photos again

[tracie]

I have the photos loaded onto the computer from my camera. Can somebody please give me a step by step guide as to how to add them to my postings, got some great pics with my new camera, but dont have the know how.

Thanks in anticipation

[Geoff]

If you have some software like Photoshop where you can change the size in pixels of your photographs it is quite easy. There are some freeware programs that do it as well. Here is one way :
1.Register with www.photobucket.com
2. Use Photoshop to change your pictures to 640 pixels by whatever it chooses and save as a .jpg. When you save cut the file size down to about 100K.
3.Upload the photo to photobucket and you will see 3 references to it, the bottom one has at the beginning and end. Highlight this reference and do Ctrl C.
4.Write your post and do Ctrl V and check you have the picture with Preview then Submit.
If you want an avatar reduce photo to 120 pixels by whatever and less than 12K then add to your profile using the top url reference in the same way.

[tracie]

Thanks very much for your help Geoff. At last after months I have managed to post a picture. Its still not quite right, think I reduced it by too much.

If I want to post a large picture with my text do I use the same procedure but make the pixels bigger.
Thanks once again

[Geoff]

It's the 640 wide that is the key - it just fits nicely, any bigger and it spoils the layout of the posts.

[Allan]

I note 640 pixels, interesting. See Aerial photography in tools and machinery.
Allan