Prequel
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Category: General Fiero Chat
Forum Name: Members Rides
Forum Description: A place to show off your car. Please try to keep your pics under 800 x 600.
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Topic: Prequel
Posted By: Romeo
Subject: Prequel
Date Posted: 16 November 2008 at 10:55pm
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Hey, I'm new here. Just thought I'd post some specs of my car. It's a Black 1986 GT, equipped with a four speed. I plan to pump up the engine a bit more (I've got a K&N Air Filter, and I've pretty much gone top-end on the electrical system, but it's otherwise stock) but keep the body stock. Interior, I was hoping to put a 10" TW5 Subwoofer in behind each seat (they're thin, 2.5") and bump up the rest of the sound without weighing down the car too much. I picked this up from a family friend for $2000 in perfect working condition when I was 14 (I'm only 18 now, mind you) and drove it to Saskatchewan and back no problem last year. Hopefully, if I find the money, I plan to buy another Fiero, preferably a cheap one, and then I'll go all-out with a V8 and exterior modification. I'll try and make it out to the next meet with it. And if anyone could help me upload pics, I'll post them too! ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
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Posted By: Patrick
Date Posted: 16 November 2008 at 11:14pm
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Welcome, Romeo! There's a good bunch of people in this club with lots of knowledge to share. So where is "back"? ...... Vancouver? Chilliwack? Victoria?
Icon, top row second from right (in the Post window) - click it. Just make sure your images are compressed to be no larger than 125kb and perhaps no wider than 800 pixels (to prevent the need for side to side scrolling while viewing the thread). |
Romeo wrote:
Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 17 November 2008 at 5:39pm
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Back is the small town of New Westminster, very close to Surrey. Alright, I'll have to find a way to compress them, they're 2.2Mb big... And awesome, I thought this place seemed very cool in terms of community. Is there going to be a meet on the 13th? ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: Capt Fiero
Date Posted: 17 November 2008 at 8:26pm
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Yep Club meeting December 13 at Ricky's. Its an early start meeting. Will post details on the club email list. ------------- Capt Fiero 88 Fiero GT 5spd V6 Eight Fifty Seven GT V8 5spd. |
Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 17 November 2008 at 10:25pm
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Sooper dooper. And if I just put my pictures in MS Paint and reduce the overall size, will that shrink the file size as well? ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 20 November 2008 at 1:00pm
Ok, it may have taken a while, but here's my car, in a horribly compressed and probably re-sized-incorrectly photo. ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: Patrick
Date Posted: 20 November 2008 at 1:59pm
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That's got to be the worst job of re-sizing, compressing an image I've ever seen. I don't know what you used, but a free program that works great is http://www.irfanview.com/ - IrfanView .
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Posted By: kawana
Date Posted: 20 November 2008 at 2:33pm
wow, thats some pretty crappy bodywork someone did to that car.. its all jagged and rough looking.. 
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Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 20 November 2008 at 2:44pm
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LOL! Yes, it is the worst. I used MS Paint, and did it in three section because the photo was so large. Yeah, the body work has 1000's of little edges, but it makes a mean lawnmower. =D ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: hangmans8
Date Posted: 20 November 2008 at 10:01pm
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that looks like the car dave, patrick and i scraped a few weeks ago. ------------- 1987 gt 5spd |
Posted By: Patrick
Date Posted: 20 November 2008 at 10:09pm
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It's even got that extra set of two stripes on it above the Aero trim (except it has a red stripe instead of a black one as shown on our "victim" below).
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Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 20 November 2008 at 11:03pm
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Well I still love it, stripes and pixelation included. =) ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: Capt Fiero
Date Posted: 20 November 2008 at 11:08pm
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Romeo email me a few pics of your car, to david@westcoastfieros.com and I'll resize them for you and post em. ------------- Capt Fiero 88 Fiero GT 5spd V6 Eight Fifty Seven GT V8 5spd. |
Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 20 November 2008 at 11:20pm
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Okie dokie. ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: marcelvdgn
Date Posted: 20 November 2008 at 11:35pm
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romeo just use the pant program every pc come with theres a fuction to strech and skew in the image folder open your photo and shrink both vertical and horizontal by percentage do a save as, renaming and check the file size if still to large do again i shoot my photos using a 10 megpixel camera and reduce to 10 percent for this sight Marcel ------------- Marcel 86SE V6 Auto 85SE V6 Auto 85 2m4 soon to be sleeper 3.8sc 5 speed |
Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 20 November 2008 at 11:41pm
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I did, however, unfortunately the 8.1 million pixels didn't take to well to being compressed. ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: Patrick
Date Posted: 21 November 2008 at 12:45am
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The pixels couldn't care less. There's no reason why an 8 meg image can't be resized and compressed properly. Try again!
