Thread: How do I attach thumbnails?

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?

the paperclip......

-micah

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!

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

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.

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.

Originally Posted by 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.

Thanks!

Originally Posted by 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.

I can do resizing and graphic editing etc, but I just swore that some of the thumbnails I have seen on here had to be over 100k they were just too big and the quailty looked too good...I guess it was just low dpi or something....

You have to host the image on another server, and then you can attach it in the post as large as you want...

Originally Posted by superfly

You have to host the image on another server, and then you can attach it in the post as large as you want...

so I can host a jpg on my site that is 200k and just copy and paste the URL into the URL section under the attachment options and I will be ok??