Editing Incubator escapee wiki:Help desk/Archive 1 (section)

== Reducing size of uploaded images ==

How do I reduce the size of an uploaded image? Or will I have no choice but to somehow change the image on my own computer (which I also don't quite know how to do) and upload it again?
I've uploaded a portrait of [[William Wallace Denslow]] that is obviously much too large. If I can figure out how to do this reduction, I will be able to upload some additional images (all in public domain) that I happen to have scanend into my computer and could be of use here, such as a map of the [[Land of Oz]]. --[[User:Woggly|Woggly]] 11:27, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

:There's an automatic thumbnail syntax to use for this job, I've done it to the image on William Wallace Denslow.  I typed the following: <nowiki>[[image:Denslow WEB.jpg|thumb|250px|William Wallace Denslow]]</nowiki> - start with the image file name, end with the text you want in the caption, and in between (in any order) you add elements like "thumb" to make a thumbnail, and a width in pixels if you don't like the default thumbnail width, "left" or "none" if you don't like the default right-align, etc.  You can find all the details of this at [[Wikipedia:Extended image syntax]].  :)  [[User:Fabiform|fabiform]] | [[User talk:Fabiform|talk]] 11:50, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

::Thank you. Practicing in sandbox. --[[User:Woggly|Woggly]] 18:02, 5 May 2004 (UTC)