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15/04/2019 5:16 am
Can anyone tell me how to control the size of the pictures?
15/04/2019 6:16 am
This is a query that pops up here from time to time!
People have different ways of setting a suitable image size for Forum posting depending on whether they are PC or Mac users and whether or not they have a photo editing suite like Photoshop or Photoshop Elements or one of the simpler free photo editors available.
If you don't have anything like that and you are a PC user, open the photo in Picture Manager.
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Click "Edit pictures" on the top toolbar.
Over on the right you will see an option "Change picture size - resize".
Click "Resize" and you will see the default setting is "Original size". Below that there are further options.
1. Click the "Predefined width x height" button and you are offered a set of convenient standard sizes - Document Large/Small, Web Large/Small or E-mail Large/Small. I would suggest trying the "Web large" or "Web small" options and save a copy of your photo in that format (remember to give the re-sized version a different name or add "copy" to the filename so you don't lose your original full-size picture).
Open a Forum web post and paste in the resulting image. If it isn't the size you want just exit without posting the message, try one of the other options and save that as "copy 2" then try that one for size.
2. There is also the option of selecting "Percentage of original width/height". Again, you'd just have to experiment. Try "50%" as a starting point.
There is also a third option - "set custom width and height" but then you would have to measure the original and calculate the new width and height so as not to distort the original proportions. I'd avoid that one if I were you!
Maybe someone else will suggest an alternative method. If you are a Mac user I expect there is some equivalent photo edit facility.
Hope that is some use to you. By way of example, the photo below is 680 x 420 pixels (about 7x5 inches in real life) and is roughly equivalent to the "Web large" size offered in Picture Manager.
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Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
Topic starter
15/04/2019 8:03 am
Thank you, Graeme.
I use a MAC, but I see where I can choose the resolution. How does this look?
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15/04/2019 9:14 am
It would be nice if this website got into the 21st century.
I find myself posting much more on Facebook just because of this aspect. Upload a picture, bada-boom, there it is properly sized. For this site ONLY I have to maintain a "small" file folder of resized pictures.
15/04/2019 9:23 am
Looks fine for size.
Maybe the photo editing facility on your Mac also allows simple cropping of the image? That can be useful for getting rid of surrounding clutter or empty space. And if you have trouble getting all of a model properly in focus in a close-up, one answer is to shoot from further away, which makes the focussing just that little bit less tricky, then crop out the surroundings afterwards.
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Graeme.M. Ogg
London U.K.
15/04/2019 11:10 am
Facebook and Google and all the sites like that are entities with money up the wazoo. Anyone care to donate the capital needed to upgrade our site? I'm thinking ...... probably not. OR maybe one of our members has the ability and time to VOLUNTEER their services? Again probably not.....
15/04/2019 12:49 pm
I use the programmes that come with my lap top.
I set the width to 1000 pixels and let the height take care of itself. This size is perfect, I find, for the Forum, as it doesn't involve scrolling to view the photo....well not at this end anyway.
15/04/2019 2:51 pm
Just edit the img tag in the HTML and set a width and height then you needn't maintain two sizes.
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The first is scaled, the second is the unsealed image.
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15/04/2019 2:54 pm
Ability, yes. Time, not until I retire in about 15 years.
I'm am a senior software engineer so could do the auto scale code with ease, but just don't have the time yet.
15/04/2019 2:57 pm
My point exactly........
15/04/2019 3:00 pm
I find myself doing something similar. Though I keep both sizes. One to post and the other to fool with when I have the energy as in cropping, reversing etc. As I use both Mac and Internet Explorer and am more used to Internet explorer for my editing that's what I usually use with my desktop. Mac is my daily laptop in my office and haven't quite got the hang of all that can be done yet.