How to resize pictures for Craigslist and insert them in your ad

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By reachingmydream
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It is important to know how to resize images for posting on craigslist

Pictures make Craigslist ads more appealing. You can enhance your Craigslist ad and increase chances of selling by adding pictures to your ad.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Step 1

Resize the image. For this, I use Picasa which is a free download from Google.

To resize using Picasa, press "export" which is at the bottom, and then it will give you options for resizing.

Craigslist has image size limits, and usually you don't need any bigger than 800 or 600 -- if it still gets refused, try even smaller.

To limit image theft, I use the "watermark" option, and if you don't have a website, I would use your email or yahoo screen name or myspace page.
Step 2

Upload your picture to a website or to a picture hosting service.
Get free picture hosting somewhere like imageshack or shareapic(shareapic pays you for image views).
Step 3

Find the exact address of your image. This is important, because usually craigslist doesn't allow links and the popular image hosts give you code that links back to their site.

The address of your image should look like: http://preview.shareapic.net/preview5/015925888.jpg
Step 4

In your Craiglist ad, use the following code: < img src = " http://preview.shareapic.net/preview5/015925888.jpg " > -- except with no spaces between the < img and src = " and 015925888.jpg " > (this was showing up wrong when I tried to put the correct code without spaces. If this part isn't clear, go to the HTML Image code link at the bottom.

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