How to make photos larger on blogger

For those of you that would like to make your photos larger than the sizes offered by Blogger, here's a quick tutorial on how I enlarge the photos on each post.

Note: I don't change the template to make all photos larger because I don't always want them all larger. These directions must be repeated for each photo on each post.

Be brave! If you mess up, you can always remove the pictures and reload them onto your blog.

Here we go....

1. Load the photo as you usually do. This is what you get.

2. Click on the photo and you will get a row of options at the bottom in a blue box. Click 'X-Large' to get the size below.

3.Now click 'HTML' in the top left corner next to the 'Compose' button. You will see something like this. It will NOT look exactly like this.
It looks scary, but don't panic! You are only looking for two specific areas.

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBEhyTlEOAt34tg8oZh6pCXYzAoCYMT7qeRr-EsVeFi1iRpsvK4Qefs7mnL9z1vS0ebfaKEmx3b6_uJ1IFvnHfu5SRDzixKMAz2m6ZLKzeXLMT5okUDHhbzm-t5EMZYGYkCI46e89G2kqe/s1600/IMG_1101.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://lAtLucvh2Ug/USwN_dGgPvI/AAAAAAAAi-Q/CxJ4-Y2VYLs/s640/IMG_1101.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>

4.Now, ignore everything else and look for the part that says 'height="480" and 'width="640", [highlighted in red above].

Change the numbers "480" to "640" and change the numbers "640" to "860". The photo will be correctly sized even if you have cropped the photo and the height is not exactly 480 and the width is not exactly 640.

5.Click 'Compose' in the upper left corner to return to the page where you are writing your post and your photo should be this big.

You did it!!

Blogger hints 4

Did you ever wonder how bloggers make those cutsie symbols?
[Sorry Mac users, this only works for PCs]

It's easy!  Just hold down the 'alt' (alternate) key, type a number using the keypad, not the numbers at the top, then release the alt key.


☺ =alt +1
☻ =alt +2
♥ =alt +3
♦ =alt +4
♣ =alt +5
♠ = alt+6
• = alt+7
◘ = alt+8
○ = alt +9
◙ = alt +10

♂♀♪♫☺☼►◄↕‼     These are 'alt' + 11-20

¶§▬↨↑↓→←∟↔     These are 'alt' + 21-30

▲▼ !"#$%&'(       These are 'alt' + 31-40

)*+,-./012           These are 'alt' + 41-50

Blogger hints 3

It used to be that you could really mess things up if you didn't know what you were doing, but NO MORE!! I promise that the world of computers is so simple that you really have to try if you want to mess things up!

If you ever get to a place where your computer won't do anything at all, there are several things that you can do.


1. Press down--all at the same time--'Ctrl' (control), 'Alt' (Alternate) and Delete. You will get a screen with a list of programs that are currently running (the 'applications' tab). Click the one that is not 'running' to highlight it, then go to the bottom and click 'End Task'. That should turn off the problem program and resume normal function.

2. Just hit the Esc (escape) button.

3. If none of the keys change the screen, simply turn your computer off, wait about 30 seconds and turn it back on.

Be sure to use Disk Clean Up daily and Disk Defragmenter at least every other week. To find them, click:

• start
• all programs
• accessories
• system tools

You can put shortcuts on your desktop by 'right clicking' then click 'send to' and click 'Desktop (create shortcut).

There are lots of programs out there that can help you do great things with your photos. Many have asked about making collages and that's very simple!

  Click this link to go to Photoscape.

'Page' is the program that does the collages. There are lots and lots of different combinations that you can use (all listed down the right-hand side). Select one and just drag the photos you want into it. [Just a note: there is no 'click for large picture' when you post them to your blog.]


The 'editor' is really nice and you can do a lot of different things like removing 'red eye' and adding text and speech bubbles and fun things like that.


You can 'animate' between a few photos,


Use 'combine' for several side by side row or a vertical row.  

 Just play with it and see what you can do!


Another great program is Autostitch-click here. This one will take several landscape photos and make them into one picture! It's very cool if you want to show what a view really looks like!


Other hints are here and here.

If you have specific questions, feel free to email me.

Blogger hints 2

NOTE: Basically you just need to change one or two numbers, but this explanation contains a lot of information that you might need to feel comfortable enlarging your photos, so don't let the amount of words scare you.

This takes a little bravery, as you have to edit the html (language the blog is written in). If you aren't confident doing this but still would like to enlarge your photos, I suggest that you

• click the 'layout' tab,
• then click 'edit html'
• then click 'download full template'.

This will save your current blog template to your computer hard drive.
That way, if you really DO mess it up, you can always upload the template again and all will be as before!
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**Enlarging photos - Click on the 'edit html' button on the post you wish to change. There you will find html that looks something like the section below.

NOTE: I have taken out enough of the html so blogger won't try to read it as a photo and tell me I have errors!

/xJhBBlDnEr8/s1600-h/DSCF1673.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} mg alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324641785610397602" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dTM6CTqhDek/SeTtfiuCZ6I/AAAAAAAAOVU/xJhBBlDnEr8/s320/DSCF1673.JPG" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" />

OK, now...first:

Look for the 'height: 320px' and 'width: 400px' (in red above).

If you find this, simply change the 320 to 480 and the 400 to 640 and your larger photos should appear in 'preview'.

If you don't find those, then look for the /s320/ (in blue above) and change it to /s400/.

NOTE: If you change the s320 and it does not make the pictures larger in 'preview', then you missed the 'height' and 'width' numbers and need to search for them again.

That's all there is to it! And now you can say that you have edited html!

Blogger hints

I have had some new bloggers ask a few questions about blogging, so I thought I'd share the few shortcuts and info that I know.

**I try to keep the amount of words on a posts short. About two screens of scrolling is what I shoot for because I'm sure most bloggers are like me and have limited reading time.

**Memes - I mark my email calendar to send me a reminder on the day the memes are posted. After my post is published, I click on the title of the post so that it comes up on it's own page. That is the url I use when we are asked to link to a post instead of the entire blog.

**Small print - Press the 'control' key and move the wheel on your mouse. Everything on the screen will get larger (unless, of course, you are turning it
the wheel the wrong way!)

**If you are continuing a thought about something you already posted, be sure to tell your readers that and provide a link to the original post. If they don't know what you are talking about, they won't stay and read.

**Don't put a lot of pictures in a post--divide them into 2 or 3 posts. It takes slower systems too long to load and, before broadband, I have been known to lose interest and move on to another page before it was fully loaded.

**Put your larger widgets (games and music and such) at the bottom of the page so your readers will not have to wait for them to load before any reading can be done.

**I usually read blogs with the sound off. It's nice that folks want to share songs with me, but, unless it's from the '60's, it's not usually something I really want to hear.

**You can schedule posts to be published at a future time. Just click the 'post options' button at the bottom of the composing page, click 'scheduled at' and fill in the date and time, then click 'publish post.'

**If you get lost in the many pages of a blog, just click the header and you will be taken 'home' to the latest post that was made.

These are just one person's opinions. I hope they are helpful. I will post more later.