My Hawker Siddeley over Innsbruck

[Sir Puma]

Unfortunately I had to cut a lot off the image to get it to fit the file size.

[patchz]

Use a paint program like Paint Shop Pro or any number of others to resize it to 1024 wide and compress it down to 150 kb to meet forum requirements.

[Sir Puma]

I have PSP 7 and reduced it from 2048 down to 1024 but the file size was just a tad too big, so I had to hack off some with crop. After reducing the picture size it was 257kb.

[Sir Puma]

https://www.simviation.com/phpupload/upl ... 460618.jpg

This is the same aircraft landing at Innsbruck. Same original resolution at 1024. But this was 172kb. File size of a JPG has everything to do with the number of colors used and how many pixels next to each other are different and how different they are. A solid black image for example will be very small file size because you have one color for the whole image. Whereas my first image had tons of detail.

[Sir Puma]

It always looks awesome while I'm flying, but by the time I upload the image is grainy and looks like crap. I plan on getting FSX after the holidays, perhaps my screen shots will look better. I have some of the best hardware and have all my settings cranked up. I've played around with some of them to see if things get better, but they don't. I try putting the graphic setting for aircraft to very high, but it always reduces it to high. Not sure why.

[patchz]

The forum limit per image is 150 kb, 600 kb total per thread. To compress after sizing to 1024 wide, click on save as, the click on Options. I don't remember the exact format for PSP 7 and I have 9. But there will be a button to click after you click on Options that will give you a compression assistant to compress the file size down to 150 kb. You might want to experiment with a trial image before your next upload so you are familiar with the process. All my shots start out at 1980 x 1024 and I crop and/or resize down to 1024 wide and then compress.

[Sir Puma]

I found the compression option. Mine start out at 1280x1024 and first I resize to 1024 but then have to crop. I've got a new couple to try out.

https://www.simviation.com/phpupload/upl ... 539534.jpg

So this is 1024x819 72DPI 24bit color depth

[Sir Puma]

Ok, last one, then I'm done with this scene.