Questions about photo uploading

[NigelMac]

Hi, im a bit of a newbie at uploading and resizing my screenshots and I was just wondering a few things.

First, the photo has to be 100k, and some of mine are over 5mb. How do I reduce this?

Second, is making the screenshot 800 pixels wide as simple as cropping in photo shop or paint?

Thanks,
Nigel

[richieboi]

When I make screenshots, I put them into paint and save them as JPG or PNG. Dont save as BMP

JPG and PNG are known for the higher conversion, meaning it gives a lower file size. My pics end up being betwen 60-120K

[Mictheslik]

on the upload page HERE, there is a link to irfanview, which is a very handy tool, like paint but much better which lets you resize images and save them.

To resize, open your image and press Ctrl+r, type in width as 800 px and press OK.

To save under 100Kbs hit the save as button, and adjust the quality slider to somewhere between 1 and 12. You might have to play around with this a bit to get it under 100Kbs. If it is not, just save it again at a lower quality setting

Any questions, just ask

.mic

PS. If you have photoshop, after resizing hit the "save for web" button in the file menu, then you can play around with quality from 1-100 and it gives you a preview of the file size so there is less playing around

[Sytse]

Open you pic in photoshop and press ALT + CTRL + I (picture size). Set the width to 800 pixels and make sure the middle box is checked. Then press CTRL + ALT + SHIFT + S (save for web). Click on the little button with the traingle in it in the top right corner of the pop-up window. Then click 'optimize for filesize' and set it to 100 K.