Posting Pictures

For posting pictures I've left the size option open for convenience but could you please try not to post HUGE picture files. If they are over 700px wide they distort the text area making it hard to read. To resize a picture - open the picture up in Paint (You'll find it under start/programs/accessories/paint. Then click on Image/Stretch-skew. Set the stretch Horiz and Vert to say 50% and click on OK. Now save as a new file. here's a free picture editor/resizer. http://www.faststone.org/index.htm hope this helps cheers john

Because of the huge files people have been posting I've had to limit the size to 150 Kb. Read the previous post to work out how to resize pics. Please don't post pics wider than 700px. ;) thanks John

If you want a free image program for resizing etc I can recommend this one. Infranview - download for free here http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3000-2192-10021962.html cheers john

Here's another free image program, picasa. www.picasa.com/download/index.php to resize just export and the pixel size can be set. cheers john

OK, I've resized my pictures in "Studio Setup" but it still seem to distort the screen making it too wide to view. But, I'm trying :?

i'm new. but you can enter http://www.imageshack.us/ and upload images there. there you can re size images to. and there you can put the link of the picture and that way yo can save bandwith. i hope this doesn't get you mad. cheers :arrow:

no - that's fine mate ;)

The problem I see with using a free third party imiage hosting service is that you (and all forum members) are at the mercy of that hosting company. Often they (understandably) imipose their own bandwidth restrictions that could take one or more of your pictures offline, either temporarily or permanently. Steve has asked us not to host images externally, and instead, to upload them all onto the forum, so that the images don't disappear months or years later. Steve often points people to threads that contain photos that illustrate important points, so when those pictures disappear, it's quite a loss for the community here. I must confess that I have been hosting my images off the forum for a while now, and (sorry Steve! :roll:) I'm continuing to do so. The difference in my case is that I'm paying for the hosting through GoDaddy.com. I'm paid up for three years and I'll most likely continue my hosting arrangements with them for years to come. One of the benefits of my hosting them at GoDaddy is that I am using their photo album software called Coppermine that, among other things, automatically resizes images to a size that you specify. So that I can automatically include images on this forum, I set the "intermediate" image width to 700 pixels wide, as per John's request. 8) I have also made a commitment to myself that if ever I change my manner of image hosting (i.e., change hosting providers and/or change online photo album software that changs the URLs of my images), I will painstakingly go through my entire marathon thread and manually change each image URL to the updated one. Hopefully that never happens! :shock: I realize that what I am doiong rather complicated for a lot of people, so I'm not necessarily prescribing what I am doing as a recommendation. I did, however, want to point out that although hosting images off site does have some advantages (not the least of which is being able to position the images inline, meaning not always at the end of the post), there are other risks and costs, not the least of which is the possibility that the images will disappear forever. That may be OK for one's family vacation photos, but when the photos are extremely valuable reference material, the risks may be too great. --Keith :mrgreen:

Just an idea: John could make a subforum specific for uploading pictures. People could use that to store their pictures in their own topic (e.g. pictures from Mr. X) People contributing a lot of pictures also keep a better overview of everything they entered already. One just should agree not to start discussions there, only store pictures, with max. some additional short explenation/context by the poster itself. You can easily extract the links from that to use in the respective forums. (rightclick > properties). This gives the advantage that pictures in the forums itself can be integrated within the text itself (without these frames at the end of the post). And the frame itself calls for some space as well (ca 20 px loss).

If you are wanting to post images of your studio, tell me that you came from John Sayers' Recording Studio Design Forum. I will let you link them beck here for free! Only studio pictures though, as it describes on my site Home Studio Gallery. I would really like to get the site going, i think a lot of people would love to look through these images i do. That is why I'm trying to organize this site to facilitate the Studio/Gear p*rn addiction :mrgreen:

What do I get if I pay?

How about having an option of uploading multiple attachments at once instead of uploading one per time?

Posting Pictures

ronrogers wrote:

Posting Pictures

Yes, that's right. That's what the thread is about. So what's your point? - Stuart -

How do I post pictures?

Look below the window area where you type your message. You'll see this: Hit the "browse" button (I highlighted that with a blue oval), find the image you want to upload, hit enter, then hit the "Add the file" button to actually upload it (I highlighted that with an orange oval). Then you'll briefly see this status bar while the image is transferred from your disk to the forum server: Repeat if you want to include more images in the same post. When you are done, hit "submit". Please make sure you follow the forum rules regarding the size of images you post. - Stuart -

That's Nice.

BruceMay wrote:

That's Nice.

Your plan is not going to work, Bruce... You are wasting your time.

I'm trying to upload a picture, but it stays only available as a link to download... How do I upload a picture and make it visible on a post, instead of a link to download it? Thanks

Attach it, then hit the 'Add the file' command. This will reveal an 'insert inline' option.

Great, it also must be resized. Thanks DanDan! EDIT: Just resized the picture again

That looks great but as far as I can see, it is more than 700 Pixels wide and more than 150K. I have a Acoustic Measuring article here, copied and pasted, so the images are currently hosted by IMGUR and look great. I have made some attempts to adjust them to post here, with some advice from Greg. But it ain't going well. The one image I did shrink is blurry, hard or impossible to read. I will try a few different sizes and report back here if I have an Epiphany!