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I would love to Upload a new HD Profile Photo and earn 1,080 points! I have searched for a "how to" and if it's on activerain I cannot find it. That doesn't mean it's not here. I've missed plenty of things before.

Of course, besides the 1080 point thing I would just love to know how to convert photos to HD. Hopefully there is a conversion. I hope I don't have to have another personal picture made. The pictures just don't get better as as get older. I'm not so sure a picture of me in HD is a great idea. It's amazing what I will try for points!

However there are plenty of other things I would love to have HD pictures of. I'm not on my computer, so I have nothing to give you an example of.

Can anyone help?

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Posted by Julie Martin Realtor® Broker Mobile Alabama Real Estate on 09/19/2009 09:17 PM

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SEP

Hi Julie,

I believe I saw the directions for this in the NEWBIE group at Active Rain. Try that! Just so you don't feel like you're all alone..I haven't changed my picture overe yet,either.

If it makes you feel any better I am going to have to go back and find this article in the Newbie Group......

but I am kinda attached to my fuzzy photo.

Yea, I like the softer touches! But I would like to know how.

The HD term is actually a little confusing. What it means is before you start you need to have a picture that is at least 600 pixels on each side (in Windows for most computers, hold your mouse over the file and the dimension will pop up, like "Dimension: 1280 x 640). If you have a photo that is already at least 600 on each side (800x600, 750x900, whatever), then you can upload it. At that point AR will show you a box that you can move around to show the part of the picture that you want to use.

Brad's post announcing this said you didn't need direstions... and he makes it clear that it has to be at least 600x600. Of course, that doesn't mean that it has to be a clear, in-focus 600x600 photo -- you can use a soft-focus if you want to! :)

P.S. I hit "Submit Comment" instead of writing my next sentence, which was: Have fun -- you may have photo software that would do a nice soft focus, too, and just save the photo as a larger file/more pixels. Hope this helps! :)

Julie - Not to toot my own horn, but I did just write a post about this earlier today. It's real simple. You can contact me if you have any additional questions.

Easy to do. Don't let it confuse you. Good luck. P.S. FUZZY is good.

SEP

Thank you everyone. I think I will be able to do this. I do have one question. I always thought we wanted less pixels for uploading to the internet. What is the HD advantage?

SEP

i did it today and figured out that my image had to be 600wide and 600height and in JPG format before the system would accept it. Your picture may not be that large so a trick I used was creating a simple box that was 600x600 and the inserted my logo and info in the center.

To your question -- HD resolution produces richer content for images and as you can see a lot of pictures on this site appear to be a bit fuzzy. In my photography business I shoot everything at HD Resolution and then use a compression editor to make it web ready. Believe it or not the images do not loose the HD quality as long as you don't lower the DPI settings while compressing the photo's.

OCT

Julie, I hope you got your picture on. It looks good so I'm guessing that you did. It's pretty easy to do from your settings but like they said you have to have an HD photo.

OCT

Here is my interpretation of the HD photo that your looking for. if the photo is blurry low res to begin with it wont matter if you resize it to make it larger, the results will still be far from satisfactory. What you need to get a true HD photo is to get some new headshots taken by a professional or with a DSLR at a high resolution. once you've got yout high resolution photo simply downsize it to the 600x600 with photo editing program of choice and upload the photo.

Another good image resizing solution I highly recommend that is FREE is the image resizer power toy for Windows XP, which is downloadable free from microsoft.com. It has amazing compression retaining exceptional quality.

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