Posting Pictures

Lafaa's idea is a good one.

Or, you can upload it to Photobucket and use the link they give you to post here. Then there's no size limit.

These are much large than 90KB but I still posted them via Photobucket.

by the way, nice double die! (or is that MD?)

on the motto and date

yes, but my scanner will have 0 chance of making scans that large....

We prefer people don't use Photobucket or other image hosting sites to post pics, because pictures there often expire - which makes the thread useless in a year or two's time. Once an off-site picture is deleted, the link is broken and it's deleted from here as well. Try shrinking it down and uploading it into your post, if at all possible.

Some tips for shrinking it down:

- make sure it's saved as a JPEG (.jpg) file. Windows bitmaps are way too big.

- use a graphics editor to crop away everything that isn't coin, like wheatguy has done. We don't really need to see more of the background than is absolutely necessary.

- now use the compression option in your photo editor program to reduce the size, if necessary. A resolution between 300x300 and 500x500 pixels is plenty for the forum and should easily fit into the 100kb file size limit.

Lafaa: I scan coin pics at 300 or 600 dpi resolution to get pics that size. I'd be surprised if your scanner can't go that high.

Once you get to 50 posts, you can apply for a space in the CCF Gallery, where the file size restrictions are much more generous.

I have a Mac, and I'm not sure that Iphoto has a compression feature. Does anyone know how to do this on a MAC?

Photobucket doesn't use any of the forum's bandwidth.

The reason that there is a limit on the uploads is to preserve disk space. If I allow big uploads then people will upload photos right out of their camera or off their scanner which as I've shown, is a complete waste of space. 100K will do what a MB will do just fine on a computer monitor. Now if your printing at 600 DPI, that's a different story.