Hi there SP
It's a draining experience leading the field into the stadium, so no wonder you're having technical trouble now.
Each photo has to be less than 100KB. You can load several photos into one post, though. If the total is over 100KB, as in Antonio's recent post, then the photos come up as links, rather than the images themselves.
Don't panic if your photo files are too big. There are several ways to solve this. Firstly, paste the photo into IrfanView (
http://www.irfanview.com). Then select Image -> Resize/Resample, and reduce the number of pixels. 800-860 pixels wide seems to be the limit for good display on this site. You can also crop the picture at this point by left-clicking on the photo and dragging the cursor over the area you want to retain and click Edit -> Crop selection.
Then select File -> Save as, and a dialogue box will come up with the save options. Save as a JPG file to minimise space, and play with the compression option until you manage to save it under 100 KB.
Another method, for montages, is to paste the photos onto a blank PowerPoint slide. This way you can jiggle them around, as well as cropping and resizing at will on the screen. Then adjust the zoom in PowerPoint until you're happy with the view size, go to IrfanView and select Options -> Capture/Screenshot, and you can perform a screen capture from the PowerPoint slide. Once you have that, you can go through the various sizing and saving routines above. This will really cut the resolution, but it will give you a single reasonable screen-quality image from lots of photos, and save you the pain of multiple postings.
It's worth bearing in mind that every single step you perform will result in some loss of image quality, so the best workflow is experimenting back and forth to get the right image sizes first, and then redoing the process with the fresh images when you are ready to go. Good luck, and drop me a line if you're still having trouble.
If you have the software, you can use PaintShop Pro or PhotoShop for all of these operations. But the advantage of IrfanView is that although not quite so flash-looking, it's a completely free download, and works just as well. Plod on !
Nigel
