All you need to do is keep the size of any post less than 250K (pictures plus text). There is a procedure for a larger post, but I always get tangled up trying to do that, so I just keep my pictures small. Terry Farrell > OK, I'll bite. > > I'm new here and haven't posted any photos yet, so I'll ask for the > benefit > of the guilty and the innocent: > > What ARE the rules/procedures for posting photos? > > Observation: Complaints about people not using the proper procedures for > pictures seem fairly common, but no one who complains ever seems to say > what > the correct procedures are, or where to locate them. I don't see it in the > FAQs or on the PTG ListInfo page, either. It may not be a case of people > thinking "the rules are not for them," but just that we didn't know there > was a rule. You were all newbies here once, too. > > The PTG site and FAQs of course don't seem to list any procedure for > photos, > at least not that I've seen. Or perhaps I overlooked it... So perhaps > someone could post the rules here, and put it in the FAQs and on the PTG > list page, too? > > While we're sort of on the topic; every month there is an listpost that > goes > out about the "live chat." The directions for that are wrong as well every > month (and on the PTG site). There isn't a > http://houston.tx.us.starlink-irc.org/ server anymore, and apparently > hasn't been for some time. The chat would probably be used more if people > could actually get into it. > > -ernie > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org >> [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron Lindquist >> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 3:22 PM >> To: Pianotech >> Subject: Re: photo size >> >> >> I agree, there was a rule and another place to send pictures >> but then some people think the rules are not for them.!? <:( >> >> >> >> At 12:22 PM 7/11/2005 -0500, you wrote: >> >My friends, >> >I know most of you have fast internet access, but many of us >> do not. I >> >do >> >not mind the photos, but please make them small. If you take >> a digital >> >photo and forget to set the camera on "low", open the photo >> in Paint. Go >> >to Programs, Accessories, Paint. Then File, then Open the >> photo where it >> >is stored. Then go to Image, then Stretch/ Skew. The dialog >> box opens with >> >100% in two boxes. Try changing those numbers to 25% for a >> start. Click >> >Save As and save them to another area so your original will >> not be changed >> >(unless you want to). Use the new photo location for the attachment. >> >Thanks! >> >Berley >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >> > >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >> > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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