How to upload a photo

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kuluchicken

kuluchicken

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I'm battling to upload an image. Do I use 'attachments' or 'insert image'.

With both of them I can load it from my computer....but then I don't know what to do further to get it to show. It's 1.31mb big...is that possibly too large?

Help please :)
 
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If you want to attach one from your computer, click 'Insert Image'. Then, when
that box comes up, choose 'select files'. That should bring up your photos and
you can choose from it.
 
I tried to upload a photo of our Van, But I couldn't do it. I try again
 
Keep in mind that screen images are only 72 dpi resolution, so use any image editing software to resize it to 72 dpi with the onscreen size at what you desire (such as 11" wide or whatever).
Then save it as a jpg, and upload it to your space on your internet provider's server, or to flickr or some other cloud storage service. That way you have a URL to insert between the image tags as Prospero showed. When you do this, you are telling the Grumble software to point to and show the image, rather than having to attach the image itself, where it would take up space on the Grumble's server. Hope that was clearer than it sounds.
:cool: Rick
 
My suggestion would be to subscribe to one of the free image storage areas such as PhotoBucket.

Once you have an account, all you need to do is drag an image from your computer into a box on the screen and it is stored for you – no need to clog up your hard drive with redundant images.

Once the image(s) are uploaded, there is a box that you can click to reference that image. It automatically provides a link to it so all you have to do is paste that link to wherever you wish to have the image displayed such as The Grumble. You can also use Photobucket to reference those images in an e-mail – just about anywhere.

I am most familiar with Photobucket but other sites work similarly, I think.

Photobucket also has features where you can organize your files, add tags, and even has bare bones editing.
 
Once you have an image showing on a web page, r-click the image and you get a little drop-down box. Click 'copy image url'. Go to your reply field on the G and click the 'Insert Image' button at the top. Click 'From Url' tab. Un-tick the Remote reference box. Place cursor in the URL field and Ctrl - V. The image url will be pasted in.
Click OK - Bingo. ;)
 
My preferred method of resizing for attachments may horrify some...
  1. Select the files you want to attach in an explorer window (windows button + E), right click and select "send to" - "mail recipient".
  2. Select "Large" from the next pop-up.
  3. A new email message will open with the downsized files attached, copy those and save them in a new folder somewhere.
  4. The files in the new folder can now be attached on the forum.
 
Lance E said:
My preferred method of resizing for attachments may horrify some...
  1. Select the files you want to attach in an explorer window (windows button + E), right click and select "send to" - "mail recipient".
  2. Select "Large" from the next pop-up.
  3. A new email message will open with the downsized files attached, copy those and save them in a new folder somewhere.
  4. The files in the new folder can now be attached on the forum.
Click to expand...

Yikes. Every known photo editing software in the world has a one-keystroke command to re-size a picture. It's <CTRL><ALT>I in Photoshop, <CTRL> G in PhotoImpact and <CTRL>W in Windows Paint. Every paint program in the world makes it easy to do. Load the image, hit the resize key, enter the new size (height or width - the program will set the other if setup to do so) and resave into another location or with another name. Some of these have batch processing to re size a group of images.

Then there are the programs who exist for no other reason than to re-size images. I use Easy Thumbnails, http://www.fookes.com/ezthumbs/, which lets me re-size beaucoup images at a time with many options for sizing, renaming, quality, etc. It's free and works well so it should be in any imaging toolbox.

I really don't want to know why you are doing this and how you got started down this slippery slope, and don't want to be critical, but after rolling around on the floor for a while, I can't resist. :faintthud:

But if it works for you.........................:p:beer::cool:
 
I use Photoshop Elements. First I Image>Resize to the desired size at 72 dpi, then I choose File>Save for Web, which brings up a before/after preview window and lets you choose the quality as it saves a jpeg. Even at the very high resolution choices it creates a pretty small file size.
:cool: Rick
 
When I want to post something on a forum, I insert the web link with the IMG tags around it (as mentioned very well, above)

I usually either upload to one of my own websites, or to www.tinypic.com (free) Tinypic makes it especially easy, and gives you the link for cutting and pasting.

The framing forum server(s) have a size limit because of the requirement to store all of that stuff for eternity. If full size images were allowed as regular attachments, it would take a huge amount of disk space/bandwidth and take many hours per day to do each system backup. (and there are probably several per day) As it is, I think the database is several gigabytes :) Using an external server to host the large images helps the forum to be more efficient.

Mike
 
Thanks so much for all the great advice, I'm sure I'll be able to post the images now. My image was clearly too big. I had scaled the size down, but having the parameters now makes it a lot easier. I'll play around with the different methods shared if I still battle.

Thanks once again, you guys are awesome!
 
Larry Peterson said:
Yikes. Every known photo editing software in the world has a one-keystroke command to re-size a picture.
Click to expand...

:D I have logged over 25,000 hours in Photoshop so know the process pretty darned well. The solution I use horrifies many but I tell you what, it is universal, simple and fast.
 
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