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How do i make my photo's smaller to fit?

  • 17-01-2015 12:24pm
    #1
    mollybird
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭


    Im looking to put up some of my pics on these forums but the size of them exceeds the size limit.

    could someone please let me know how do i make them smaller that i can post some pics up.

    thanks


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  • #2
    Myksyk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,550 ✭✭✭Myksyk


    Hi Mollybird

    If you have uploaded them on Flickr you just select the photo in question, then click the little 'arrow' in the bottom right, select BBcode and choose the size you want. Posters here will usually choose the one which has 800 on one side (usually something like 800x534 or 534x800 depending on whether it's portrait or landscape mode) which is the maximum size of any side you can post on the random photos thread.

    PS Obviously you then select the code and paste it into your post. There is a line or two of redundant code that can be deleted ... otherwise it shows up after your photo. You only need the code from [url ...... to second [/url] After that there is another [url= ....to ...... ,on Flickr - this can be deleted if you want a tidier post. of course you can leave it in if you want. If you "go advanced" in your boards post then you can preview the post to see what it looks like.

    PPS If you want people to be able to click on it to go to Flickr and see the original you need to change the privacy settings to public. They're below the photo in your Flickr panel.


  • #3
    CabanSail
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 9,047 CMod ✭✭✭✭CabanSail


    The one you posted was 75 x 75 ..... a bit small, the one you uploaded was huge.


  • #4
    mollybird
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,053 ✭✭✭mollybird


    CabanSail wrote: »
    The one you posted was 75 x 75 ..... a bit small, the one you uploaded was huge.

    had my IT husband hard at work trying to sort it but ya got it working now.
    thanks for the tip.


  • #5
    5uspect
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 10,520 Mod ✭✭✭✭5uspect


    Digital images are big grids of pixels, if you zoom in real close you can see them. Your camera is say 12 mega pixels, that means it takes an image that's about 3600 by 2400 pixels in a grid. When you view them on your computer screen, which itself is made of pixels (usually closer to 2 megapixels at 1920 by 1080 pixels) it is automatically resized by your operating system (Windows or Mac OS X for example). However if you view them in a web browser like Chrome or Firefox or Internet explorer they won't necessarily resize to fit in your screen, this can entirely depend on a particular website.
    Here people are asked to reduce their images to have no more that 800 pixels on the longest side.
    So you 12 MP images will be four and a half times smaller than their 'native' size.

    You have two options. You could use an image editor (there's plenty of good free ones such as irfanview) and resize the images and then attach those images to a post. Or you could use a website to host those images, Pix.ie for example. These websites let you link to resized copies of these images.

    When you use an editor you want to save copies of the original file - otherwise you lose data when you remove information from the original image to make it smaller.

    Pix.ie is handy because it gives you some text to copy into a forum like boards that will add all the stuff you need to show a correctly sized image in a post including a link so that you can click the image to see the full size version.


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