www.iFourWinns.com

Now that I have been hanging around here for a while and feel a bit more comfortable. I would like to "tweak" my experience.
How can I get my picture in my signature smaller?
How do I access your photo albums?
How do you create the "avator?" found with our info on the left side of the screen?

_________________
Marc, Kathlin & Nathalie


'89 Chaparral Laser 32

'93 Vista 245, 5.8L w/ King Cobra

Former Boats
'01 H260, 7.4 VP Duoprop
'98 H200, 5.0 GL w/VP SX drive

I reduced the size of the photo in my signature by using the Paint program in Windows. Just open your photo and resize it then save it under a new name. Took several tries to get it smaller. Did the same with the photo for the avatar -- reduce the size in Paint until it was accepted by the Board. Hope that helps!

_________________
Brian
2007 Four Winns H200 - VP 5.0L GL/SX
2003 Chevy Avalanche Z66
Canyon Lake, TX

Thanks Houston I did what you said and it sort of worked. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to shrink the size of the image but instead crops it. After I did that once or twice I just had to do some adjusting to get the image close.

I re-sized a shot of just my little girls head to the allowable 64 x 64 pixel size and it was still too large of a file to be accepted as an avatar 3kb allowed 9.55 kb was the size.

P.S. Some Further playing and I found the stretch/skew feature and this shrinks the hole picture! See just like Mom taught me "Everyday you can learn something new if you ask"

_________________
Marc, Kathlin & Nathalie


'89 Chaparral Laser 32

'93 Vista 245, 5.8L w/ King Cobra

Former Boats
'01 H260, 7.4 VP Duoprop
'98 H200, 5.0 GL w/VP SX drive

Hey Marc,

A lot of us use photobucket.com with great success. Even if you're not super computer savy, it's very intuitive and allows you to resize easily. It also lessens the burden on the forum's server as the pictures live at photobucket instead of here. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about it... always love to see more pix!

_________________
Previously:
2008 V358/Volvo 5.7 GXi Inboards

Hi Sierra!

I do have a photobucket account but have not spent alot of time there "playing". I dumped some of my pictures there when I first joined the forum but haven't really been back until today. I will explore those options you talk about. Any ideas on the avatar? or access to the photo section here?

I checked out Houston's photobucket album and he has lots of pictures there. I will have to do the same soon.

_________________
Marc, Kathlin & Nathalie


'89 Chaparral Laser 32

'93 Vista 245, 5.8L w/ King Cobra

Former Boats
'01 H260, 7.4 VP Duoprop
'98 H200, 5.0 GL w/VP SX drive

I learned from Paul about using photobucket, and adding the link to my signature. Some out there have slow machines (I'm not talking about boats) and don't load those sig-pic's very quickly, so I like to just have a link in the signature. A "click if you want to" option.

_________________
Walt B
"Debt-Charged"
Black '07 H210SS
6.2L Bravo One turning a 21P HIFive
Wakeboard Tower with Perfect Pass Stargazer version
Missouri River; Kansas City, Mo.