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MG Midget and Sprite General - Uploading picture

Iv'e just tried to upload a picture of my car top the site, but it says it's too big. Being a bit of a luddite I have no idea what to do about that. Help please from a younger person!
John Ruderman

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most photo programs have a re-size tab where it can automatically readjust the photos to fit eb forums and email

here is a site that looks easy enough I found by googleing photo re-sizing

http://www.shrinkpictures.com/
Prop

You can also resize using MS paint

There is an option in Paint that lets you change the size

Open Paint. Every Windows Version has Paint in Accessories

Open the image in there and go to the heading Image

It will have a drop down menu that states "stretch/skew"

open that and it will offer you a stretch value of 100% for horizontal and vertical

try reducing the image size to 75% both ways, save the image under a different name (so you can get back to the original without any shenanigans) and test it with the website's upload command

With a reasonable amount of luck the job will be done

If it isnt what you want

Open the original image again and try a different amount of stretch/skew (see why I advised ussing a different name to save it under? Lots of scope this way)

I use this any time I need to resize

costs nothing works well

hope it helps you John

I want to see the picture
Bill 1

FastStone Photo Resiser, available free to download off the internet, is also very good. It allows you to resize any number of photographs at the same time.
Neil K

If you got MS Photo Editor it's even easier

click on - Image button - for a drop down menu

then click on - Resize... button

a - Resize box - will appear

on the - Units: box - click on the down arrow and select - Pixels - (so you know the size for next time)

the - Width: - and - Height: - boxes have up and down arrows next to the - % boxes -

reducing the percentage on one will also adjust the other

Save the adjusted photo as a seperate photo and upload it, if it's still too big delete the adjusted photo and reduce the original photo more

always keep the original photo

It's very easy, even if I've not made it sound so
Nigel Atkins

Alternatively - when you save the photo - go to "save as" - it will offer you a "quality" option - choose a smaller one (or just take it down the slide if that's the version you have) - that gives you a lesser quality (fine on here!) which will then allow you to upload it.

You didn't say if it's a MAC or PC though, so, it's a bit hard to give you totally simple instructions - and I see that the "olds" have doing the non-KISS version ;)
rachmacb

This thread was discussed between 22/03/2011 and 23/03/2011

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