To anyone who has figured it out (Prof M?)

I can't seem to figure out how to enlarge my photo so that the pixels will correspond to the size of the photo? Is there a function that I'm not seeing? What program are we using to manipulate these pictures? Adobe Photoshop or the JPEG View from which we acquired the pictures?

Viv

It is a bit hard to tell exactly what you tried from your message (email/discussion groups have advantages and disadvantages), but I'll take a guess and try to give you some suggestions. If I'm completely off the point, just send me another, more detailed note.

First, you should be using Photoshop to work with your picture. If you save the picture from the web browser it is likely that just double-clicking on the picture's icon will launch JPEGview (or something worse). Instead, first lauch PhotoShop and then use "Open" from the file menu to get your image.

If you did this, I'd expect you to be trying to shrink your photo rather than enlarge it (as you asked). The high resolution of the camera we took your pictures with means that the pictures are too big to fit on most computer screens (when displayed at "100%"). This is where the guessing comes in. My best guess is that you asked the browser to save one of the tiny versions of you picture that appears on the page with all the other pictures of students in your lab. If so, what you need to do is instead first click once on one of the tiny pictures of you on this page. The browser will then load a very large picture of you. Once this is loaded, hold the mouse down until the "Save as" option appears to save the big image.

Let me know if I interpreted you problem incorrectly and I'll try again

Tom

Help!

I am still trying to figure out my "button." The alternate text is showing up on my lab page. I don't know what I did wrong but I think it has something to do with the fact that I couldn't save it as a jpeg or gif image (the dialog box wouldn't let me choose any format but photoshop).

Jen Dolloff

Jen,

You are right that the format is probably the problem. The browser can not display pictures in PhotoShop format. You have to save your image as a gif (best for the button) or jpeg file instead.

If PhotoShop won't let you save in either format, it is probably because your image has more than one layer. If you look at the layers pallete (lower right portion of the screen) and see something other than a single layer named "background" displayed in the palette, then this is the problem. To fix it, select the "Flatten Image" item from the Layers menu (it is near the bottom of the menu). After this is done you should only have one layer and you should at least be able to select one of the jpeg or gif formats.

Tom

1.
do we have to manipulate both of our roster images or may we just choose one?

2.
by how much must we reduce our roster image in size in order to put it on our web page?

3.
may we mix (by means of cut and paste) our roster image and the picture we scanned in?

You only need to do one of the pictures we took of you in lab.

The amount of reduction you apply is up to you --- a matter of taste basically. Just don't make it so small we can't tell who it is or leave it at the original size.

If you put the scanned image and our picture of you together somehow, that would be fine.

Tom

I have the answer to Vivian Wang's question:

If you have a really small, blurry picture, the problem is that you saved the wrong picture. Trash the one you have, go back to the lab roster page, click on your thumbnail picture and wait for the BIG picture to open. It won't work if you just click on the thumbnail and "save this image"- you must have the big picture open.

-Karen