Quick!

[CharleyH]

As I understand, at a 100th post I can also post a photo. Now, how the hell can I post a photo?

 

[KillerMuffin]

Photo's gotta be at most 150 x 150 pixels and smaller than 21000kb. Save it to your hard drive.

Then go to the User CP, Edit Options, and then down at the bottom press change avatar. You'll be able to browse your computer and upload the photo.

 

[CharleyH]

Indebted. Thank you. Now it will only take me 5000 days to do it!

Cheers!

 

[CharleyH]

Photo's gotta be at most 150 x 150 pixels and smaller than 21000kb. Save it to your hard drive.

Then go to the User CP, Edit Options, and then down at the bottom press change avatar. You'll be able to browse your computer and upload the photo.

When I said 5,000 days I meant it. I've done all that you've said, and while I am not an idiot, I am not an computer geek. I tried on the laptop, I tried on the CP . . . the scanned photo, which is not a neg scan, so therefore should be fine, was from a proof, at 300 dpi. So, everytime I try to upload, it's too big, even though I changed the dpi several times. Do I need to rescan in order to get a 150? 'Cuz I'm sitting here thinking that a dpi is pixel, like on a tv set?

I'm still confused.

 

[Guest]

At the bottom of the Edit Options page (after you browse and then select the correct picture) you need to click Submit Modifications to save what you've done.

(If you have already done this, I'm sorry, I just can't think of what else you would need to do!)

 

[Guest]

Make sure you save the picture in a .jpg file?

Click Save As - then select under your choices the one that ends in .jpg

 

[pop_54]

Hmmmmmm

When I said 5,000 days I meant it. I've done all that you've said, and while I am not an idiot, I am not an computer geek. I tried on the laptop, I tried on the CP . . . the scanned photo, which is not a neg scan, so therefore should be fine, was from a proof, at 300 dpi. So, everytime I try to upload, it's too big, even though I changed the dpi several times. Do I need to rescan in order to get a 150? 'Cuz I'm sitting here thinking that a dpi is pixel, like on a tv set?

I'm still confused.

You need a photo editing prog of some sort, anything will do, place you picture on the editor page, (load it from file to photo editor).

Select 'resize image', select 'preserve aspect ratio' and type 150 into the resize box for the largest dimension, ie: if the original were 350x450, wipe out 450 and type in 150 the pic will shrink down on the page.

Select 'Save As' and save to file as a JPEG or GIF.
If possible reduce the colours to 256.
You should now have an appropriately sized avatar to upload to site.

If you get any more probs you'll have to ask an expert

 

[Weird Harold]

So, everytime I try to upload, it's too big, even though I changed the dpi several times. Do I need to rescan in order to get a 150? 'Cuz I'm sitting here thinking that a dpi is pixel, like on a tv set?

download irfanview from www.irfanview.com (or any of several download sites and mirror sites) It makes folowing Pops' instructions simple.

DPI = Dots Per Inch and isn't directly related to the pixel dimensions of an image. DPI is a "scaling factor" for scanning or printing and has little relevance to screen displays.

For example, if you scannd a 4"x7" photo at 300 DPI, the image would be 1200 x 2100 pixels.

If you change the DPI to 150 to print the image, it will print at 8" x 14" because the pixel count doesn't change when you change the DPI and you're using fewer of them to print each inch.

You need to use the resample function of Adobe Photoshop or Photodeluxe (and similar image processors oriented towards printed output) to change the Pixel count of an image.

 

[CharleyH]

Thanks to all!!! Much appreciated!