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First of all, please note that I managed to use 'stitchers' in the subject line.

Now feeling quite pleased about my short term memory, to the question: I'd like to use one of the free photo sites so I can actually show people what I've been working on, but I'm virtually computer illiterate in comparison with some people here.

I found one site that I could sent pics to but when I checked about the size of the pics I could send, I could only send a 1 meg pic and every pic I took was over that size. So a series of questions arise from this; is there a way of sending pics of a smaller size? would this mean they are of lesser quality? do all free hosting sites have about the same size specifications?

I don't even know whether these are all the questions that should have occurred to me, so if anyone can give me guidance on what I should know, need to find out, or any helpful sites, I'd appreciate any help given.

Fran

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FarmI
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Most of the photo sites give you the option to resize your images. You don't usually want an image that requires scrolling in order to view it. I think mine tend to run about 50 to 100 K depending on what I'm showing. I use

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for a lot of my pictures. It's really easy to use, and then I can just post a URL. Resizing doesn't affect the quality if you are making it smaller.A free program to play around with your images is Irfanview -
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It's not as powerful as Adobe or Paint Shop Pro, but it will do a lot, and the price is right!

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Pogonip

Make sure you're saving your pics as jpg files, some digital cameras - and image processing progs - use different file formats.

It's really outside the scope of this forum to discuss compressing jpegs, but try a google on jpg files and compressing. A hefty original picture file will quite happily compress down to a much smaller file for web use. Typically you can go from a file size in excess of 2 or 3 megs down to a file size of a few tens of kb, without degrading the viewing quality.

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The Wanderer

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FarmI

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