Adding listings can be a time consuming process if your pictures have a large file size. Lux Marine recommends that you resize your images to 800 x 600 pixels prior to adding them to the site.
Why should I resize my pictures?
Because resizing your pictures could save you 10 - 15 minutes per listing!
A typical image taken directly from a digital camera is approximately 2 MegaBytes. When adding a boat or jet ski to Lux Marine you can add up to 5 pictures with your listing. So you could be trying to upload as much as 10 MegaBytes per listing. On an average broadband connection that would take 15 minutes.
If you resize your pictures to the recommended 800 x 600 pixels, each picture will be approximately 100 KiloBytes (1/20th the size of the original picture). Adding a listing with pictures resized, should take 1-2 minutes on a broadband connection and approximately 5-10 minutes on a slow dial up connection.
How do I resize my pictures?
In order to resize your pictures you will need to download a program and install it on your computer. A simple program for resizing pictures is called Photo Gadget (PC) and you can download Photo Gadget here or Mac users Download here
Follow these instructions to start resizing pictures. Note: Steps 1 - 5 are only required the first time you wish to resize pictures.
- Click the Photo Gadget download link.
- You will be prompted to either Run or Save the program. Choose "Run".
- If prompted with a Security Warning by Windows, click "Run" again.
- Follow the prompts from the Photo Gadget install wizard to install the software.
- Restart your computer if prompted to do so.
- Now go to the folder on your computer where you have your pictures saved.
- Select all the pictures you wish to resize (or you can do it one at a time) and then right click your mouse on one of the pictures (whilst they're still selected).
- Left click on the option that says "Photo Gadget Picture Resize".
- The Photo Gadget window will open on your screen.
- Select the following options (options will automatically be saved for next time):
- Select "800x600 (optimal for broadband email)".
- Tick the box "Keep aspect ratio".
- Make sure that the "Overwrite original picture" option is not ticked.
- Tick the box "Do not enlarge if smaller".
- Click "Ok" to start the resizing.
- A status message will display once the pictures are resized.
- The resized pictures will now be saved in the same folder as the original pictures. The resized pictures will end in "_800x600" e.g. "mymustang.jpg" when resized will be "mymustang_800x600.jpg".
- Now when adding your listing to the website, be sure to select the resized version of your pictures.
Disclaimer: The Photo Gadget software is third party software and as such Lux Marine does not accept any responsibility or liability that may result from it's usage. Lux Marine provides a copy for download from this page as a matter of convenience to our users. If you wish to download Photo Gadget from an alternative site please visit www.download.com.
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