How do you size images before uploading them?

[Severus]

I am seriosuly confused...

When I Photoshop my decals to 100 pixels, they end up too small to see (the same problem is with the photos of my figs) and when I try to increase the size, it says "Upload Failed".

What's the trick?

[Shadows]

I am seriosuly confused...

When I Photoshop my decals to 100 pixels, they end up too small to see (the same problem is with the photos of my figs) and when I try to increase the size, it says "Upload Failed".

What's the trick?

Hmmm. This sounds like a number of different issues.

If you are creating decals, you don't want to resize the originals or you will destroy the content, you want to make them at the correct size to begin with.

If you are trying to create thumbnail images of decals to post in a topic, 128x128 is a good size and is done by using the standard resize method in Photo Shop. You would want to name the new file something like image1_thumb.jpg and post it with a link leading to the full size version.

Normal photos should be somewhere around say 640x480 (or 480x640, depending).

I have no idea what you mean by "upload failed" nor can I guess why you would ever try to increase the size of a picture.

You may want to start by checking out the Tutorials Index, it contains a lot of information about image resizing, and if that doesn't help, post more information and someone will try to help, I'm sure.

[Rick]

I have no idea what you mean by "upload failed" nor can I guess why you would ever try to increase the size of a picture.

It's probably EB's limit on uploads.

You upload files to an image hosting service (e.g., Brickshelf, flickr) and then link to the files in your post.