How to: prepare & upload images
Stage 1: Register with the site (if you have not already done so)
Stage 2: Prepare an image using photoshop
- Open Adobe Photoshop.
- Open the image you wish to upload in photoshop using "file>open"
- Select "image>image size"
- Set resolution to 72 px per inch
- Image width should be a maximum of 640px (change if it is over that)
- Click "OK"
- Select "file>save for web"
- Under the settings dropdown select JPEG medium
- Make sure the image is as small as possible by adusting the quality setting (without loosing image quality) and a maximum of around 40K. You can view the images size at the bottom left of the window
- Click "OK" to save your newly compressed image in a different location to the original image.
Stage 3: Upload the image to the website
- Login to www.gasworkstodome.org.uk
- Click the "upload image" link.
- Fill in a title
- Select categories (you can select multiple items in a category by holding Ctrl while clicking with the mouse).
- Click the "Browse" button & navigate to the compressed image you wish to upload.
- Select categories (you can select multiple items in a category by holding Ctrl while clicking with the mouse).
- Click "Submit".