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<p>[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 1486067, member: 29751"]I use photobucket if I'm actually uploading them somewhere, otherwise I just upload them directly from my computer to CT.</p><p><br /></p><p>In general, there is no reason why a picture of a coin posted on the web needs to be larger than 800 pixels by 800 pixels. Thus, I use GIMP (free photo editing software) or Adobe Photoshop (not free) to crop the coin circularly onto a black or white background, and then resize it to 800x800 pixels or smaller. This resize requires a tiny amount of sharpening after the resize, but don't overdo it. If you size your coin images to this, then you won't run into upload file limitations. I gave a "tutorial" of how to use GIMP on another site, <a href="http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5519626#Post5519626" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5519626#Post5519626" rel="nofollow">which you can find here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope this helps.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="brg5658, post: 1486067, member: 29751"]I use photobucket if I'm actually uploading them somewhere, otherwise I just upload them directly from my computer to CT. In general, there is no reason why a picture of a coin posted on the web needs to be larger than 800 pixels by 800 pixels. Thus, I use GIMP (free photo editing software) or Adobe Photoshop (not free) to crop the coin circularly onto a black or white background, and then resize it to 800x800 pixels or smaller. This resize requires a tiny amount of sharpening after the resize, but don't overdo it. If you size your coin images to this, then you won't run into upload file limitations. I gave a "tutorial" of how to use GIMP on another site, [URL="http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=5519626#Post5519626"]which you can find here[/URL]. I hope this helps.[/QUOTE]
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