Here are 12 boring pics assembled as one image. Size is range is about 90 to 150KB when you resize and paste 12 images into one. Each one is 211 by 158 pixels, 33% of a 640 by 480 standard size. Below are sizeing instructions.

Car door handles here:

Oil  spots cigarette

butts dirt

dirty dishes, heating vents,

plastic spoons.....

This is a newbie friendly site, because I am. If any of the explanations are unclear, email: X@WorldsMostBoringPictures.
com. All capital or all small letters works too.

 Brick           Cat food     Cig Butt

HOW TO SUBMIT PICS

Submit your boring pictures by email to: X@worldsmostboringpictures.

com

At this time, each file should be no larger than 211x158 pixels and file size 33 KB or less. Hopefully larger file sizes will be possible soon.

Send only four at a time. Or one sheet of 12 or less. If you want your name with the pic you must put it on the picture itself. If you send larger pics I may not open the file. Or I may open your file and be bored enough to resize your pics. You have a better chance of getting posted if you make the effort. And I've made that easier by telling you how, below:

WHAT FOLLOWS are instuctions for people who may have never resized a photo or signed one before. Being new to computers myself,I have tried to make as few assumptions as possible about computer skills and hope it is all clear enough. It sounds complex, but when you have done it a few times, it is saved in some motor skills file in your brain and becomes quick(er) and automatic(er).

HOW TO HAND SIGN YOUR PIC

(see '..Composite 1' much father down for examlpe)

You can sign your pic by loading it into 'Paint', clicking on 'View', select 'Zoom', select 'large size'. Now use the scroll bars to go where you want to sign your pic, and then click on a color that is enough different to show up where you want it, and click/pick the pencil tool, or brush, if pencil is too small. You will now be able to sign your pic by holding down the left click button where you want to start, and moving your finger on the mouse pad, or using the mouse. It takes some practice. Use the 'Edit', 'Undo', until you get a signature you like. One letter at a time is good, then you don't have to start over if you wreck the last letter. Alternately, you can use a text program, then use 'Ctrl'- 'PrtSc', to print your screen (as a Bitmap), open Paint (the screen save is in a clipboard ready to paste), Ctrl v to paste the screen save to the new 'Paint', and save as 'jpg' for a file that will paste to jpg file. To get just the text signature out of the whole screen save is done the same way as explained for hand/mouse written signature, which follows. I don't know how to put text directly on a jpg at this time. The hand written moused is more individual anyway.

HOW TO SAVE AND PASTE SIG FOR FUTURE USE

You can save your signature for future use by clicking the dotted rectangle in the Paint tool box and useing the mouse to make a dotted rectangle around your signature, starting by clicking above and to the right of the signature and holding and dragging to lower left. You will see the dot or dash box as it forms. Hold down 'Ctrl' and type 'c' to copy your box, click 'File' and select 'New': when the new blank appears, hold down Ctrl and type 'v', and the new file with just your signature will appear. If you have any white around it, you will have to go to 'attibutes' in 'Image' and make the width and heigth smaller, if you make too big a change, use Edit - undo to try again. Save it somewhere for future pasteing, which is done by opening your pic in paint, reopening paint and opening the sig file, Ctrl 'a' (selects all), open pic from button at bottom of window, Ctrl 'v' pastes it on the pic, then mouse to it, click and drag it to its spot, let go, and save.

HOW TO MAKE FILE SMALLER

There are a number of ways to achive small file size.
First are the pixel dimensions. I have no choice but 640x480 with my camera, so I set resolution to standard instead of fine for starters. If your camera has ajustable settings, set as close to 211x158 as you can and check the jpg file size, on the camera, if you can. Later saving as GIF with computer can reduce that by about half. I have a batch convertor that comes with freeware called Stratopoint 11 View and I use that to make the 640x480 to 211x158 by resampling to 33%, at the same time saving in format compuserve GIF. It's available at 'Free Downloads.com' on the net. Unfortunately, pasteing the smaller gifs into a paint file and saving as a gif or jpg makes the file big again. Best bet is to just stay with JPG format thru the whole process.

In Windows, open paint, then 'File', Open':
open your pic folder and select what pic to open. When it is loaded into the paint program you can resize it. First go to 'Image', select 'attributes'
from the drop down menu. The pixel size of your jpg will be shown in two width and height boxes. Also shown will be the bytes, something like
144,546, which could be rounded to kilobytes by dropping the three digits after the comma, so, 144KB.
Close the attribute box and reopen 'Image', select: 'stretch/skew'. In the upper 'stretch' box, replace the 100 in the horizontal box with 33, and do the same in the vertical box. Click 'OK' and the pic is now only 33 percent of its original size in pixels. Recheck the byte size, if you have 33KB or smaller, you are done.

You may be able to further reduce the file size by saving as a GIF file, but it doesn't always work. Batch converting JPG to GIF using 11 View seems to make smaller files, but then when you paste and save in paint, it makes the file bigger! Stay with JPG.

