Overhead Lighting to LED's

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Thks Cliff ... I'll check it out.
Ron

[JimC]

Gary and Jack,
I tried to post larger pictures but they got bounced back as having used too much space. It may have had something to do with the darker pictures using more pixels?
I am going to try it again, this time with the shower stall lit up by only one LED overhead, there is one other that shines toward the toilet. Again these were taken without a flash with a cheap camera so it does not seem as bright as it really is.
Jim

[Gary LaBombard]

Photo come out good Jim on 600 X 450.  If you are going to do lots of pictures for us and we hope you will, maybe a little more expensive camera will satisfy you.  You don't have to get one that does 6mg pixels etc.  That is a lot of hogwash unless you intend to do portraits etc.  Look at all the photo's I do, I don't need all that pixel crap, just a good ole name brand camera that can use a disc that you can buy easily to get larger memory at a reasonable price and also download easily on your computer.  But, the picture you just put up for us is good enough for us so don't waste the $$ if you aren't going to take a lot of photos.  PUt that money in your bus!!  Thanks for making the adjustments for our board so we now can see all your work.
Gary

Gary

[Dallas]

Jim,

The "Viewable" size of the photo has nothing to do with the size of the file which is the limiting factor here.

The photo's have to be 128Kb or smaller.

An easy way to tell how large your photo file is to hover your mouse pointer over it. A small box will pop up and show you the properties, including file size.
Another way is to open the folder where the file is stored and set it for "details" view. This will give you the file sizes of all the pictures or other files in that folder.

If you use adobe photoshop, you can easily crop the picture to show what you want by starting in one corner and holding the left mouse button down and pulling it down to the opposite corner. A dotted line box will appear around your selection. Next click on "Image" in the top line. a drop down list will appear, follow it down to "crop" and left click.
You can further resize your picture by Clicking on "Image" again and following the drop down to "Image Size". In the box that says "Document size", highlight either "width" or "height" and change the number to a smaller value.
In the "Resolution" box, type 72, since that is the maximum available to most internet users.
Make sure the "Constrain Proportions" box is checked and that the "Resample Image" box is checked with "bicubic" selected.
Click OK and your done.
Check the size of the photo again and if it's still too large a file size, Go to "File" and in the drop down list, click on "Save for Web" That will let you resize the file until you have a photo that is a good size for posting.
This also leaves your photo the same viewable size.

If you use another photo editing program, let us know and I'm sure someone can help you with it.

IHTH,

Dallas

[JimC]

Thanks Dallas,
I I printed those directions out for future use.
I think I had the max. file size wrong on the first ones.
Jim