| What to post when adding Photos When posting photos to the CRITIQUE boards, we ask that you add the following information to your posts so as to aid in the learning process for our learning members and to aid others in the critiquing process. This information will be readily available to those who shoot digital in AV, SV OR MANUAL. Film shooters may have to actually keep logs. This is not mandatory, but just a request to post if you can. Here is the following information that should be posted along with critique photos or general submissions. - Camera used
- Lens used
- Film stock used
- F stop i.e. f2.8 - f 22
- Shutter speed
- WB setting (only applies to digital)
- Filters used if any
- What your intent was while shooting (optional)
- Anything else you deem pertinent to the photo
Thank you!
How to Post a Photo Save the pic as a Jpeg first on your computer at no more than 600 pixel on it's longest side. Anything larger may cause some problems for some people in viewing your photos To include a picture with your message is quite easy. In the new message or reply box do the following steps: Click on the small yellow postcard in the reply menu tool bar. Click "MY Computer" tab, then click "Browse". This opens your file folders on your hard drive. Navigate to the folder where you saved your image too. You may also select the first tab and locate an image in any of the groups albums to which you have stored images. This takes up no more storage space from your allowed limit. Choose the file that is your desired picture that you wish to include in the message and then click "Open" in the browse for image box. Then Click "Add Photo" and in a few seconds your pic should appear in your message. Click "Send" to complete your reply post.
More instructions for posting photos: Courtesy of JLS (Assistant Manager)
Hey there folks. I wanted to write this as it seems to have popped up again. There does seem to be a confusion on how to resize your images. There are a couple of points that need to be taken into consideration here. - Image Dimensions: this is the pixel count of your image in width and height. ie 400 x 600 px On the average your cameras may record an image that is approx 3008 x 2000 pix (6.1 mp) or smaller. thus rendoring an image that is approx 2 mb in FILE SIZE which brings us to our second point.
- FILE SIZE: This is the actual number of Bytes that your image takes up in memory size. the average DSLR image is approx 2.5 mb. when shooting jpegs. . with smaller cameras creating anywhere from 500k to 1mb. When you post an image to the web, you need to use a WEB OPTIMIZATION method. In photoshop, you can use the "Save for Web" function found in the file menu. this will take you to a dialog that will allow you to allocate new file dimentions as well as a quality setting. Your image should be resized to at the most 600 px on the longest side of the image either in portrait or landscape. You SHOULD then adjust the quality setting of the image so that the image :File Size is around 50k or smaller. this will allow your images to be clear and good enough quality for viewing. This will allow your image to pop up quckly and not be passed up.
If you choose not to use this method. you can manually adjust the image in "image" and image size by adjusting the size of the dimensions and inputing the 72 or 96 dpi under resolution (see image) notice that the image dimension change also changed the file size from 1.03 meg to 61k and then save the image. This will enable you to create web friendly images as large images just are too difficult for our dial up members to view. 
If you wish, you can also use IMAGE READY that comes bundled with photoshop. AS for the other image editing software, I dont use anyother but I know that they have similar tools. Please Please take the time to resize your images as a courtesy for the other members. If you cannot resize it, please ask for help from someone who is familiar with your software BEFORE you post. just do not post it anyway. This has been a public service announcement. I hope you find it as much fun and educational to read as I have in writing it again, and again and agian.. LOL Cheers J Information provided by jlsphotoworks © All rights reserved.
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