In the case of GN, open a post field, type in your words, click in the box underneath 'Attach Files(s), click on 'Browse' in File Upload, which takes you to My Documents, choose Pictures, find the pic you want, highlight it, then open and it will put a link in the the File Upload field, browse for more if you wish and add them to the following lines, then go to the bottom of the GN File Upload field, click on 'Upload Files' button, then when the uploads have loaded (field goes from grey to dark) then click on Submit Post on bottom right side. Once that is done on a pic, if you want to see the size in my pictures, just hover over the pic and it will show the new size. Some sites do a really good job at compressing the images, and keep really good image quality such as Google+.I just go to 'My Pictures' where the picture is stored, right click on it and click on 'Open With' then choose 'Paint', when that opens choose resize up on the left, change the top figure from 100 to 35 (backspace on 100) this changes the size in both little boxes, then click on the 'save' symbol up the top left of the screen and it is done and ready for uploading at any time. It sucks that some sites must compress and bring out poor quality with images, but compressing an image must be done. Just think about how many images are uploaded on facebook alone.

Can you image if we all were able to upload full res non compress images how much space that would take up. Different software will use different formulas but a smaller file will yield lower quality.Īll images that are uploaded to the web must be compress to save space on that site's server/harddrive. The answer is that you CAN NOT compress a JPEG and not lose some quality. Free services like Picasa Web Albums or basic Flickr allow you to upload at full resolution. When you 'download' from FB, then edit and save as jpeg, the file is again compressed.įB is NOT a photo storage site. Once you upload to FB, the file is compressed.

Online sites usually compress photos to conserve bandwidth and file space. Even then, Picasa keeps a version around for some time.Įven the photos on the PT home page are compressed (some are as small as 8kb). Baydream wrote: In Picasa, editing is non-destructive until you 'save' the image.

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