How do I add larger pictures to my Registry Set?

joelwalter

I have my 1999 Bowman Chrome Gold Refractors baseball set on the registy (mine is the one at 37%)

I was trying to add pictures to no.112 Jake Westbrook. I have a picture up now, but it is much smaller than what others have in their sets. How do I go about getting a nicer, bigger picture to come up?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Joel

fsjeter

Joel,

I set my scanner to 800 dpi and shrink it to 1.00 in. in height with 70% compression (when I save it to .jpeg format). The pictures are pretty large but only take up 30 to 40 kb. Check out the size of the pictures on my 1976 Topps Football Set (The '67's I took with a digital camera not a scanner). Some are set to a height of 1.25" (50 to 60 kb) and some to 1.00" (30 to 40 kb).

Scott

phreakydancin

Scott, some of yours are so tall that the Previous and Next links are off the screen.

I scan my cards at 200 dpi, use a photo editor to crop to the edges of the holder, then shrink each pic to 600 pixels high, for a nice even look as you click Next through the cards. Each pic is about 55 KB. Check out the link in my sig.

PlayBall

Phreaky,

When I click on the your pictures, they are all to tall for me to see the <previous> and <next> links also. Is this a function of certain monitors or different hardware on different computers?

phreakydancin

Could very well be. I run my monitor at 1400 X 1050, but even at 1024 X 768, which is about the standard now, I figured a 600-pixel high picture should fit okay. Scott's Franco Harris card pic is 1000 pixels high.

yawie99

My monitor's set at 1024x768 and phreaky's stuff fits nicely on the screen while fsjeter's cards - and the all-important links - extend below the screen. I too scan my stuff at 200 dpi but shrink it a little more than phreaky's (anywhere from 450 to 500 pixels high, depending on the issue). But I also crop around just the card and leave out the slab and flip.

Here's a link to my stuff if you want to check my scans out. I've redone them at least three times and put about 9 million hours into it, so I sure hope somebody does!

phreakydancin

<< <i>Here's a link to my stuff if you want to check my scans out. I've redone them at least three times and put about 9 million hours into it, so I sure hope somebody does! >>

I've looked at your sets before (love the vintage hockey) and your pictures rock! Kudos for doing fronts AND backs, and for zooming in on the card rather than showing it in the holder. I can see why it took you so long

yawie99

thanks! i mainly do it for myself, really, but i definitely appreciate others taking the time to look at my collection.