Photos in forum?

You need to size them before posting them. There is no option for resizing on here. I don't use tumblr so don't know how it works, but flickr resizes your photos for you (might not be as effective as doing it on PS, but good enough for this sort of thing). You then have the option to copy the url from a variety of sizes.

And that isn't huge by any means. I tend to limit myself to 600x400 as you can then get the whole image on most screens, rather than scrolling. A good way to view them.

 

There is a program I use called "Pixresizer" and it does an excellent job for batch conversion of scaling down photos. I use it a lot. My camera only has 640x480 and 1600x1200 and higher. Why nothing in between is beyond me so I use that little program a lot. It's free ware. I only use photoshop when I have a few photos, but it gets tiring doing that when you just want all the last 130 pics off your camera to be 800x600.

 

Just an FYI: Your photo is 1656 x 1280 and yes that tends to be a little on the big size for forums. I try not to go over 1024x768 with 800x600 being generally the best all around option for websites. Still gives you plenty of size and resolution but allows for fast loading. The worst is when someone emails you 10 pics of 1600x1200 (or much larger) and each one is 1meg a piece and it takes forever to get the email down from the server. In my case it's usually someones baby photo and the resolution is so massive that it would take 4 of my monitors to see it at 100% lol

 

where do you keep your photo's... as in I have the photo program that came with my camera... will Pixresizer let me work in it's folders? and by 'batch' you mean 'select 10 pictures and re-size all at same time?' god this would be handy as I try to size all my pics for here to a max size of 512 x w/e (which ever number was biggest lol) pixresizer might tempt me to use the 'albums' in here but to do every picture individually by hand ... no thanks lol... I already have a folder for DoA re-sized pics in my Photobucket lol.

 

There is also a free program called Photorazor with which you can resize your photos. Its easy to use and resizes to a "small photos" folder in the folder of your original photo. I use this one.

 

Some places like Photobucket or Flickr are the easiest to use and have the most options for resizing built into them. Flickr gives you a lot of space. I'm not sure how much photobucket gives you. THey also generate links for you to link to quite easily. I personally have a ebay/website business for my metal working so I have a gigabyte of hosting space I pay about 100$ a year for so I just ftp into it and drop my photos in there and link to them. Generally you only need that when you have to store pictures, music, html, scripts, etc. and link to it all with very standard naming conventions like http://pics.ladytiku.com/dolls/luna001.jpg. Photobucket and Flickr will give you autogenerated urls so they won't be that clean for you to remember. But then again for just posting in forums it really doesn't need to be.

Pixresizer lets you select a folder for input and change all your 1600x1200 to 800x600 to an output folder. It's really pretty slick! You can do 10 pictures or 1000 pictures at once and it's very fast. Since it's not web based (it runs on your computer/desktop) it's much faster at converting all lots of images at once. There may even be a better application out there but I don't know of it and I have not seen any quality loss when workig with pixresizer. Meaning I think it does the absolute best you can do to retain colors and quality when it resizes them down and I think that's more of a function of jpg compression than it is the program. You can always toggle through the settings menu to make sure it's setup the way you want. One limitation is it needs an output folder different than the input so you make a seperate folder for all the output images.. I just call it "small" and I set that to output and my original folder with all my large pictures as the input and then run the batch. *This way I keep all the large high resolution files in case I ever need them and I have a second set of all the re-sized smaller files that I use for upload, send to friends via email, etc. That's what I've found to be the best. And yah resizing them by hand, even if you're really quick with the photoshop keyboard commands gets painfully tiring after even the 6'th image, let alone doing 40 images. lol

 

You're very welcome. Best of luck to you.

 

By the way, in Photoshop you can go to File > Scripts > Image Processor and do batch resizing of images. It's a pretty simple tool that allows you to select the folder, the size and image quality. I use this if I have a bunch of files that I need to resize.

 

I often upload the original size at flickr, and then, when I take photos in to the forum, I choose the size on the bb code to be a medium file around 500 pixlr
If I want a tiny pic instead, I choose a small size when I copy bb code.

 

I would like to use flicker but I am not comfortable giving out my personal information... I tend to only do that when there is a transaction involved (and if possible not even then... I pay with Paypal to avoid that)... I don't like spreading phone #'s around... not to mention I don't even have a yahoo account I can access anymore... (wouldn't even know what it was from 15 years ago ><). and that's what you need for a new account... If I am going to do the sign up thing I want to use the one I always use. Or another form of back up... I rarely use my cell phone anyhow. Grumbles... ... only I may not have a choice soon... my P-bucket is filling fast now that I have learned a few photography related things (sort of.... like 'batch' renaming of file ^^ what godsend lol)

 

This is very useful to know, thank you for poster and for responders- I was wondering this same thing, I have yet to post any photos but I was thinking about taking photos at a doll meet and share with the folks whose dolls were there, but I didn't know about what size to upload. It sounds like resizing everything to 800X600 is a good size. I use Gimp mostly which is a freeware that does a lot but (not all of the things) that PS can do, but yeah it's slow going if there's a lot of photos.