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I am trying to post some pics to the breeding dogs thread but keep getting pics are to large ! Help Luka !
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This one is 9KB. It's good enough for visitors here to see all that they need to see, and it takes maybe two seconds to download as part of this post. Make the dimensions of your image small and save it as I did this one by choosing a low quality JPEG format. I also have a version of this image that is over 200KB saved as a high quality JPEG on my hard drive, but I'm not going to post that here. At a guess it might take 30 or 40 seconds to download. ;-) Personally, if I click on blue image links here that download slowly, I quickly close the window and move on.
The blue link below is the same image. No need to click on it. Slainte, RJ
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*Hello Novy 7,The limitation for images that are going to be downloaded to the WebX server is 200K. I would highly recomend that you size your images much smaller than that so that way it won't take forever for folks with dial up connections to download them. When we create images for our website here we rarely size them larger than 30k at a 400 pixel wide dimension. I hope this helps. If you are still having problems email me and I will help you out.Mark (SYSOP)[email protected]
*Send me the pics. I'll resize them and send them back to you.Hey there Oopserations. Looks like we posted at exactly the same time. I bet I wrote mine faster than you wrote yours.b : )
*No way I saw it first! Besides I type faster and mines above yours so that means I win.
*What breed of dog is "THAT?"
*I would encourage you to show off your work with as large an image as possible. It's nice to warn your viewers about the size of the file so they can avoid a long download.Low quality jpg's don't cut it for woodwork. See if medium quality will come in at a reasonable 40-50k. Or go to higher quality settings with tighter cropping to show details. Thanks for pix.
*And the class for b howto size the pictures at home on the computer would be meeting where? I've got the camera now and could use some logistical guidance.
*I assume you are addressing me Helen, as you discuss images of woodwork, and the image I put up is the only image of woodwork displayed at the time of my post, but it's hard to tell because your response is not addressed to anybody in particular. I can manipulate images for display on the internet to any file size I want within reason. That specific image of a bed is cropped from a larger image. It is pasted into, and further manipulated in a Word document. The Word document is an article on furniture design, and the cropped image you see illustrates a specific point pertaining to that subject. It is one of more than thirty images of one sort or another included within the text of the article. I print a completed draught of the article and send it to a magazine editor along with the photographs, slides, sketches, working drawings and so on. The purpose of including scanned photographs within the text of an article is to ensure that an editor is in absolutely no doubt as to which image my text is referring him or her to. At the same time I don't want to make the file size of the article itself overly large. That specific article weighed in at about 1,500 KB, and sometimes I send completed articles to people via the internet. One and a half KB takes quite a while to send.I agree that a larger image file size would yield a better picture here; but if I were to discuss in this thread the same design point using that image, the point made would be more than adequately reinforced by the image. I'd still say that for most purposes pictures posted in forums such as this need be no more than thumbnail images such as this- 7 KB- added here at the end. Slainte, RJ And this image of the same thing at ~16 KB isn't too bad really for download speed.View Image
*Well, regardless of image size, it is a spectacular piece of work!
*Big Cal,What graphics program are you using ?
*RJ, that's luscious. But you know that better than anyone.
*None that I know of. Slainte, RJ.
*A BEDlington Terrier perhaps?
*Helen and Theodora. That's very kind of you to be so comlimentary about the stuff I make. I really only put the images up to show that small file size images are often more than adequate in a forum. Anyone puzzling over 'how big' or 'small' to make images, just right click over any of the images I've posted and check out the file size, etc.. When you start tinkering with images in your image handling programme, at some point you'll want to save it to disk. For posting images on the internet the JPEG format seems to be universally readable by all. After you've saved it you can find out how big a file the image is by right clicking over the file name. If it's a picture of your dog, and big, like over 50 KB, and you want to post it here, or include it in an email, open up the image again in your image programme, reduce the size, reduce the DPI (dots per inch) to about 70, and overwrite the old file name by saving it using the same file name. With lots of practise and frustration it all starts to make a bit of sense, and things do get easier. I'm no expert with computers, and everything I've learned- which isn't much- has all been through self taught tinkering and experimenting. The truth is I've never met anyone that's a computer whizz that has any ability to teach someone else how to use the machines and the programmes they use so efficiently. Computer nerds seem to have a facet of their personality missing,..........the one that would enable them to pass on any of their knowledge. Slainte, RJ.
