How to post a picture?

[HaroldILL.]

I finally got out of the 70's and purcahesed a digital camera. Anyways I figured out how to download them into my lap top windows 8.1,But how do I upload them onto the forum's? Thanks for any help as been on here awhile,But never posted a picture of anything.

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

First thing you must do is resize your edited picture. You can resize using either inches or Pixels for the dimensions. I use Pixels and the dimension of 1000 Pixels for the with and the default value for the height.

When you are ready to post a picture, go to the photo forum and click on Post New Message.

Type in your title, then the body of your message/story.

You are now ready to post you picture. Click on Browse, then go to where you have the resized picture stored on your computer, and find the resized picture that you want to post. When you find the resized picture, double click on it, wait a few seconds and the link will appear in the text/story part of your new posted message where you have your cursor parked on the page.. to see the picture, click on Preview. At this time, proof everything and if everything meets your satisfaction, click on Post Message.

I hope these crude instructions are of help to you. Looking forward to seeing your pictures. Kelley (Texas)

 

[Roscue2]

Harold, depending on your digital camera you may be able to decide on the size of your photos before you take the photos. Most digital cameras have a setting that allows you to control the size of the photo. Generally the size will be shown as something like this in the camera: 4000X2000. This example is for a rather large photo, but the smaller the number shown the smaller the photo will be in size. On Findmall the limit for a photo's size is something like 420 KB, although many photos are much larger and have to be resized if not done so before you take the shot. This is one of the reasons I post my photos in Youtube videos and then put a link in my post.

 

[HaroldILL.]

Thanks as I have a cannon power shot. What would that be in pixels? Also the format folder that you store it in is JPEG? or something like that. The ''other forum'' you don't have to size.And lastly what is the browser? Thanks as I know I should already know this stuff.

 

[Roscue2]

JPEG is a type of photo taken by a digital camera. They are much smaller than RAW photos, and easier to edit. With a RAW photo you have to transfer it to JPEG before editing it. I am not sure about the pixels on your camera though. It should say in the manual.

A browser is basically the computers way of browsing itself. Let's say you have a photo on your desktop. In order to find it you need to click the browser button (once you have started a new thread/post that you want to add a photo to) and then click "desktop" and it should be right there. The same goes for if you have a photo stored in your computers "Pictures" folder, "video" folder, ect.

 

[old lobo]

I'm an old guy who doesn't know how to do this either. I just bought a Nikon s9700, and the lowest resolution I can shoot in is vga 640x480. Is that low enough to go on here without modification?

 

[Kelley (Texas)]

the size you have set in your camera has no bearing on posting a picture on this Forum. I think that the size for posting a picture will be based on the size that you choose when you edit the picture in your photo editing software. I hope that folks with more knowledge on this subject will jump in and help answer your question. Kelley (Texas)

 

[MoSafari]

RESIZE YOUR PHOTO FOR FREE

Go to this website if you have a PC computer

http://download.cnet.com/GIMP/3000-2192_4-10073935.html

Download GIMP. This version has over FOUR MILLION DOWNLOADS. It has many of the same features as Adobe Photoshop, but it is free.

If you have a MAC couputer go to this website and download GIMP for MAC

http://download.cnet.com/Gimp/3000-2192_4-10322178.html


Install GIMP on your computer.

