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!!)

Ok the last post on how to do this was 2010

Are the photo posting instructions still current? I'd like to try and post some pics, but I don't see a "File Manager" button, tab or box below the posting box. If there are new or updated instructions, please direct me to where they are posted. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

You have to hit the switch to full screen reply link. Then you should see the file manager in blue.

it's right there....just below the text box...you can't miss it...
well, I've plenty of things in my life, so maybe I shouldn't say that....
:-)Rocky

Such as right now... LOL

Thanks all. I hadn't clicked on the switch to full reply screen before. I just did and saw the file manager 'button' (as well as a bunch of other options). I will try for a pic upload later tonight.

Sweeeeet

Redneck photo tutorial:
Take a picture:
Example below:

...Crop the Redneck photo to get your ugly 'Ol hand outta' the photo..
Example below:

Next step: Rename the photo so you can find it! (Notice the cursor on "rename"? (Smart-huh?)

Step #4: This is where it gets a little tricky! Get ready to "post" your photo on the forum. See the cursor below? It's set on "File Manager"...

Step #5: After you click on "File Manager"...you have to select and find your photo in your documents or picture library or wherever you have stored it...In order to do that you need to click on: "CHOOSE FILE"...

Step #6: Find the photo you want to post. The 1st photo shows the one I'm gonna' post...The 2nd photo shows my cursor on the actual image, showing me that I am well under the 300kb...so there won't be any problems with loading it unto the forums...

Step #7:
Click "open" and your photo will appear...out of it's given storage area (In the case of my computer...off to the right-hand side...

Step #8: After you click "open"...Click "add" . You're almost done!!!

Step #9: Click "Done Adding Files"...

Last step: Just click "Submit"...and you're done!

The end result, depending on your subject, lighting, etc., etc...will be on for all of us to see.
Stay sharp, Capt. Chris

OK Everybody,
I apologize for deleting your questions and comments...and, in fact, want you to post any and all. I just wanted the "Redneck Tutorial" to run un-interupted for those who might find it useful. Of course: This is using my equipment and computer, server and host, etc...Your results may very...
Best, Capt. Chris

Excellent job Capt.! Thank you

Chris I have been unable to post photos for sometime now. One day several months back while posting on a thread I posted several pictures. I went to post another and it would not post. Since that time I have been unable to post a photo.
In your post above where you show the submit button with an arrow on it I notice just above that it says html is enabled. On my iPad mine shows html is disabled. If that is what's preventing me from posting pictures can you tell me how to get my iPad to show html is enabled. I asked two people for help and they say that it is a problem with the forum.? I have no idea what they are talking about. I just want to be able to post photos again.
Sorry I'm just not very uh computerized.

Ronnie,
I cannot address that issue, sorry. All of the photos in my "Redneck Tutorial", except the very last one, were taken with my Iphone "S", emailed to myself. opened up, edited, re-named and sent to my documents on my "Super Computer" (Tower-type) where I posted them to the forum. I have had very little luck using an Ipad (Yes: I have one also) for much of anything when it comes to photo editing or posting.
Sorry, Capt. Chris
PS: Maybe some of the computer geeks can help you. My tutorial was, after all, a "Redneck Tutorial"...CCS

Thank you anyway.

New guy alert - just trying to get the pics figured out. Mods feel free to delete.
Thanks, D.

Welcome Boomer. Great first post! Now show the rest!

Welcome aboard!

Thanks, I'm a long time lurker of the forums - finally stepping into the light. It's an early 60's 5-8.I'll post the others in the appropriate threads, just wanted to do a test fire first.

Dang Boomer... How'd ya catch on so fast??? Welcome aboard!

Hey Boomer,
Did you contact me about registering? Either way: WELCOME ABOARD!
Best, Capt. Chris

PM sent Capt.
Thanks

I can't find that thread about switching to a new engine/platform, so I decided to write here

Many old photos that were uploaded to the forum are not displayed now. Today I wanted to look at the old #21 again and noticed something. If you open a photo in a browser in a new tab, you can see the path to the photo. The photos are not displayed now, but if you replace .net with .com, they become visible. That is, most of the photos have been successfully moved to the new location, and the photo location inside the message still refers to the old location. It looks like need to edit each old message to give the photo a new path to display

this applies to those photos that were uploaded to the forum itself and are displayed as squares

Thank you! A very helpful hint