Blogger // How to Make Your Pictures BIGGER

We've been blogging for a while now and we thought it was about time we shared some of the things we've learnt along the way. Blogging has brought with it a whole host of things to learn some of which sound like they'll be tricky but are actually super simple (if a bit time consuming!)

So today we're gonna talk about making your pictures bigger. You've probably worked out by now that when you insert your picture you can choose between: small, medium, large, extra large and original size.

Usually when you insert a picture it's automatically set to medium. Previous to finding out how to make picture bigger manually I just made them extra large. But it was never quite big enough for those photo heavy posts.

Go to the HTML mode (top left hand corner click "HTML" rather than "Compose") and find the random letters and number which relate to your photo.

Usually it will look something like this:

<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-shm8Rr5xHRC2eIp_D2ir9EbhBranGl9WV7CA589mquWM0qV4AmapZWH7DQXCG8RCTP9mc4zp30HIgiv7ZWUDhDJu9hezgu63qKA-O7PCBu4ONXkrAou5DCJK5ayC2QBNWIqUN1ubLQCS/s1600/IMGP4471.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: &quot;verdana&quot; , sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-shm8Rr5xHRC2eIp_D2ir9EbhBranGl9WV7CA589mquWM0qV4AmapZWH7DQXCG8RCTP9mc4zp30HIgiv7ZWUDhDJu9hezgu63qKA-O7PCBu4ONXkrAou5DCJK5ayC2QBNWIqUN1ubLQCS/640/IMGP4471.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div>

Scary I know, but most of it you can ignore.

If you're struggling to find the right bit of code I sometimes find it easiest to hit return a good number of times before and after the picture so I can easily identify the correct bit of code and then delete the extra lines afterwards.

I've highlighted the relevant bits of the code in RED so you know where you're looking. Basically you're changing the height, the s value and the width. Usually what I do is make the photo extra large and then change the numbers. I generally add half the original number. A height of 424 becomes 636 and a s-value and width of 640 becomes 960. 

Basically you go from this:

to this..

Unfortunately you do have to do this for each individual picture which is a bit of pain and why I usually only do this on posts that will actually look a lot better because of it.

Let us know if this works for you and what other tips you would like!

Kate // SK