I've tried to load some pictures on my profile and says the file size is too large. Is there any way to change the file size so I can use the picture? Go easy on me, I'm not too computer savvy.

Use whatever graphics editing program you have on your computer and "resize" it to about 640x480 so it is computer friendly.
Or, retake them with your camera and set the camera down from "mega_stupid_ big" (or whatever your brand of camera calls it) to a smaller size that you need.

Set your camera to take your pictures for uploading @ 640x480. That will more than likely take care of your situation. Also the camera will compress your picture with no degradation to your picture. By compressing the picture the file size can change to 3x smaller. There is also a program, http://www.cyberviewcd.com/cvimage/index.html
that does a great job compressing pictures and is very user friendly. It puts two pictures on the screen with a slide bar and you can see the file size change and see when the picture starts to degrade.
Have fun,
Jon

With memory being so cheap, I believe you should take the pictures at the least compressed, highest res possible, then save off copy at a lower res after you transfer it to your PC. If you take the "picture of your life" at 640X480, you're stuck with a snapshot size picture if you go to print it, where high res will let you print larger.

Microsoft has a free power toy called "Image Resizer" that I use. I can right click on the picture file, and am given the option to resize it, without opening it in an application first. By default, it renames the small file and does not overwrite the original. Here's a link: http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe

Thanks. What I'm trying to do is change the picture on my profile and it says it has to be 640X480 or 50.0 mb whichever is smaller. Well the picture is 640X480 but the file size is 221.1 mb so it won't accept it. Can I do it somehow?

Mike, I'm sure there are several different ways to do it but what I do is shoot my pictures with the highest resolution for printing and after I put them on my computer I use Paint Shop Pro to resize them and save them with a different file name and a compression of 50%.

You can d'load a free trial of Paint Shop Pro.
http://www.soft32.com/download_344.html

Oh, one more thing, I think the PPI <or what ever it's called> of 72 is the highest you need for the computer screen, anything higher will have a larger file size but will look the same.
(someone correct me here)

Mike,
Get out your camera book and find out how to compress the file with your camera. It is very simple to do + your learning about your camera. By the way they are talking about kb not mb. Tell what kind of camera you have and I will investigate. Remember I am talking about uploading pictures the easy way for internet viewing.
Jon

Well, I'm probably the only one in the world without a digital camera, first of all. The picture I'm trying to use was sent to me by a fellow TCer, so I guess I'll have to settle for putting it in my showroom. All the other pictures I posted were taken with a $2.00 disposable then put on a disc by Rite-Aid!
I'm not low-tech, I'm NO-tech!!

You could upload it to photobucket.com (http://photobucket.com/register.php) and paste the url here for someone to grab.
(my email isn't working or you could send it to me for resizing)

Thanks. What I'm trying to do is change the picture on my profile and it says it has to be 640X480 or 50.0 mb whichever is smaller. Well the picture is 640X480 but the file size is 221.1 mb so it won't accept it. Can I do it somehow?
The type of file may be the culprit. A windows bitmap file (.bmp) is normally much larger in file size than a .jpg file even though both are physically the same size. I have several .bmp files that are in the 420x320 physical size range and are 230MB-270MB and the same file in .jpg format are 32Mb to 37MB. As Dean said you can upload it somewhere and have someone go get it and resize it for you, or if you like, you can send it to me and I'll give it a try and send it back.

Thank you everybody. I put it in my showroom with a link in my signature and it worked OK so I'm happy with that.

Nice 71 Mike !
What's the old Ford in the background?

We use to have a famous Radio Talk show personality here with the Irish name, Mike Murphy but that was just his radio name, his real name was Michael Hervey.
He started the first Kansas City's St. Patrick's day parade but he's retired now.

Thanks Dean. I'm not sure what that was in the background. Our local cruise night around here is great. Always 100+ cars and VERY diversified. Everything from Lamborghinis to old Packards and everthing in between.
I come from a long line of Michael Murphys. My parents are 1st gen American, meaning my grandparents on both sides emigrated from Ireland (the music, the brogue, the whole deal) so I'm 110% Irish-American.

i'm with dale...it was probably in a byte sucking format. like windows bmp....for future reference, you need to check properties and see if its a jpeg or gif or another web friendly format, any image prog can convert them (other than windows paint)