Contacting Mod?

[Ogajiga]

"If you need to contact a moderator, or simply wish to view the complete administration team, you can click the link 'The moderating team' found at the bottom of the main board page."

Can't find it - need to extend my attachment upload capacity to post pic.

[Vodkaman]

You can clear the pics yourself very quickly.

1. Hit the drop down menu next to your user name, top right.

2. select 'my settings'.

3. select 'manage attachments'.

4. tick the boxes next to the pics you want to remove or tick the top box to select all.

5. hit the 'delete selected' button, bottom right.

This only clears your space, it does not delete pics from the posts that you have made.

Dave

[Ogajiga]

Thanks for the reply Dave, think that worked fine.

By the way mods, 500 kb total limit won't even fit 1 pic from modern cams.

Edited September 4, 2010 by hawnjigs

[Vodkaman]

500 kb total limit won't even fit 1 pic from modern cams.

You really should resize your pics before posting. The rules state 600 x 400 pixels is the size limit.

Personally I use photoshop. This allows me not only to get the 600 x 400 limit, but also reduce the file size, by reducing the jpeg number. With this I can get from 3Mb down to 50Kb with no visible degradation, which would allow me to upload 20 pics.

If you do not have photoshop, their are other free pic editors online, but you will also find editors on your own computer system, included when you bought it. I just did a test on my computer, to see what could be done and found Microsoft office picture manager. I was quickly able to edit a picture from 3Mb down to 179Kb and achieved 640 x 480 pixels, close enough.

Method:

1. right click on the jpeg file - a menu appears.

2. hold your cursor over 'open with' (about third way down the list). Select 'Microsoft office picture manager'.

3. click picture (top of page).

4. click resize (in drop down menu).

5. a window opens to the right of the screen. Click the 'predefined width x height' down arrow.

6. select '640 x 480' from the drop down menu.

7. Click OK

8. 'File' - 'save as' and rename the copy, so as not to change your original pic.

Their are probably other programs on your computer that will do a similar job, with a little exploration.

Dave

Edited September 4, 2010 by Vodkaman

[Ogajiga]

Dave, my dinosaur Mavica resolution is 640x480 so perfect for posting. Office 2000 doesn't appear to have a photo editor, tho XP does have MS Paint. Posts seem to be pic shy, maybe your instructions might encourage more photo sharing.

[Vodkaman]

I had a look at paint for reducing pics, but could not get it to work. Many members have mentioned Picasa2, a freebee.

Dave

[BBK]

Paint works, go to Image and then resize/skew. 20% works great.

[Vodkaman]

Paint works, go to Image and then resize/skew. 20% works great.

Thanks BBK. I figured out what I did wrong. I thought it cropped my picture, but the picture was already cropped, DUH!

Pity it does not have a pixel reduction option, but it does work well.

Dave

[JSC]

Guys

Try IrfanView (i think I spelled it right) Its Freeware (I thought it was so good I sent a donation as he keeps it up dated and does A Lot Of Things)

2 cents worth

JSC