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Wow! These are some great pictures! I really wish I could visit Mt. Rainer sometime! Too bad, because I have never gone west of Marquette, Michigan. The tallest mountain I visited was Mt. Mitchell in North Carolina.

One summer we took a trip down there and it was great! It is really beautiful in the mountanious areas of North Carolina. I took one great picture of a coal train going up the steepest grade in the US.

The second tallest mountain I have visited was Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. It is definately not as tall as Mt. Mitchell, but it is a lot more rugged. If anyone ever visits New Hampshire be sure to stop by at Mt. Washington. You can also drive you car up or take the cog railway (a bit expensive though).
 
Thanks guys, here is a picture of my desktop!

especially MacBandit for supplying me with the picture at 1024x768
 

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Originally posted by Awimoway
Thanks. I enjoyed the photos. My Dad's from Tacoma, and we could see the mountain (on a good day) from my grandparents' dining room window. I've visited there many times myself. My favorite is the lush forests and streams in the Ohanepecosh area on the southeast side of Mt. Rainier. I like how, because of the haze and humidity, Mt. Rainier always looks like it's floating in the air when viewed from the metro area.

And I actually visited it on my honeymoon, too. :)
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My in-laws live on in Tacoma on the hill above the bay near old town. You can see Mt. Rainier from their dining room and deck.
 
Originally posted by latergator116
ah nevermind, it says the file is too big. It basically looks the same as cwedl's except with tons of crap on the desktop.
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Graphic Converter is a great program for resizing photos. The thing to do is once you take a screen shot convert it from the PDF file to a JPG using preview and choose it's maximum quality. Then open it in Graphic Converter and resize or just save it as a Jpeg and slide the compression bar down until you have a file about 95KB or less. Once you do that you can upload it here.

I actually use Graphic Converter to edit my photos like, crop, unsharp, saturation, contrast, and white balance. it's a lot faster then Photoshop and a lot cheaper.
 
You can set file size using Preview, but I am not sure about image size. Doesn't Graphics Converter come pre-installed with some Apple computers? I forgot what all came with mine. One thing I'd suggest is going to www.versiontracker.com or www.macupdate.com and searching for a graphics program on one of those sites. There are lots of freeware programs out there that can do virtually anything you may need.
 
Originally posted by Powerbook G5
I use Photoshop Elements for my graphics converting needs. It was only $45 and it seems pretty fast to me.
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I don't know about the load times for Elements but the full version of Photoshop even on my Dual/1.4 takes 5 secs to load. GraphicConverter is open instantaneously on almost any computer you just need to chose the option to not show splash screen.

Also i got into using GraphicConverter for the image browser well before Photoshop had even thought of having such a thing. It's a god send if you plan on doing a lot of editing. Also GraphicConverter will do batch conversions.
 
Yeah, it takes a good 6 seconds to open PSE on my PowerBook, but working on images with Elements is nice and fast. Usually when I find that I am or will be using Elements a lot, I'll just keep it open and running and just hidden in the background.
 
I have an iBook 700mhz, so it shouldn't be TOO slow. I remember I had photoshop on my old 500mhz iBook and it took a good 2 minutes to open up....hahah.

quick question: aren't the images they upload into the photography threads bigger than 1mb?. If so, then how come it won't upload mine?
 
Originally posted by latergator116
I have an iBook 700mhz, so it shouldn't be TOO slow. I remember I had photoshop on my old 500mhz iBook and it took a good 2 minutes to open up....hahah.

quick question: aren't the images they upload into the photography threads bigger than 1mb?. If so, then how come it won't upload mine?
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No everything is 100k that is uploaded. If it's larger we link from another site.
 
Originally posted by Powerbook G5
You can get an account from a site like www.macsnaps.com and upload your pictures to link to here.
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Spymac.com has free galleries as well. Though I like the guys who run MacSnaps.

Also there are a number of free photo services out there that will let you store your photos on there server and host a photo site and you can also order prints of your photos from them.
 
Originally posted by MacBandit
My in-laws live on in Tacoma on the hill above the bay near old town. You can see Mt. Rainier from their dining room and deck.
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Near Brown's Point? I have an uncle (cousin, actually, but he's old enough to be more like an uncle) who lives there with a gorgeous view of the harbor, city, and mountain. We would go there every summer to swim in his backyard pool and take the trail from his backyard down to the beach. Nice place. Nice neighborhood, for that matter.
 
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