Wah, Wah - I’m feeling ignored . . .

[Trek420]

Thanks so much for all the nice replies. Sorry for being such a whiney-butt . . .

I haven't been able to post my photos here as they are too large (too high of resolution, I guess). I'm pretty much technologically ignorant, so if you could give me some "Advice for Dummies"-style advice on how to get the photos on here I'd love to hear it!

Michelem, you are so not a whiney-butt

We have a TE FAQ thread somewhere ..... oh, here

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...highlight=spam

*sorry it says "highlight spam" that was how I remembered we had one, discussion of how to flag a thread as spam.

Feel free to add any tips folks.

[lph]

Congrats on the new bike! Fun, isn't it!

For me I think it was the title, I only read maybe 10% of the posts, and anything with a placename in it (i.e. a post dealing with someplace a million miles from here) I automatically skip.

[spokewench]

Congrats on your new bike
spoke

[Pedal Wench]

It's gorgeous! Sorry - been busy at work and it's hard to reply to all the posts!

[mimitabby]

Congrats on your new bike Michelem. I try to respond to every single post about a new bike because I DO know what it feels like. But sometimes there are a lot of posts at the same time and others fall down low to where they can not be seen.

HOWEVER; there you are. a new bike and you are putting the miles on it!

It DOES help to post a photo, maybe of YOU on your own new bike. That's more fun than going to the company website.



Start a thread about your Italy trip with pictures. I definitely want to see them!

[michelem]

Michelem, you are so not a whiney-butt

We have a TE FAQ thread somewhere ..... oh, here

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...highlight=spam

*sorry it says "highlight spam" that was how I remembered we had one, discussion of how to flag a thread as spam.

Feel free to add any tips folks.

Okay, so I read through the thread and learned a lot about grammar!

Also read this,

** What Is Copyright Infringement?
"Creative works" such as text, photos, and drawings are automatically protected by Copyright at the time of their creation. Unless the author/photographer/artist explicitly grants permission to reproduce the work, you most likely do not have the right to cut-n-paste the work into the forums.

*** What is Direct/Hot-Linking?
Direct Linking occurs when you "pull" a photo directly from a different website for embedded display in your post. If you do this without permission from the site on which the photo is hosted, you are in effect stealing bandwidth from them.

However, if you are hosting your photos on a photo sharing site, that site probably allows you to hot-link your own photos. Check your host's Terms Of Use Agreement if you are unsure.

So, does that mean it was wrong of me to post the links to Specialized and such to show what my bike and accessories look like?

I do have my Italy photos on www.kodakgallery.com, but just don't feel comfie giving the whole world permission to see them. So far, I am just sending invites to people who request to see them, or to people I know (like friends and relative), but they have to put in a login and password to view. Probably just me being paranoid, but ya never know!

I would love to post a photo of me with my bike, or me and DH in our bike getups in Italy, but as I said the resolution of my photos are too high so I can't post them here! If someone could walk me through how to manipulate the resolution so they fit (there is a resolution size limit 800 x 800 here on the TE forums, and mine are more like 2800 x 2100), please let me know!

Thanks for the tips, and also for the continued well-wishes.

[lph]

(Sorry, I was going to walk you through the way to do it in Microsofts Photo Editor, but turns out we don't even have it installed on this computer. Therefore generic tips

try and find out if you have some kind of photo editing program on your computer. Start it, and try opening one of your photos from inside. Then look over the program menus and see if you have an option called "resize".

If you have an option of resizing in cms, inches or pixels, choose pixels. Then type in the size you want, typically you only type in one and the other one changes automatically, to keep the height/width ratio the same.

Then save it under another name!
(If you see something called compression ratio turn it up to max. Jpg-format can be heavily compressed but the quality decreases.)

[michelem]

lph,

Thanks for the instructions. Donna sent me some as well and I am going to play around over the weekend as my photos are saved to my home computer desktop. Thanks again!