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i just deleted my photo gallery and it still says to large? i dont know how to make it smaller HELP.Chris............

>>i just deleted my photo gallery and it still says to large? i dont know how to make it smaller HELP.Chris............

It sounds like you are trying to upload too large a file. There is a 450kb limit to each image.

There is absolutely no reason to upload an image that is 450kb in size. In fact, I rarely see anyone upload an image much larger than 100kb that isn't simply wasting space.

You want the image to appear on the screen all at once (so we don't have to scroll over to see all of it). So, an image that is more than about 600 pixels wide will require many people to scroll to see it, as well as taking much longer to download for people with slower connections.

Just for example, this pic I have attached is less than 29KB and less than 450 pixels wide. It would show up on everyone's screen, and would download in a few seconds even on the slowest connection. Having it much larger wouldn't make it any better.

If you don't have a specific picture editing program, you can use MS Paint for this (under Programs, Accessories on most Windows PCs).

Simply open up you picture in Paint, choose View: Attributes to see how big the dimensions of your image are, then choose View: Skew/Stretch. Figure out how much reduction you want (for example, if my original is 1600 pixels wide and I want it 600 pixles wide, 600/1600 = 0.375 so I need to reduce my picture to 38% of the original size). Type in the same percentage in both the vertical and horizontal box and hit OK. Then save the picture as some other name. You can check the picture size by looking at view: attributes again if you wish to see how much you reduced it.

The trick is not to keep reducing it over and over. Just do it once. If you find your reduction is not enough, start again with the original file, not a reduced copy.

Also, if your program allows you to control the amount of jpg compression (gives you a small size vs. quality slider), remember that over the internet, most files don't look any better at the "higher" quality end of the spectrum. You simply can't tell the difference on a monitor. I usually compress to the point that is about 1/3 of the way up from smallest size. Any less compression than that just makes for a big file without any significant difference in onscreen quality.

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Chris Harrison

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