Note from Editor: Ted loved getting photos of putz houses. For most of his activity on this site, if you sent him a photo of a building he had never seen, he would try to catalog it and post it on the appropriate web page. If it was really unusual, he might call it the "House of the Month." Unfortunately, he was becoming too ill to keep up with the House of the Month feature by the end of 2010. (Ted didn't want people to feel bad for him so he pretended he was no longer getting enough photos.) But as you can tell from the note below, one of Ted's gripes was people sending him 14-megapixel photos that took him forever to download and that he didn't even have the software to view properly until he had shrunk them down. After all, what was the point of sending digital photos that were 3000 to 4000 pixels wide when most people's screens could only handle about 800px, once you took the browser software and menus into account?

Today, no one is manning this page, but we left it up as part of the archive. In the meantime, the CardboardChristmas.com Forum page lets you upload photos for other putz house collectors to "oooh and aaah" over. But A: You have to sign up first and B: You still have to downsize your photos to 800dpi or less before you upload them.

Yes, I know you can upload 14mpx photos to Facebook and other sites without resizing them, but, frankly, photos look better if you do it with your own software rather than letting those system resize them anyway. If you have Windows 7 or later, you can do it right in the Windows Paint program. If you have an earlier version of Windows, or don't like Paint, try Paint.net, which is a program that works the way Paint should work.

HOW TO SEND PICTURES

I have a constant problem with folks sending HUGE pictures the size of billboards and/or of such high resolution that they take half an hour to download. I simply cannot use those on the website.

Generally speaking - too many megapixels are totally wasted on a computer monitor. They just won't reproduce that much detail. Those megapixels are fine for printing high quality photos on paper, but are worthless online - in fact, they are wasteful of time, space and patience. I have to keep the website as if everyone had old dial-up service, because many still do.

I use an average photo size of about 620 X 480 pixels, file size between 20 and 200K.

Check to see if your camera has an "e-mail" setting. That's the one to use when sending pictures by e-mail. For this purpose, many of the new, high priced cameras are wasted, especially if they don't have an "e-mail" setting. Cheaper cameras may actually be superior in online service. They seem to work fine.

I will appreciate it! - "Papa" Ted

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