Posting images
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Weird Harold
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iann666 said:
For the benefit of others, I'll expand on the answer I posted to your problem thread.
In order to use the vB IMG tags or HTML IMG SRC= commands, the image you want to display must be accessible to the web and NOT hotlink protected. In other words, it can't reside on your harddrive or be on a site that doesn't allow other sites to link to images.
The best place to put an image you want to link to is to attach it to a post. You can then link to the attach.php call that display it in that post to display it in other posts.
Weird Harold
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Re: Thanx again
I use PaintShop Pro (v6.0) from JASC software (www.jasc.com) They have a thirty day trial version available for download -- I think the current version is 7.0.
Check one of the download sites for irfanview -- that's a freeware program that is good at resizing images.
Adobe Photoshop or Photodeluxe does a decent job of resizing if you use the "resample" function, but you have to remember to "save as" a JPG or GIF because you can't attach the native adobe file formats.
Almost any image processing software will allow you to crop and resize (non-animated) pictures but the quality of the result often suffers because they only do a pixel re-size without any interpolations.
To resize a picture in PaintShop Pro or irFanview, pull down the image menu, selct resize and enter the largest dimension of the new size. (ie 800 wide or 600 tall to fit the pixel limits of the attach function) Then click OK.
Before saving, check the JPG compression level to make sure the file size will be less than 100K -- somewhere in the middle between minimum filesize and maximum quality.
Then save (or save as JPeg) to update the disk file.
Note: It's often a good idea to save the reduced size picture to a different file in case you need to use the bigger version for something. Shrinking pictures is easier than enlarging them as far as keeping the details and quality.
iann666 said:
I use PaintShop Pro (v6.0) from JASC software (www.jasc.com) They have a thirty day trial version available for download -- I think the current version is 7.0.
Check one of the download sites for irfanview -- that's a freeware program that is good at resizing images.
Adobe Photoshop or Photodeluxe does a decent job of resizing if you use the "resample" function, but you have to remember to "save as" a JPG or GIF because you can't attach the native adobe file formats.
Almost any image processing software will allow you to crop and resize (non-animated) pictures but the quality of the result often suffers because they only do a pixel re-size without any interpolations.
To resize a picture in PaintShop Pro or irFanview, pull down the image menu, selct resize and enter the largest dimension of the new size. (ie 800 wide or 600 tall to fit the pixel limits of the attach function) Then click OK.
Before saving, check the JPG compression level to make sure the file size will be less than 100K -- somewhere in the middle between minimum filesize and maximum quality.
Then save (or save as JPeg) to update the disk file.
Note: It's often a good idea to save the reduced size picture to a different file in case you need to use the bigger version for something. Shrinking pictures is easier than enlarging them as far as keeping the details and quality.
