How to Upload and Post Pictures

[Edward Tinker]

Site Admin Note: Ed Tinker was kind enough to create this tutorial for posting photos to the Lugerforum... This question is constantly asked by both old-timers and new members alike and it is great to have this post to refer them to.

It is an excellent tutorial so I am going to "TOP" it (it will remain here on top of the other posts) and "Lock" it so that it won't get any longer with replies. If you have any comments about modifications to the tutorial, send them to Ed, and I will make arrangements for him to make changes when necessary-John Sabato
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Here are the instructions for posting photos:

I am going to try to demonstrate how to upload pictures to the forum. I chose Microsoft Internet Explorer because I know it the best, other commands in Netscape and browsers like it will be close.



You want a total of two separate browser windows.

Step 1: Open a 2nd "Upload Photos" browser window by right clicking on the Upload Photos link at the left of the screen and choosing Open in New Window.



Step 2: Look on your hard drive and find the picture that you want to upload to the forum. Go to your C:\ and find that Ted Green photo. Go ahead, I'll wait.
Wherever you store photos is where the picture can be uploaded from.



Step 3: Here is where I store my photos and specifically my file folder with Thorâ??s reworks, (I keep a collection of them).


Here they are, pretty ey? Decide the one you want to post.


Step 4: Click on the one you want to upload and actually upload by choosing the one you want and then click on upload.

[Edward Tinker]

Here is the picture uploaded onto the forum server.


Step 5: Now highlight the URL. Place the cursor at the beginning of the URL and hold the left mouse key and drag across to the end. This will highlight the entire sentence (URL) and you then save it by right clicking and choosing Copy.


Step 6: On your first browser window, go back to the area where you want to put these pictures.


Step 7: Choose New Topic


Write up how good the gun looks or that you want to send a story to me about your Dads Luger he picked up off of the battlefield, etc.

[Edward Tinker]

See that little image on the bottom of the screen in the middle. Choose IMAGE, this will let you stick in a photo for us to see.


Now, you will click on it and this 2nd pop up thingy comes up. (don't let all my technical words throw you off). You will drop / paste your URL that you saved before!!



See how it looks?

Now, you can see that once you say OK, then it drops the image and the URL into the message. MAKE sure if you put two pictures in a row, that you put a carraige return (Enter or Return) after the end of each photo [/IMG]



And you will see this!!


And the final is telling you that you have posted to the board!


<img border="0" alt="[cheers]" title="" src="graemlins/beerchug.gif" /> <img border="0" alt="[cherrsagai]" title="" src="graemlins/drink.gif" />

[luger11]

Hi Ed....beautiful step by step instruction. My problem is when I upload the pic. my computer states that the image is to large, I do not know how to downsize the pic. or even know if it is possible to downsize.

Leo

[Pete Ebbink]

Hello Leo,

Take a look at a discussion that started in this same section on 2-18-04 by LugerLizzie, titled "Uploadng Picture Trouble...".

John D. posted a MS link to a free download file that allows for very easy and fool-proof "resizing" of large jpeg files. When you go to resize a photo, it even gives you different size options to make your photos a bit smaller until you can get under the size limits for photos here on the Luger Forum (i.e. 180 KB or smaller in size) as well as on other forums...

Regards,

Pete... <img border="0" alt="[typing]" title="" src="graemlins/yltype.gif" />

[luger11]

Hi Pete and thank you for your input.as soon as my Grandaughter gets home.(we) will try this.

Leo

[Don M]

Several questions about uploading photos:

Where do the photos go? Is there some way to access the photos I have uploaded earlier in the event I want to use them again?

Is there some way for a mere mortal to create thumbnails of larger photos as they're initially posted, thereby avoiding expansion of the width of the document and the need for an administrator to create the thumbnail?

I've been unable to paste the URL in the Explorer User Prompt (the "pop up thingy). My workaround has been to click OK and then paste the saved URL over the "http://" between the "[IMG]"s in the document. Am I missing an easier solution?

Thanks for the very helpful tutorial.

Don

[John Sabato]

Don M.

The photos you upload will sit on the Lugerforum server for an extended period of time... but will eventually be deleted.

Once you have the URL for a photo you have uploaded, you can reference the photo in any message. You can determine the URL for any photo you see on this website by right clicking on the photo and choosing the "properties" and the URL will be in the pop-up box.

Once you have uploaded a photo, the only access you will have to it will be to reference it in the manner you have already described. There is no way for you to delete it.

Creation of 'thumnails' is a tricky procedure, but I will try to describe it as best as I can.

Create your message post and include the photos that you wish... if they look too large, then use the EDIT icon (paper and pencil) to edit your post and change the 'image tags to read "[thumb] [/thumb]"

...You can do this only ONCE... if you attempt to edit the post a second time the photo display attributes will be scrambled and it will not be pretty...

You can try this a couple of times if you like, and when you are done experimenting, just use the edit icon to edit the post and replace the first text with "ADMIN-Please Delete this Post" and Either myself or one of the moderators will delete it when we see it...

I have no idea why you can't paste the URL for your photo in the "pop up thingy" ( thanks for using technical language that all of us can understand ) I do it all the time and it should work for you.

[Edward Tinker]

One thing that I do as a moderator is if I think a photo is too large is to make it a thumbnail, BUT, first I copy the entire text and then if I don't like it or it doesn't work (sometimes they don't), I can place the orginal message back.

I despise huge, large photos, it makes the text hard to read. So, making them a thumbnail makes it easier to read, and yet you can see the huger picture when you want to.

Ed

[Herb]

Well, I'll put my 2 cents in too. Digital cameras have image size controls. There are usually 3 different sizes--Full 1600x1200 pixels--XGA 1024x768 and VGA 640x480. The settings determine the output size and the overall quality. For getting exceptional quality for PRINTS use the full setting, but using this for emailing or posting here will get you a Luger about 18" long and is really annoying to the viewers. Using the lowest setting, 640x480 will give you a picture of about 38-40 kb and will result in a picture that fits nicely on a 13 inch monitor. This is the setting you should use for posting here and if you intend to take family portraits you can change it FULL setting. Another little trick you can use after you have uploaded, say 6 pics (the limit is 8) when you post the first one to the discussion box do a copy and paste into the 'pop up thingy' and just change the number for the next one, Example, you have 6 pics to load and you have named them 'Bobs Luger1, Bobs Luger2 Bobs Luger3' and so on just copy the first post and paste it and change the 1 to 2 then 2 to 3 until you have them all, sure saves a heap of time typing that entire URL into the upload box.