How do I do this, show a picture ?

Quote from deucy28:

I noticed your charts lack crispness or sharpness.

I had problems initially when I started posting on ET last summer with my charts for Crispness and sizing on to an ET page.

The starter of the thread Charts of Note gave me good advice which was use .png extension, not .jpg. This indeed gave me better crispness. However, I had to take one more step to make the chart fit an ET page: I had to reduce the size of the image to be within a range that worked for me, anywhere from ....

from 875 x 492 to 950 x 534 range that worked. (This typically increases the file size.)

Here is the post that started my conversation with the thread starter "darkhorse" that led me into using .png extension so I quit stinking up his thread. Quite easy. (Our conversation was separated by some posts in between ours.)
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Hi Deucy,

You're right, that last picture I put up wasn't as sharp as it should be. I'm trying the .png format right now.

It does look a bit better.

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Quote from Slope Trader:

Hi Deucy,

You're right, that last picture I put up wasn't as sharp as it should be. I'm trying the .png format right now.

It does look a bit better.
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Well, marginally so. But something is still not right. In an earlier post your referred to re-sizing by manner of choosing a linear size of a chart you were posting, and dpi. My simple photo editor allows for that choice, too. But I wonder if you get better results if you play the game by selecting instead of "size," do a re-size in terms of pixels, sticking with .png extension.

minimum pixels
800 x

maximum pixels (to fit ET page appropriately)
975 x

The number after the "x" generally gets figured out for you by the software after you put that first number in as long as you elect to "resize and keep proportional." You probably know that, but just in case. If you don't have the capability, I can refer you to the freeware I have downloaded. Like any decent editor, you want to be able to annotate on your chart or around your chart frame. Feel free to PM me, and I can refer you. I use about 1% of its capability but it's all that is needed for ET.
 
Just tried simply adjusting the pixel width to 950 with no other changes and it looked about the same. Trying 950 pixels + 300 dpi now.

It doesn't appear better. Perhaps I'm limited by the resolution of the original screenshot I took, which was done with the Microsoft Snipping Tool and saved as a .png file in that program.

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Took the screenshot using either the Snipping Tool or the PrtScn keyboard button and edited the resulting images in several different ways. None of them looked sharp.

Then I took the picture from within the ThinkOrSwim platform using its printing icon & changed the resulting .png image to 950 pixels width in Photoshop.

This looks better. The best chart pic I've achieved so far.

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Quote from Slope Trader:



It doesn't appear better. Perhaps I'm limited by the resolution of the original screenshot I took, which was done with the Microsoft Snipping Tool and saved as a .png file in that program.
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Yes, I had thought the same thing too. You do have to examine the quality of what you saved before posting it to ET. Garbage in, garbage out.
 
Well that was intersting. This site runs on php and php has super simple integrated picture posting capabilities. But not here on ET. Can someone kick Baron in the butt and ask him to enable the feature?
Thanks!
 
Well that seemed to work, but it was a nuisance.
I still vote for having the integrated php feature where you just click an image of a picture to browse and insert a picture.
 
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