Spring flowering Narcissus 2012 - 2013

[annew]

 
Also, I might roast them!

[YT]

Narcissus canatabricus 'clusii'. This is the latest bloomer of my hoop petticoat stocks this season.

[annew]

Another super one, Tatsuo. You certainly can grow them well!
Busy pollinating today. Yellow fever really is in full swing in the main bulb house. I was going to show you, but can't get the file size small enough in the program I used to use. Hmmm…
Which software is anyone using to shrink file size successfully?

[annew]

Try again. Good grief, that's awful. I need to find out how to do this again.

[David Nicholson]

Many possibilities Anne, two of which are: I use Irfanview  (free download) for nearly all my picture management including re-sizing, but don't use it for cropping (I can't work out how it works), for which I use Picasa (also free download). Or you could try the SRGS re-sizing tool, check the Forum index to find it.

[annew]

Thanks, David. Can't use the Forum tool as we're on a Mac. Will investigate the others.

[Maggi Young]

Anne, try resizing by pixel size - ACDSee, which I use, offers the choice to use  percentage of the original or  efine by pixel size- very simple. If I resize a photo to 700 pixels wide the resulting file is nearly always an acceptable size for the forum for me.

[Lori S.]

Thanks, David. Can't use the Forum tool as we're on a Mac. Will investigate the others.

Just select the photo in iPhoto, go File>Export.  In the Export box, under Size, select Custom, then set a Max dimension of 1000 px (pixels).  (This size setting comes up automatically on mine.)
Click on Export in the box, and select a file in Finder to export it to (e.g. create a file called "Photos for SRGC").
Then, when posting to SRGC, select the properly-sized photo from that file. 
Hope this helps?

[Gerry Webster]

Another super one, Tatsuo. You certainly can grow them well!
Busy pollinating today. Yellow fever really is in full swing in the main bulb house. I was going to show you, but can't get the file size small enough in the program I used to use. Hmmm…
Which software is anyone using to shrink file size successfully?

Anne - doesn't your Mac have iPhoto? This is what I use for the forum - it is very easy to resize. You can crop with Preview.

[ArnoldT]

Right, Gerry.  iPhoto can do most of what I need for the forum images I post.

[ArnoldT]

Narcissus varduliensis.JWB

[Lori S.]

Anne - doesn't your Mac have iPhoto? This is what I use for the forum - it is very easy to resize. You can crop with Preview.

You can crop in iPhoto also.  (NB.  Cropping is not the same as resizing though... though it will reduce the photo size by cutting off the outer parts of the photo.)

[Gerry Webster]

You can crop in iPhoto also..... 

So you can! Thanks Lori, I've never noticed this facility before.

[Tony Willis]

I see winter finished a couple of days ago so should we not be moving on to spring?

[Maggi Young]

I see winter finished a couple of days ago so should we not be moving on to spring?

Good grief - I'd like to think winter IS finished.

Perhaps the recent posters agreed with me since no-one has opened a new thread?
I've done so now -