How do I attach thumbnails?

[JLStorm]

I know how to insert full sized pictures but some of them are HUGE and make the size of the post very distorted. How do all of you create a thumbnail attachment out of a regular webhosted .jpg?

[skunx1964]

the paperclip......

-micah

[JLStorm]

that cant be it it has a limit of 100k and some of those attached images have to be way over 100k they are huge!

[skunx1964]

ok, now you got me. i havent a clue, that was the first time i tried it, and i happened to pick a small pic.....

-micah

[dvarry]

You can resize the picture with some program like irfanview or whatever. Or you can go to www.imageshack.us which creates a thumbnail linking to the original for you, and even gives you the text to cut and paste.

[azjoe]

Paint, which comes w/windows, will clip (aka crop) the picture. True resize can be done with any decent graphic program or picture management program (eg, the software that comes w/digital cameras). All have a learning curve associated with them... and the more capable ones (eg, GIMP) almost require you to go to school, LOL). For simple things I use [paint.NET] (a free alternative to Paint which is fairly easy to learn and much more capable). There are dozens of others. Keep in mind that when you resize an image smaller the quality always suffers to some degree.

[JLStorm]

You can resize the picture with some program like irfanview or whatever. Or you can go to www.imageshack.us which creates a thumbnail linking to the original for you, and even gives you the text to cut and paste.

Thanks!