trouble posting image

seeker

Can anyone help me?
I cannot post an image in the test area.
the error message says the image is too large
the file for the picture tells me the image is 900kb
but bonsai talk will only accept 100kb
what am I doing wrong
( windows me2000, ulead photo express 3, cheap dual mode camera.) heeeelllllp!!!

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denny

i dont really know,but have you tried resizeing the image at paint shop pro,or some place like that.
im still learning,and it hurts too.

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Brian

First thing i would recomend checking is making sure your saving your image as a .jpg ,, that should make a big difference on size.

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Brian
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TreeBay

It sounds like you are trying to upload an image file at the size it was taken from the camera or scanner. *These files are too large for anything except printing. *The 100K limit is actually pretty high. *Some boards have 35K or so.

First step as Denny points out is to resize the image for a lower pixel count. *You can get an evaluation copy of paint shop pro from www.jasc.com that will do this. Most general purpose image editing programs will also work.

Resize to a maximum of about 500 pixels in the long dimension

Next step is to compress the image for output. *For picture files, as bq57 wrote, you definitely want to save as a jpeg.

If you're using Paint Shop pro this is really easy. *You just select FILE->EXPORT->JPEG OPTIMIZER and you can play with the compression. *Usually somewhere around 20% compression is fine for an image like this *Paint Shop Pro will let you see what compression does show you the resulting image size.

Be sure to select a different filename for the save! *You don't want to overwrite your nice printable file with a low quality websize file.

Just click OK and save it off to your hard drive.

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