Morning Amy. With my program I COULD have reduced them to 5 KB each but chose not to. I was posting them here as a secondary sharing and the locations where I use them does not have any restrictions and my pix are normally way under sizes of most.
I can understand with the graphic intense thread the one or two people on dial up might have sluggishness. I did for MANY years when I visited the Finest, Pookies toons & the Dose. I would open a thread, walk Oliver & come back & the thread would still be loading... some graphics just never opened. I knew there was concern here but probably missed the NUMBER.
In future I will just post link if my work is over 100 KB - there is significant loss of quality for the forums/blogs I post my work at & when you invest in very expensive photography equipment & begin with a file of 91 MB, you actually are happy to get something decent at 200KB. I have found the various systems to post a series of pix (like Picasa) has been the best for sharing with interested family members & friends of outings. They then can grab whatever pix they want along the way & reduce it or write to me & I send them the original big file for printing.
I shoot pix in pretty high resolution as the newspapers REQUIRE huge files for printing..
Photography is a lot of fun & so is pix editing. I am not a photo shop queen that can trade heads or do cyber plastic surgery .. close ups of me are a disaster (wrinkles) so that is why you dont see them - HA).
I will be anxious to see the new photo programs that come with the iMac. I have Vista on my notebook & have been able to use both Picture It & the Fuji Film program that were my favorites at XP. Do most of my work there although my Dell tower is still powerful to do all the work. The notebook is just faster
I still haven’t learned all the techniques of layering with PhotoShop, which I have, and Picture it, although not as powerful, does much of the same.
Hope everyone has a great day! Lots on my agenda today.
Good morning, Dolly.
I enjoy your pictures but I would like for Amy’s Place to be a pleasant experience for all; not just 95% of the visitors.
I realize you have expensive camera equipment and want to share your pictures. MamaBear and JKPhoto also have very expensive
camera equipment and are able to reduce their work so as not to disrupt the opening of pages for others.
We have 2 or 3 regulars who are on dialup. This is not their choice; this is what is available in their area. I’ve had people
ask to be removed from my ping list because of large heavy graphics. These graphics have made it impossible for them to enjoy
their Amy’s Place experience.
Have you considered reducing the images that you would like to post at Amy’s and uploading them to tinypic? After uploading and
posting, you would be able to delete the smaller pictures on your hard drive. Otherwise the only other option that comes to mind,
is posting links to sites and/or threads that are not concerned with the enjoyment of others.
Thanks for your help in keeping Amy’s Place a fun place that everyone can enjoy.