Thanks Warren. I'll make a note. I wondered why I couldn't make it larger....Cathy

I am a member of the CA. Blacksmiths Association and take photos for their magazine and have put on the gallery for their Spring Conference, taking photos of every item.
Here is how I do my photos I hope this will help and is not too much info.
Camera older Nikon D70S
Image size 3008x2000
Image Fine JPEG
ISO 200 or 400
White Balance set for the type of light (flash/daylight)
Most of the time I use the "A" setting set on at least F8
If you want to see some photos look at ptdco.etsy.com
ETSY is also a good place to see how other people photo their items and what back grounds work form them.
With digital photos take lots photos, the more you take the better you will get.

Pat

Hey Warren,if you click on the pic it'l enlarge just like that. Maybe that's not what you want, but I thought I'd point it out.

Daniel,

The thumbnails in the blog post can be clicked to show the full-size picture, yes. In this case though, the pictures were uploaded at a size that is only about twice the size of the thumbnails and it's a bit hard to see the finer details. What Warren was pointing out is that when you upload the picture you want to make sure one dimension is in the neighborhood of 600-700 pixels so that the full-size picture is almost full screen when viewed. No matter what size you initially upload, the thumbnail will automatically be sized to fit in the post.

These pics were uploaded at a size of about 15k bytes. They could have been as big as 150K without a problem and would have showed much more detail. When I upload pics here I use the Windows Image Re-Sizer power toy for XP and have it re-size the original 10MB images to fit a 1024 x 768 screen. That usually yields a file size of under 200K and works fine.

Thanks for bringing this up; it's a great opportunity to cover a subject that several people have asked about recently.

Rich

Thanx for the info Rich, I'm not too savvy with that stuff but I'll be learnin' plenty from this site on all the things I know will come in handy in the future.