ckmullin Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 (edited) To start out there are tonnes of online image editing services FOR FREE...more than any hyperactive breeding shrimp you'll ever come across. In the past couple of years this area...online photo editing...has become very popular and many new sites have popped up. It's acually a goldmine. If ever prompted to, please don't ever pay for such a service. If your forced to, let me know and I'll pass along a good free website which will allow you to edit your photos! There are kinda two main online methods to edit in some regard a digital photograph, I'll go through both methods. The first is the typical image/media hoster such as tinypic.com (thousands of such sites exist). With this site you can upload a large image file (for a test right now I uploaded a 20 meg tif file) then it will give you options to resize it. If by chance the image host does not allow large files over 10 meg...easy fix...just use another that will. These websites have basic and quick tools which do work well. With TinyPic and many similar websites, it will allow you to easily resize the photograph...actually IT will do the task for you. In this example there are seven possible selections. Six different sizes and the default picture size. Avatar @ 100x75, Thumbnail @160x120, Website/Email @ 320x240, Message Board @ 640x480, 15" screen @ 800x600,17" Screen @ 1024x 768 and finally the Default image size. Here is TinyPic and the basic layout it gives: There are loads of good image hosting websites. The two main that I use are http://tinypic.com/ and http://imageshack.us/ . Here is an unbiased list of many good image/media hosting sites: http://en.wikipedia....haring_websites I'll also say this......don't be concerned about your file being deleted. I've had images which I've uploaded last online for years with these anonymous image hosters. At any rate a good practice is to ALWAYS keep a copy on your own hard drive. That's great advice for anything which is important such as valuable pictures. If you have hard drive space even make a backup of your backups! (but that is another topic...feel free to pm me if your interested in such a topic) Now for the second option. If your concerned a bit more about quality or want a bit more control over this process you can try online image editors. Again also free. I'll give some examples: http://www.sumopaint.com/start/ http://fotoflexer.com/ http://pixlr.com/ http://www.splashup.com/splashup/ http://www.photoshop...ditor?wf=editor with many, MANY more. Now, with this type of service you get a few higher end features that you will not find with a typical online image host such as TinyPic. With this second list of websites you can actually modifiy your image to suit your needs without paying hundreds of $ for standalone image software such as Adobe Photoshop. For an example I had picked this as I know it's a stable web application. I took this screen shot to show the available features in the Photoshop Express Editor: Here is an example of what the full editing screen looks like: As you can see with these two pictures...MANY great features to edit digital photographs exist with this free product. Most such editing services will provide similar features. A final note. To post pictures such that I've done above you simply need two things. 1. Some image url. http://:something.com/somepicture.jpg ...extention jpg used as an example. BUT 2. The opening AND closing image tags (as shown in the picture below) I had to take a picture of the proper image tag format...or else, well it would have put a picture there! The above is generic for posting pictures to most all forums such as this. If anyone has any questions...drop me a line as I do have experience in such things and will kindly help. Just want to add, I'm not advertising any of the websites mentioned...anything stated was out of personal use at one time or another. I hope this might help someone, ck Edited December 10, 2012 by ckmullin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubr0ke Posted February 29, 2012 Report Share Posted February 29, 2012 excellent info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesbarr Posted April 5, 2012 Report Share Posted April 5, 2012 (edited) k the image button ^ Edited April 5, 2012 by jamesbarr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeagleTech Posted May 21, 2015 Report Share Posted May 21, 2015 Thanks for the info. It has been years since I have ever used a photo hosting site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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