posting photos

[rustler]

O.K. the dreaded day has come. Time to learn how to post photos. I have Vista Premium. And a photo in my "Photos Gallery". A tutorial please, how do I start a "reply" in this forum and transfer a photo from my gallery to the reply?
Instructions suitable for an idiot please.

[David M Johnson]

Try this as you reply. Type you message, at the bottom take note of the link "additional options" select the link and click "browse" find your photos on your PC and select "open". this will populate the link and all you will need to do is click the "post" button.
David Johnson

[Elwyn Aud]

Another suggestion is not to make the photos too big. 600-800 pixels wide is usually plenty big enough.

[Lauri Malila]

 Question: If I accidentaly try to put a too large picture with the message, is there a way to cancel it? Quite a few time I've been forced to write the whole message again because I have not found a way to remove the picture I tried to add. I'm not good with computers. Lauri

[Peter Nevai]

When you finish your message, and before adding the photo or clicking the submit buttom. left click and drag highlighting the text in the message box. Start at the begining of the message and drag the highlight till the end. Once the thext is higlighted release the mouse button and press and hold the ctrl button and with the other hand press the letter c (Ctrl C) This will copy the text into the computers clipboard. After doing this attach your pictures and submit the message. If for some reason it does not go through. Open a new reply window like you normally do. Place the cursor in the message box and the then click the right mouse button. A little box will appear asking if you want to undo, paste, delete all. Choose paste and all of the text you copied with be put back into the message box.

Or when you finished writting your message right click in the message box and choose select all, this will highlight all of the text in the box. Then right click anywhere on the highlighted text and choose copy. Then in a new reply window message box right click and choose paste. All of the text you entered will pop back into the message box.

I always do this if the post is going to be a long one. like this one.

[PerttiMe]

If you added the picture as an attachment, you can remove the attachment after posting.
- click Modify
- click Additional Options
- there's a check box with instructions: "Uncheck the attachments you no longer want attached"
- then you can add new attachments if you want to

If it is a linked picture from Flickr or something, you can just remove or replace the photo link.

[rustler]

Thanks everybody so far. This will now have to wait till after the w/e. I may have to get back regarding photo size, something about reducing pixels?

[Steve Helmick]

You want to go for 600 to 800 pixel width. If more, then the entire width of the picture won't be visable without scrolling, a PITA. For Stunthangar, I like to go for 100kb (which allows me to post 10 pictures in one post) average. For Stuka Stunt, you have to get under 50kb, and that includes the file name, apparently. While that's very possible for a digital picture with good background choice, it's just impossible if the background is terrible. A closeup of a model on a lawn or exposed aggregate concrete, for instance, is very bad, because the background soaks up a lot of the kb's and leaves less for the item of interest. Having a cute girl holding the model away from the lawn or concrete is a much better choice, even if she's scantily clad. Sadly, having a wrinkled old geezer is much more likely, but that also results in a better picture for posting, due to reduced kb's being soaked up by background data.  Steve
 

[Tim Wescott]

Having a cute girl holding the model away from the lawn or concrete is a much better choice, even if she's scantily clad. Sadly, having a wrinkled old geezer is much more likely, but that also results in a better picture for posting, due to reduced kb's being soaked up by background data.

Actually, that cute, scantily clad young woman is going to have big swaths of skin that are more or less the same color, while some old geezer is going to have skin that's a mass of wrinkles and blotches, which adds detail, which bulks up the picture size.

So, definitely go with the scantily clad woman vs. a geezer, with or without the Hawaiian shirt.

[Steve Helmick]

Exactly so, Tim.

Tan-lines would also be a bad thing! Ewwww, for some reason, that sentence reminds me of Sparky's picture with the "farmer's tan". I think that's what it's called. Not what I wanted to think of at all...  Steve

[PerttiMe]

I may have to get back regarding photo size, something about reducing pixels?

For me, having the larger dimension of the picture at 800 pixels is usually good.

Allowed photo file size is pretty generous on Stunthanger, so posting much larger pictures is possible. If you are posting something extraordinarily nice, a larger photo lets us see it in better detail.

My computer came with Microsoft's Paint program which is pretty crude but will do for resizing if it is all you have. I have another photo editing program but I don't remember if it came with the computer or with the camera. It seems to make some adjustments so that picture quality doesn't suffer during resizing so much.

If you resize a photo, you might want to first make a copy of it (Save As <different name>) and edit the copy. That way you don't lose or wreck the original.