In a message dated 4/29/2006 9:06:56 A.M. Central Daylight Time, wigenwebcc@gmail.com writes: Folks, I recommend that you keep an eye on this guy and what he has planned. He has access to great resources and is in touch with people who really know about the Sawyer Co. area! He will be making the Sawyer Co. WIGenWeb into the great site that it deserves to be. I couldn't be more thrilled that Timm has taken over the site. Thanks Nance, Now I do have one question, Nance as you know I scan high quality pictures and have a ton of them from 1870-to 1930s for the county as I have done the LCO collection and a good part of the Sawyer County Historical Society's collection. When I use them I get permission of course, but that is no problem as I have given them 10 for every one I use. The Wolf Point collection is a private family one, who asked me to put things on line... See I am the first one to get lost (Ondamitagos Lives) Now for my problem, it is with the size of the files, last night I was going to start uploading pictures. I decided to start with one and I could not get the picture to upload, I assume it was too big... I was using a JPeG format. I believe someone should talk me step through step on putting in a picture into the photoalbum... I know it is not tough, but I have a feeling I might need to run the picture through another program to get it small enough. (I have Microsoft's Digital Suite 10 & Picture Project) - between them I should be able to do most anything with the picture. And if there are any other things folks can warn me about the photo area let me know. Thanks Timmers

Hi Timm, I'm not familiar with the program that you are using, but I can tell you that I usually do downsize the photos that I put online. I took my recommendations from Ebay, who states that the longest side of a photo (whether in landscape or portrait view) should be no larger than 300 pixels. If the photo has alot of detail, for example, a classroom photo from school, etc., I will fudge on that and make it as large as 600 pixels on the longest edge. But no matter if it is bigger than the 300 pixels or not, I will run the photo, after downsizing it, through the jpg optimizer of Paint Shop Pro X and compress the photo about 20 or 25 percent. This cuts down on the file size dramatically without making the photo too fuzzy. It just makes for easier uploading for you, and quicker viewing for your visitors. Be sure to upload your photos as binary! Hope this helps a little bit, N. On 4/29/06, Ondamitag@aol.com <Ondamitag@aol.com> wrote: > > Thanks Nance, > > Now for my problem, it is with the size of the files, last night I was > going > to start uploading pictures. I decided to start with one and I could not > get > the picture to upload, I assume it was too big... I was using a JPeG > format. > I believe someone should talk me step through step on putting in a > picture > into the photoalbum... I know it is not tough, but I have a feeling I > might > need to run the picture through another program to get it small enough. > (I > have Microsoft's Digital Suite 10 & Picture Project) - between them I > should be > able to do most anything with the picture. And if there are any other > things folks can warn me about the photo area let me know. > > Thanks > Timmers > > > ==== WIGEN Mailing List ==== > Celebrate Wisconsin! > Visit the Washburn County WIGenWeb Project Pages > http://www.rootsweb.com/~wiwashbu/ > >