24.04.2010, 16:28
One must always keep the end goal in mind for image handling tasks.
FREE Image Hosting
There are several websites which will host and house many of your images for free:
Photo Bucket
http://photobucket.com/
Image Shack
http://imageshack.us/
Flickr This one will also host your videos.
http://www.flickr.com/
YouTube It will store and allow you to publish videos and slide show style presentations of still images.
http://www.youtube.com/
I personally have used all these for IL-2 and keep some images only in my computer.
Intructions
Settle on one or two of these websites as your permanent host for publishing your images. Discover what file format is required by the website. Aim your image editing tasks to comply with their requirements in your final draft images. Look in the Profile (on top of the page) sections of All Aircraft Arcade and other websites to discover what the file format requirements are for them to allow your images to be presented.
I highly recommend keeping a copy of your image in the file format of the image editor, in case you want to make changes or find another use for the image in the future. You can then further edit the image at that time, having kept a backup.
I use the JPEG format through Photo Bucket for AAA, for example. Examples of my images can be seen in the PC Technical Help Forum, "PC Technical Relationship to IL-2: The info helps everyone" Sticky topic at the top, where I use my IL-2 images to tutor users in what to expect with their computer and IL-2 technical enhancements. This way they know what to expect in IL-2 image quality after making graphics settings.
Most image hosting websites will allow you to keep your images there while you transfer them to other websites. Most of the images at All Aircraft Arcade are actually being transfered from other websites which host them. This is typically how the screenshots of IL-2 are done here.
Find an image hosting website which allows easy further editing of your image.
There are many uses for the images and the tools used with them. It's very fun to do and also nice to see the work of other people.
The image below in my signature is being transfered from Photo Bucket at this moment:
FREE Image Hosting
There are several websites which will host and house many of your images for free:
Photo Bucket
http://photobucket.com/
Image Shack
http://imageshack.us/
Flickr This one will also host your videos.
http://www.flickr.com/
YouTube It will store and allow you to publish videos and slide show style presentations of still images.
http://www.youtube.com/
I personally have used all these for IL-2 and keep some images only in my computer.
Intructions
Settle on one or two of these websites as your permanent host for publishing your images. Discover what file format is required by the website. Aim your image editing tasks to comply with their requirements in your final draft images. Look in the Profile (on top of the page) sections of All Aircraft Arcade and other websites to discover what the file format requirements are for them to allow your images to be presented.
I highly recommend keeping a copy of your image in the file format of the image editor, in case you want to make changes or find another use for the image in the future. You can then further edit the image at that time, having kept a backup.
I use the JPEG format through Photo Bucket for AAA, for example. Examples of my images can be seen in the PC Technical Help Forum, "PC Technical Relationship to IL-2: The info helps everyone" Sticky topic at the top, where I use my IL-2 images to tutor users in what to expect with their computer and IL-2 technical enhancements. This way they know what to expect in IL-2 image quality after making graphics settings.
Most image hosting websites will allow you to keep your images there while you transfer them to other websites. Most of the images at All Aircraft Arcade are actually being transfered from other websites which host them. This is typically how the screenshots of IL-2 are done here.
Find an image hosting website which allows easy further editing of your image.
There are many uses for the images and the tools used with them. It's very fun to do and also nice to see the work of other people.
The image below in my signature is being transfered from Photo Bucket at this moment: