Adding Photographs

Posted by: DAVOhorn on 03 February 2002

Dear all,

forgive my stupidity, but how do i add photo's to my posts?

Any help you can offer will be gratefully received

regards david

Posted on: 03 February 2002 by garyi
Fairly obviously residing on your computer is where you need the pictures, either from scanner or camera.

heres the rub, they can't be more than 35kb in size, this is small indeed, if you have a digi camera set the quality to its lowest, that will normally be around 70kb, you will then need to make it even smaller in an imaging programme.

The images need to be .jpg files, if you are using a mac make sure the file name ends in .jpg

Now once you have your image, write your post as normal, then before you post it scroll down the page a bit and click on post attachment in the options bit, you then click post now, and it will offer you to browse your harddrive for the image you have ready to go.

If its more than 35kb it won't except it.

Posted on: 03 February 2002 by J.N.
If using a digital camera; I reckon it's better to take the pic at best resolution, reduce it in size then 'squash it' with good compression software.

This seems to give pretty good results for the 30Kb limit.

Example herewith.

[This message was edited by J.N. on SUNDAY 03 February 2002 at 21:54.]

[This message was edited by J.N. on SUNDAY 03 February 2002 at 21:56.]

Posted on: 03 February 2002 by J.N.
Get the hell off here, before it's too late!

You've probably already been infected.

Symptoms include gibbering in one's sleep:-

"I gotta have some distortion. NOW"

Posted on: 03 February 2002 by Derek Wright
For compression, and image manipulation software have a look at PMVIEW from WWW.PMVIEW.COM it is shareware very quick and flexible to use. (Not for Macs though)
Posted on: 03 February 2002 by Martin Payne
David,

one final tweek - to achieve what Mr Tibbs did (photo automatically shows within post) follow J.N.s instructions, but use the 'image' button where you want your pic to appear. Leave the URL as 'http://' for now.

Then, when your post appears within the thread, right click your underlined image link at bottom of post and select 'Copy Shortcut'. Then edit the posting (click the pencil-on-paper icon in the top row) and paste the address of your image between the IMG & /IMG tags.

cheers, Martin

Posted on: 03 February 2002 by J.N.
Got it now.
Posted on: 03 February 2002 by DAVOhorn
Dear All,

ta for help.

here goes

regards david

Posted on: 03 February 2002 by DAVOhorn
Dear all,


woops picture file too large. So could not add piccies.


will try to work out what to do next and then try and repost.

regards david

Posted on: 03 February 2002 by Mike Sae
Tried e-mailing you to no avail.

If you want, you can send your pics to me and I get get them <30k for you.

Posted on: 05 February 2002 by Martin Payne
quote:
Originally posted by DAVOhorn:

woops picture file too large. So could not add piccies.


David,

the actual limit is 30kb (30720 bytes), not 35kb as reported above.

cheers, Martin