Pictures Uploaded to Newsgab

[Chief]

All

Please note, with immediate effect all pictures added to our picture related forums need to be uploaded to our site.

Any pictures over 500k will need to be resized. We recommend the excellent Free Irfanview to assist you with your picture resizing.

We have noticed recently a number of hosts are generating red 'X's when viewing pictures on a more regular basis.

I've taken the decision now to nip this in the bud to ensure that all current and future members can enjoy all the images you guys are taking the effort to add on a daily basis.

Hopefully you understand

Cheers

Chief

[kisinkiet]

Hopefully, I resized all my pics and uploaded all

for some buddies using linux, I use 1 tool I really appreciate : jpegoptim.

it's a simple use, and fast use. it doesn't takes long to find the good % quality to obtain the desired file size.

use :

$ jpegoptim -d /home2/1-Gisele_Bundchen/ -m92 gisele2.jpg

it will create a /home2/1-Gisele_Bundchen/gisele2.jpg copy of the pic gisele2.jpg from the current directory at jpeg quality 92.

cu

[Chief]

Thanks for the tip Whocares

[mczplwp]

I just had to go and get a file converter. I found that most pics I get through email and such are .bmp and you guy's like .jpg and .gif. Being the great computer guy I am I could've gone the bit torrent route and found Adobe something or other but that would be illegal.$1000US is to much to convert some pic file to .jpg. I found a converter yesterday that is working fine and is easy to configure. It got great reviews on Cnet.com http://www.download.com/XnView/3640-...tml?tag=tab_ur
http://www.xnview.com
http://www.xnview.org

[rockyhors]

You perhaps do not realize that mspaint will convert bmp to jpg? Open the file in mspaint, click 'file' then 'save as' and scroll within the 'file type' dialog box until you see "jpg*;jpeg*;jpe*;jfif" and click. Or, simply type out the file name in the upper portion of the 'save as' dialog box filling in .jpg where the .bmp is. That sounds more complicated than it is, really.

[Chief]

Also, doesn't infranview save files in various formats? I thought it did

[rockyhors]

Ja, but you had already mentioned that up there, I'm trying to be original!

[Chief]

LOL, OK mate

[kisinkiet]

oki, good.

I just have found a java applet wich does the job the way you want (some example : reduce the size to 500kb)

and beleive me or not, it's just working for any OS, as it is a java applet

it works quickly (60-90 seconds for 20 pics) and produce nice quality pics.

Watch there to get It

CU

[Chief]

Thanks Whocares