photo size

[Farrell]

All you need to do is keep the size of any post less than 250K (pictures 
plus text).

There is a procedure for a larger post, but I always get tangled up trying 
to do that, so I just keep my pictures small.

Terry Farrell




> OK, I'll bite.
>
> I'm new here and haven't posted any photos yet, so I'll ask for the 
> benefit
> of the guilty and the innocent:
>
> What ARE the rules/procedures for posting photos?
>
> Observation: Complaints about people not using the proper procedures for
> pictures seem fairly common, but no one who complains ever seems to say 
> what
> the correct procedures are, or where to locate them. I don't see it in the
> FAQs or on the PTG ListInfo page, either. It may not be a case of people
> thinking "the rules are not for them," but just that we didn't know there
> was a rule. You were all newbies here once, too.
>
> The PTG site and FAQs of course don't seem to list any procedure for 
> photos,
> at least not that I've seen. Or perhaps I overlooked it... So perhaps
> someone could post the rules here, and put it in the FAQs and on the PTG
> list page, too?
>
> While we're sort of on the topic; every month there is an listpost that 
> goes
> out about the "live chat." The directions for that are wrong as well every
> month (and on the PTG site). There isn't a
> http://houston.tx.us.starlink-irc.org/  server anymore, and apparently
> hasn't been for some time. The chat would probably be used more if people
> could actually get into it.
>
> -ernie
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
>> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron Lindquist
>> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 3:22 PM
>> To: Pianotech
>> Subject: Re: photo size
>>
>>
>> I agree,   there was a rule and another place to send pictures
>> but  then  some people think the rules are not for them.!?  <:(
>>
>>
>>
>> At 12:22 PM 7/11/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>> >My friends,
>> >I know most of you have fast internet access, but many of us
>> do not. I
>> >do
>> >not mind the photos, but please make them small. If you take
>> a digital
>> >photo and forget to set the camera on "low", open the photo
>> in Paint. Go
>> >to Programs, Accessories, Paint. Then File, then Open the
>> photo where it
>> >is stored. Then go to Image, then Stretch/ Skew. The dialog
>> box opens with
>> >100% in two boxes. Try changing those numbers to 25% for a
>> start. Click
>> >Save As and save them to another area so your original will
>> not be changed
>> >(unless you want to). Use the new photo location for the attachment.
>> >Thanks!
>> >Berley
>> >
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