[DrTKStern]

Hi,

I'm new to the Forum; but I have a large number of GIA certified natural pearls for investment buyers, Is anyone else going to the International Pearl Conference in Dubai on November 19, 2007?

Please feel free to contact me at this email.

Thanks,
Tom Stern, MD
San Francisco, CA

[Caitlin]

Hi Dr. Tom
Welcome. Do you have a web page? If so, put it under your signature.

Could you/would you put some pictures up? We love pictures of natural pearls and see all too few of them..........


Ps. I really hope someone who is going to the Dubai pearl conference will post here about it.

[DrTKStern]

Tom Stern, MD

www.TomStern.com

www.TheOneWorldInstitute.org

[Caitlin]

If you reduce it to the size I told you in my email 400 pixels high by 600 wide, it will not be too big.

Here it is properly sized. This is a good start. Thanks

Originally Posted by DrTKStern

I tried to upload, but file is 4MB and may be too large. Is it visible anywhere?

Nope. That's way too big. It has to fit a horizontal window of 620 x 280 and jpeg files are limited to 19.5 KB (it looks like all formats are the same size).

I use PhotoShop to crop and reduce the size before posting. I'm not sure, but you might be able to use your computer's basic photo editor to do this. If you reduce the size and the file is still to big, you might have to reduce the resolution, also something I do in PhotoShop.

Let Caitlin know via private message that you are trying to post photos, so she doesn't give you the boot.

Okay, I was writing while Caitlin was posting. Is that your pearl jewelry? Wow!

Yes, the site says 280, but 400 seems right in actuality!

[Caitlin]

Number 2 from tom stern

Originally Posted by Caitlin Williams

Number 2 from tom stern

The cloth is in great focus You'll get the hang of it!

Tom, tell me about the jewel. Did you get them from the Philippines?

[DrTKStern]

My cache of natural pearls comes from Borneo, Sarawak area.

[jshepherd]

Do you have any photos you are willing to post? Do you have any finished jewelry made up?

[Kevin Canning]

intersting author bio on that link there Tom, seems you had/have a bit of gold fever eh.

[Caitlin]

Hi Tom
Yeah this one was 4 mb. See how I cropped it to the edge so it includes little but the pearls? that is step number one. I personally like to reduce it by clicking on "Image" when you have the photo open. The on "resize" I pick 1.33 height x 1.77 width (more or less) or I switch to pixels and pick 400 high x620 wide. then it will be the right size.

BTW Looks like a Middle Eastern suite- Gulf? India? It has bigger pearls but the gold looks 21-22k. I just read that they are from Borneo. We cold use an education on that!

[Caitlin]

Now I am going to move all of Tom's pictures over here
Keep on sending them- we are just getting started!

[Kevin Canning]

yes keep posting, its not very often you get to see pics of pearls like these.