FOR BUYERS

FEATURED PROPERTY

 

1 ha northfacing section in vineyard district Matakana bush and sea views

FOR SELLERS

INFORMATION

How To Prepare Photographs

1. All photographs need to be in-focus, not too dark and in digital form saved in a folder on your computer hard-drive. You can have up to 10 photos per ad. Photographs saved as GIF's cannot be used so please save each photo as a JPG.
2. If you don't have an imaging/graphics/photo editing program and you need to do some work on your photographs, there is a free online photo editor at webresizer.com/resizer/ that does basic resizing, sharpening, optimizing, etc.
3. Each photograph needs to be no more than 640 pixels wide and 640 pixels high and less than 100kb [102,400 bytes] in file size otherwise the system will reject them. You can upload larger images than 640 pixels and the system will resize them, but they must be under the 100kb allowed. The system automatically creates thumbnail [small] images from the uploaded photographs for display on the ad page. The thumbnails are clicked to view the full size images.
4. Ideally, your images should be in a ratio of 4:3. Some example sizes are: 640wide x 480high, 512w x 384h, 400w x 300h, 384w x 288h and 352w x 264h. If you have large photos, consider cropping out things like the sky, wasted space on either side of your property, the foreground, etc. These things shouldn't be important, as it is your property that interests potential buyers. You may be able to set your digital camera to take 640 pixels wide photos.
5. If you cannot takes images at 640-pixels maximum width, reduce the size of the photographs so that 640 pixels is the maximum width or height. Use the following procedure:
   1. Go to webresizer.com/resizer/.
   2. To upload your photograph, click on the "Browse" button and navigate to where your image is situated on your hard drive. Select it and then click the "Upload Image" button.
   3. Below the 2 photographs, you can set a new width for your image. Type 512 into the "New Size" field and 50 into the "Image Quality" field. Click the "Apply Changes" button.
   4. Check the optimized image for sharpness and quality. If all is good, click the "Download this image" link. If the image has deterioated from over optimizing, change the "Image Quality" to 60 and click the "Apply Changes" button again. Conversely, if your image was excellent using 50 and you want to reduce the file size further, try it at 40. Don't go too far as the greater the compression, the greater the photograph degrades. The smaller the file size the quicker the image will download onto a viewers screen and you have a better chance the viewer staying to look at your property.