Below are Paint windows showing the process.

   

RESIZE AND ADD TEXT USEING PAINT AND PRINT SCREEN

ABOVE ON THE LEFT IS A 640X480 JPG OPENED IN PAINT. AT THE RIGHT IS YOUR 'PrntSc', PRINT SCREEN FROM MY SITE. PRESS 'Ctrl' AND TYPE a TO SELECT ALL OF YOUR JPG, THEN CLICK ON THE DOTTED RECTANGLE SELECTION TOOL IN THE TOOL BOX AND PUT THE CROSS ON THE LOWER RIGHT CORNER OF THE PIC AND WIGGLE AROUND TILL A LITTLE DOUBLE ENDED ARROW APPEARS; THEN LEFT CLICK AND PAD OR MOUSE THE CROSS UP AND TO THE LEFT UNTIL IT LOOKS THE SAME SIZE AS YOUR SITE SCREENPRINT.

MOST OF THE TIME YOU WILL ONLY SEE FAINT DASHES INDICATING THE NEW SIZE. SOMETIMES YOUY SEE THE PIC SHRINKING. YOU MUST GET RID OF ANY WHITE PORTION BY CLICKING 'IMAGE', THEN 'ATTRIBUTES, AND REDUCING THE WIDTH AND HEIGHT NUMBERS IN THE BOXES. IF YOU CUT INTO YOUR PIC USE EDIT - UNDO AND PICK A BIGGER NUMBER.

 FOR ONE PIC, LEAVE A BAND OF WHITE AT THE TOP AND/OR BOTTOM FOR YOUR TITLE AND NAME. YOU MIGHT NEED TO MAKE THE ATTRIBUTES BIGGER, THEN RECTANGE SELECT THE IMAGE AND MOVE IT SO YOU HAVE WHITE TO WRITE IN WHERE YOU WANT IT.TO TITLE YOUR PIC, OPEN WORDPAD AND SELECT A FONT, A SIZE, AND COLOR AND WRITE. THEN TAKE A SCREENPRINT OF THE WORDPAD, PASTE IT INTO PAINT AND HAVE YOUR JPG AND THE SCREENPRINT OPEN ON YOUR DESKTOP AT THE SAME TIME.IF YOU TAKE A SCREENPRINT AND IT HAS THE JPG IN IT TOO, THAT CAN BE VERY CONFUSING. THEN USE THE RECTANGLE SELECT TOOL TO SELECT YOUR TEXT, Ctrl c TO COPY, CLICK ON THE JPG AND PASTE YOUR TEXT, Ctrl v. IT WILL PASTE INTO THE UPPER LEFT CORNER, THEN MOUSE UP AND CLICK ON IT AND DRAG IT TO THE RIGHT SPOT.

THE SAME PROCESS IS USED TO PASTE EACH OF THE RESIZED PICS INTO THE PAINT FILE, EXCEPT WHEN YOU OPEN THE RESIZED FILE, USE Ctrl A, Ctrl C, CLICK ON THE FILE YOU ARE BUILDING, THEN Ctrl V, THEN GO TO THE UPPER LEFT CORNER WHERE IT IS AND DRAG IT TO ITS SPOT.

BELOW YOU SEE ON THE RIGHT THE RESIZED JPG AND THE TEXT ADDED UBOVE AND BELOW. TO THE RIGHT,UNDER AND BEHIND, IS THE WORDPAD DOC, RIGHT OF THAT AND ON TOP IS THE SCREENPRINT OF THE WORDPAD, WITH THE SELECTION DASHES AROUND 'S.GOYA', READY TO COPY AND PASTE TO THE WHITE AREA ABOVE AND BELOW THE JPG. THE WHITE MUST THEN BE REMOVED, USEING 'IMAGE', 'ATTRIBUTES', TO REDUCE THE WIDTH AND HEIGHT PIXEL NUMBERS. IF YOU DIDN'T DO IT ALREADY. IF YOU ARE GOING TO ASSEMBLE A SHEET OF 12 OR SO, SAVE THE TEXT PROCESS UNTIL AFTER YOU HAVE BUILT THE WHOLE SHEET. LEAVING A BAND OF WHITE AT THE TOP AND BOTTOM AND IN BETWEEN EACH ROW, FOR TEXT.

I'VE USED FREEWARE SERIF PHOTO PLUS TO ADD A TEXT LAYER WHICH IS EASIER, BUT THE ADDED LAYER SEEMS TO MAKE THE FILE BIGGER, WHICH I AM TRYING TO AVOID AT THIS TIME, DUE TO SITE SIZE LIMITS.

RESIZING THE 640X480 60KB JPG TO ABOUT 210X216 JPG REDUCES FILE SIZE TO 20KB, SAVING AS A GIF GIVES A FILE SIZE OF 13KB, BUT IT'S NOTICEABLY WORSE. 20KB JPG IS FINE.