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Posted By: Capt Fiero
Date Posted: 21 November 2008 at 9:54am
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Uhm guys, just an odd question, but how come you are not using the windows xp power toy, image resizer. http://www.westcoastfieros.com/forum/uploads/CaptFiero/2008-11-21_095220_ImageResizerPowertoySetup.zip - 2008-11-21_095220_ImageResizerPowertoySetup.zip Unzip, install, and then when you want to resize a pic, just right click on the photo or group of photos, tell it how big or small you want it, and it does it. No fuss no muss. Only thing is you can't have the photo open when you do it. You click on the file or files when it is in a folder. ------------- Capt Fiero 88 Fiero GT 5spd V6 Eight Fifty Seven GT V8 5spd. |
Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 21 November 2008 at 2:23pm
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Oops. In my defense, I'm on Vista. =D ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: Patrick
Date Posted: 21 November 2008 at 3:17pm
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...and in my defence, when I'm not capturing/editing video, I'm running Win98SE. Especially for batch resizing/compressing of images, http://www.irfanview.com/ - IrfanView is tough to beat.
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Posted By: 85SEnochie
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 9:13am
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OOOOHHH! that explains alot |
I use a 10 mg pixal camera and use Microsoft Office Picture Manager to edit pic to 800 x 600 it drops from 2.96 mb to 201 kb do you have office? If you want to keep the origenal high ressalution make shure you copy and paste and play around with the copy Is the pic a JPG file if not use paint and save as JPG that by its self will bring the file size down if its not a JPG.Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 12:25pm
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It is a JPG, however the Paint program can't grab all four corner of the picture in one go, so I end up editing three sections, and they come out with pixelation everywhere. Still, Capt Fiero was very kind and offered to try and help me along, so we'll see how that goes. lol ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: Matt
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 12:32pm
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I just use photoshop for all my image re-sizing. Please re-post a picture once you get the re-sizing thing down. ------------- I wanna go fast. |
Posted By: Capt Fiero
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 12:39pm
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These are the pics you sent me, I need higher res ones if you want me to tweak them a bit.
------------- Capt Fiero 88 Fiero GT 5spd V6 Eight Fifty Seven GT V8 5spd. |
Posted By: 85SEnochie
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 12:40pm
| Right click on the pic go to (open with) and see what options you have. Find out if you have someting besides paint to resize. |
Posted By: Matt
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 12:44pm
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That's alot of hot water heaters.
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Posted By: Capt Fiero
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 12:49pm
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Ok grab this app from my server, unzip and install. Its a vista compatable image resizer. http://captfiero.com/vso.zip - http://captfiero.com/vso.zip
------------- Capt Fiero 88 Fiero GT 5spd V6 Eight Fifty Seven GT V8 5spd. |
Posted By: 85SEnochie
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 12:54pm
| Does the whole pic show up in paint when you open it? If so go to strech/skew should show 100% by 100% in the strech box put in both box's 25% and click ok do a save as what ever and now there will be two of the same pix. One will have the old name and the other one will have the new name. I'm not shure what part of that is not working let me know. |
Posted By: Patrick
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 2:36pm
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A man's got to be able to shower properly. Heh heh, I didn't know what you were talking about until I went back to look at those images.
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Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 4:03pm
Yeah, dad's a plumber. Sadly, they're all gone now, but yeah, at one point there was 42 hot water tanks. To put that into perspective, that roughly 6300 litres of hot water capability. lol
PS, thanks for the Vista tool! ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |
Posted By: 85SEnochie
Date Posted: 24 November 2008 at 4:06pm
What no pix? 
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Posted By: Romeo
Date Posted: 25 November 2008 at 7:03pm
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I do believe there are a few on page 1. =) ------------- Never shift into reverse without a back-up plan. |