freeranger

Just replaced my btm bracket on my mtn.bike, and everythings working fine. I can repair, replace, adjust, and have a bike singing while going down the road. But I must be digitally challenged. Not so great with computers. With the basics OK. I own a digital camera, that I hardly use, and can upload (if that's the right term) the pics into a file on my computer, using the software provided with the camera. I can e-mail pics from that folder, but I cannot figure how to post a pic here. So, how is it done-it's probably so easy that I'll be embarrassed that I ask. But no kids around the house to ask, so.........

BluesDawg

Two main ways I know of.

1) click on "go advanced" below the message box.
click on "manage attachments"
click on "browse" to find the photo on your computer and upload it.
The drawback is the size limit. 100kb is not much.

2) open an account at a free photo hosting service that allows linking. I use https://photobucket.com/
upload your photos to the hosting site. copy the IMG links into your post. Some sites allow you to make a thumbnail link that opens a larger image when the viewer clicks on it.

freeranger

Well, tried the manage attachments, and my file was over the size limit. Guess I'll have to try the photo hosting thing. I still use dial-up, as I don't use my home computer for much more than what I'm doing right now, and it's had to have parts replaced as I had some problems with it. So, hope the photo hosting thing works--DG wants a pic of the Reno with the Zu-Zu platforms, and I'd like to post it!

bobkat

Another question from a computer illiterate - how do you make the picture smaller, which I assume means fewer pixels? So it is under 100kb to send? Thanks to you computer gurus!

rm -rf

If you download Picasa from google (free) to manage your photos on your PC, you can upload pictures easily to a picasa web album with one click.

Picasa is really easy for simple photo editing, like cropping, lighten or darken, and straightening tilts. It can resize pictures, too, when you export the original to another folder on your PC

Beverly

I use this site to re-size my pictures. I then save them back to my computer in the smaller size.

https://www.resize2mail.com/

NotAsFat

Any decent photo editing software will allow you to resize the picture in pixels (change display size on screen) or control the amount of compression when it saves to .jpg (change size on disk). Paint Shop Pro, Photoshop, the GIMP (for all you Linux users) are good examples of programs that will let you turn an image every which way but loose.

Thrifty1

Another quick and easy way to "shrink" your photo is to email it to yourself. Select your photo, select make my picture smaller when you send it, when you receive the email save the emailed photo attachment (change the photo's name), follow the aforementioned "manage attachment" proceedure, and browse/select/upload previously emailed/saved (smaller) photo. No external programs or entities to deal with.
Hope this helps.......

BluesDawg

If you are using dial-up, I would recommend shrinking the picture rather than going for a host site. Irfanview is the software I use to display and modify photos. Free download.
https://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm

Digital Gee

Posting photos is a simple matter of following all the confusing instructions, and then saying a prayer to the Internet Gods that you followed all the confusing instructions correctly, AND that you haven't done anything to irritate the aforementioned Gods, who, if you have, will refuse to let your image appear, but who, of course, will allow you to look silly posting one thread after another making the ATTEMPT to post a photo. Hope this helps.

RParker

trek p1.jpg

orbea e-mail.jpg

If i did this right above are pics of my bikes.

RParker

oops didn't mean tp post it here sorry

roccobike

Opening your photo in "paint" then saving will lower the number of bytes. If you check your camera, there are different level or degrees of clarity. Usually the camera is pre-set to the highest level to give you the best, detailed pictures. But this level uses the most pixels, resulting in the most bytes. If you use the lowest clarity picture, then, after downloading to your computer, open the picture in "paint" and click "save" to your desktop, you will almost certainly have a pic that is under the 100 Kbyte limit.

JanMM

I agree to resize smaller before sending if using dial-up.

Catweazle

There's a lengthy thread in the help and feedback section, but it contains some rather poor advice in places. Photobucket is about the least preferable image hosting service to use, for example, because they nuke inactive accounts after 90 days, and you risk having your post history littered witrh dead image links unless you access photobucket frequently.

'Hotlinking' images you see on other websites is a frowned upon practice, too. Very few webmasters like seeing their web hosting bandwidth get used unless the page the image is on is actually being viewed. If that webmaster is a vindictuve creature, and you've tried hotlinking an image from his website, you could well end up seeing it replaced with a scat porn piccy. Beware!


www.imageshack.us us amongst the best image hosting services. A freebie account there doesn't carry the "use it or you lose it" restrictions, and they provide an easy one-click thingy to generate 'thumbnail preview' clickable link codes to copy/paste into your forum posts. Images must be no more than 1.5Mb in file size, and that's a pretty large photo.

Any image editing software is good enough to reduce the size of photos if need be, but when shrinking them be extra careful to use 'Save as..." and give the edited image a new file name. Otherwise you will overwrite your precious original photo, degrading the image you originally had!




DG is quite correct in saying that reducing the piccys down real small and then using the forum facilities/image hosting is by far the best option for dial-up peoples!

Digital Gee

Don't forget, if you use a hosting site, to add .jpg after you insert the link in the little box.

Pamestique 

If you use something like photobucket (my choice) once you upload your photo the host site will provide you with several methods to upload phoots. I usually use the IMG code (makes sense once you use the host site). But you can also link the photo to the host site. You won't have to add the jpg but if you are resizing the photo and saving to your computer you should save the photo as an interchangable jpeg.

If you have a digital camera, it came with software that will resize your photos. I generally resize them to less than a 1000 kb (you don't want to reduce pixels - just photo size) as that is the maximum many sites allow for uploading photos. This site appears to allow much larger photos.

deraltekluge

There are two things about size to be concerned about: 1) The size in kilobytes; 2) The size in pixels. You should be using some sort of compression scheme (jpeg is pretty good) to keep size of the file down. And you should be careful about the size in pixels to prevent huge pictures that disrupt the thread.

1000 kbytes is a HUGE jpeg picture. This picture



is 500 x 292 pixels, and is 32 kbytes.