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Anthriel
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I use Roxio Photosuite v. 6 to resize pictures... and ver. 5, which I actually like better in most ways, doesn't have the resize option. :( So not all photo manipulation software does.

When I want to play with a pic, I save it to the computer, usually through the right-click-and-save procedure that Hobby just mentioned, or I scan it or download it from my digital camera.

With the scanner pic or digital pic, the picture always needs to be resized.

So I fire up Photosuite, import the pic in question, resize it, and then resave it to my hard drive.

If it's for the avatar, I load it up straight from there.

If it's for the sig, I fire up Photobucket, load up the pic, and just copy and paste the img pathway that photobucket provides for you.

It's not an easy way to do it, but I can't think of any better way. :neutral:

Speaking of posts which haven't been answered, Miss Wonder Woman (and that IS an impressive bust, there, girlfriend), ;) , did you see that your question about where the name b77 came from is in the Guide to b77?


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Diana wears a golden belt that gives her superhuman strength, has silvery braclets that deflect bullets and missiles, and - get this - she carries a golden lasso that, when it ensnares a victim, forces him to tell nothing but the truth.


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Sass -- Bwahahahahaha :damnfunny

Thank you so much, my dear. Compliments like that will get you everything! :love:

Hobby: right-click on it ...

See, I get lost in the very first sentence. Mac's don't have that right-click, left-click feature that PC's have.

Actually, I misspoke when I said I can't save or resize a picture ... if I get a pic as an jpg attachment, I can save it and then open it and resize it using Hot Shots, which is a very old, clunky program.

The only way I can pull a pic off the internet is to drag it into a draw program. Sometimes this works, sometimes not. The resulting file is bigger than the Argonath so I don't keep them very long.

Anth: Yes, I did see the quote from History of B77. Thank you for digging that up. And that's exactly the quote I remembered, but I misremembered it to have come from Farawen.

That's the thread at the bottom of this forum, right? At some point I will ask Alandriel to take chunks of that thread - like the name question - and put them into the FAQ or into a new thread in the History forum.

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See, I get lost in the very first sentence. Mac's don't have that right-click, left-click feature that PC's have
Ah, ok - I didn't know you were on a Mac, sorry about that!
And IrfanView doesn't run with Macs.
All of which just goes to prove that Macs are st00pfid! :P ;)
(Still, I can't imagine they don't have some quick way to get a pic - they were meant for working with graphics originally, weren't they? :scratch )

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Yes, MACs like to talk to one another in the abstruse code of advanced c.g.i. And they don't tell you how to punctuate.

Writers and c.g.i. artists prefer them.

The problem arises when a writer tries to use her MacIntosh full of text documents to create art [cough]

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Jnyusa wrote:
Mac's don't have that right-click, left-click feature that PC's have.
But we have something similar. If you click down and hold, or hold down the ctrl key while clicking on a picture, you should get a pop-up menu. I'm pretty sure (though I haven't had a PC in years) that it's comparable. In that pop up menu there should be a "Save File/Picture" as option that will let you save to your computer.

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Mossy, really?

I'm going to try that. :)

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Anth: Yes, I did see the quote from History of B77. Thank you for digging that up. And that's exactly the quote I remembered, but I misremembered it to have come from Farawen.

That's the thread at the bottom of this forum, right? At some point I will ask Alandriel to take chunks of that thread - like the name question - and put them into the FAQ or into a new thread in the History forum
Jn, the quote wasn't from the History of b77 thread at the end of this forum... it was from the Guide to b77that Farawen originally wrote, and I recently fiddled with, for the Welcome forum.

The quote itself has changed a little. Alandriel wrote a bit different narrative for the Guide.

Having the story in the History forum (too ;) ) makes really good sense, though!

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Anthriel --ahhhhh! Now I get it. (I'm a bit thick these days.) But that explains why I thought Farawen had named the board - because the explanation was in her thread.

I've barely had time to read any of the new stuff that has gone up for opening. When the commitee FINISHES - in the very near future now - I will have a chance to read all the new stickies and FAQ's and all the greetings in the Welcome threads, etc.

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Has the board been going down for other people?

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Eruname wrote:
Has the board been going down for other people?
Over the past few days, yes. I've been getting error messages lately saying that "this server cannot be found".

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I've had no problems in the past few days.


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I have, but never for too long.


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I got that earlier, freaked, refreshed, went back and forth and resumed normal posting in about twenty seconds.

Hmm. :scratch

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Ugh...it's been going down for 30 minutes for me.

Ethel's board was fine though so it must be the free phpbber sites that are being affected.

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Yep. The experimental board was down as well. At least it's not just us.


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It's been intermittent..sometimes it doesn't come up at all, sometimes I get HTML/XML code instead of the forum...which is informative in its own way :D

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It's been in trouble since the weekend. This evening's event was the worst. I could ping phpbber, so the site was up but the server or something between their router and the server was down. I got database errors last week, so I thought maybe they were losing a disk.

Makes you think the backup might be important.

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Eruname wrote:
Ugh...it's been going down for 30 minutes for me.

Ethel's board was fine though so it must be the free phpbber sites that are being affected.
There's been intermittent downtime on Ethel's board today, as well as on another phpBB board I frequent. I think TORC was flaky, too, but I may be mistaken.

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This is a phpbber board not a phpbb board. So not quite the same thing.

This is the only site I'm having problems with.

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