SpudFiles

im trying to put pics on my other thread but there way to big, they're 321kb, and i have made em smaller before using the stretch/skew on paint but my paint on my comp got deleted some how and now i cant use that so can anyone tell me how to make em 150kb or less without paint?

btw my thread is:( http://www.spudfiles.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5110& ) if you want to check it out

Use a site like photobucket or putfile. It saves a lot of trouble.

There is two major components that determine a images size, both the size of the image and the file type. What I do is leave the original picture from my camera, in my 'Camera' folder, from there I both reduce the image size, and change to a .jpeg file format and save in a 'Upload' folder. It sounds as if your problem is you saving it as a .bmp, .png, or something else. There is no problem with the SpudFiles uploader, its the users.
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it already is a jpeg file so how do i reduce the size?

shrink it down under 640 X 480 this helps a lot. I would suggest getting Adobe Photoshop, that allows you to adjust the image quality (which also determines filesize) without noticing a drop in quality

i got adobe photoshop album starter 3.0 but never used it, is that what i need? if so how do i reduce it on that?

i use adobe photoshop 7.0 with a few plugins. Its a good all around picture tool especially if you add some good special effects plugins to it

nicholai wrote:shrink it down under 640 X 480 this helps a lot. I would suggest getting Adobe Photoshop, that allows you to adjust the image quality (which also determines filesize) without noticing a drop in quality

If you adjust the image quality, there obviously will be a drop in quality

Hayseed not nessisarly in photoshop... it is used for professional applications so if you adjust the quality a tiny bit then it wont nessisarily be noticed