Hello everyone,

As I view the posts in the forum it has come to my attention that many of you are making use of the photo upload feature in this category. This is great and I'm glad that you are able to share photos with each other. However, the internet connection that my server is running on is very limited and if there are many large pictures uploaded, that people view at the same time, it slows down the bandwidth considerably for the rest of the site. I don't mind if you post a few pictures here and there that you'd like to share with others, but posting 30+ pics in one thread taxes the system a lot. If possible, please either link to the picture directly, find a place that is able to host the pictures for you, or resize and save the picture so that it is a smaller file. Just please consider this and don't try and abuse this feature.

Thank you in advance.

sure...no problem...I usually do try to resize the really big ones...but I can upload to another website and link them as well...

Thanks, it helps when everyone pitches in to make these things work. I wasn't sure if a lot of the pictures that people post come from websites or online picture directories that could be linked from here. If you absolutely can't do it another way except to upload onto the site, that's cool. I'm just trying to make the site more enjoyable for everyone.

OK..........I think tis a good idea.......but here's a technical question.......how can I shrink the size of pics if I have to........and how can I change the file extension say from BMP to say JPEG????

it depends on what program you use...most have an option to save as a jpeg....those also let you change the size of the pic or you can change the quality that you save it as [less quality means a smaller file]....only i dont think MS paint lets you do that :\

Hmmmmmmmm...........when I first started scanning pics I had it on BMP & then discovered how to change it to JPEG....what I don't know how to do is to change those that are BMP to JPEG......

hmm...i think if you open those pictures in whatever program you use with the scanner then save them again the way you do now [that changes it from .bmp] that might work.....but i havent really used scanners that much

I don't have a scanner, and I don't usually post pics, but I'll be aware.

Thanx, WOB, I'll give it a try.