Technical Question

[cruiser132]

Hey All,

I've tried to post some pictures of my X5 to the forum, but the photo files appear to be too large for proper posting. Can anyone suggest a way to successfully post the pictures? I'm not sure if I can "compress" the size of my digital pictures through the camera. I'm not the most technical regarding pixels, etc. Thanks for your help.

[noncom23]

Did you try photobucket. Attach to photobucket download here.

[otoupalik]

another useful trick is to download the MS powertoy called "image resizer" (free add on) and then resize them to 640. Then you can upload them easy.

Thanks
brad

[motordavid]

My fave is IrfanView:
http://www.irfanview.com/

Download it, keep it on desktop or in programs.

-When you use it, simply open it, peruse your pics docs,
select the pic, "open that pic" in Irfanview.
-Hit Control R and up pops a screen: reduce pic to 800x600 or
480x640 or, smaller, apply that...
-hit Control S to save: adjust "quality" in the lil' box, eg 90% or so, rename file if you want
-hit ok and it's saved.
-Then using the Manage Attachments in the Advanced Post area,
pull up that pic, using Jpeg/gif code,not "all files"
-upload in that Att. Management box, close,
and post.

It reads about 10X times more complex than it is; sort of
like describing how to drive a stick shift.

Easy stuff, even for this ol'bastard.
GL,mD

[mariosp]

If you have Adobe Photoshop, then go Image--> Image size and then change the Pixel Dimensions according your needs