Photobucket resizing ?

[migdriver]

Ok i give up can anyone tell me how to resize pictures on photo bucket?

[Ian]

If you hover your cursor over the photo you want to edit, a list of options will appear along the top of the photo.
Use either Resize under Edit or one of the options under Resize
Or if you are looking at the Album view, hover over the pic and click on Edit. Then, in the Basic tab you have a Resize option

[migdriver]

Ok,did that but it keepsjumping back up to larger pictures after (yes i did hit the APPLY button ). is there a default size, and how do you do it.

[flakmonkey]

To be honest Photobucket's flash/java based site and tools are like swimming through treacle. For resizing on a windows PC you can't beat irfanview, a surprisingly full featured viewer and tweaker for images which is a free download from

http://www.irfanview.com/;

On a Mac, the built in Preview app will also do basic resize operations.

Either way, you're much better off resizing the pictures before you upload them than relying on photobucket's somewhat unrefined toolkit.

[Ian]

Given Flak's experience with such things, I will bow to his superior knowledge.

[peebeep]

Swimming through treacle just about describes the Photobucket editing tools. I only stick with Photobucket for the storage space. Another thumbs up for Irfanview here and re-sizing the image before uploading speeds things up a lot.

peebeep

[migdriver]

Spent ages on a reply and it dissaperd when isubmited it.need to rest now thanks for your time and patints guys.

[jssel]

Migdriver, do you use Mac or PC? I use PC and can edit using Paint. After resizing I upload to Photobucket without to much hassle.

[MerlinJones]

I used to swear by Irfanview, before I got myself Paint Shop Pro.
As with Jeff, I now resize my images before uploading and I can also faff about with contrast and brightness and stuff.

When I have an image, I''ll make a smaller version of it for the Forum and save the full size image for printing.

Most PC's come with Paint and it would be well worth exploring this on your own PC.
Paint will do most of the image basics you'll use, including cropping and stuff.

Regards,
Bruce

[peebeep]

I used to swear by Irfanview, before I got myself Paint Shop Pro.

I used to swear by Paint Shop Pro, which started out as shareware. The other year Corel were doing a free download, full licence version of PSP 10 that I had loaded on my old machine which sadly gave up the ghost. Now I use a combination of Irfan and paint.net, both freeware and both loaded with useful tools.

peebeep

[JamesPerrin]

For resizing stuff IrfanView is just the right tool - it's fast too load and lightweight as it is primarily an image viewer rather than editor. The batch facility allows you to resize and rename all in one go with an index offset ie I can resize 5 images from my camera and name and number them spitfire-09.jpg to spitfire-14.jpg

[SJPONeill]

I use GIMP (also free to download) over Irfan, mainly because I always have and do all my cropping, rotating and resizing here before uploading to photobucket which, as above, is only really good for storage space...

[Ian]

I use GIMP

We don't need to know about your private life

[migdriver]

THanks for your time and paitiants chaps.Merlin says my pics look ok so im leaving it at that for now,but when im feeling brave enough ill have a play,try out your suggestions.But for now im going to be buisey sticking plastic and painting Once again thanks.