Posting Pictures

[Don Jordan]

Quick question: I just took my car in to be painted and took some before pictures but I don't really know how to post them. Is there a quick way to do this for the technologically impaired?

Seeing the before pix will certainly help you appreciate what I'm hoping it's going to look like.

Don

[HalfdollarMayflower]

Quick question: I just took my car in to be painted and took some before pictures but I don't really know how to post them. Is there a quick way to do this for the technologically impaired?

Seeing the before pix will certainly help you appreciate what I'm hoping it's going to look like.

Don

Don,

The best way to do this is to go to photobucket or imagestation and upload the pic there. Both of those sites are free to use & upload pics to. Once you upload the pics, when you go to your main gallery you should be able to copy & paste the url.

To post it on the message board, type in after & your pics will 'magically' appear.

Here's an example;

If you look at the top left corner of this page, you'll see the bright red & cream "P15-D24" logo. If you move your cursor over it and do a right click on the mouse you'll see a little menu bar appear. Go down to "properties" and click on it. That should bring up a little dialogue box that shows you the address (URL). Try it. It should say http://www430.pair.com/p15d24/mopar_forum/images/misc/p15_d24small_logo.jpg

That URL is the address for that image on the internet. If you sandwich that address into the tags, you'll get this

Hope that helps. If not, e-mail the pics to me & I'll upload them.

Gary

[greg g]

Or you can upload directly from you computer. If I only have a couple pics, I take them from the camera (or other file) and save them to my desktop. Then using the manage attachments feature of this forum, attach them to the post as thumbnails. This hoost server here will hold them and allow viewers to click on and enlarge them. That way you don;t have to register with a hosting site if you don't want to.

The manage attachments button is on the new post page, scroll down and it will open a new window. From there hit the browse button locate and up load you pics.

[Don Jordan]

I'm just no good at this. I went into 'manage attachments' and it asked me to browse and find the file. I know I'm doing something wrong. When I clicked on it I got a "failed" message.

Do I have to do one picture at a time? I see posts with 2 or three pictures on them - and thumbnails - I'll keep trying.

[Don Jordan]

okay - another question:

it seems my pix are 2.25 MB but the system will only take 122 KB -

So how do I make my pix smaller?

I guess what's so annoying is I finally learned how to work the camera now I can't do anything with the pix.

[HalfdollarMayflower]

Don,

Sent you an e-mail. Instructions inside. Hope that helps!

Gary

[50PlymouthSled]

You can resize photos with an image editing program. Such as Photoshop or Microsoft Photo Editor.

[Plymouthy Adams]

even easier and part of any Windows OS is the program under accessories.....Paint...

used the IMAGE tab and select strech/skew size by percentage and use 'save as" to retain you original and mark this as a BB file (bulletin board)

[greg g]

Don it can get frustrating till you get the hang of it and muscle memorie takes over. Try this. Right click on you desk top and create a folder called Forum pics or something similar. Place the pice you want to post in this file by doing a save as "desktop folder name". The browse button allows you to sort through the locations on your computer where you have stuff stored. So find desk top, open you folder and select your images, by clicking on the image file than hitting open. when you get back to the manage att. pop up, it will allow you to select others by hitting browse again.

I believe the message about size can be adressed by selecting the resolution/sharpness setting on your camera. remember you are posting snapshots not portraits. This may be especially true on current cameras with many mega pixels. The camera I use is an old one with 1.3 MP so I never get a image size message.

remember to select the go advanced button on you message. This will allow you to preview your post to see if your files are attached and they are the ones you intended.

Keep hacking at it you'll get it.