I'm going to need to make some changes about posting image attachments because they are getting too big and really filling up the server. This not only can make the board a little more cumbersome & slow but it can make things tough for people on dial-up lines (modems
)
Hopefully within the next few weeks, I'll have a better, semi-automatic image management system working that will make things easier on us (and me
)... In the meantime:
Please keep image sizes under 50K max size, preferably smaller. Use .JPG or .GIF files for the image types. If you're new to fiddlin' with images, as you get better working with them, you'll be able to easily & quickly optimize them. But here are a couple general rules of thumb for images:
Here is a fairly detailed image that is not based on a photo and is a good choice for a
GIF file
Where as photos are best used as
JPG files:
Both of these pictures are small, between 10-20K. They also don't take up much space in the database (which has gotten huge)...
So until the new system comes up, if everyone can please use smaller sized images with medium quality (like 60% on jpg files) with max image size of 600x600 pixels. This will be a tremendous help on working with these images....
If anyone has any questions on working with images, I'll be happy to help. I'm not a master but I can get through most image packages....
Thanks,
John