---------------------------------------------------------- RV7-List Digest Archive --- Total Messages Posted Sun 10/09/05: 3 ---------------------------------------------------------- Today's Message Index: ---------------------- 1. 02:02 PM - Photo Posting Enabled on RV6-List... (Matt Dralle) 2. 02:05 PM - Re: Photo Posting Enabled on RV6-List... (Matt Dralle) 3. 03:50 PM - Re: Photo Posting Enabled on RV6-List... (Charlie England) ________________________________ Message 1 _____________________________________ Time: 02:02:14 PM PST US From: Matt Dralle Subject: RV7-List: Photo Posting Enabled on RV6-List... RV7 Listers, As of this morning, I have enabled limited posting of various picture formats to the RV7-List. Extensions allowed include: jpg, gif, bmp, txt, xls, pdf, and doc. Generally, these are all pretty safe and don't carry viruses of any kind. A word of caution when posting pictures, however. Double check the size of the pictures you are posting. This includes both the picture dimensions (X x Y) but also the total filesize (MB). If you take pictures right out of your digital camera, it is likely they will be on the order of 1-4MB each. If you post 10, 3MB photos to the List, you will be sending 30MB plus encoding (usually a 1.5x gain in size) to the list, that will have to be redistributed to all members on the list. That can be a lot of data! Use a program like Photoshop to reduce the dimensions of the photo to something on the order of 640x480 and use medium or better compression when saving the file so that each picture is roughly 50k to 100k in size. Let me know what you think of this addition to the RV7-List. Remember that the PhotoShare is also still available and generally the best way to share photos of an archival nature. Matt Dralle Matt G Dralle | Matronics | PO Box 347 | Livermore | CA | 94551 925-606-1001 V | 925-606-6281 F | dralle@matronics.com Email http://www.matronics.com/ WWW | Featuring Products For Aircraft ________________________________ Message 2 _____________________________________ Time: 02:05:45 PM PST US From: Matt Dralle Subject: Re: RV7-List: Photo Posting Enabled on RV6-List... --> RV7-List message posted by: Matt Dralle Sorry, Subject line should have read "Photo Posting Enabled on RV7-List...". Matt At 02:01 PM 10/9/2005 Sunday, you wrote: >RV7 Listers, > >As of this morning, I have enabled limited posting of various >picture formats to the RV7-List. Extensions allowed include: jpg, >gif, bmp, txt, xls, pdf, and doc. Generally, these are all pretty >safe and don't carry viruses of any kind. > >A word of caution when posting pictures, however. Double check the >size of the pictures you are posting. This includes both the >picture dimensions (X x Y) but also the total filesize (MB). If you >take pictures right out of your digital camera, it is likely they >will be on the order of 1-4MB each. If you post 10, 3MB photos to >the List, you will be sending 30MB plus encoding (usually a 1.5x >gain in size) to the list, that will have to be redistributed to all >members on the list. That can be a lot of data! > >Use a program like Photoshop to reduce the dimensions of the photo >to something on the order of 640x480 and use medium or better >compression when saving the file so that each picture is roughly 50k >to 100k in size. > >Let me know what you think of this addition to the >RV7-List. Remember that the PhotoShare is also still available and >generally the best way to share photos of an archival nature. > >Matt Dralle > > >Matt G Dralle | Matronics | PO Box 347 | Livermore | CA | 94551 >925-606-1001 V | 925-606-6281 F | dralle@matronics.com Email >http://www.matronics.com/ WWW | Featuring Products For Aircraft > > Matt G Dralle | Matronics | PO Box 347 | Livermore | CA | 94551 925-606-1001 V | 925-606-6281 F | dralle@matronics.com Email http://www.matronics.com/ WWW | Featuring Products For Aircraft ________________________________ Message 3 _____________________________________ Time: 03:50:14 PM PST US From: Charlie England Subject: Re: RV7-List: Photo Posting Enabled on RV6-List... --> RV7-List message posted by: Charlie England Matt Dralle wrote: > > > RV7 Listers, > > As of this morning, I have enabled limited posting of various picture > formats to the RV7-List. Extensions allowed include: jpg, gif, bmp, > txt, xls, pdf, and doc. Generally, these are all pretty safe and > don't carry viruses of any kind. > > A word of caution when posting pictures, however. Double check the > size of the pictures you are posting. This includes both the picture > dimensions (X x Y) but also the total filesize (MB). If you take > pictures right out of your digital camera, it is likely they will be > on the order of 1-4MB each. If you post 10, 3MB photos to the List, > you will be sending 30MB plus encoding (usually a 1.5x gain in size) > to the list, that will have to be redistributed to all members on the > list. That can be a lot of data! > > Use a program like Photoshop to reduce the dimensions of the photo to > something on the order of 640x480 and use medium or better compression > when saving the file so that each picture is roughly 50k to 100k in size. > > Let me know what you think of this addition to the RV7-List. Remember > that the PhotoShare is also still available and generally the best way > to share photos of an archival nature. > > Matt Dralle I picked this up from another list. If you use Windows XP, here's a link to what has to be the world's simplest picture size reducer (It's that rare commodity: useful & efficient Microsoft software). http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx Scroll down to 'image resizer' & download it. Install the software. The software will be invisible but will add an option to the popup menu that appears when you right-click on a file. After installation, use your favorite file management software (Windows Explorer works fine) to find the picture you want to resize. Right-click on the picture file, then click 'resize image' on the popup menu. Select the size you want (640x480 works well for email) & click 'ok'. A new image file will be created using the same file name but with 'small' added to the file name. A 500k image file can be reduced to around 40k using this program. Even if you go up in size a notch, it will still reduce download time by around 80% & those of us forced to use dialup will be very grateful. Charlie