Photo Signatures in the forum!!!

[Big_Boy_4005]

WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!

[soapbox]Please resize your photos, to make them more user friendly. I have a broadband connection and I can see the difference in speed. Those members who are not as fortunate to have that access speed will start to get upset very soon.

Keep in mind that every time you change your signature, it goes back to every post you have ever made, and for some prople that is a lot.

If you want to share pictures that's fine, just not large files on your signature, PLEASE!!!

[Hawks05]

is mine alright or not?

ps. have you ever been down to Newport, MN to watch the trains. down in Tunucci's (sp?) parking lot or somewhere around there. great view of the tracks. thats where my sig is.

[Anonymous]

I don't know how to resize mine.

P.S. Hawks that is a cool picture!!!

[AggroJones]

I don't know how to get a picture in my signature.

[Anonymous]

As much as we all like photos and I have a lot, maybe if we just scrap the pictures and stick to the words. Anyone using an older system will just say to heck with it and stay away from the forum. And we don't want that do we boys!

[ShaunCN]

I don't know how to get pictures in their at all :(

ShaunCN

[Big_Boy_4005]

Hey, Hawks I really like that, local and the right size!!! I'd go rail fanning with you, I would even drive, all you would have to do is get here, but its closer to you than Newport, I live just over the river. Email me if you're interested.

PS I'm on my way out the door to run to Hudson to pick up a PIZZA.[:D][:D][:D][dinner]

[Hawks05]

you live that close to Hudson? geez.

haha ya i usually don't drive up there, my friends drive, i'm the youngest out of all of them. they are like in there late 20s, 40s, and 50s. i'll give you an email about spots to check stuff out.

[Big_Boy_4005]

Well, I'd fit right in, I'm 42. I know what its like to be your age and like trains, you sound like me 25 years ago. Any of your buddies have a scanner? They're a must when railfaning. Let me know next time you guys go. Did you get to see 3985 two summers ago when it came to St Paul?

[Hawks05]

nope. i just got into trains recently, like october. so i'm learning each time i come on here and talk with my friends.

i plan on just getting CDs when i get the pictures developed.

[Anonymous]

Mine's at least a bit smaller than bigboy's (no offense to him or anything, just comparison), anyway, you guys are also complaining about posts that are too small and the signatures are too big.

[Big_Boy_4005]

Dougal and 4884, I have nothing against you personally, and no complaints about about your post's lengths, or content, either, but the filesize of the photos is causing the entire board to slow down, in ways that you don't seem to realize.

When each of you responds 2 or 3 times on one page, which seems to be happening more and more often, it takes much longer to open the page. Because your signature changes go to every post you have ever made, you have created something that almost has the same effect as a virus.

Please, I'm asking you nicely, before there is trouble (I promise it won't be me that reports it) change them back. I don't want the privilege of posting photos to be removed.

[Anonymous]

No excuse, I agree with bigboy, I DON"T KNOW HOW TOO!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

BTW you're the only one who's been complaining about the photo signatures.

[acpardo]

the problem is for peopke who are connecting via DIAL-up and for those guys take a long time.

adrian

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dougal

No excuse, I agree with bigboy, I DON"T KNOW HOW TOO!!!!!!

If you don't know how to re-size your photo, then get rid of it.

Simple solution to an annoying problem.

[Anonymous]

The photo's are too big. It's Ok if they are in a "Photo Topic" I can avoid them, but when you post freely using it, it makes a performance difference. Just make them smaller.

[Hawks05]

got a question. is my sig picture to big. if you don't like it i can delete it.

[lupo]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ACL Fan

QUOTE: Originally posted by dougal

No excuse, I agree with bigboy, I DON"T KNOW HOW TOO!!!!!!

If you don't know how to re-size your photo, then get rid of it.

Simple solution to an annoying problem.

I think you are using photoos that are on the internet, maybe on someone else his website, you can't resize them, that is why I took out my UP police badge, takes too much forum space and looked silly being so big.
But, as you now know how to put pictures in your autograph, using the same commands you can put pictures in your post.

[Anonymous]

Come on! I loved the UP Police badge!!

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Hawks05

got a question. is my sig picture to big. if you don't like it i can delete it.

No, this one is OK, for me.

[Anonymous]

Your is OK Hwks05. As you can see I got rid of my picture (for now).

[lupo]

QUOTE: Originally posted by dougal

Come on! I loved the UP Police badge!!

sure So did I, but it just was too big, I thougt it funny to rattle some old bones, but I am a bit modest, such a big sign just isn't me,
maybe look for a much smaller one somewhere, But they might gonna charge me for using UP copyrighted stuff, specilally when it is nicked from their own website !

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by lupo

QUOTE: Originally posted by ACL Fan

QUOTE: Originally posted by dougal

No excuse, I agree with bigboy, I DON"T KNOW HOW TOO!!!!!!

If you don't know how to re-size your photo, then get rid of it.

Simple solution to an annoying problem.

I think you are using photos that are on the internet, maybe on someone else his website, you can't resize them, that is why I took out my UP police badge, takes too much forum space and looked silly being so big.
But, as you now know how to put pictures in your autograph, using the same commands you can put pictures in your post.

L- -O, I took my shots from forums.railfan.net.

[Big_Boy_4005]

Let me see if I can shed a little light on how to resize your photos.

If you have a camera and take your own pictuers, when transfering them to your computer, it may ask you about the image quality, the higher the quality, the larger the file. However, I believe, that if you choose to lose quality at this stage, it can never be recovered, and I don't like to do that.

I have an old copy of Corel Photo House that I use to resize, and work with photos and other images. I'm sure that there are a lot of others and they probably work differently from this, but I'll try to explain the concept. There should be a way to transform an image's dimensions. Raw photos are HUGE files, and have HUGE dimensions.

The first cut is to reduce the dimensions of photos intended for posting. The photos that I upload to my web page file storage are usually 400 x 600 pixils and have been reduced down from over 2000 x 1500, which is a big step. Then I use the save as file command, and jpeg compression kicks in, and asks about quality again, and that's where I choose medium. I haven't altered the original, but now I have a version of the photo around 100k bytes or less, ready to upload.

I am allowed limited storage space on line, and I want to make it last, but at the rate I'm going it will take quite a while to fill, because I'm careful.

If you are just grabbing pretty pictuers that you find on the net, it isn't wise to put them in your signature, because you don't know how big they are, and this is where the trouble starts.

Its nice to learn by experimenting, but this one has resulted in creating a monster. It might be best if you took a step back, and learned to control it, before turning it loose on the forum. Others like Dave9999 have nice small images, and they are a lot of fun, so it can be done nicely, the secret is doing it.

[Anonymous]

The new one was chopped.

P.S. I'm typing from my old (dial-up) computer and the page loaded at the same speed it usualy does

[Big_Boy_4005]

This one does seem better, but I have a fast connection, and will have to wait to hear from some people who have dial up, because its really their interest that I am looking out for. By the way, more people are checking in on this topic and are starting to agree, that size does matter.[:P]

By the way, I am not trying to be the forum police, or God, I just think that this is important to a lot of members, even if they haven't spoken up.

[Anonymous]

There! Mines smaller now.

[AggroJones]

I think it would be better to do away with these huge photos inserted in the signature area. They take up too much space, it takes forever to load, and makes the messages look more disorganized.

Use small images, if any at all.

[Big_Boy_4005]

Well actually 4884, it does have fewer wheels, but the file size is still too big, and the image is rather large too.

This whole signature war is getting out of control, and is spilling over into the functioning of the forum, that's the point where it crossed the line.

The truth is, I really liked the old one of the Bigboy, from last week, and think that you should go back to it, and stay with it. It was properly sized and distinctive, which is just what you want in a signature, after all you aren't

JOHN HANCOCK

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