Blog- Marshland and Moxley Light Railway - Pictures are too large, posts are too slow

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I've been thinking about the posts on here and in particular the picture sizes I see (right click and 'properties') ones that are 800k to 1.5meg and quite honestly a lot of them are so poor they could be shown as 20k images. I have unsubscribed from several threads because of the bandwidth, I use a little free application called NetMeter and it races along with some of the threads on here

 

I must admit I've been letting it slip a bit lately and loading 100k ones, in future I will keep in to 50k.

 

Here's one at 55k and it's 800px wide

 

http://i38.tinypic.com/23lkxf.jpg

 

This pic is actually larger than the station interior that it depicts

 

 

There are free programs that will reduce pic file and linear sizes;

 

The easiest is Irfan View: http://www.irfanview.com/ anyone who can upload a pic to this site would be able to use this easily.

 

More difficult but with plenty of support is The Gimp: http://www.gimp.org/ there are posts on this site with tutorials on how to make station signs for instance.

 

 

I will be abandoning my fairly huge Marshland and Moxley thread and staring a new one later today.

 

 

Jim

 

 

 

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