Tagorama

[martinrz]

Here it is then, was from last week as i cant ride far (Clue), hope thats OK with everyone.

[PeterJ]

Ill be off to get that one then.....

[PeterJ]

Millenium Water feature in High st Leeston. Yet another Y2K project, There should be a list of these Y2K features as they are proving to be a great source for Tagorama players..

[Guzza]

Here it is then, was from last week as i cant ride far (Clue), hope thats OK with everyone.

And how exactly is Leeston not far from Papanui? LMAO!

[PeterJ]

Here is the next one, Bit closer to town. Nice and easy.

[martinrz]

Well done. I cant ride far at the moment which is why i used a file photo from last week ie the clue was last weeks tag "Southbridge". You could read it the other way eh, ops.

[PeterJ]

Here it is then, was from last week as i cant ride far (Clue), hope thats OK with everyone.

It's not far from Southbridge though and I a picking the pic was taken last weekend .

[Guzza]

Here is the next one, Bit closer to town. Nice and easy.

It was a bit of an epic over Dyres Pass with the weather being what it is at the moment. I've never been right down to the jetty so wasnt keen to ride the Bitch into the unknown. Its at the end of Jetty Rd with a couple of hundered meters of metal thrown in at the end of it for good measure

[FJRider]

I must give you credit ... for bravery, in taking the Bike out there in the wet ... Well done.

I think this IS the one...

[Guzza]

This one is gonna be pretty obscure so plenty of clues. Its on a hill and I didnt have to go out of my way to shoot it on my way home. Behind it is a small reserve. Who ever finds it, take a good look and tell us what it's original use was. I would gladly show you the road side view from google but I'm damned if I know how to grab a pic from it.

[Transalper]

.....clues. Its on a hill and I didnt have to go out of my way.....

Not so obscure then.
That's the first hill I started cycling up. I have drank from that tap.
Here's a street view image.

[Guzza]

Not so obscure then.
That's the first hill I started cycling up. I have drank from that tap.
Here's a street view image.

How do you do that?

[Transalper]

Assume you mean produce a picture from Google Maps Street View.

Question first... do you have any programs that will let you crop a picture?

It can be done in Microsoft Paint (included with most or all windows operating systems), but they do make it difficult.

[Guzza]

At present I lift pix directly off my camera. I have the ability to do some basic editing there, including cropping. Is cropping important?

[Transalper]

Only to get rid of the extra surrounding bits you don't want to show (like street names).
I crop most my street view pics.

The key is when you have the view you want in Google Maps (or almost any other application) to hold down the [Alt] button and press/release the [Print Screen] Button (some keyboards just have [Prt Scrn] on them).
What that does is capture a screen shot of the current active window and stores it in the clipboard. You can just press [Print Screen] by itself but that will capture a picture of your whole screen including task bar if it's not hidden and anything else you may have showing.
Next you must open your picture software and past the screen shot in to it.
That may require you to make a new blank document and then past (may be done via menus Edit/Paste within the program.)
I like using Adobe Photoshop Elements in which I go to the menu 'File' and then it has a option to 'create new from clipboard' and it's ready to edit.
The rest should be as usual for a photo.


If you don't have anything to edit, crop, resize, compress pictures then you could go download this little free one... **assuming your using a windows PC**
Infranview.
I think Nelsons Nordieboy recommended it once.

A quick resize lesson for when the photos are just bigger than needed...
After you install that resizing is just a couple of clicks away.

After you save you picture from the camera to the PC you....
1- open your picture with Infranview.
2- Then click the word 'Image' in the menu list along the top and drop down the list that appears and click the words Resize/Resample'
3- Now you get a new little dialogue window where you can choose a new size. Just click the 800x600 Pixels (on the right side about 2nd down)

4- Click ok.

You could also adjust contrast/colour with this program, but one thing at a time I guess.

5- Now click the 'File' menu (up the top left).
In the dropdown list click 'Save (Original)'

There may be a little compression option window appear where you can move a slider to compress quality more but just having resized to 800x600 should make things ok for a starter.

6- Give it a new name if you don't want to overwrite the original.
7- Then click 'Save'
Your done.
The newly downsized photo will be ready to upload in a fraction of the time it was taking to upload the originals.


Cheers
TA.

If anyone needs more info it may be a topic for another thread somewhere else.