Why won Dogster accept my photo?
Unfortunately posting digital photos to the internet can be tricky. The problem is that cameras take photos with enough data resolution to print a 3′ x 3′ printout (The more magepixels the more data it stores). On the web, however, where each photo has to be downloaded you need images to contain as few details as possible. The average camera stores a photo with 1.2MB (approx. 1228k) of data (or much more!) while the average web photo is only 20k. (Imagine if a user on a dial-up connection had to wait for several 1228k photos to download their 56k/second connection. It could take a few minutes!). So to handle this problem you need to convert your full-resolution photo to a web-ready image. Most modern photo software have a feature to save a photo for the web or to send as an email. One easy solution to use PicResize to prepare your image. Here are some directions for desktop software for PC [Photo Editor] and for Mac [iPhoto] software. For the PC there is also this simple easy and free