To RESIZE

1. GO to FILE at the top left of your computer screen. Click on it and select OPEN.

2. A new window will open with PLACES on the left margin.

3. Select the DRIVE where your photo is located... let's say "C:"

4. Select the FOLDER where your photo is located. The FOLDER where you saved your photo.

5. Go to your PHOTO and click on it, or, highlight it and then click OPEN at the lower right of that folder screen.

6. That will bring your PHOTO up in GIMP.

7. At this point, you can do a number of things to your photo. Just look at the bar at the top of the main GIMP screen.

8. Let's RESIZE your PHOTO.

9. Select IMAGE from the top bar of your main GIMP screen.

10. A box will open up. SCROLL down and SELECT ..... SCALE IMAGE

11. The SCALE IMAGE scree will open and the dimensions of your photo will be displayed.

12. On this particular photo, IMAGE SIZE read out in PIXELS as WIDTH: 1944 and HEIGHT: 2592

13. From past experience with GIMP and posting photos, I know that this is much too large.

14. Go to IMAGE SIZE. See the little up / down arrows just to the right of your width and height numbers?

15. If the photo is too LARGE, put your cursor on the DOWN ARROW and click down. If it is too SMALL, click the UP arrow.

16. Again, from past experience with posting photos in email, online, and websites such as CRAIGSLIST, I know that if my WIDTH
is 850 to 900, I will have a nice size photo posted. Not too large, but large enough to be seen.



HOWEVER... THAT IS TOO LARGE FOR FINDMALL.

FINDMALL's maximum photo size is 420kb. To resize your photo for FINDMALL's criteria, set your WIDTH at a 715....

that should give you a photo of about 416kb. You can scale it smaller, if it doesn't look right to you after you post it. Just go into EDIT MESSAGE while it is still open to you.



CONTINUING....

16. SAVE THAT PHOTO WITH A NEW NAME... such as BERNADETTE SMALL.JPG using SAVE AS under FILE in GIMP. You can alter the name of your newly resized photo at the very top of the SAVE AS screen when it opens. After you hit save, another dialogue box will open, again, click on SAVE.

17. When typing your message in the FINDMALL message screen, look above the message box and find UPLOAD FILE.

18. CLICK ON IT.

19. Select BROWSE. Select the drive, the folder, and then the photo that you just resized. After you have selected your photo, it
will appear beside the BROWSE button just above the Findmall MESSAGE BOX.

20. Click UPLOAD. that's all there is to it. Of course, you can add text in the MESSAGE box prior to uploading to give context to
your photo.


After you have done one, you will see how simple it really was. Good luck to you

 

[NM5K]

Too small really.. Or at least for good quality. For the best quality, it's best to shoot high res, and then edit to
make the image and file size whatever you want it using the various editing software. Your camera probably came with
usable editing software, and like one said, there is GIMP and many others you can download.

Most web sites like this usually resize the image to fit the page, but give you the option of clicking on the image to see it
full size. So if you uploaded a large image, the forum software will usually resize what you see here to fit the page, but let
it be clickable. I think around 900x??? or so is a good average image size as far as pixels. But most sites have a file
size limit, so you have to compress the image to be at or under the max file size that they allow. I've uploaded landscape
images as wide as 1600x??? to some forums. If the forum resizes, it will be shrunk down to fit the page, but clickable
to se full size. I'm using a Sony camera, and most often I use the Sony PMB editing software to tweak and resize.
I like it because it lets me know exactly what size an image will be with the various quality levels. So I can choose the
best level of compression/file size before I resize it.

Another example. I took this the other day.. The original image was a 4:3 12 MP 4000x3000 with a 5049 kb file size.
But then I cropped it, which left it at 2125x1914 and with further image tweaks left a file size of 1972 kb file size.
Way too large a file size for most any forum, and the image size also way too big to fit on the average display full size
without panning across to see it all.

So I then resized it to 960x864 which is a good size to view full size on the average display, and choose to have a file
size of appx 234 kb, which is a small enough file for most any forum limits. I store all my pictures on my own web server,
and do not upload them to the forums as some allow. But I still go by the same file size limits in order to not take forever
to d/l for people with slower connections and I think most forums want you to stick to the limits even if you host the image
on your own server, or somewhere like the various photo hosting sites which let you link to the picture to show elsewhere.

So this was the final result after editing and resizing. It will show on the forum as pretty small, but you can click on it to
see it full size, which is much larger than the shrunk down image you see on the forum page. Myself, for forums like this,
I stay under 300k file size for most all images. This image was a good bit under that. I consider 640x480 for the raw
image too small to really have a good quality. I wouldn't resize any that small either for the same reason. It's wasting a
lot of the high res capability of most modern cameras.