If you are trying to post a picture, from your computer files directly to the body of the message, try this...
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1. You have the image stored on your computer and you know it's location and filename. I.E. "my pictures", "my documents", wherever. It also has to be within a certain file size limitation.
2. At the bottom of your message, you'll see a bar that reads "Attachment", "Browse", a little box that reads "inline" and a button that reads "Upload attachment." Click browse, navigate to the location and highlight filename of your image. If you've resized it, choose the resized version of the image. Click the "inline" box and then click "Upload attachment" button.
...John Mellor...
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What 'inline' means, is that you want it in the message, not just a click-on link at the bottom. To do that, check the box beside the 'browse' button you have been using to upload attachments from your files, go through the same procedure, except when you have uploaded 1, 2 or whatever, you then position the cursor where you'd like to put the picture, click on the square picture icon John mentioned, when it comes up you'll have a menu box, your choices are Image Location or Inline Image. Choose Inline Image. Up will come a list of the uploaded pix connected with that post. Pick the one you want there, hit Submit and there you are. If you've uploaded several, choose the one you want, then repeat where you want the next one.....
... Doc...
3. Go to your message and place cursor where you want the image to appear. Now go to the area above your message and find the little box with a picture of mountains (second line below the cut and paste icons.) Click the box with the mountains... a box should appear and you will need to click the "inline image" circle and then click the image you want to have appear. Click "submit" and image should appear in the body of your message.
And..... try to use all lower case names for your images. Something like 'whatsit.jpg' seems to work every time, but something like 'Whatsit.jpg', 'WHATSIT.jpg', 'whatsit.JPG' or 'whatsit.Jpg' may not work. Likewise, image names like 'whats it.jpg' instead of 'whats_it.jpg' may only come through as links rather than an inline image. Not always, but it can get glitchy sometimes. Especially in the Glossary posts.
hope that's of use
doc.........
Thank YOU!! Now... how do I get my pictures smaller?$%&**@? It keeps daying their TOO big. I used to know how but something got moved! I can't seem to do it any more.
Les
Try this link. Once you've downloaded and figured the program out, the "apply recommended" button seems to do the trick. It's free and has received xlnt reviews.
http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm
if you have adobe photoshop or adobe photoshop elements it has a "save for web" command that will downsize your photos nicely. Cropping photos will also make them smaller, both in file size and in what's in the picture.
You can also reduce the size of your files by changing the quality of a jpg. Within limits, this helps too (you can reduce the photo quality quite a bit without even noticing it, particularly if it was a hi-resolution photo to start with.)
I must be blocked out from posting photos?
I've posted photo's before however it won't let no matter what I tried?
I have all the Adobe software products and I can post photos on the web. It's just swaylocks doesn't let me?
Hi Les
Yep, I know how that works: a computer dies or gets changed a bit and it's ....'ok, where did that go?' As I tend to go from one donated/junked/'somebody else gave up on it and i fixed it' computer to the next about every three months, I know just where you're coming from.
In addition to John and Keith's suggestions, let me also toss in a few-
Windows Paint has a resize function in the Image menu- use Stretch/Skew to resize it, with a 'stretch' of less than 100%. Similar stuff in IrfanView ( click the link for the site- nice freeware ) or XnView ( with versions that run on just about any OS except 'mac classic' ) which have some other useful stuff
Now, if your images are too big file-size-wise, it may be something else. For photos and scans, a jpg image usually has a smaller file size than a GIF, TIFF or ( heaven help us ) a bitmapped bmp file or one of the many file formats digital cameras use. For sketches and diagrams, the gif format is usually the way to go. You can futz with the compression setting on jpgs to make the image size smaller or the number of colors it uses. For converting, or resizing or combinations, I'm used to IrfanView, but I have used XnView in the past and liked it. Both are regularly updated with new file format add-ons and plug ins so that they can deal with just about anything that comes along.
hope that's of use
doc.......
hi 'Doc', Paul, and Keith !
My question is this...
When using 'microsoft photo editor', and trying to reduce so as to post an existing 'BITMAP' [of ,say, "800kbs"], do I have to
1. start at "100 %" [ so I can see it without 'fuzzy' edges ?
2. then reduce it by [?how ever many percent?] to get it down to "87kb" or whatever, in order for it to post.
...Because doing that, the thing is SO small by then, no one can see it [???]
WHAT, if any, is the solution here, please ? I think it's windows 'xp' , the programme my computer runs, if that means anything [it means nothing to me, the semi-illiterate user!]
... THANKS , guys !
ben
Hi Ben,
Dammit, I wrote a very good reply and the server picked that moment to crash. Alas -
In a mediocre attempt to re-create it:
Ok, for starters, the bitmap image is a huge file. It's their nature. Every steenking pixel is mapped, with colors and such, so it's a huge file size item. If your MS Photo Editor has a Save As option, save it as a ________.jpg file, which format has compression built in and can make a gigantic 800Kb bitmapped file into a managable 50Kb or less. For the mathematics freaks like me, the JPG format incorporates Fast Fourier Transforms to make a semi-regular pattern into a wave form with additions.
For stuff like my cheezy Windows Paint sketches, save as a ____.gif file, which can make a huge ____.bmp into something like 10Kb or less. I hesitate to hypothesise on the algorthym involved, but my guess is that it saves in a semi-bitmapped format utilising only the pixels that actually have something on them. Wild guess, of course: in my little family, I'm the hardware knuckle-dragger, my fiancee' ( as of this evening ) is the software lady.
Now, if MS Photo Editor won't do that for ya, then my suggestion is to try the XP flavor of Irfanview. It will convert all kinds of things into all kinds of other things,and making a more compact image out of a ______.bmp file is something it does very well. Hit www.irfanview.com to get it and the plug-ins for really odd formats.
hope that's of use
doc..............
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Doc,
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