GamerGirl Next Door: Ok, now what?

[GamerGirlNextDoor]

Hi, I'm Kirsten (aka Fyonha on SWTOR and related forums/podcasts/etc.). I just turned 45 and I'm super excited to find this Rebellion and its forums/fb pages (although I honestly despise FB and am not sure how often I can handle going to that Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy.) So here I am on the forums hoping it will be more conducive to my happiness.

 

Questions I have not found answers to:

1- How do I "shrink" my photo to <0.05mb? I'm a mac girl using a PC and I feel sort of un-nerdy with my lack of skills.

2- Has anyone created a spreadsheet that I can steal to track measurements? (Please don't make me create a spreadsheet! I'm hopeless with such things...)

3- Is it standard to create a personal thread for tracking progress, posting rants, etc.?

 

Thanks in advance for reading this and assisting me if you can. Have a lovely day!

 

[Grymm]

0.  Hello!

1.  What I've done for pictures is open them in an editor, crop them as small as possible to remove unnecessary bits, and save them in a more simple format (.jpeg).  Worst case, you can scale the picture down before saving.  As a PC user, I do it in paint, but I assume there an analogous Mac program.

2.  There are a lot.  Myfitnesspal.com which a lot of people use for tracking food takes measurements as well.  I don't use that portion, so it might be rubbish.  You could probably google "body measurement tracker".  I'm sure there's an app for that.

3.  Everybody does it a little differently.  A lot of people post challenge threads and track in 4 week increments.  Others post battle logs for long term tracking.  I've heard rumors that some people actually use physical paper - unconfirmed.

[GamerGirlNextDoor]

PAPER! *gasp*

1- Thank you for your reply. I switched from my Windows side to my Mac side and lo-and-behold, Preview works to resize photos. (Tools>Adjust Size for those of you on Macs who maybe had the same issue...nerd points re-instated, that was close...) Therefore, I now have a profile photo. Woot! I really should figure out how to do this in Paint.

2- Myfitnesspal records measurements? Must go look. (I did create a spreadsheet in Google Sheets. I'm so proud. I don't really know how to share it though, so if anyone wants it for the template, let me know. This day is Full of Win so I'm pretty confident i can figure it out.)

3- I'll meander through the forums a little more and see what's up. I think I may be in the wrong class/guild...further research should confirm where I ought to place myself.

[Jane Eyre Is My Patronus]

I have a tendency to use ribbet.com to resize and crop things, especially if they're things I don't really want saved on my computer taking up space. It's not a very advanced program, nothing anywhere near as good as Photoshop or even Gimp, but it works well for the basics.