Picture Ads

I know this isn't exactly a firearm question,but does anyone have the ability to explain how to shrink a digital picture file small enough to insert into an ad? I've been wanting to sell a couple of rifles and the pics I take with my wifes' Kodak are way too large and I can't blame anybody for not wanting a gun they haven't seen.If you reply you have to keep it pretty simple.My computer has the Vista operating system. Thanks
 
You need some kind of a photo program in your computer. I use ACDSee 4.0. It allows you to do all sorts of picture editing.

Do search on the Internet (ACDSee 4.0) and I think you will find some free downloads.
 
Go to PhotoBucket.com and register it is free...then download photos from you computer to the website and then you can change the size of you photos to specific sizes...easy to do...
 
Better yet, I think that you should be able to post a link to your picture, so that the reader can click on it and see it full sized, from your album on the free photo hosting web site. I think that I will do a test ad, just to be sure. I'll let you know what happens.

Added 10 min. later: One of the codes associated with a picture in your album, (on a free web hosting site) is called "direct URL" or something similar. Right click on the line where it is listed, scroll down to "select all", left click, right click again scroll down to "copy" and then left click. Go back to your ad, and place your cursor where you want the URL (web address) to begin, and with your mouse pointer on that spot, right click select "paste", and then left click. This should put the direct URL in your ad, just as is was under the picture in your album. I would also place instructions as to how to copy and past it into the address bar of their browser directly below the URL.
This is an example of a URL that works. If you like, you can practice using it to go look at the picture that it is associated with.http://s1021.photobucket.com/albums...w&current=Visalia10-18-09fiveshotunlim017.jpg

Added: I did not actually post the ad, and on the preview, the URL did not show as a link, so I gave directions as to how to copy and paste it into the address bar. If it was a real ad, I would have posted it without instructions first, to see if it came up as a link (as it did in this post), and then edit the ad, adding instructions, if it did not.

The point of this is that you do not have to limit yourselves to one picture or small pictures. You can have what you want.
 
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Thanks guys,I think the photobucket site will work.I haven't tried yet,but just playing around with it seems good.Guns America does'nt allow uri or links so thats out.Thanks again
 
When I re-size a digital picture to place an ad in Benchrest I use 300 x 300 in all my ads.
Frank
 
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