Want your images and photo's in the PikeOnline Galleries? Then this page should help get them prepared to send to us for inclusion.

Getting your images to Pike Online has become a whole lot easier than ever before. Size of images is always a problem when emailing, and shrinking an image to an acceptable size used to be a difficult task for many. Often the process lost the quality of the original image when too much compression was applied or detail was cropped out.

But no more, getting good quality optimised images from the raw camera original is now safe and efficient and to do so is FREE, no software to buy or install, its all done here in the web browser window. Now that's a great deal!

To help our visitors and contributors achieve this with ease we have loaded a link to two of the finest free image editing services on the internet, allowing you to do the job here in the site without doing any more than uploading the image in need of editing, making the changes and then downloading the image back to your computer ready for emailing to Pike Online for use in a gallery or an article.

In the words of a popular 'Meerkat', shimples......!

The main point of providing the service should not be overlooked, and that is to get a raw digital image from the camera down to a smaller size, retaining the quality to email to Pike Online. You can do this by uploading a regular image straight from your digital camera, and resize it to 800 pixels wide for landscape images and 1024 pixels tall for a portrait* image. *These dimensions will allow final cropping and adjustment to fit a Pike Online site image template.

NB: Ideally, please supply a 'landscape' image 800 wide by 600 high, to fit neatly into the landscape layou of the gallery template.

Prepare your digital images for sending to Pike Online by using the free services provided by www.pixlr.com.

The original service provided here,  'Picnik',  is no longer available after being purchased by Google and taken out of service.

You just upload your image to the services server where you can crop, adjust colour and brightness etc using the excellent online tools provided and then save the file ready for emailing to PikeOnline onto your own computer.

Take a look, its FREE, they offer a sign up service to store your images and Pro version which you would need to pay a small fee for, but the basic service of editing images is FREE of charge.

Click on the Pixlr logo above to launch either service here on the site.
A guide on how to use the tools on Pixlr will be published in the near future to help get this right.