I do pretty much the same thing only I use a different program. I hate fuzzy out of focus pictures. Especially when they are taken with a low DPI cell phone camera.
>I take my pics at the largest settings my camera will do. It's easier to shrink a high DPI photo and keep it clear than it is to increase the size of a low DPI photo.
>Then I download them to the computer.
>Then I transfer them to another file for web ready pics.
>Then I reduce them to 640x480.
>Then I might hit them with a wee bit of sharpening to bring out the focus.
I can do a pic from downloading to finish in about the time it took me to post this.
After that I can upload them through the forum's system, or use photobucket.
Either way I put clear pics on the forum that are easy for people to see.
Joe