I give up! How the hell do you post photos on this site? by silverfinder

[silverfinder]

If you folks want to see the curious foreign coins I've found in rolls, such as a ten centime piece from the 1850's, a silver, low mintage commemorative shekel from Israel, and a gorgeous silver half Balboa from Panama, please advise me as to how to post photos. I've tried six ways from Sunday, with no success. Thanks.

 

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[nhbenz]

Re: I give up! How the hell do you post photos on this site?

Welcome Silverfinder! I'm no tech guru, and can't explain the process of modifying photos, not knowing what photo stuff your using on your computer. But if you e-mail me the photos I can resize them using photoshop and send them back to you in an acceptable size for this site. In the mean time I'm sure that someone will reply with some good instruction (or a link to it), as this has been brought up here before (and probably on every on-line forum). There's some good tech-folks here that would be glad to help... be patient.

 

[Jeffro]

Re: I give up! How the hell do you post photos on this site?

http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,35706.msg244823.html#new

 

[gldhntr]

Re: I give up! How the hell do you post photos on this site?

good luck

 

[silverfinder]

Re: I give up! How the hell do you post photos on this site?

Thanks to all who replied. I use an HP Pavilion a1040n desktop with a 200GB hard drive, etc. I use Elements 3, Olympus Master, and the basic HP Image Zone Plus, as I see fit. I realize that the file size of the pictures I wished to post is a bit too large, around 300 kb apiece. I don't see a way to further reduce the file size. I set my camera to maximum compression and fewest pixels before taking the photos but the pix are still too large. I'll try sending them to nhbenz for re-formatting. Thanks, fella. The whole business is a baffling pain in the ass to me, frankly. I will try to send pix of today's discoveries from a box of halves I ordered and searched earlier this afternoon - a 1927 English penny and, best of all, an elusive 1970D. I found one last spring in a box, but I never expected to find another.

 

[GMan00001]

Re: I give up! How the hell do you post photos on this site?

I downloaded GIMP for windows and use that to crop and scale my pictures to a suitable size.

All my pictures start out around 1.5 MB and way too many pixels until I shrink them.

Using GIMP, here are the steps I typically do:
1. Crop the picture so only the parts I care about are in the picture.
2. Scale the picture to whatever size I feel makes sense (usually between 600 and 800 pixels wide with the same aspect ratio as the original I am starting with so it doesn't get distorted).
3. Crop the picture again to remove the blank section that resulted from the scale.
4. Save it as a jpg and usually the size is suitable without any further work.

 

[Jeffro]

Re: I give up! How the hell do you post photos on this site?

There ya go, I think you may be trying too hard, if thats possible, LOL! Just haven't hit the right "thing" yet.

Cropping is just so you don't waste server space on wasted background, basically.

Resizing is what works best for me. I have a 4 meg camera and at the highest resolution, I can still get them to upload if I resize them to 800 or 600 by whatever. They generally come in under 100k by then.

After that, just click the "browse" button under "add images", search for the folder you saved it at, and double click.

Once you do one, its pretty easy from there on out...

 

[silverfinder]

Re: I give up! How the hell do you post photos on this site?

Yes, resizing would work, but I can't figure out how to save resized images and keep the larger originals. It should be easy but in actuality I haven't been able to do this despite trying repeatedly. I can resize the images in edit mode without saving them but then I can only e-mail them, not post them as attachments. It's okay. I received a private message from a helpful poster today, and I will try to follow the procedure that was suggested. Thanks, again, to all.

 

[Jeffro]

Re: I give up! How the hell do you post photos on this site?

Just click "save as" and rename it. The original is still there under the original name, and your resized copy has a new name.