[niko]

With MS Paint you could quickly and "dirty" resize your images so you can upload them on APC, use them for fast e-mailing, posting on other web sites, etc. MS Paint does not allow extremely precise resizing but it's perfectly good for a quick resize job.

MS Paint is a very simple program found on any computer that comes with Windows.
Open it by clicking Start|Programs|Accessories|Paint:

To resize the image open it in Paint and select Image|Stretch/Skew... (or press Ctrl+W):

The following dialog box appears:

Use the percentages for Horizontal and Vertical size to resize your image. Notice that you must type identical numbers in the Horizontal or Vertical size or your image will not resize properly.

Always save the resized image with a new name so you don't loose the original. I personally use "_1", "_2", "_3", and so on. For example the original file "riccia.jpg" becomes "riccia_1.jpg".

MS Paint does reduce the dimensions of the image but keeps the same quality (resolution). An original file that is 4 MB file is reduced to about only 90 KB - good size for posting on the internet.

--Nikolay

 

[niko]

Jimbo,

If you want to display an image within your thread you can upload it on a web site of your liking and link from there. If you don't know exactly how to link please ask.

You can also upload the image in the APC Photo Album. Once the image is there you can link to it as if it was on any other web site. But the process is a bit more involved:

Open the image by clicking on the thumbnail in your photo album. A new page will be displayed showing the image bigger on an APC page with all sorts of buttons and links. You need to click on the big image and this time you will see the image by itself (without any APC buttons and links). Then just link it as usual - copy the URL that ends with ".jpg" and paste it in your post enclosing it with the "

" tags.

It is possible that if the original ".jpg" file is too big it ends up in the post in the form of a thumbnail. Show me which one of your images you want to link and I will see why it posts only as a thumbnail.

Once again - if I don't explain exactly what you are asking or I'm unclear please ask.

--Nikolay