Uploading pictures to the web site

[diverace]

Help! I've been trying to upload pictures to the website but they look like a mosaic once they hit the web site. I'm sure it's something to do with size of the picture. Can anyone tell me how to resize the picture to make it <100k and still look right on the web site.

 

Thanks,

 

Diverace

[cyberjer]

I have only been geocaching for two weeks. However, I have found that to upload a picture of under 100k, it helps to reduce the size of the picture and also to reduce the number of colors to 256, then save the picture as a .gif. My last picture did not turn out great (you can see it on GC57DB), but looked ok before I uploaded it. A balance between physical size (done with cropping), number of colors, and format has to be achieved to get a good result.

[+Rusty O Junk]

Diverace

When pictures are first uploaded they are almost always real pixilated. Don’t worry about it, just leave the site, then go back and presto, it’s a good picture.

[The_Brownies]

Yes, 100KB is the max file size. TO check the size of your file, simply right click on the image and then left click on properties. It's going to say something like 23.4KB. If it says 1.07MB then you need to modify the image.

 

There are three basic types of images, BMP, JPG, and GIF. Of course there are more, but I'm not going to go into the other ones.

 

JPG is your best bet. In order modify an image, your going to need some type of graphic program like JASC Paintshop pro, Photo Imapact, Adobe Photo shop, etc. depending on what needs done, anyone of the above programs can modify the image for you. Sometimes you do not need to alter the image at all. Most of the times you just need to save the file in a different format. If you have a BMP image that is over 1Mege Byte, and you convert that same image to a JPG file, the file is dramtically reduced.

 

Quick rule of thumb. If you want animation, then you need a GIF, but if you want no animation, then use a JPG. If you look at a GIF and JPG image on the web, you really won't see any difference.

 

Hope this helps.

[+Jamie Z]

Rusty o Junk got the answer. When you upload pics to the site, they almost always appear pixilated. Refresh the screen, that'll fix it.

 

Jamie