I find Irfanview to be really good for this. The program is free and quite small. If you ever decide to do more with Irfanview you should also download in install the plugins. Open Irfanview, click File click Batch/Conversion rename... and follow along in the new window. You need to do landscapes separate from portraits but I am sure you are aware of that anyway.

I think gardenweb resizes to 640px wide even if the image starts out smaller. Also, you lose animation. I'm guessing that image started out much smaller and got blown up too much? I don't really know about tinypic. When I just tried it to test, I declined to do the verification. Photobucket or Imageshack might work better for you? I'm fussy and host my own, wrote(modified) it to resize only when needed and retain animation. You're welcome to test it if you want. Please choose an image file: This is using mine... And this is uploaded to gardenweb, notice the lost animation...

It's not only tedious, but it wrecks the effect of a dramatic reveal. I noticed that the other day in the bath forum, where I dug up an older thread showing an amazingly deluxe bath done on a shoestring budget. With the new small images, it just didn't have the same effect at all, and I wonder if the person I linked it for even bothered to read beyond the blah little photos. EDIT And all for the sake of wasting space. If I run my browser in full screen mode, look how much of the page is nothing: This post was edited by writersblock on Tue, Feb 19, 13 at 17:18

Here's a link to the Test Forum, for anyone who wants to doodle away. Forgot about scrolling long links. Not only does it widen the entire thread, it also forces readers to copy and paste to view it, which a lot of us won't do either, ack! ;-) For anyone not familiar with alternatives, I'll post them, using Pottery Barn as an example. To put a live link in a post, there are two ways to do it: 1) When typing a post, instead of pasting the link right into the Message box (body) of the post, go to the boxes below the message box. Paste the web site's http://www.address.com in the box marked "Optional Link URL:". Then in the "Name of the Link:" box type in the name of the website. I just did that here so when you read my post you will see a link to Pottery Barn below and to the right of my message. It will say "Here is a link that might be useful:". ~OR~ 2) If you want to direct link right in the body of your post (like I did in Test Forum above) you can add html code. This method comes in handy when posting multiple links. Paste the link to your site (in this example Pottery Barn) right in your Message body: http://www.potterybarn.com/ You will need to add html code to the beginning and end of the link. You will also need to add the name of the site you're linking to (in this case 'Pottery Barn'). Add on html code is in bold below. So the string of text looks like this: a href="http://www.potterybarn.com/">Pottery Barn Important or it won't work: You have to wrap the entire string of text with angle brackets. So you must put a front angle bracket right at the beginning of that string of text directly in front of a href. You must put a rear angle bracket > right at the very end of the string of text, behind There are no spaces between the angle brackets and the other text. Think of the angle brackets as giving the entire string a tight hug! There is a single space between a href at the front. All other text in that line is typed with no spaces between it! So when I put that string together, spaced as noted,you should see an active link to Pottery Barn like this: Pottery Barn You can use that same string of commands for any web site. Just be sure the spacing is correct, substitute the name of your site where Pottery Barn is, and hug> that entire line tight with angle brackets! (cheesy I know, but might help you remember). Here is a link that might be useful: Pottery Barn Example from #1 above