We actually prefer to discourage posting pics to external sites like Photobucket, because pics on external sites tend to expire after 90 days, or if the account-holder deletes them. If a linked-to pic is deleted from the external site, it's gone from here as well, and you end up with threads like
this, that aren't much use to anybody.
Or, even worse, the external site might replace linked pictures with others, which just leads to confusing threads like
this one, where the coin pictured is clearly not either of the ones being discussed.
If you must download large images that simply can't be shrunk to fit the forum, (banknote images for example) and if you've got more than 50 posts, you can register to use CCF's very own
Photo Gallery, which doesn't have the same file size and name restrictions the forum image downloader has.
You can also download a copy of
Irfanview from CCF and edit your pictures with it.
Click Here. This neat little program lets you shrink pics easily to whatever size you wish. Open an image file in it, then click on Image - Resize/Resample ad type a new size into the box - 300 to 500 pixels high is plenty, and should compress down into a JPEG that's smaller than the forum limit. When you save the resized pic, don't forget to give it a "forum-legal" name (no spaces, symbols etc).
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
Posted 11/26/2010 8:11 pm
