Round 37 theme announced!

[KiraKira]

Congratulations go out to BlueBlueKarou & Alliecat for their Round 36 winning shots! In the voting thread, Alliecat gave her blessings to BlueBlueKarou to decide the next round's theme.

BlueBlueKarou has come up with the following for Round 37:
"Best Friends".

***Please be sure your photo is approximately 500 x 375 pixels.*** (approximately)

You can submit your entries to me via PM or e-mail--deadline of 0:00 HST, July 24. I prefer PMs, but if you are having trouble sending those, you may e-mail me. My e-mail address follows, just leave out the spaces between the @ sign

justlikewasabi @ gmail.com

[DeadlyNova]

Oooh, what an adorable theme! I have plenty of dollie besties that would love to help me out with this challenge. <3

[renlee83]

This sounds so fun!

Question: Does anyone have any tips on how to compress their photos down to 500 x 375 pixels? Last time I tried it looked bad IMO. I don't think I did it right, and I'm sorry if it was a headache for you, KiraKira!

[Cornflower Blue]

If you use Flickr to host your photos, it's one of the optional sizes when you click on Download photos, View all sizes. Or there's something close to it based on the size photo your camera produces.
Here's what the screen looks like for me: https://www.flickr.com/photos/cornflower...6/sizes/m/

[MapleLeaf]

Terrific theme! I'm sure we will see many cute photos!
Hopefully I'll find time to take part.

[Alliecat]

OK, I'm finally gonna ask this dumb question, but, "0:00 HST"... do you mean midnight, 00:00, the beginning of July 24, or midnight, like 23:59, the end of July 24? Duh, but I'm never sure if I should take that "0:00" literally or whether I have an extra day XD

Renlee, if you're doing the re-sizing with software instead of on the page your photos are hosted with (Flickr? Photobucket?), when you re-size there should be an option to "maintain aspect ratio" which will keep the same proportions. Is that what you meant?, cos I didn't notice anything. Otherwise, like CB said, when you get the bulletin-board code to share the photo, there should be a menu offering different sizes.

[BlueBlueKarou]

Gah! Almost missed the deadline! Very hasty entry pic taken and submitted. Whew...

[Alliecat]

Shot mine today

[Cornflower Blue]

I forgot! Oh well.

[fishy]

Is it too late? Here is mine: weeb pals

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Is 0:00 midnight last night, or midnight tonight? If it's late just ignore it.

[Alliecat]

Is 0:00 midnight last night, or midnight tonight? If it's late just ignore it.

Yeah, that was my question.
Love those little sweaters!!

[KiraKira]

Oh man! Sorry...I just got back from vacation. I've not been online in ages...but that's no excuse. I'll work on getting a voting thread up.