POSTING Photos

Below the posting box you will see “File Manager”. When making a post with a picture click on “File Manager”.

That will open a new box and at right you will see “Browse” Click on Browse and there you will see your system where you are to find your photo which you click on and then click on “Open”.

Write inside the box to name your photo if you wish then click on ”Add File”.

You may add up to 6 photos. When finished click on “Done Adding Files”. Then click on “Submit” or “Preview Post”

Best regards,

Any thoughts on how to resize a jpeg file?

If you're using windows XP, microsoft actually has a great program they offer for download for free. It's called "Power Toys", and there are a few of them in the list on their site, but the one for resizing pics if very nice (and super easy to use too. You just open the pic you want and "right click" on the pic. In the window that opens, click "resize", it will open a small window with choices such as small, medium, large, and custom (custom will allow you to actually choose the number of pixels wide and tall). This will allow you to make the images small which also makes the file size smaller so they can be uploaded here at the forum.

If you want to enter one here, I can try to help you resize the photo. My desktop with XP is down at the moment, and I am using a laptop with windows' new operating system, "vista" on it... which I do not like by the way... it's uses lots of RAM just to run, let alone trying to do anything on it... but anyway, you can email the photo to me and I will resize it to a smaller size and see if I can get it under 100KB for this forum, and email it back to you if it will help you out, no problem, glad to help.
~dale
kaela_laula@earthlink.net or
sales@www.DorrisWoodCreations.com

If you are lucky to use a Macintosh open image up in Photshop and under image size make it , say, 4" x 5". Then give this a name and send. Hope this helps.

Personally, I may even get up the 'courage' to {ugh} follow directions (guys do not like to read directions {grin}) and try posting my first picture. Gasp!

Great day to all my Randall bretheran.

ANY CHANCE, that anyone who knows how could redo the posting chart now that the forum format has changed? I had just mastered the old one and now that it has changed I cann't post.

HELP--PLEASE!!!

John Westbrook
#4496

Thanks to Capt Chris, I now know how to post.

Thanks again.

John Westbrook
#4496

You're more than welcome. I told you it was easy! If anyone else viewing this has trouble, give me a call.
Best, Capt. Chris

POSTING Photos

Below the posting box you will see “File Manager”. When making a post with a picture click on “File Manager”.

That will open a new box and at right you will see “Browse” Click on Browse and there you will see your system where you are to find your photo which you click on and then click on “Open”.

Write inside the box to name your photo if you wish then click on ”Add File”.

You may add up to 6 photos. When finished click on “Done Adding Files”. Then click on “Submit” or “Preview Post”

Regards,

Rhett

If I do everything as written, will I be able to see the photo(s) included with
the post when I hit "Preview Post" button?

Some forums I have been on, show the photo(s)in the preview, and some forums show only the written entry but not the photos in the preview.

If photos are supposed to be viewed in the post preview, I'm doing something wrong. Followed Rhett's instructions including "Done Adding Files". File Manager shows number of files OK.

When I hit "Preview Post", only the message shows, not the photos. Help!

Buck,
I get the same deal. My photos appear after I hit submit.
Best, Capt. Chris

And they are great photos as well. However, you should size them to fit the page, you old fart!

Now Perry,

You remember what the pretty lady says on late night TV..........

Size DOES matter, Boys.

Buck,
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. "All" of my photos are re-sized to "under" 110kb. They still do not appear in the "preview" but do appear in the post. Perry is just a little of his medication...and, after all, there's no pictures to follow this conversation with, hence his confusion.
Best, Capt. Chris

Capt,

I'm having a similar problem except that my photos don't appear in the post... Only the link to the attachment... I'll try one on this post to see if it works any different than my most recent attempt.

ETA... Nope... Perhaps too large to fit the page as Perry was suggesting earlier?

Definitely too large. Mine were doing the same thing until I followed the Captain's advice and resized my photos.

Here's your photo that has been resized with no other changes.

Thanks Rick... 640 x 372 gives me a good base for resizing all others from now on.

Thanks again

Guys, I hate asking stupid questions but I am hung up and can't find the answer in the forums. I was posting a pic to this group but the picture was only an attachment in my post. I followed the suggestions in the posting and still could not get anything but a link - there actual pic was not in the view on my post. The file size was less than 170KB and the max allowed is 250KB, so I "think" I am good there. Another member was able to fix my post, so I know it's cockpit error on my part - what gives? Appreciate your help. Bill

Bill
I believe they have to be smaller than 100K, that is what I always do and it seems to work for me

Peter

Ok - I am down to 128KB and the resolution stinks. I think I need to try some different conversion software. Thanks for the tip. Bill

Bill:
I don't know what photo editing software you have, but when you resize you are better off to start by compressing first. The resolution doesn't take such a hit. You can then resize to 99.8kb. Good luck.
Best, Capt. Chris

Thx, Capt.

I run Vista and use Irfanview to view and resize photos - but this is not working well at all here. By the time I get down to 100KB the resolution is shot all to ... you know.


If some running Vista can recommend some software for this purpose, I would really appreciate it.

Thx, Bill

Bill
I use Irfanview also, but with XP
I go into image, resize and resample and pick one of the two smaller sizes, but try to keep the quality up and then save with good quality
Try that

Peter

Bill I am not to good at this but I use Vista as that was what came on the computer. I use Microsoft Office Picture Manager. I compress first then re size to small web page size. My pictures are still not big enough but I just recently learned how to get one on there at all so am still trying different things.

Thanks Guys, I finally got it figured out and Irfanview is up and running like a charm... The problem was there were some extra blocks checked in the save menu making my pics go tango uniform when I resized them. I have no idea what those features are for, but unchecking them fixed the problem and my life is good again (don't ask how many hours I spent trying to figure it out though!!)