the money."

November 25, 2002, 02:46 PM	#2
Flex Junior Member Join Date: November 15, 2002 Posts: 14	That can be very frustrating for those unfamiliar. I make websites, dvd's, enhanced cdroms etc... You'll need a proram that reduce the image size. Good software can usually reduce the size with no noticable loss. I have to reduce images all the time for ebay. But I contribute great images to my success on ebay. If that is over your head, email me the picture and I will reduce it for you. Flex

November 25, 2002, 05:08 PM	#4
dairycreek Senior Member Join Date: November 30, 1998 Location: North Plains, Oregon, USA Posts: 1,867	Tried the Suggestions! And they worked! FLEX AND ALERION Read both your suggestions and began to tinker with my camera settings. The Quality Settings (under resolution) were the aformentioned good, better, and best. The next item on the menu was a choice of resolution at "full size" or 1/4 size. Noodling with both your suggestions I chose the "good" quality setting and the "1/4 size" and tried it. Holy Cow it worked! I posted the picture. Many, many, many, thanks. Good shooting

November 25, 2002, 11:25 PM	#6
labgrade Member In Memoriam Join Date: November 29, 1999 Location: west of a small town, CO Posts: 4,346	Since dairycreek's got his satisfactory answer, I'll steal this thread & ask where the heck is my darned photoeditor!? Formatted my drive (all back & snazzt) but the photo editor has taken a leave of absense. Thought the thing was part of MS98 ..... anybody got a clue?

November 26, 2002, 01:03 AM	#7
taco Senior Member Join Date: April 28, 2000 Location: USA Posts: 936	dairycreek: Since you know how to do it now... LETS SEE SOME PICS

November 27, 2002, 12:18 AM	#9
taco Senior Member Join Date: April 28, 2000 Location: USA Posts: 936	dairycreek: Very nice picture... your CZ is nice too. Thanks for sharing.

December 1, 2002, 11:22 PM	#10
Charlie D Senior Member Join Date: October 28, 2000 Location: Newark, DE USA Posts: 166	dairycreek, Looks like you've got it now. Great picture!

December 1, 2002, 11:34 PM	#11
sven Senior Member Join Date: January 4, 2002 Location: Palo Alto, California Posts: 532	Diary: Congrats on figuring that stuff out.... have you considered getting Hakan grips for your CZ? http://www.imageseek.com/hakan -sven, endlessly promoting Hakan