This page provides tips and suggestions to try and make the process as easy as possible for getting your photos ready for uploading and publishing to your ad.
Resizing Photos for the Web
If you already have some conventional photo prints you'll need to scan them onto a disc or your hard drive and then resize them. If you don't have access to a scanner you can take take them to most any photo outlet and have them scanned to a disk or CD usually for a very moderate fee.
Modern digital cameras take huge photos that are megapixels in size which is great for high quality
printing, but way too large for uploading and displaying on web pages. Most scanners and digital cameras
provides software for editing your photos but many people find it daunting and frustrating stumbling
through complex graphics programs just to resize their images for the web. Below are some freeware
programs designed just for this purpose, they have been researched and chosen for their ease of use and
effectiveness for getting the job done quickly and without any lengthy or complex learning curves, and best of all they are free!
Notice and Disclaimer: We assume no responsibility for any problems or damages that may occur for your decision to use these programs. Although we have initially researched and checked these programs for spyware, adware and viruses, we do not monitor them on a regular basis and therefore it's advisable that you scan them with your anti-virus and/or spyware programs before you unpack or install them.
Basic Resizing Tools:
These tools are extremely easy to use and can resize your photos and make them ready to upload to the web by just making a few setting selections and a click of a button. Both of these programs have been chosen for their effectiveness of getting the job done with ease and for having a very minimal learning curve even for the novice. Both programs listed below are about equal in producing similar results and quality. PIXresizer has a few more options, but Photo Razor is slightly easier to use.
PIXresizer 100% FREE
Photo Razor 100% FREE
Photo Editing Tools:
If you want to crop or retouch your photos or enhance the colors or the brightness, remove "red eye",
add special effects, etc. you'll need to use more complex photo/image editing software or a paint program. If you don't have such software or the one you have is just too complicated to use, try Photoscape which is 100% freeware. Photoscape has features comparable to many of the commercial photo editing programs but is generally considered easier to learn and work with than many others in it's field.
Photoscape 100% FREE
Special Note:
When resizing your photos for your profile just make sure they don't exceed the maximum allowed size limitations, which is 150kb per photo which should be more than suffice for most photos that have been resized by using the above tools to approximately 600x400 pixels. Photos should also be in JPEG (.jpg) format.
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