Posting big pictures

[Tophe]

If the files size does not appear on your screen (files list with Windows-Explorer from Start/Program/Accessories or directly on "Poste de travail" for Windows2000/XP – WorkBench ? Ollie please help me translating...) use Display menu and click on Details instead of List or Mosaic or Icons.

Doesn't that answer your need Toad ?

More simple maybe : on the same screens (giving the file list per directory), instead of choosing Display / Details (with changing the column sizes if you do not see all on a small monitor/screen like 640*480 pixels) - just stay as you are (in Icon or List or Mosaic mode) and right click on the file you want to know the size of --> among the Properties is the precise size... Do you like it Toad ?

[Tophe]

as I have lots more aircraft in the pipeline.
Lyn

Oh... Lyn, please, give us a list, to make us dream of the forthcoming ones...

I know it is uneasy, as how to introduce with words a marvel like your OV-12 ? A-10-like canard Bronco ? not easy... but that would make us dream and imagine, and if someone is surprised by the final post, not matching a personal interpretation, that could be the starting point to build the other way as a complement... What-if spirit at its very best, no ?

[Tophe]

I will download IrfanView and see.

Good ! Easy, and a few seconds are enough to find the first steps for us :
a) menu Image/Resize-Resample/Half (and it's done!) or replace the click on "Half" by a click on "Set newsize as % of original", and type for instance 85% (and it's done) - I will have to check if the Image/Information provides directly the size of the file to post, I am not sure - otherwise, save as .... and check the size loading again or by the other ways I mentionned.
d) menu Image/Convert to greyscale (and it's done!) - but the file size in Image/Information stays the same, I will have to explore a little more.
Anyway, thanks Overscan, this software is great ! Easy to download, easy to use, free ! Great !  

[overscan]

For viewing pictures in Irfanview:

Go to "options" menu- select "properties"
-click Viewing tab
Tick "Use resample"

Now when you open a picture press "enter" to view full screen and "space bar" to go to the next picture in the folder.

Nice!

[overscan]

Also if you open a picture in a window in irfanview, the status bar at the bottom of the window tells you the size of the file on disk and the size of the file uncompressed.

[Captain Canada]

Tophe,
    My 'properties' only tell me pixell size info !

Crazy....

   Does anybody know where to get this info from Windows 98 ?

Thanks !  

[Tophe]

I have Windows 98 too, but the French one, sorry... With size as "taille" and not the pixels... I don't know why.

[Tophe]

Apart of properties on right click, the other way was Windows-Explorer (not Internet-Explorer) with Display details. Here : screen.jpg is 44Kb. Okay ?

[Tophe]

the in-flight image actually looks even more realistic!  I'm going to have to try that.

This is an uneasy point... JMNs would tell us Absolute Realism is mandatory, but here we are special, following another direction... Is "more realistic" meaning "better" ? Yes and No, it depends. But I understand so well... I have spent so many years dreaming, hoping my dreams come true someday... Dreams are nice, but this is just as the Reality we hope happening. "What-if" means actually "What-if Reality were...". I understand. Thanks for your help classifying my thoughts and raw feelings...