My latest build/assembly

[dave robinson]

Ray, I don't have photoshop or any similar programme, could you possibly explain a little more how to do this for those of us who aren't 'in the know' please. I use Macbook, iMac and iPad and don't have a clue how to post pictures, as much as I would like to some times.

[stephen]

Ray, I'm not at all surprised that you've posted this....
On the few occasions that I've attached photos, thought that I'd re-sized them correctly and then cringed when I saw how they had suddenly morphed into Cinemascope proportions once they appeared on the site.
For the moment, all I can do is to apologise for my lack of skill in this area. It is a real nuisance to have to scroll around an image and not be able to view it in its entirety.
For the current ones which I took for the sole purpose of uploading to this site, I set my 16MP camera to its smallest image size and then in my Photoshop Elements program, resized them to what was showing as a size of approx. 7"x 5" @ 300dpi resolution and a "small file". Just have no idea how they grew so big once uploaded.
As well as these images of mine being irritating to all, it's mega embarrassing for me as my main hobby is photography, although only latterly adopting the digital format. My landscape work has recently been used on several magazine covers & double-page spreads and theirs is the opposite requirement, so I'm asked for for high res. images at maximum size. To this end, I upgraded from a 12MP camera to this 16MP one, in order to still maintain an acceptable size when I needed to crop an image to smaller proportions.
All in all, I feel a bit of a dunce over this size thing and on a lesser note, I'm also not pleased at the quality that they appear on screen. If anyone can advise as to what I should be doing (perhaps by PM so as not to bore everyone with such an off-topic matter), I'd be most grateful. Until then, I will not upload anything further.......promise!
Once again, my apologies.....
Stephen.

[dave robinson]

Don't beat yourself up over this Stephen, dozens of us are the same, me included, which is why I keep away from posting pictures as I generally fail.

[stephen]

Thanks Dave, but I just feel a bit of a dope (given my photography background) in not knowing what to do. It's some consolation that I'm not alone though! If someone can enlighten us, It'd be most welcome.

Stephen.

[UlrichS]

Hi Stephen,

if you resize the photos use pixels as units not inch. If you then scale the photo down to a maximum width of around 850 pixels you should have avoided the 'cinemascope' format. Hope this helps.

Best wishes,

Ulrich

[stephen]

I'll certainly try that Ulrich, if Elements gives me that option. Thanks for the advice.

Stephen.

[stephen]

Further to Ulrich's advice about resizing images for this site, I've just had a shot at it.
Apologies if it still arrives massive, but here goes......

Stephen.

[stephen]

Great! Providing that viewing at this size is OK for everyone, I'll do the same for any other photos in future.
Many thanks Ulrich!
Armed with his knowledge, if there are any other 'dunces' like me out there who've had this problem and use Elements, I can relate the simple steps to achieving this downsizing.

Stephen.

[stephen]

Enormous photos now deleted!

Stephen.

[Ryan]

Hi All,
Nice looking guitar you've made there Stephen.
regarding the enormous photos...I too have had this problem previously, with massive pictures.
But when i was attaching the photos of the Yardleys Guitar shop the other day, i found a setting on my camera. If i go into the sizing, there is an option to size the photos ready to send as e-mail attachments. I tried this and it worked perfectly so i didn't have to mess about resizing photos after i'd taken them, mine is not a expensive camera it is a normal Cannon digital camera. Don't know if this helps anybody, just check settings on your own camera as you may have it too.
Ryan