How do you compress a picture so it wont be too big to post?

 

Well there's two ways I know of doing this.

Open it up in an imaging program and go >image>resize. All programs are different, but they all resize pics.

Or you could use a little html in your post. Use height and width tags and then followed by a numerical value. You will have to play around with that a bit though.

 

Any good html book will list the tags and properties to post an image that has been resized with html.

As far as actually editing a photo..... make sure you have an unaltered backup of your original photo!

For example, I'll post my signature below. What I did was took a photo of my car that was 640x480 pixels, selected just the area of the car, copied it over to a new image, then filled in with a black background. It's fairly easy, and I did my signature in about 10 minutes (5 of which was spent looking for a good font for my lettering)

 

How do you actually put the picture in the sig though. It's kicking my butt

 

I just open the picture I want in Paint Shop Pro (free 30 day trial)

The programs jpeg compression is great. Say, take a 680K digicam jpg, open it in psp, do NOTHING, just save it again, and reduce it to 90-120K.

Good compression. You can also reduce quality a bit to reduce the file size too.

I had a hell of a time making my avatar work in 20K

 

I go to MS Paint, ctrl + w allows resizing. Then do about 40%. Resave as a different file so you stil have both big and small pic and so the new one will be a jpeg file.