I recently bought a high end digital camera. I have some photos that I would like to post in trainboard, but the resolution of the pics are too high and the properties of the photos are way in excess of what is allowed to upload and post here. Can anyone tell me how to reduce the bytes so that I can share them The Camera is a Minolta DiMage 7a with 5.24 resolution. Software used is Minolta's that came with the camera, or an older version of Adobe Photo Delux. Thanks, Bill
In your photo editing software, there should be an Image Size option somewhere. In that window, there should be an option for resolution. You should set that at 72 dpi, then make the actual size of the image somewhere around 800x600 pixels (keep the proportions constrained, I primarlily set it to 800 wide, and let the height adjust accordingly). Then save as a jpeg with about medium compression. This should get you a file somewhere around 80-110Kbytes in size.
Actually, you don't have to change the resolution. Resolution is only used when the photo needs to be printed (72 dpi = 72 dots or pixels per inch). For use on the web, you only need to set the image width and height in pixels. (The actual size of the image is then depended on the setting of the monitor of the one who looks at it) Kind regards, Wilbert [ 03. October 2002, 22:33: Message edited by: Wilbert Vossen ]
Thanks Corey and Wilbert .. I understand what both of you are telling me. The problem is that trainboard will only accept a photo no greather than 100K. I have reduced the size of the photos to reach that goal, but the pics are about the size of a postage stamp .. not a very good representation of what I want to show. The only thing that I have not tried is scanning the photo and then set it to a lower dpi value. Hopefully, that should work. Thanks again
Bill, will you send me one in an email and let me see what my software can do with it? After all you have done for us with the photo posting soon to show up here, that's the least I can do.
Bill, isn't posting pictures on Trainboard fun! Someone always has to do it for us. But I'm going to try again. Some pictures here of a Railfan trainride this Sept. involving a live steamer.
You need the proper URL. Any letter after the .ca is case sensitive. The one you have below has a small i instead of a cap in the second image spelling and a space. No spaces either.
I just ran them all through again with capital i's and got your nice little black box because the memu doesn't ask me I want the dam url sent.
You have to run the URL's one at a time with after. Just do not leave spaces like I did. Also run the pictures back through the software to reduce the size to less than 100KB and about 600 pixels wide. The one above is right at 300KB. Nice if you have BroadBand.
I saved the pic of 2141, and in Paint Shop Pro set the compression ratio to 30%, which brought the file size down to 95kb. I usually like to get them down less than this for those poor souls on dial-up connections
Jim .. how on earth did you get that photo of 2141 to go through with almost 292K !!! OK Fitz .. I'll try and get one of the pics to ya via email. It will probably take forever to download though.
Charlie, I'm blaming anyone!!! The Trainboard photo posting system is strange. I can load the photo no problem, so it shows up in the white box or whatever it is called , but sometimes when I click on URL to give the trainboard address to send the photo to, then click OK, I suddenly leave the page I'm on and end up back on the trainboard main page. Or it shows another box in the upper right hand of the page asking for the web address again, so I end up having to give it the Trainboard URL twice.???? Is running XP Prof. or too much ram some of the problem maybe? Our computer guru says everyone should use the cut and paste method to put images and the URL address on Trainboard, as is it is the only system that seems to work reliably on a program designed like this one. The other problem is the size of the pictures. Most of the pictures I take start out at 1.2MB or larger because they are taken at 2048 X 1536 pixles. This makes for a screen size problem also and persons with a high end camera should shoot at 1024 X 768 (1/2 frame on my camera) so the picture fits a 17" screen. Also, nobody advised that we had to downsize the photos to under 100KBs or even less. Maybe that's why my pictures won't post. Too big, too many pixles. So to post pictures are we supposed to downsize them in software like Adobe Photoshop 6.0, or Corel Photpaint 8.0, or Paintshop Pro 7, etc. and downsize them to under 100KBs before posting? Doesn't that spoil a good picture? Is this because of Trainboards' limited storage capacity or to accomodate the slow dial up systems that a lot of members have. I'm not a computer geek. I just like to use a system that does the same thing everytime I use it. The next time I'm successful in posting a photo on Trainboard (under 100 KBs), I'll write a set of instructions of how it was done and post it. Then someone else can try that system and see if it works for them.
Let me make this simple: </font> NO PHOTOS are stored at TrainBoard.</font> When your photo is stored at your own personal web space provided by your ISP or whatever, the photo is never stored at TrainBoard. TrainBoard does not have limited photo storage capabilities. TrainBoard has NO photo storage capabilities. When you post a photo here, the photo is loaded every time by the viewing person's browser from whereever it is stored. TrainBoard knows nothing about the picture.</font> The picture may be any size - doesn't matter. But, if your picture is more pixels wide than a viewers screen, it will look bad. It doesn't matter if your picture is a gig in size - really, doesn't matter, although no one is going to wait out a big picture. Probably doesn't matter to a person with high speed. I live in the woods. I think there is some confusion about size because on our new photo uploading service we will have a 100k limit. Again, the new photo uploading is not tied to TrainBoard. It is totally separate and will work the same way as your personal web space.</font> Now, for those who do not know how to use FTP or the URL of where their photos are once they upload them, I understand the confusion. But, if you know how to use FTP and you do know the URL of the photo, there should be no confusion. You simply go to the thread where you want your picture displayed and hit reply, then the buttons down below where you type ... press image and paste the URL. You can also type out something. That's it ... so simple and nothing to worry about. Gary, you know the URL so just hit image, paste the URl from your copy buffer and you are done. Again, the photo is not stored at TrainBoard. Maybe an easier way to explain it for those that don't know is that all of the images on a page can come from different sites. When you load a commercial web page you will often see all kinds of domain names flying past at the bottom of your browser. All of the elements of a particular web page can come from many sources and the photos you post here are stored elsewhere. If you want to see where the photos are, just right click and view "properties." It will show you the address. You remove the photo from wherever it is and it disappears from the thread in TrainBoard. Does that clear it up? All this stuff about going to other pages and asking for a URL twice ... I haven't a clue as to what you are talking about. Charlie Charlie
More... Operating system, RAM, etc. have nothing to do with any of it - not even in the picture on stuff like this. What your computer guru says (I hate that term with a passion) is confusing. You should copy the URL from your browser window if you are viewing it that way and paste it into the image dialogue that TrainBoard pops up when you press the image button. He says it is reliable? Well, I can tell you that what I am telling you is reliable 100% of the time and not .0001% less if you have the correct URL. Charlie
This is the URL of a TrainBoard thread and would never be used to post a photo. We already have plenty of instructions at http://www.trainboard.com/ultimatebb.php?ubb=ubb_code_page .. look under "Displaying Images." It is as simple as pasting the URL where a photo is stored. I do not understand how anything could possibly be simpler. If someone has a simpler suggestion ... I am all ears. Charlie [ 04. October 2002, 20:45: Message edited by: E-8 ]
