Jonathan J. Weber
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Can't upload photo.
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Unknown Flycatcher ID Request (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter Jonathan J. Weber
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Hi Jonathan and a warm welcome to you from all the Staff and Moderators.
Sorry you're having difficulty uploading your pictures, but here are a few ideas:
To upload your pictures, first make sure they're no more than 1600 pixels on the longest side. Save a copy to your desktop. This is for jpgs, it varies for other formats, which are shown on the pop-up screen.
To upload the pictures in a thread, make sure you're in an advanced posting mode, either by starting a new thread, or by clicking on Post Reply (if you're in Quick Reply, click on Go Advanced).
After you've typed your comment, scroll down below the message pane and you will see a grey Manage Attachments button.
Click on that and then Browse for your first picture and double click on it. Click on Upload and wait a few seconds until you see the filename appear in the box.
You can do this 4 more times for each post (the maximum is 5 pictures per post, but there is no limit in the thread).
Close the box.
You can check the pictures are there if you click on Preview.
When you submit your post the pictures should appear at the bottom.
Or it may be that your image(s) is too big?
Re-sizing Pictures:
After you've done any other work on your pic (always a copy mind ) and cropped away any part of the picture you don't want, you can then re-size it. But don't crop to get the file size you want.
How you actually do it depends on what programs you have.
In Windows 7 you can right click on the image and there's an option to re-size (choose the smallest 800x600 - you can go bigger 1032 on the longest side I think, but Windows doesn't give you that option!). Adobe Photoshop: you have a better choice there, in the Image menu: Resize, you can actually choose the size you want, and the quality... always select medium.
Window 8: Right click on the image and select Edit from the drop down. Then select Image from the menu in the Paint programme that opens. You can then type in the number of pixels for the longest side. I usually choose 900 but you can go up to 1032.
Alternatively you could download the free program called Picassa.
If you use a Mac, this page shows you how to do it: http://www.howtogeek.com/201638/use-your-macs-preview-app-to-crop-resize-rotate-and-edit-images/
I hope one of these ideas work for you. If not, try posting in the Computer subforum - I'm sure someone will have more suggestions for you. There's loads of methods depending what software you have.
Do come back if you need more help.
Sorry you're having difficulty uploading your pictures, but here are a few ideas:
To upload your pictures, first make sure they're no more than 1600 pixels on the longest side. Save a copy to your desktop. This is for jpgs, it varies for other formats, which are shown on the pop-up screen.
To upload the pictures in a thread, make sure you're in an advanced posting mode, either by starting a new thread, or by clicking on Post Reply (if you're in Quick Reply, click on Go Advanced).
After you've typed your comment, scroll down below the message pane and you will see a grey Manage Attachments button.
Click on that and then Browse for your first picture and double click on it. Click on Upload and wait a few seconds until you see the filename appear in the box.
You can do this 4 more times for each post (the maximum is 5 pictures per post, but there is no limit in the thread).
Close the box.
You can check the pictures are there if you click on Preview.
When you submit your post the pictures should appear at the bottom.
Or it may be that your image(s) is too big?
Re-sizing Pictures:
After you've done any other work on your pic (always a copy mind ) and cropped away any part of the picture you don't want, you can then re-size it. But don't crop to get the file size you want.
How you actually do it depends on what programs you have.
In Windows 7 you can right click on the image and there's an option to re-size (choose the smallest 800x600 - you can go bigger 1032 on the longest side I think, but Windows doesn't give you that option!). Adobe Photoshop: you have a better choice there, in the Image menu: Resize, you can actually choose the size you want, and the quality... always select medium.
Window 8: Right click on the image and select Edit from the drop down. Then select Image from the menu in the Paint programme that opens. You can then type in the number of pixels for the longest side. I usually choose 900 but you can go up to 1032.
Alternatively you could download the free program called Picassa.
If you use a Mac, this page shows you how to do it: http://www.howtogeek.com/201638/use-your-macs-preview-app-to-crop-resize-rotate-and-edit-images/
I hope one of these ideas work for you. If not, try posting in the Computer subforum - I'm sure someone will have more suggestions for you. There's loads of methods depending what software you have.
Do come back if you need more help.
