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Fountain Inn, SC United States | In an effort to monitor the median size of photos uploaded to this site, please tell us what your camera or smartphone's megapixel output is. I'm only interested in the devices that you use to take photos which you would upload to this site.
Some examples:
If you shoot your bike photos with..
an iPhone 4, 4s: 5MP
an iPhone 5: 8MP
a Cannon Powershot SX160: 16MP
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Cruiser
Posts: 259
Land O Lakes, FL | Most times when you upload to someplace like photobucket it resizes the images down to something much more reasonable. Most forums don't let you attach images much over a few hundred KB for storage reasons.
What would be helpful here, I know I struggle to remember is allow [img] tags to be used to post images to the forum. That option doesn't seem to work here. I always have to use HTML to post images. I think that would help a bunch as most picture hosting sites give you the [img] link to post on forums, not all of them give the HTML tags.
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Fountain Inn, SC United States |  will also work. I just updated the HOW-TO thread on this topic ( http://www.vision-riders.com/bb/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=2700&pos... )
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Fountain Inn, SC United States | I agree, a resizing module would be very helpful. Some render really poor quality results, others (like Facebook, Photobucket, etc) use some serious processing power to get good resizing results. If any of you know of a module/widget that works within a Windows Server/ASP environment, let us know! | |
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Visionary
Posts: 2118
Pitt Meadows, BC Canada | I have used a quick 'resize' method for years and years. Works if you use MICROSOFT OUTLOOK for your Mailer:
1. Launch Windows Explorer (hint: Press the WINDOWS key and the letter E at the same time )
2. Navigate to the directory where your pictures you want to re-size are.,
3. Hold the control key (Ctrl) down, and click each picture you want to re-size - or if just one - simply click on the photo.
4. RIGHT CLICK the mouse - and select SEND TO - then MAIL RECIPIENT
5. OUTLOOK will pop a window - asking WHAT SIZE - can be Large, Medium, Original, Small, Smaller - 640x480 (use for VisionRiders)
6. OUTLOOK creates an E-mail with the resized photos attached. I just save the attachments somewhere, then erase the E-mail.
THIS SOUNDS COMPLICATED - but it just takes a few seconds once you get on to it. Trick is - you need OUTLOOK.
Another way - more complicated - but useful, especially if you want to make mods to a photo is the following:
1. Right click on a photo - and select: Open With .... choose WINDOWS LIVE PHOTO GALLERY
2. You should get a full screen view of the photo. Up at top left - choose: EDIT, ORGANIZE or SHARE
3. Another window will open with all the photos shown as icons - and many choices of what to do. Select EDIT - and you should see RESIZE
4. Notice what else you can do - RedEye, CROP, Re-Touch, Rotate etc. Play around (maybe use the 'Make A Copy' first !!!)
There are other ways - but these 2 are Windows programs - and have never given me any grief.
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Visionary
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Central Maryland | Good stuff Don | |
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Iron Butt
Posts: 763
Anderson, IN (48mi NE of downtown Indianapolis) | I use a free program called greenshot. You can download it at http://getgreenshot.org/
You won't get spammed after download or anything you don't want. It's a clean reputable program.
It captures the resolution of your screen so the pic stays clear. It is extremely easy to use.
-Open your pic in any software.
-Zoom in or out to make it the actual physical size you want it to be on Vision-Riders (eyeball it on your screen).
-Hit the Print Screen button on keyboard.
-Box in the pic with your cursor
-Done.
Now your pic is the physical dimensions you want and way smaller file size. You don't need to know anything about pixels, resolution, file size, bla, bla, bla.
For you techies out there, the program will take a 4608x3456 pic at 5.2MB and reduce it to 586x440 at 88KB (acceptable for Vision-Riders) with zero detectable loss of clarity.
There are some kewl pic editing features in greenshot I use all the time. You don't need to know them to resize your photo, but they are there if you decide you want to learn how to use them. All the features are easy to use. It is a very basic program, but does wonders for photo sizing and editing for internet use.
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Iron Butt
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Peru, IN | My way is a bit tedious but it seems to work. I take the picture with my trusty Kodak Instamatic camera and once I get a full roll of film and get it developed, I find the picture I want to put on the forum and, with my trusty scissors (never failed me yet), I cut off everything that I don't need/want in the picture. Then I take a picture of that with my digital camera, save it to the computer and print it. Again, I cut off any unnecessary parts with my trusty scissors and take a picture of what I have left. I've found, if you do that a few times, you can get a nice small picture of what you want.
Here's an example of my "work". I think it turned out well.
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