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POSTING PICS & Resizing Pics....
POSTING Photos is limited a little. Most people can post up about 7-10 pics by using the "attachment" function at the bottom of the screen when you start or reply to someone's post.. If you buy a star, you can post pics with no limit on how many, and you get some other neat features... There is another way, if your pic is hosted elsewhere, you can click on the little "picture" icon when posting and use a URL to post the pic. The problem with this is if the other server goes down, etc etc, the pic will not display. This is really common on forums out there, old outdated pics that have disappeared. The beauty of attaching is they will always be there, as long as the forum exists... So this is the route I would take...
HOW TO RESIZE PICS...
Posting Photos - IrFanView
The following is a guide for photo resizing using IrFanView ver. 3.97 - http://www.irfanview.com (FREE)
Once you have the program running, click File>Open and select the image you need to resize. The file I selected was a .jpg image, 2048 pixels wide and 1536 pixels high, with a size of 950197 bytes. WAY too large to meet the forum limit of 90000 bytes and 800wx600h.
With the image open, click Image>Resize/Resample - the options box will include a check box for easy resizing to the two most common web-sizes, 640x480 and 800x600. Both are appropriate for the 'MUD forum, but note that it's frequently easier to work with 640x480 sizes. Once selected, press OK and the image has now dropped to a respectable dimension.
Next, hit File>SaveAs - select the JPG format from the "Save as type:" dropdown box and make sure the "Show options dialog" is checked. Inside the Options dialog box, check the first item "Save as progressive JPG" and uncheck the rest of the options. Also select the Save quality...."generally" speaking, a compression of 25 will lower the filesize enough and keep the quality up there. With those options finished, and a NEW filename entered (so you don't write over the original and kill all the original quality), press SAVE.
In this instance, the saved filesize ended up at 640x480 and 24576 bytes, WELL below the 90k max...probably could have done a compression of 10 and still ended up with a better image quality and still under the image limits.
Hope this helps a few people in their quest for photo uploading...!
(content blatantly pilfered from ih8mud.com
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