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Knife Scanning Question?
- Thread starter PhilL
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To get the image into a post here, it first has to be on your web page. Frequently your ISP will allow you X megabytes of personal web space page. You can have the most rudimentary web page and take advantage of this. After you scan the image and save it to your hard disk, use your file transfer program (maybe obtainable free or cheap from your ISP) to copy it to your ISP's server, and then link to it with the "IMG" command in the forums here.
Sometimes the pictures that I post haven't been linked to or displayed in any of the text on my page yet. The .jpg file is on my web page's server, and that's all that's necessary.
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- JKM
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Sometimes the pictures that I post haven't been linked to or displayed in any of the text on my page yet. The .jpg file is on my web page's server, and that's all that's necessary.
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- JKM
www.chaicutlery.com
AKTI Member # SA00001
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There used to be a way to get a small amount of web space here at bladeforums.com. Did that go away?
There are several places where you can get web space for free. They add ads to your web page, but it's not bad, and it's free. A lot of the knife crowd seems to use http://www.xoom.com. I have no experience with them other than looking at other people's sites there. One thing about knife-related sites is that they tend to get big fast as the pictures accumulate. Xoom.com claims to offer free unlimited space. They also restrict the ads to a boarder around your pages. That's nice. Anyway, you might want to consider that.
For my site, I buy space on a premium server (it all comes with my internet access).
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Chuck
Balisongs -- because it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!
http://www.4cs.net/~gollnick
There are several places where you can get web space for free. They add ads to your web page, but it's not bad, and it's free. A lot of the knife crowd seems to use http://www.xoom.com. I have no experience with them other than looking at other people's sites there. One thing about knife-related sites is that they tend to get big fast as the pictures accumulate. Xoom.com claims to offer free unlimited space. They also restrict the ads to a boarder around your pages. That's nice. Anyway, you might want to consider that.
For my site, I buy space on a premium server (it all comes with my internet access).
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Chuck
Balisongs -- because it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!
http://www.4cs.net/~gollnick
James, Thanks for the tip. Let me try.
I have an image at
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~vtoochin/polecat.jpg
Then I put this between the IMG and /IMG command
It works!
Dew.
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[This message has been edited by Dew (edited 11 October 1999).]
I have an image at
http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~vtoochin/polecat.jpg
Then I put this between the IMG and /IMG command
It works!
Dew.
[This message has been edited by Dew (edited 11 October 1999).]
[This message has been edited by Dew (edited 11 October 1999).]
Now I have a question. Suppose after I link the image to the post, my ISP server goes down or I accidentally delete the original image file, will people still see the image in the post? i.e. does it create a copy at Bladeforums, or still have to access here every time someone browses it?
UPDATE: OK I've tried it and got the answer. It still needs the source file here.
Dew.
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[This message has been edited by Dew (edited 11 October 1999).]
UPDATE: OK I've tried it and got the answer. It still needs the source file here.
Dew.
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[This message has been edited by Dew (edited 11 October 1999).]
Although I have my own domain, I did make use of Xoom.com before that. One of the most attractive features (to me at least) about Xoom was that A. you can upload files via FTP rather than using a web-based interface, and B. the image source doesn't require any tweaking to match a proprietary file system (at least a couple of the free services I'd used previously did).
For those that are unfamiliar with the term, "FTP" stands for "File Transfer Protocol." And an "FTP Client" (program) allows you to move files around in a manner similar to how you do so on your own computer. It's also much faster than a web-based interface. If you do more than the smallest amount of uploading/downloading files, FTP makes life a lot easier. And there are many free FTP Clients available on the web. The last time I checked www.download.com they had better than thirty different ones, some free and some shareware.
Regards -- Shades
For those that are unfamiliar with the term, "FTP" stands for "File Transfer Protocol." And an "FTP Client" (program) allows you to move files around in a manner similar to how you do so on your own computer. It's also much faster than a web-based interface. If you do more than the smallest amount of uploading/downloading files, FTP makes life a lot easier. And there are many free FTP Clients available on the web. The last time I checked www.download.com they had better than thirty different ones, some free and some shareware.
Regards -- Shades
Donovan, you do of course have a wide range of options when setting the file size on a JPEG. Of course, as the compression becomes higher, the final image quality becomes lower. To give you some sort of benchmark, rather than forcing you to rely on abstract terms, the picture you see in Dew's post above is probably between 15 and 20 Kilobytes.
Perhaps the best way to advise you would be to play around with different compression factors in your image editing program. If you have the option to "export as jpeg" as opposed to "saving as jpeg", use the export feature but leave the original uncompressed image open in your image editor. Then open the newly created jpeg in another window so you can see it after the compression has been applied. If it looks "blocky" or distorted, or if edges in the image appear to have "ghosts" around them, bring the compression factor down a bit and try it again. The goal is to have the smallest possible file while retaining as much image quality as possible.
Hope this helps -- Shades
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The deed is everything, the glory nothing.
[This message has been edited by Shades (edited 11 October 1999).]
Perhaps the best way to advise you would be to play around with different compression factors in your image editing program. If you have the option to "export as jpeg" as opposed to "saving as jpeg", use the export feature but leave the original uncompressed image open in your image editor. Then open the newly created jpeg in another window so you can see it after the compression has been applied. If it looks "blocky" or distorted, or if edges in the image appear to have "ghosts" around them, bring the compression factor down a bit and try it again. The goal is to have the smallest possible file while retaining as much image quality as possible.
Hope this helps -- Shades
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The deed is everything, the glory nothing.
[This message has been edited by Shades (edited 11 October 1999).]