Photobucket picture uploading tests

[grepper]

Herman,  Apparently correct:
http://support.photobucket.com/entries/21893042-Select-Upload-Options-sizes-

Rob, check the image file properties of both the ipad and the DSLR image files.  What are the dimensions?  This should give you an idea:

I scaled this picture to 317x157:

[Rob]

Final experiment to calibrate the amount of reduction I need to configure photoshop to do...then I have my algorithm al set to go.

These two are 20% and 10% of original size respectively

[Rob]

This is 15% which Im hoping should be about right

My DSLR (which is a Canon EOS 20D) is 8Megapixels so a compression ratio of somewhere between 10 and 20% of the original image size seems to be about right a) get it on screen sensibly and b) not lose too much detail.

[Rob]

Hang on....something went wrong there??

[Rob]

500 pixels adjustment made in photobucket

[Rob]

Right then....even better....modify the szie in photobuckets on board editor...then you dont have to mess about in photoshop etc.  Mind you Herman is using Paint which I tried also.  Personal preference for me now is Photobucket though because all the pics are in a library and I found that convenient.

Just choose 500 pixels as the horizontal count, it preserves the aspect ratio and this photo size is the result ie about perfect I reckon

[grepper]

These wood things that you guys make are really pretty!  Love the wood colors and grain!  I can see where it would become a really addictive hobby. 

If I were to start with gouging out a small bowl, is a couple of different size gouges all I would need?  (I'd like to have a lathe and turn burls, but... you know).

And, if the gouge got dull, I'd have something to sharpen again.

[Rob]

Not sure we're on the same page with this Mark

All the pics I posted including the bowls were created using a lathe.  You certainly could turn a bowl using only one bowl gouge and no other tool at a push but as you progresed you might want other tools like a scraper and perhaps a 1/2" gouge for the outside and a 3/8" to hollow the inside.

But you cant do it without a lathe Im afraid.....its then wood carving. Well...you can do it...but you wouldnt have anything to plug in...

[Rob]

Ive also just noticed that like a total pratt Ive gone and deleted the pics from photobucket after I conducted those size tests....so of course the pics have vanished from the forum!!

Note to self......get new brain!

[Rob]

Huh??  Theyre back again??

[Rob]

here's a few  more Mark......

[Rob]

now Im really confused.  All of those pics were sized at 500 pixels width in PB....and yet theyve come out big again...weird

[grepper]

"Not sure we're on the same page with this Mark"

Um, Rob, I really don't even have a "page" that I'm starting from.   I'm totally clueless here.

Even to me, it's obvious when stuff is turned on a lathe.  I had just looked at that last pic, the one with the beautiful bowl, and thought that was very cool, and thought that I might play around by scratching something out of a little stump, or something.

I guess what I really want is a lathe!

[Rob]

oh you do Mark....believe me once you start turning....there's no turning back (you see how I did that)

[Herman Trivilino]

I can't figure out how to put the actual photobucket photograph into my post.  All I can do with success is post the link to the photobucket photo.