How am I to upload photos here if it wont allow me to? My camera takes photos at around 4mb but you have a 500kb limit ? If I have to jump through hoops to upload them Im not going to bother.Is there an easy way?
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Ross, It's a doddle and AnnieJ has done a thread on how to do this already. Really easy once you get the hang of it.
Go to the Announcments/Help thread and have a read or try this link:
http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/forum/Posting-Static-Photos-Flickr-Birds-Backyards..
Samford Valley Qld.
My Nikon D800 camera takes 70 MB Raw or 22 MB in JPG. I use Corel Paint Shop pro to resize to 1200 pixels wide and then compress to 300 kB. This is well below 500 limit and the quality is good enough for posting. Other web sites have set limit of 300kB for much more critical work so 300kB is plenty good enough.
A few rogue fullstops there - the correct link is
http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/forum/Posting-Static-Photos-Flickr-Birds-Backyards
If you are not using Flickr, the easiest way is as burchan describes. You probably got some photo editing software with your camera and you can use that to reduce the size of your photos on your computer and then upload them. The option to do that might be called resize, convert, output or export.
Please give it a try, as we would like to see some of your photos.
Thanks WD.I've just noticed the two full stops I must have added on the end.
Samford Valley Qld.
I make a copy of my photos and leave one the original size and make the copy a small size, my software does all the hard work for me. The small size copies I keep in a separate folder titled "Best for Web" because I know to go there if I need a small kb photo.
Happy Birding!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/138588528@N02/
I used to do what Wollemi suggested, now I just use Flickr
Don't have to worry about making extra copies or resizing.
Just copy the link & paste it in, easy peasy.
Devster
Flickr is FREE!
up to 1 Terabyte anyway, which is alot.
Then just $2 a month if you need more.
Can look at other peoples photos as well and see what settings they used.
Anyway up to you, I'm sure whatever you chose will be right for you.
Cheers
Devster
As I said before, if this site was converted to vBulletin there wouldnt be any hassles with anything and no need for third party software such as Flickr? Upward of 95% of forums are vbulletin sites now days because its so user friendly. To upload a photo you click browse,find your photo and click again, job done! The photo upload and sizing is automatic as is spelling correction etc...etc...the list of improvments is long,it is inexpensive and tailor made for forums such as this. If people could see this is an instantly recognizable vBulletin site they would more likely register as members because they already know how it works. Its a no brainer.