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For those that register on this forum, in addition to being able to post new topics and to reply to existing posts, you also have the option of adding photos and documents to your posts. Photos in the following file formats can be posted as attachments: gif, jpeg, jpg and png. Documents can be posted as attachments but only in the pdf file format. For this forum to accept any of these five types of attachment files, the file type extension must be part of the file name, either hidden or not hidden.

Forum rules limit the number of attachments to 3 and each of these attachments can be of a file size no larger than 2.0 MB.

The maximum width of a posted photo should be 648 pixels which will make the photo 9.0 inches wide based on the standard display resolution of 72 pixels/inch. Any posted photo that is more than 9.0 inches wide will cause anyone browsing our website using a 12" computer screen to have to use the left and right scroll buttons in order to see all of the text in both your post and all other posts made to that particular topic.

Please reduce the size of any photo to be posted to meet this width requirement using such programs as Adobe PhotoDeluxe or PhotoShop before posting the photo. For example, a 6" wide by 4" high digital photo that has a resolution of 300 pixels/inch will, when posted on the forum, will open up with a width of 24" wide by 16' high causing the complete forum page containing this photo to be very wide necessitating anyone browsing that page to have to scroll excessively to view any content on the page including the posted photo itself.

If you don't have some sort of photo editing software on your computer, I would offer these possibilities that can be used to resize photos. What you want to be able to do is take any .jpg or .jpeg photo and reduce it's resolution to 72 pixels/inch and reduce the size of the photo to be no larger in width than 9.0" (648 pixels) when posting that photo on our website.

A) Image Resizer - this free Windows XP add-on software patch is available from this Microsoft website link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx. Locate the program on the list of programs listed down the right side of this webpage. Download and install it. Thanks to club member Ray Hansen, this program for Windows XP computers is probably the simplest photo resizer program I have found; it is free and simple to use but is it limited to only one function and that is to resize photos
B) Adobe Photoshop - available for older Windows computers
C) Adobe Photo Elements 6 for Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista computers
D) Microsoft Picture It - this software for Windows XP and newer computers is offered as a separate program in various newer versions of Microsoft Office and is also offered in a separate program called Microsoft Digital Image 2006
E) Microsoft PictureManager - for Windows computers
F) Adobe PhotoDeluxe - available for earlier Apple Macs running OS 8 & OS 9 software
G) Apple iPhoto - comes standard with Apple Mac computers running OS 10 software. In my opinion this program works but is confusing to use for the simple task of photo reisizing

Persons needing assistance posting photos and/or document attachments should contact a website administrator (bfadmin) for help. Send an E-mail by clicking on the email button below.

The forum administrator (bfadmin) may either delete or reformat any excessive width photos to meet the maximum 9.0" width requirement.