Barry Maxwell Posted April 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2013 If I have done it correctly, there should be four photos of the 49CJ3A Jeep that I restored for my son. After I finished it, I started on the restoration of my '51 B3C, I have a long way to go before I complete this puppy. Obviously, I still don't know how to resize my photos yet. I will have to consult with my daughter again. In any event, I will try again, but this time without resizing. Barry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alshere59 Posted April 11, 2013 Report Share Posted April 11, 2013 Barry Whats wrong with that size? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Maxwell Posted April 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Barry Whats wrong with that size? I was trying to resize the photos (without success) to avoid having to scroll right and down to see the entire photo. The previous set of photos was the right screen size, but only showed a small portion of the photo. Barry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpwuertz Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 My experience is, if you resize the pictuers to 640x480 you should not lose anything on the picture. This smaller size fits on the screen nicely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Maxwell Posted April 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 My experience is, if you resize the pictuers to 640x480 you should not lose anything on the picture. This smaller size fits on the screen nicely. Thank you. I will try that. Barry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Maxwell Posted April 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 -Dodge Truck - Small.JPG Thank you. I will try that. Barry The photo nows fits nicely on the screen, but it shows my bean field and only a small portion of the truck. Bummer! Barry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpwuertz Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 Barry Post the image in its original size and I will copy it and try to resize it. I do this resize all the time when I email pics and it always works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Maxwell Posted April 13, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 Barry Post the image in its original size and I will copy it and try to resize it. I do this resize all the time when I email pics and it always works. Thank you for the offer. Before taking you up on it, my daughter is coming over on Sun. night and I will ask her to diagnose my problem. Compared to me, she is a computer guru. Hopefully, she will figure out what I am doing wrong and set me straight. If she can't, I will post a photo for you to work on. Thanks again. Barry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Maxwell Posted April 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 Thank you for the offer. Before taking you up on it, my daughter is coming over on Sun. night and I will ask her to diagnose my problem. Compared to me, she is a computer guru. Hopefully, she will figure out what I am doing wrong and set me straight. If she can't, I will post a photo for you to work on. Thanks again. Barry My daughter came over last night and I explained my probllem. She clicked around for about 20 minutes and finally concluded that the problem was probably my old computer and the fact that I have all my restoration photos on my computer rather than a separate storage area like Photolink (or something like that). Since I have hundreds of photos from 5 previous tractor restoration projects, as well as many other photos, I decided that I was NOT going that route (something about old dogs and new tricks). Thus, I will continue to post photos as in the past and get used to scrolling to the right and down. Thank you all for you suggestions. Barry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plymouthy Adams Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 I know what you mean about not wanting to host things online as it is often a bother. Personally I select a video format on my camera as the default size when taking the pictures just so that hosting online is never a bother. I use a 680-480 resolution size and never have a problem hosting here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave72dt Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 Pretty much everyone is using a digital camera now. I would recommend getting an additional memory card and downloading all your stored photos onto one. I've had 2 computors completely crash on me and the photos stored on them are irretreivable. Rather than using online storage, I have mine on a card the size of a postage stamp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phntm48 Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 My daughter came over last night and I explained my probllem. She clicked around for about 20 minutes and finally concluded that the problem was probably my old computer and the fact that I have all my restoration photos on my computer rather than a separate storage area like Photolink (or something like that). Since I have hundreds of photos from 5 previous tractor restoration projects, as well as many other photos, I decided that I was NOT going that route (something about old dogs and new tricks). Thus, I will continue to post photos as in the past and get used to scrolling to the right and down. Thank you all for you suggestions. Barry Barry, I sure hope that you have copies of all your photos stored elsewhere also. (ie external harddrive, hard copies, photobucket. something.) I learned the hard way. Had all my pics on my computer then one day the harddrive just gave up the ghost........I lost everything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Maxwell Posted April 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 Barry, I sure hope that you have copies of all your photos stored elsewhere also. (ie external harddrive, hard copies, photobucket. something.) I learned the hard way. Had all my pics on my computer then one day the harddrive just gave up the ghost........I lost everything. No, unfortunately I don't have them stored elsewhere - BUT I WILL! Thank you and Dave72dt for your good advice. Barry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Desotodav Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 I learned the hard way too Barry as I lost plenty of photos a while back after my computer crashed. I have previously stored photos on CD's but they have been known to fail as well. I like the idea of saving to a memory card and might give that a go. I generally take photos of vehicles in as high a resolution as I can as I find the zoom qualities beneficial. I generally reduce all photos down to 720 x 480 resolution and attach them as thumbnails when posting here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alshere59 Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 I think the easiest way to back up anything is with an external drive like the one linked. If all you use it for is backup it wont wear out soon. Plug it into a usb port then copy and paste on the drive. Put it up when done until you need to back up something else. No power cords just a lot of space. Memory cards don't have that much space so I am not sure that will get you where you want to be. Some external drives even come with a button, push that and automatic back of the entire computer. Just a suggestion. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007601%2050001306&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&Order=PRICE&PageSize=20 Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Maxwell Posted April 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2013 This is a test to determine whether I have mastered (with the help of my daughter) the resizing of photos for posting without scrolling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TodFitch Posted April 17, 2013 Report Share Posted April 17, 2013 Dodge Truck 396-small.JPGThis is a test to determine whether I have mastered (with the help of my daughter) the resizing of photos for posting without scrolling. On my computer you've passed the test. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Maxwell Posted April 17, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2013 On my computer you've passed the test. Thank you! I feel that I scored a minor computer victory on this. Thanks to all you guys who helped me along the way, and particularly my daughter. I like to think that she is a chip off the old block, but she's not - she's better than the old block. Barry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Roach Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 Good job Barry. Us old bucks have a harder time with these things than the young pups. Jim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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