Okay ... i want to put my pictures in gallery and im having a hard time resizing my pictures i noticed everyone seem to have a kinda big picture and yet following the rules... heck my thumbnails are TINY! they are in jpg format so tell me.. how do u make your pictures look big but yet follow those rules : Art images should be GIF or JPG format only. The full image should be between 100 x 100 and 4000 x 4000 pixels and be less than 512 KB in size. The thumbnail image (if supplied) should be between 50 x 50 and 200 x 200 pixels and be less than 15 kb in size.

especially the thumbnails ones... :( like this one above the message... its only 13 kbs but definitely less than 50x50 or 200x200 pixels please help? :)

If your using Photoshop.. in your file tab you'll find save for web. Once that comes up you'll have four different pictures you pick which ever one you think looks best then check your size for example under "JPG" under you image you'll find the size of the image go to quality (very right side of window) and take the size down untill you get under 15k..etc... Thats how i size my images down..without taking the actually "size" down. Hope i haven't confused you. :) Ryuslilangel

If you are using Paint SHop Pro, instead of clicking File, Save or Save As, click File and then "Export" and then "JPG Format". It will give you a window that shows current view and compressed view along with their sizes, and a spot to change the number for compression (higher number = more compression which means loss of quality). Pick the number that gives the least amount of distortion while sticking within the size guidelines. I find for me that is usually between 5 and 20, with an average of 10. You'll find that bright colours increase file size and require more compression or even downsizing dimensions to avoid too much loss of quality, and that more mute colours such as black require less. Amount of detail and textures also increases file size.

Also,that thumbnail comes up showing:

10.54 KB (10796 bytes)

1 KB = 1024 bytes

Message edited on: 04/19/2005 21:32

Boy I wish I had read your post before I did my last one, I used paint shop pro, selected what I wanted in the thumbnail, copy, paste as new image, and then resize (using the pixel option at 200 pixes, and voila...) not as big as some but definately bigger than what I used to use and since I've been here awhile...it's not such a newbie question...thumbnail post pop up quite often here. Almeida

I use ACDSee and find that the default settings used when you "save as" jpeg actually are about spot on for uploading to the web. It seems to have a good compression ration without losing much from the image.

oddly enough I use mspaint for my thumbs (ducks and runs) hay it always gets the size down to where I need it.

ah okay thanks ill try all of them and see which one works the best by the way im using photoshop :-D