My Pix Are Too Big To Post

There's a 100k size limit on pictures. I have no issue resizing them, but it can really detract from the intended view. I checked the size of some other posts here and there are some in the 500k range. How can I post larger pix?

Brian

Use a hosting site such as photobucket. Accounts are free for the basic stuff which you can upload 100's of high resolution scans to then post the img. file here for viewing.

Hi Brian. This image is 99.77 kb (it just squeaks under the bar).



I use GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/) to prepare my scans for posting. I scan at a decent resolution (either 300 or 600 DPI). This stamp above was scanned at 600dpi.

I crop the stamp as tightly as I can. I save the stamp with reduced fidelity (quality), but since the scan itself is of such high quality, it does not lose it's sharpness substantially. I usually do not save an image with less than 50% of fidelity to the original image.

Hope this helps.

No offense intended but 100K is way overkill for stamps, I took some photos of some ancient coins today....





98.8K and it's beautiful and 1500px across. Honestly you shouldn't need more than 50K for awesome stamp images.

Quite awhile ago someone on SCF put me into a link for a VSO Image Resizer. It's a free shareware program and works well in reducing the image to manageable size for the constraints of this forum. Especially useful if you're trying to scan a cover which has a lot of white space; I've had 600K jpg file reduced to less than 70K using this product.

I don't own a scanner. The images I post are either from the online auction listing or from my digital camera. My camera photos are usually in the 2-3MB range. You could probably sum up my comments by saying that I'm lazy. I don't want to have to spend time reducing, checking the size on disc, reducing, checking, and so on. I'll give those editors mentioned in this thread a shot ...

So what your saying is that it's easier to incredibly burden someone else's disk space. Exactly why there's a limit here.

No need to make this personal ... I am well behaved.

I see nothing personal.

Brian, there is a link to a photo resizer that work well for me. I will find the thread and post it here in a few minutes.
Edit: Here it is https://goscf.com/t/10950&SearchTerms=resizer

Thank you Russ and others who have offered helpful advice! As I stated previously, I will give em a shot!

Brian

Quick assessment of the 3 image resizing programs suggested ...

1) MS powertoys. Unfortunately, does not work on Windows 7 x64. I could not locate a 64b version.

2) GIMP. Requires a Computer Science degree to operate. Probably a very powerful tool, but just too complicated.

3)VSO Image Resizer. The winner! Amazing utility that will allow you to choose the size of the file or files you want to create. No guessing on whether or not you got it right.

Thanks to all who offered their advise!

Brian

Just to clarify -- what resolution/dpi are your scans? I'm assuming 72/75 for "web" publishing.

I think a lot of folks here are attempting to scan at 300 and 600 dpi -- which gives them a huge filesize.

KirkS

Brian,

The MS Paint Program works great for making the file size smaller (under the 100 limit for posting scanned files). I just open the scan or picture with Paint and click on the word "Image" (located on toolbar - top of page) then click on resize/skew and put 50 in first box and 50 in next box and hit enter (if I wanted to reduce size by half). It reduces the file size without distorting it but make sure both horizontal and vertical % are the same amount.

Lucky

Just to clarify, Windows 7 does not have MS paint. The only built-in editing tool in Windows 7 is some called "Snip" which will allow you to crop a photo.

Indeed, I just made the picture above ridiculously large just to show what can be done with 100k. A guy just has to show off from time to time.