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English forum => Small talk => The Chat Lounge => Topic started by: dexter7 on May 25, 2011, 01:58:18

Title: posting issue please read
Post by: dexter7 on May 25, 2011, 01:58:18

i keep on trying to post picture on the forum but it say the file is too large. the max. is 2048 KB but two BMP pictures are probably not half of the 2048 KB maximum.

Title: Re: posting issue please read
Post by: TJK on May 25, 2011, 05:23:26

BMP pictures are  to large, well almost, try to convert them to JPG or GIF they are better for Internet, and you can also do them smaller in KB
Her you have the same picture in 3 different sizes, you can't see the different even i have taken away some of the color, original this picture was nearly 7 MB

Title: Re: posting issue please read
Post by: dexter7 on May 25, 2011, 22:41:24

Alright how do I convert them?

Title: Re: posting issue please read
Post by: TJK on May 26, 2011, 08:01:32

us a good graphic program and save the picture in the file you want

us this one, this is a good one and free http://paintnet.org/
in this program you can do watt you want, reduce size, convert pictures and more, it's also free plug ins for it and a good helpfully forum, all free
easy to learn

Title: Re: posting issue please read
Post by: saltydog on May 26, 2011, 08:21:30

I have to do this often, as I use the free version of FRAPS that only saves pictures as BMP.
Open the picture, right click on it, choose top option work, don't change pic and click on File-save as, save as JPEG..  
 It should now be small enough to post  :)