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How do I reduce a graphic

The TVClubHouse: Big Brother VIII - 2007 ARCHIVES: Big Brother 8 - Part 11: All Things Technical (BB Related): How do I reduce a graphic users admin

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Tanzanite
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06-28-2005

Tuesday, August 28, 2007 - 11:18 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tanzanite a private message Print Post    
to fit the TBCH standards of 65 kilonytes.

Jimmer
Moderator

08-30-2000

Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 8:14 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
You need a graphics program to resize images. If you don't have one, two good free ones that we recommend are FastStone or Irfanview.

FastStone        IrfanView

Downsize the picture using a photo program so that it is less than 600 pixels wide and save it as a medium quality jpg (or a 5 in some programs). Hopefully, that will get it to less than 60k in file size. Save it again (under a new name if you haven't already). If it isn't less than 60k, save it again at a lower quality or make it smaller.

Depending on the image, smaller sizes work just as well (e.g. 400 pixels wide).

Hope that helps. Let us know if you have further questions or need more details.

Tanzanite
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06-28-2005

Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 2:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Tanzanite a private message Print Post    
Thanks so much Jimmer. It was hard for me to remember where I had asked the question. This solves my problem.

There are so many TVCH things that I thought I would never use and now I find myself needing every one that I had previously dismisssed and refused to learn.

Okay, so now how to do the Tiny URL thing,any tips or place with a tutorial?

Jimmer
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08-30-2000

Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 2:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Jimmer a private message Print Post    
Here is a link to the tiny url site.

http://tinyurl.com/

Just highlight the link that you want to make smaller, copy (ctrl-c) and paste it (ctrl-v) into the box on the site. Then do the same with the new url it gives you.

The other way to do it without using Tiny Url is just use the TVCH board feature for creating links

Type \newurl{Put the great long link here,Put the name you want it call it here}

So the link to the main TVCH home page would be typed like

\newurl{http://www.tvclubhouse.com/index.php,TVCH} and would look like this

TVCH

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 3:47 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
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Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 3:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
I use this site to edit gifs/graphics: http://www.gifworks.com/image_editor.html