RB Design Studio Blog

You have a shiny new blog, right?

You are writing posts and maybe even some pages!

But something is lacking… what is it? Pictures!

I thought it might be helpful if you know a thing or two about uploading images (aka pictures or photos) to your blog.

1) You should NEVER just upload photos straight from your digital camera. Why?

Have you ever been to a website where a photo just creeps downloading? That’s because they didn’t resize the image before uploading it to their website.

Well they may “look” smaller on the screen, but that file size is still huge! Some of the newer digital camers put out photos with as large a file size as 3 or 4 Mb per Picture! Whoa! That will fill up a 50 Mb webspace very quickly!

Save your photos to your computer (Desktop, My Pictures – wherever you can find them again).

2) Resize the images in a graphics editor (No, Word is NOT a graphics editor!)

If you don’t have Photoshop or PaintShopPro or some image editing program on your computer, never fear! The Gimp is here! Just go on over to http://www.gimp.org, download the program and install it. It is pretty self explanatory, but basically you want to open the file, click Edit and resize that image. Save the newly resized image with a name similar to your original (i.e., yourphoto-small.jpg). If you need more help using The Gimp just go back over to their website and read. To make things easier on you, here is a link to The Gimp’s documentation. If you are going to blog, you really need to know how to do this!

Then if you are using WordPress for your blog, when the editor is open, click Add Media and upload y our image. You can put the original size image or a thumbnail sized image that when clicked on, will open the original (full-size) image.

There you go! It’s not hard. But image resizing is very important to your overall website. Not only do large images eat up web space quickly, you do not want to make your web visitors sit and wait forever for a photo to download.

Until next time….
Rhonda