Resize your image before posting - instructions

[Doug1]

This page should be locked as the first thread of the home page. It has always been a bone of contention ,threads can become totally useless.  Old people

[Pirate88179]

Vidar:

Well done.  I hope now everyone will use this, or any other method to keep images the correct size.

We should keep bumping this topic to keep it on the top of the home page.

As mentioned, if too large a photo is posted, it is easily removed by selecting "Modify" and then "(Clear Attachment)"
and then resize and attach again.

Bill

[TinselKoala]

I use the Gimp, it's free, available for all platforms (I usually work on Linux boxen) and is nearly full PhotoShop in terms of capability.

Whatever you use... use _something_ to keep your maximum image width under 1024 pixels wide. 800 pixels wide is usually plenty. If you need to show some detail, crop it out from the larger image and show that cropped detail.

I use mtPaint to add notations, just because it's so easy. It will also resize but personally I like the Gimp for everything except annotations.

And I'm old!

(but Jung at heart....)

[TinselKoala]

If you upload a picture that's too large that stretches the page all you need to do is clear the attachment to shrink it again.

As long as you do it within the "edit time window" which is not that long. After the time has expired you can't edit your posts any more.

[TinselKoala]

You could use irfanview its just a simple task to do. 

I use irfanview and a bunch of other graphics programs regularly, since I practice the arcane art of astrophotography. I even use PixInsight for a lot of things. But for simple cropping and resizing, white-balance correction, etc. the Gimp rules in terms of ease-of-use.