Sharing photos on the forum & Etiquette (Please read)

[Playalot]

*Runs to check that out @KRae*

*edited: nope, must be a TS3 thing, mine are still png's and I use that img link too. It's cool. I can convert them easily enough using the program Carl suggested, I was just thinking about other ways to manage it all.  I've found that converted png's look a little darker and somewhat fuzzy but at the end of the day you can't really tell unless you're looking at a jpg and a png pic side by side.

[sdhoey]

Mine are the same as Plays. But the funny thing is some are jpg but most are png. But I just did the convert program and will do that from now on.

[MarianT]

All my TS3 screenshots were .jpg, but when I started TS4, they became .png.

[Joria]

All my TS3 screenshots were .jpg, but when I started TS4, they became .png.

I never checked my TS3 pics.  Didn't take all that long to convert all the screenies I had, even with going in and redoing the pics posted in one of my stories.  I'll catch up on the other some day, maybe, but for now as soon as I have a screenie folder full I just convert before I upload it to my Mediafire.  Can't remember what my fee is but I have a terrabite of storage for it so no worries about lack of room!

[sone]

I've recently started using imgur, due to frustration with photobucket.  Is there a way for me to upload as jpg, or will it only do png?  I really don't want to go back to photobucket if I don't have to.

[Trip]

I've recently started using imgur, due to frustration with photobucket.  Is there a way for me to upload as jpg, or will it only do png?  I really don't want to go back to photobucket if I don't have to.

@sone: Imgur accepts every common image format for the web (png, jpg, gif, gifv, etc.). So if your pictures are saved to your computer as JPGs, then they'll stay that way on Imgur.

[Deklitch]

@sone I don't use imgur, myself, but thinking of uploading/saving elsewhere, you generally have a 'save as' option or a file type option or something similar. If there is something like that in imgur, see if you can save/upload it as type .jpg rather than as type .png.

I had a quick look at the imgur help pages, but they didn't seem to give much assistance with regards to file types, however it does confirm that you can upload jpg files as well as png files. This article talks about editing images in imgur, maybe the save button there permits 'save as' as well. Note its comment that you can only do such edits on the desktop version, not the mobile or apps versions.

To be honest, I do editing work on my pictures in Microsoft Paint, which definitely does give the option of saving as .jpg, I then upload the images to my own website and take it from there.

[mpart]

Thanks, I will definitely try to do this when I post for now on.
Edit: It seems Ifranview does not want to work on my Mac.
It seems that photo bucket saves them as jpg. I will just continue using that, please correct me if I'm wrong about the jpg. thing.

[MrsFlynn]

@mpart

I searched on photo editors a couple weeks back and did find the one linked below that's for Mac.

PhotoScape -
http://www.photoscape.org/
http://x.photoscape.org/mac/

I don't use it, but figured it might be worth saying something about it, just in case you want to check it out.

I don't think Photobucket changes your file format for you. You have to edit the photo and then save it as a .jpg file then upload it to Photobucket.

MrsFlynn

[mpart]

@mpart

I searched on photo editors a couple weeks back and did find the one linked below that's for Mac.

PhotoScape -
http://www.photoscape.org/
http://x.photoscape.org/mac/

I don't use it, but figured it might be worth saying something about it, just in case you want to check it out.

I don't think Photobucket changes your file format for you. You have to edit the photo and then save it as a .jpg file then upload it to Photobucket.

MrsFlynn

Oh okay, thanks. it seems the files save as jpg when playing sims 3, but not when playing sims 4. Thank you Mrs.Flynn.

[MrsFlynn]

@mpart

You are correct, Sims 3 saves photos in .jpg format and Sims 4 saves photos in .png format.

[Indira]

Finally a solution to my many problems with posting pictures and stories! It's been bugging me for quite some time. A year now, in fact. It bothered me so much that my screenshots took a bit longer to load because of the sizes and the format, hence there have been fewer pictures uploaded. I had to stop with my storytelling for my main family coz I'm too embarrassed to post the large-file pictures. Though I still play them and kept my screenies. I personally don't have any problems regarding storing the pictures in my laptop, still have roughly 967GB of unused storage.

I did ask my ever "helpful" husband about a photo editor similar to one I had on my old laptop, and he was like "be careful what you download, ..viruses.. and blah blah". So he was no help after all.

It's so good of you to post this @Carl . Especially for the non-tech-savvy people like me.

Side Note: I've been using only the Microsoft Editor on my old laptop to resize pictures/pixels and it worked for me before. The files became smaller and easier to load. But this laptop I'm using now (with Window 8.1) doesn't have one. Is it not free? Or unavailable for this?

[MrsFlynn]

Hi Indira,

There should be a program on your computer that's called Paint. Click the Start button and search for the word Paint in the search box. It's a free photo editor that comes with Windows.

There is something similar to paint, called Paint.net it's a free photo editor that is based on Paint. http://www.getpaint.net/index.html

I'm still learning how to use it. But it might be something worth looking into.

MrsFlynn

[Indira]

Gaaahh!! How come I never knew this before? I'm worse than a noob. 
Thanks @MrsFlynn , I knew there is Paint, but I didn't know there was a button needed to be clicked to get into the editing part. Upper right, there is an arrow icon beside the help(?) icon. I could see there is a resize and cropping tool there. Oh man! Those many months I refrained from posting pics much. And it's this easy and already available. **facepalm**

At least now I have two tools I can use for editing screenies. I just hope photobucket fixes itself soon. It's not working right at the moment. Might have to look for other hosts.

[Magpie2012]

I think a lot of people use imgur as opposed to photobucket due to the bandwidth limit on the free photobucket subscription. Maybe look in to that @Indira

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