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Butterfly_Lee
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I was asked to put together instructions on how to resize and insert pictures into our forum. Here it is. Get a picture. Whether its picture you take, scan or get from someone else. It use to be that certain programs would only read certain file types, with new technologies that has pretty much gone by the wayside. The greater number of pixels means better quality of the picture (and large file size), which gives you more to work with. However, when sharing or posting a basic picture will be fine with a smaller size picture. I use Photo!Editor which is a free software that you can download. This is in three parts Part I the download, Part II editing, Part III posting. The location is circled in red. Once
you get to the site this is the main screen. Http://pho.to/editor/ Click on FREE SOFTWARE and the on PHOTO!EDITOR Click on DOWNLOAD FREE BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY SYSTEMS AND IT’S ALREADY ON MINE, FOLLOW YOUR SYSTEMS INSTRUCTIONS FOR INSTALLATION. PART II PHOTO!EDITOR Use the little file folder in the upper left corner to find the folder that has your pictures. Pick one of the Pictures. You have three windows to work in, plus a large menu bar. Upper left shows you other folders, Lower Left shows you the pictures in the folder your working on (Notice the picture you are working on is blurred see red arrow), and the main window shows you the picture your working on. I’m going to go over the items I most use, but of course you have fun with all the features. Sometimes my pictures end up a little tilted, so I really like this feature. Click on the straighten button and a new window will open. Your cursor will become a drawing tool. Draw a line across the picture the way it should be. In this case I drew a line though all the tires (edge of buildings is another good one to use). Notice that everything is now LEVEL, however I did lose a piece of the front of the truck. The next menu item I like is CROP. There are several options I use FREE (circled in red), this allows your cursor to draw a white box. Everything outside the box will be taken away (or cropped). Click OK Below is a straighten and cropped picture. To downsize (compress, shrink or resample) your picture use the Resample button. Notice the circle below, when I took this picture my camera was sent on it max pixels. So the picture is large then the screen when viewed in actual size or 100%, a size of 1367 kb. Click on Resample This is a large picture suitable for your screen saver on your DESKTOP (NEW SIZE 213KB). Once your ready to insert a picture click on the little tree icon (circled in red). A new window will open, but it doesn’t open all the way and is a little confusing. Till you get familiar I’d enlarge the window. Now click upload Click OK ( the smaller the file the quicker the upload) I uploaded wed gallery size notice the size of the picture and how it takes up the whole preview screen I typed in the new size, (half of what it was, and this is the display size which doesn’t change the size of the file). The preview is how it will look in the Posting. I halved the size again (for demo purpose), now you can see how it will look in relation to text. This is the small email size, notice it came in about half as big as the web gallery and still takes up good part of the post for a little file. These numbers can be changed also and you can also play with the default settings. CLICK OK when you have the picture you want. ====================================== My suggestion is to copy the whole post and save it in your word processing software. Then print from there or work from that copy. Here's how press the cntrl key and letter a, that will select everything. The press cntrl key and letter c that will copy everthing. Move your cursor to a black word process document, press contrl key and letter z. Now save your document. GOOD LUCK, Happy Posting Lee P.S. If I missed a step let me know I can always go back and edit. |
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Still a work in progress, lots of pictures.
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VenturaDi
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Lee,
All I can say is WOW! A lot of effort went into that. I'm sure it'll be helpful for a lot of folks. |
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Diane
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PodPatrol
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Indeed ... great job Lee !!!
What a great idea to post the procedure and pictures !! (just like my favorite thread "MODs")
Thanks for taking the time to put this together ....
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yizit
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Whew...that was a lot of work. It would be so much easier if they just used a different program to begin with. Great job and thanks for putting it all together.
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Blademaker
Senior Member Joined: 08 Oct 2009 Location: Marietta GA Status: Offline Points: 111 |
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Thank you for a lot of hard work at posting that.
I got a few pics of our most recent trip, and will give it a shot at posting some pics in the next week or 2.
Thanks once again
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Wandering life's backroads with my wife, our 2 four legged children; Chloe the odd Pug, and Tia Maria, the smallest Chihuahua I'm aware of.
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Ned
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How do I upload a picture for Avitar. I have tried several times with no result.
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Butterfly_Lee
Senior Member Joined: 02 Jun 2009 Location: Corpus Christi Status: Offline Points: 1131 |
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First step is of course to pick an image you want and make it small. One of the options in the Resample (resize instructions above) is thumbnail size. Resample your image to that size.
Here's how to change your Avatar. 1. Click Member Control Panel on the menu bar for the forum. 2. Click on Edit Profile. 3. Click on AVATAR UPLOAD (It's in the middle of the page small blue letters) This is about the sames as posting a picture a. Click on Choose File (the find your image) b. Click on Upload File c. If you like the preview Click OK (your new avatar should be on the page) d. Click on UPDATE Profile (otherwise it will not be save to your profile). Hope this helps, let me know if you have any problems. Lee
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Still a work in progress, lots of pictures.
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nancy
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Thanks, I"am trying, good on wood, not on computer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! david
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Butterfly_Lee
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Moderators:
You might want to move this to top. Noticed that new people have questions. Lee
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Still a work in progress, lots of pictures.
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Maryjo
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Thanks Lee, that was very helpful. I will try it.
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