Shackleton Rescue

i must have goofed I thought I was sending a jpg image to this post. perhaps I will get some help on it...the only reason I have this cover to be honest is I won a prize of 50 dollars in merchandise at a cover show. To back up a bit..i was visiting my Dad in Florida and found the book Endurance by Ernest Shackleton at a flea market..i was amazed at the human endurance of Shackleton...his family motto "Fortitudine Vincimus" by endurance we conquer..but I think about the crew he had to leave behind to live on oily penquin meat for months...thats endurance...i have the cover in my file as a jpg. and can browse it..i will try the camera again and see if it comes over..if so more on the cover later !

Here is the tutorial for Uploading Images. It assumes that you have already clicked the "Reply to Topic" link. You can use the "Preview" button to check that you have the image correct before hitting "Post New Reply" button.

Please do not hesitate to ask any questions you may have, we are dying to see your pictures!

T360 well I am the new kid..this is the only way I figure I can communicate..i tried browsing my files..selecting the file to send like I do to other sites...i get the error message about no spaces special charectars etc.. I tried sending it as elephant island with a space..if thats the problem I could rescann it and leave out the space between the two words..i hope it was not too large to send

I'm not exagerrating when I say it took me 6 or 7 tries the first time I posted an image. Keep trying!

Hi philb,

Yes, spaces in the filename can cause a problem. Chances are that your scans are too big as well. To get started try scanning a stamp-sized area at the 200 or 300 dpi resolution setting and be sure to save the file in jpg format.

Ok mein swab !i will keep whacking away !!

You can experiment here until you get it right! Everyone goes through this process.

Whoa the size of my scan was 545.20 kb..thats over 90 kb...but what would the cover look like at that reduced size ????

Try it and see. Also you might be able to reduce the "quality" setting of the jpg file format which can reduce the size of the file without noticeable effect on the image quality. Another work-around is that you can scan the stamp and cancellation and any marking or cachets in additional smaller higher resolution scans, and add these close-up pictures to your post along with the lower resolution scan of the whole cover.

AAAArrrgggghhhhh ! I will get it eventually..when I had computer with millinium it let me gyrate the scanner..this one with xp..i dont know how to do..i reduce the size of the scan..but when I go to send it..it back at 532 kb...i will follow your suggestion and send some little stamp as a sacrifice !

lets see if this works..trying to get rid of full platen when I scan

Image: kids.JPG
73.16 KB

Looks like you got it!

To have it show up directly in the post, you just need to do a little editing:

Now you have this in your post:

[b]Image:[/b] [url=''https://www.stampcommunity.org/uplo...5_kids.JPG''][img]icon_paperclip.gif[/img] kids.JPG[/url][br]73.16 KB

you need to change it to this

[img]https://www.stampcommunity.org/uplo...835_kids.JPG[/img]

i AM RUNNING OUT OF NAMES FOR THIS SCAN

https://www.stampcommunity.org/uplo...5_rescue.JPG

Well there it is , you guys let me sink or swim...mabe 15 to 18 trys..finally hit new settings and it worked ! this cover honors the 55th anniversary of Shackletons rescue..he left most of his crew on Elephant island and set out in an open boat for I believe South Island in the South Orkneys..he landed on the wrong side of the island and walked accross a mountain range to reach a whaling or coaling station...imagine when he walked in and said I am Ernest Shackleton...he did not lose one of his crew...

i will need a little more experience on changing the commands !

Awesome! Well done! Very interesting cover!

I just cropped the image a little bit to remove the white space: