tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644837848136749892.post2464011080301925500..comments2023-09-24T03:59:30.938-07:00Comments on VW Garden: Getting Higher Quality Blog PicturesVWhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17539135776275337661noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644837848136749892.post-37923413256671627282009-11-05T20:19:50.924-08:002009-11-05T20:19:50.924-08:00they look great VaLynn!!! nice work!they look great VaLynn!!! nice work!Randihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08078564227006506917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644837848136749892.post-18286338413721538592009-11-04T12:45:38.559-08:002009-11-04T12:45:38.559-08:00This is my first visit to your blog and your photo...This is my first visit to your blog and your photos are beautiful. I will have to save your post to refer to it later to figure it all out when I have the time. You have a great blog and I enjoyed your post!Amyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07572136733330325375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644837848136749892.post-82766816042170801602009-11-04T10:54:56.596-08:002009-11-04T10:54:56.596-08:00Hi VW, you asked me to pop by this blog post to sh...Hi VW, you asked me to pop by this blog post to share how I upload my photos…<br /><br />Well, I deal with all my photos in Photoshop, I play with them as I see fit by changing the levels and such, then crop and Photoshop has a feature to ‘save for web’ this reduces the size of the file drastically so it looks fine online. Generally I always crop to either 600x600px or 900x600. 600x600 is small enough to put off anyone trying to steal your images for prints as it won’t be good enough quality to create anything larger than 5x5… Anyway, I then upload the images onto photobucket and edit the html of my blog post so they are clickable thumbnails in my posts – these thumbnails are the total size of the image halved, ie 300x300 or 450x300 and so on, this means the images aren’t skewed.Lizhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08640322232670777125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644837848136749892.post-21893264826748534982009-11-04T10:36:45.704-08:002009-11-04T10:36:45.704-08:00Hi VW: When I'm on Picassa, I never use the &#...Hi VW: When I'm on Picassa, I never use the 'auto contrast' or 'auto color' tools. They usually wash everything out too much. I 'sometimes' use the 'I'm Feeling Lucky' tool in the Basic Fixes, and occassionally, that evens things out. More often, I go to the 2nd category, Tuning, and use some of those features. And sometimes I'll go to the 'Effects' category and use sharpen or another tool. It's all done to please my own eye, and like many of us non-pro-photographers, it's all experimental.Janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12844013803699228989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644837848136749892.post-53038611548633863392009-11-04T07:57:13.153-08:002009-11-04T07:57:13.153-08:00Great post VW. I haven't fooled much with enl...Great post VW. I haven't fooled much with enlarging my photos but I certainly appreciate them when I see them on everyones blogs. I'm so envious of your fall crocus. I planted some last fall but nothing came up. :-( I'm not sure what happened? I kind of want to try again now after seeing your photos.Kathleenhttp://kaseyskorner.typepad.com/kaseys_korner/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644837848136749892.post-47983791335905938842009-11-03T13:13:18.857-08:002009-11-03T13:13:18.857-08:00Thanks for putting all of this together for us. I ...Thanks for putting all of this together for us. I am also bookmarking it for when I have a little more time to peruse it.<br /><br />Looking forward to larger photos, JenRURAL https://www.blogger.com/profile/11871803235521431504noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644837848136749892.post-75584609044691770482009-11-03T06:27:03.332-08:002009-11-03T06:27:03.332-08:00Like the new look of the blog page VW. Will have ...Like the new look of the blog page VW. Will have to reread this post a few times for all this great info to sink in! (old brain) Glad you have label links on the sidebar as you have posted a couple of great posts on photography.Janet, The Queen of Seafordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07876204203323750245noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644837848136749892.post-83917973660891208992009-11-03T03:30:52.348-08:002009-11-03T03:30:52.348-08:00Hi VW, great images, and useful technical advice. ...Hi VW, great images, and useful technical advice. I will try the RAW image. Thanks to other commenters as well. I will also bookmark the page, like Rosie. cheers, catmintSue Catminthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14242341696447975933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644837848136749892.post-34187913588615409792009-11-02T21:13:58.184-08:002009-11-02T21:13:58.184-08:00Hi VW~~ Interesting! Recently I got fell into a co...Hi VW~~ Interesting! Recently I got fell into a combination of dissatisfaction and fearlessness--a deadly duo! Time for a blog makeover. I downloaded Picasa 3.5 to my computer and now I edit all photos in it including a nice watermark. Then I create an album of photos to upload to my online Picasa album. From there I click on the photo, resize, copy, then go to blogger and paste. The photo is large and looks good enough for my taste. I asked for help from a few blogger friends and found resizeit.com for help with the banner photo. Then fine tuned and tweaked to get my system the way I want it. I may tweak some more, who knows? I haven't been concerned about file size but maybe I should be. I don't want to use up my blog's space. I can definitely see a difference between your before and after crocus photos. I've found that lowering the exposure setting on my camera will improve the color quality. But truth be known, I don't have a clue about photography. I need one of those "dummies" books for sure.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644837848136749892.post-78459440087249638432009-11-02T18:19:05.085-08:002009-11-02T18:19:05.085-08:00wow, this post has a very different quality of the...wow, this post has a very different quality of the images than the one before!!! This is my first time in your blog and I just found a gorgeous picture, how great!! It sounds very complicated to do what you are doing with your pictures, I think I will continue with my small pocket camera.<br />Your blog is beautiful!! (excuse my english, please)<br />cariños<br />María Ceciliamaría ceciliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15077079753889048800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644837848136749892.post-51118636476437870522009-11-02T17:52:35.421-08:002009-11-02T17:52:35.421-08:00You know, Jan's photos always look really vibr...You know, Jan's photos always look really vibrant. So maybe editing in Picasa would be the key to finish off my photos. Except Picasa probably doesn't do all the tricks that Photoshop does, so I might have to edit twice? Sigh. There's never enough time for all my blog projects!VWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17539135776275337661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644837848136749892.post-10590278029231026322009-11-02T16:27:00.638-08:002009-11-02T16:27:00.638-08:00Great photos, VW! You are fortunate to have those ...Great photos, VW! You are fortunate to have those pretty purple crocus' blooming right now! I've used several editing tools for my photos, including Picture Pro which came with my Nikon camera; as well as Flick'r and Picassa. I now do all my editing w/Picassa. (I may at some point get a better photo editing program but I'm pretty satisfied with my results in Picassa--being the non-professional that I am!). I experimented with size for quite some time, and after making them HUGE for a while, I've decided that they are going to be 640 x 491 pixels and that's as big as I want them. The link goes to my Picasa web album and it can't be enlarged there, but that's ok with me. This size seems to take up less space. Oh, and I upload them to the web album in the 480 pixel size now, which really saves space on my free picassa account! This is all so much fun, isn't it? Seems we all are doing very similar things;)Janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12844013803699228989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644837848136749892.post-32268574329670925952009-11-02T14:48:02.801-08:002009-11-02T14:48:02.801-08:00VW, Excellent! The colchicum flowers are stellar...VW, Excellent! The colchicum flowers are stellar... I so need to learn how to better use my iphoto program and then i can move onto what you've suggested! Thanks for the tips. gailGailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16194325535496408116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644837848136749892.post-81141543394615501552009-11-02T13:57:45.820-08:002009-11-02T13:57:45.820-08:00Hi VW, your shots look absolutely gorgeous! I lov...Hi VW, your shots look absolutely gorgeous! I love the bulbs especially. About wordpress, you can move all of your posts there with the click of one button. I did that with my blogger posts. They remain on the blogspot.com fairegarden, but are also on the wordpress.com fairegarden, comments and all. You don't have to repost them. About the new photoshop program, it sounds great. I use Image Expert 2000, the program that came on our old computer and resize in the same way you mentioned, except can make them a maximum of 760 wide. I do try to make them around 450 to 500 tall to fit most computer screens. I want readers to see the photo and words at the same time. My new Canon has a RAW shooting feature that I have not tried yet. Don't know if it will work with the old photo program that I use. I hate to learn new stuff. :-)<br />FrancesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644837848136749892.post-50356614920148405982009-11-02T12:53:10.044-08:002009-11-02T12:53:10.044-08:00This was very informative and what difference it c...This was very informative and what difference it can make. This might be something for me to work on this winter when not much is going on outside.Catherine@AGardenerinProgresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05001060769253273283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2644837848136749892.post-47999775217468948642009-11-02T12:32:55.345-08:002009-11-02T12:32:55.345-08:00This is a great post... I am bookmarking it for la...This is a great post... I am bookmarking it for later when I am more serious about editing with the camera I get later. I am just messing around now and learning from other bloggers. Your photos looked great. I usually do the Picasa method but it is sometimes less then gorgeous results. Thanks!<br />RoseyChloe mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02265196480664185330noreply@blogger.com