Thumbnail pictures

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 7:38 am

Does anyone have a simple site for downloading pictures as thumbnails that can be used on FG? All of my pictures that I download from my camera are too large.

I'm not doing well with picnik, pr or infranview...probably not understanding the directions.

I'm so frustrated and sick of trying to figure this out.

Thanks for any help.

Kathy Ellen

Post by **spot** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:07 am

IrfanView Frequently Asked Questions is a summary. If you want to do it with a directory-full of images then I could post up a step-by-step guide to the batch process.

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 8:38 am

spot;1336182 wrote: IrfanView Frequently Asked Questions is a summary. If you want to do it with a directory-full of images then I could post up a step-by-step guide to the batch process.

Thank you Spot, but I honestly need a real simple site. I just want to post a few pictures of my beach and bay on FG as a thumbnail.

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 9:29 am

Thank you...think I found a roundabout way to make thumbnail pictures out of a few of my large pictures.

Post by **spot** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 9:35 am

That's good, I'm glad you found a way that works for you. No two people use computers the same way.

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:20 am

Thanks Spot. I appreciate your help, but I'm a slow learner when it comes to computer programs.

Here's a few pictures that I figured out how to make into thumbnails from the picnik site.

http://www.forumgarden.com/forums/forum ... ost1336217

Post by **spot** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:24 am

Kathy Ellen;1336230 wrote: Here's a few pictures that I figured out how to make into thumbnails from the picnik site.That's worked perfectly. If you jot a quick email to yourself saying what you did you'll be able to refer back to it in a few months. I do that all the while, I know perfectly well I'm not capable of remembering how I did things.

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:35 am

spot;1336232 wrote: That's worked perfectly. If you jot a quick email to yourself saying what you did you'll be able to refer back to it in a few months. I do that all the while, I know perfectly well I'm not capable of remembering how I did things.

We're thinking alike.....I had created a "Reminders from FG" document and just posted the directions for creating thumbnails. But, I wanted to isolate my post from the thread. I followed these directions that I had written a bit ago, but it didn't work...

'Reminders from FG'

1.When you want to separate a post from the threadâ€¦..hover mouse over # of thread and click on open in a new windowâ€¦then click on copy shortcut and paste where you wish to place it.

Post by **spot** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 10:43 am

Kathy Ellen;1336238 wrote: WI wanted to isolate my post from the thread. I followed these directions that I had written a bit ago, but it didn't work...

The one bane of computing - software upgrades. That worked on vBulletin version 3 releases but it doesn't since Tombstone upgraded to version 4.

All together now... "It's Tombstone's Fault!"

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 11:20 am

spot;1336247 wrote: The one bane of computing - software upgrades. That worked on vBulletin version 3 releases but it doesn't since Tombstone upgraded to version 4.

All together now... "It's Tombstone's Fault!"

Yes, I'd like to complain about losing that function and also about our lost casino moola

:wah:

I lost about $19,000 bucks....bummer....:-2

hmmmmm....Did Tombstone buy a new car recently

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 12:11 pm

Seems you figured it out KE the pictures are awesome.. !! Good job..

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:32 pm

CARLA;1336291 wrote: Seems you figured it out KE the pictures are awesome.. !! Good job..

Ahhhh, Thanks Carla. Unfortunately, I somehow deleted my FG albums. Don't know how...had something to do with our new software for downloading pictures.

Now, I'm trying to locate some of my album pictures on my laptop, camera and desktop to build my albums again. I think that I found most of the important ones, and that's good not to have lost them. I've completed a bit of repair work tonight on the albums.

Carla, I don't back up my 'stuff' on my computers. What would you suggest that I buy for daily backup.

Thanks Carla!

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:50 pm

They have many small USB harddrive you can attach for backing up everything "Click Free" is small and the program for backing up is simple for users. They come in many sizes and start from $80 up depending on the size you need. Any size over 160gig will more that cover you for years to come backing up.

Clickfree C2N Portable Backup | Clickfree Automatic Backup

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:59 pm

CARLA;1336342 wrote: They have many small USB harddrive you can attach for backing up everything "Click Free" is small and the program for backing up is simple for users. They come in many sizes and start from $80 up depending on the size you need. Any size over 160gig will more that cover you for years to come backing up.

Clickfree C2N Portable Backup | Clickfree Automatic Backup

Thanks Carla, I'll look into this week when I have more time. I'm really ashamed of myself for not backing up my documents, pictures, etc.

beowulf · Post by **beowulf** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 12:05 pm

simplest solutions would be to either reduce the size of the pics in MS paint or reduce the size of the that your camera takes (i regulary do this for a forum where i post lots of pics as it saves a lot of work in MS paint or a similar prog BUT it means your original pics are not nice and big so you can do other stuff with them)