*Hey hey HEY !!Now just watch out. I try to pass on anything I know in as coherent a manner as I can. Of course, on the face of it, I'm really no expert either, and I've learned everything I know in the same way you have.
*I learnt quite a few tricks here from you Luka. Joe Fusco has passed on a lot of good stuff too. Other regulars taught me tricks by example. I guess none of us that get into this site are really computer nerds, therefore that ability to teach isn't absent. It helps too if you want to learn. Slainte, RJ.
*Well Luka, Software with the Kodak. Only sizing options available are small med and large. If saved to a file, the size seems to be large only, no matter the kodak software. The software will email (when it works) small. It will print actual inches sized in a pull down menu. I am ignorant. One suggestion I rec. was to get another picture software. There was Corel print house w/scanner. It has a sizing "optimize for internet". Think I can save that and then maybe pull that file out. Still experimenting.....learning......muddling through.
*That's the way I learn about this stuff, Calvin. Just push the buttons and see what it does. I was hoping that the software you had was something that I am used to working with. No dice.It always saves as .jpg right ? Is there a setting for picture quality ? You have picture size in two ways. Pixel size, and file size. For posting on here, pixel size means less than file size. Usualy if you can save a picture at about 640x480 in pixel size, you will make the greater number of people happy. Personaly, I like the pics bigger. (Pixel size) But getting the file size down, means more than having a smaller picture, pixel-wise.If you can choose the pixel size, set it to about 640x480, then look for a picture quality setting. Usualy found somewhere in the save menu when you go to actualy save the picture. Experiment with differnt picture qualities until you can end up with a picture that is the right pixel size, and the final file size is 60kb or less. Less quality is going to result in less kb.I use Paint Shop Pro. I can save a pic in just about any file format I could ever want to. I find that line drawings save best and show best on the board here, as .gif, and photo type pics save and show best as .jpg Also, .jpg is a 'lossy' way to save pics. When you save a pic as a .jpg the pic gets 'compressed' just like a .zip file. When the data is compressed, it can make the pic kind of screwy looking when it is opened again. This effect is cumulative. Meaning that if you save a pic as .jpg, then do something to it, then save it again as .jpg, the screwy looks will only get worse. If you want to play with a picture, save it as something other than .jpg, then dink with it, and then save it as .jpg only for the final save.
*You can also reduce the number of colors in a pic to reduce file size. This canb occasionallyhave a dramatic effect on the file size while having almost no impact on the appearence of the pic.Rich BEckman
*Someone here posted a link a while back to this site:http://www.irfanview.com/english.htmIt has a great viewer you can download which I really like. It can resize, crop, and all that other fun stuff. Doesn't take too long to download, and it's free. Might be something you'd want to consider, Calvin.
*Thank you both, hope to have a weekend (shoot, not this one) to putz around with this. I may write you both direct if I have a question.
*Beautiful work, Sgian!! No to hijack the thread but how do you deal with the humidity when a piece goes from your shop into an air conditioned area ....any problems?
*Calvin - If you email me, use [email protected] (work) or [email protected]. (home) The email address that's in my profile is wrong, and I don't seem to be able to change it.
*Thank you very much Ron. Tween you and Luka, might just figure this out. Hell, 30 yrs to become a carpenter (don't ask orlo) I should get the hang of it in a while. Thanks again.
*All the other pieces get jealous and start misplacing his tools when he's not looking.
*Some jc, peculiar to this area. Expect timber to move a lot, mostly shrinkage, and you must allow for it in the construction. PVA type glues persistently exhibit creep, most commonly demonstrated as a line of pimples at the edge to edge glue line in solid timber plank tops. PVA is virtually useless as a glue in hot humid climates such as this one, the one I live in. Spray finishes such as pre-cat lacquer are a bit of a nightmare too. We don't build very good buildings in TX for working grunts. Basic, every expense spared, uninsulated, tin sheds just aren't very easy to heat or cool, and this can make working as a furniture maker around here, er,...well,...... 'interesting.' :-/ Slainte, RJ.
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I am trying to post some pics to the breeding dogs thread but keep getting pics are to large ! Help Luka !