Technical Update

[leafofgrass]

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm rying to upload some of my photos to deviantart per solraev's suggestion. So I scanned them all in as .TIF files, which I like but are HUGE files. The site won't take them, of course, because I would be uplaoding something like 500MB of photo files. OK. So I go back today and resave all the images as JPEGs

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72 dpi is the magic number

[life_as_art]

Duh duh duh! Sounds like a job for a graphic designer ;-)

Okay, here's what the problem is: your images on the web are 900 dpi. This is huge. Web images need only be 72 dpi to show up crisp and clear. Standard PRINT dpi is 300. But, since you are viewing the images on the web instead of printing them out, 72 dpi is all you need. That will take down the file size.

If you have Photoshop, do file--save for web--jpg. Any jpg should work as long as it's not a hundred inches long or something. Jpg's are good for "continuous tone"...like if you have a photograph with a range of greyscale.

Usually you can put an image in your livejournal if it is already online. Right click on the image and select "view in new window" and it should open up and say something like http://myimages.com/waterfall.jpg

Copy this link and go to livejournal. When you are going typy typy, insert the following between two carrots (opening and closing carrots are on the comma and period keys of the keyboard, respectively): IMG SRC="http://myimages.com/waterfall.jpg"

Can't wait to view your work! Hope all that helps!\

Jaimie

Helps? This is awesome!

[leafofgrass]

Okay, this is great: I feel so ridiculous over the 72dpi thing. I figured a megapixel was 1000dpi, so I scanned in at 900 and I forgot that computer sceens only display a certain number of dpi anyhow. Both of these things should lead my efforts to nothing but success (after a our day exercise in frustration, that is)!

The open in a new window thing is what I was missing. I could link to the page, but couldn't get the photo's individual link and so it would come up as dead HTML. Of course on the mac there is no right click, but I get the point. ;-)

insert the following between two carrots (opening and closing carrots are on the comma and period keys of the keyboard, respectively)

Hey you! I'm not that inept! See those italics? That's HTML skills, yo! I got this carrot stuff down!