Posting from a MAC.

[Jjartwood]

Am I the only idiot that cannot figure out how to post a picture on this sight
without cropping the devil out of them?
Whenever I try to post the download will not accept regular photos even
when mildly cropped if I don't close the picture down to a point that it is
key holed it wont take.
I am not tech savvy at all. So if anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them,Please explain in old guy terms
Mark

 

[Curly]

Am I the only idiot that cannot figure out how to post a picture on this sight
without cropping the devil out of them?
Whenever I try to post the download will not accept regular photos even
when mildly cropped if I don't close the picture down to a point that it is
key holed it wont take.
I am not tech savvy at all. So if anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them,Please explain in old guy terms
Mark

The size thing is the same for all operating systems. Not just the Mac.

For the Mac this is easy.
Save the picture to a folder on your desktop.
Click on it and Preview opens.
Click on tools at the top of your screen.
Click Select Size.
Click Fit Into and choose 800 x 600
Click Okay.
Go to File at the top of the screen and Save or Save As. Your choice.

You resizing is done and you can then post to your hearts content.

Pete

 

[Gilrock]

Yeah I spent a lot of time the other day trying to figure out how to attach photos and have them look as sharp as the originals. What I found is I was sometimes cropping my photos to 600x800 so when I uploaded them the forum would resize them and they would look terrible. It was easy to see how blurry my signature looked on a photo that had a crisp font on the original. So now I make sure I crop to 800x600 even when a portrait size would frame the pen better.

 

[Jjartwood]

Thanks guys!

 

[76winger]

Do you guys mean cropping or re-sizing?

There's a difference and it seems like you would be resizing them to fit the requirement rather than cropping, where you would be selecting a smaller area inside the complete photo and cropping (removing everything) outside the selected portion.

 

[Tortoise]

If you have iPhoto, you can select all the pics you want to resize and do them all at once instead of one at a time in Preview.
Select all your pics by Command clicking on each one you want.
Choose File>Export>Size>Custom.
Put 800 in the box and it will automatically adjust the height to keep the right proportions. Then just save them to a folder and you're done.