Re-sizing your photos for the gallery
The single most common problem I encounter with the gallery is users reporting an ERROR 500 message when trying to upload a photo.
The cause of this is that users are trying to upload images that are too large for the gallery program to handle.
This is not the end of the world as it's really easy to re-size your photos and it needn't cost you a penny! All you need is a free image resizing program. I have used a countless number of such programs and the best of all is called 'PIXresizer'
PIXresizer is a photo resizing program to easily create web and e-mail friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes.
The reduced files are saved in a different folder, so your original images are not altered at all. PIXresizer offers several different resizing methods to choose from and can automatically recognize image sizes to calculate the best fit. In addition, it can convert between image formats (JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG and TIFF), rotate images, convert to grayscale and resize multiple images in batch mode.