Tutorial for uploading photos and video
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Goldie 146. Sorry about the silage photo being distorted - just a test/trial.
I don’t put photos anywhere except my laptop so can’t drag & drop as I see peedee,chasncath & DavidKlyne do. Can only drag & drop with other’s photos posted on here or post my own then drag & drop the picture thus giving a larger one of the same photo. Having said that I’ve learned how to do it so feel I’ve achieved something. Maybe I'l learn how to delete the smaller one of mine that I post to leave only the large one in place eventually. I find it interesting that DavidKlyne’s recently posted large photo is different because it has scroll bars. Once again apologies.
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The confusion with the scroll bars is that I misunderstood what Peedee meant when he suggested posting a photo from Facebook would be automatically resized. It does do this but only in kb size not pixel size hence the scroll bars. Some of my photographs are as large as 10000kb originally so I resize and edit all my photos but to post them here I have to further reduce the pixel size to 500pixel width for discussions although you can get away with 650 pixels wide in stories as the text pane is wider. I hope that makes sense?
David
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David – Thanks for clarifying scrollbars. I learned originally through chasncath how to reduce my own photos to post on CT. I find the sharing of info on CT very helpful & pick up many tips on various subjects
peedee – I guess weather forecast was done using ‘snipping tool’ & CT program adds the scrollbars. Looks good anyway, enjoy it wherever you are.
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When people are talking about dragging and dropping, what exactly do you need to do? Where do I pick up the original (my computer, photobucket, elsewhere?), where do I drop it to (into the post I'm creating, or elsewhere) and how exactly do I make it bigger (this is the bit I have problems with as it doesn't seem to resize whatever I do ). I can post a picture without problems, from my laptop, but no matter what I do it stays small, and people will run out of patient if I keep trying and there are 'Deleted User' messages everywhere.
If the explanation is too long to post on here, can someone email me at valdaathome@gmail.com with a step by step explanation. Normally I have no bother, but on this forum it bothers me that others can do it with ease, but I can't!
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Val,
First of all you need somewhere to store your photo on the web. I have suggested Facebook because I know that works and many folk use it. Just post your photo on FB and load it for viewing by you only. If you want it to fit exactly to the width of a post, then resize it to something not greater than 500 pixels wide before up loading it to FB. If its larger it won't matter but when it is dragged and dropped into a CT reply from FB it will appear with scroll bars or members can view the larger picture by right clicking on it and selecting "View Image" Once you have it on FB click on it to open it fully. Log into CT using another tab and select your reply. Click and hold the FB picture and drag it onto the CT tab and position it roughly on your reply, then let go of the mouse click. It should be visible in your reply and you can now post your message to CT.
All this is done using a Firefox browser running windows 7. I do not know if it works with IE but I don't see why it should not work with other windows version. I seem to recall you are a FB user so try it. It does work with other web storage areas but not all. I could not get it to work with Dropbox but no idea if it will work other on line public storage areas.
Hope you can follow the above.
peedee
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Thank you, and thank you again. Got so excited that I could actually do it - mix of Firefox and Chrome, and Facebook! That photo is intended to go in the Toilet Cleaning thread, but I got back too late to edit it out! For anyone interested it is the new 'limestone marble' toilet and shower block at L'Amfora in the Bay of Roses, near to St Pere Pescador. Further photos can be seen in the Toilet Cleaning thread.
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ValDa – Good to learn how to do things but hope you don’t mind me saying this but perhaps posting such large photos in discussion threads could make it difficult/time consuming scrolling for some CT users that are out & about using phones/tablets etc.
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N1805, you could say the same about the pictures the Club uses on its site for padding and advertising. In actual practice, at least on my phone, it is not a problem. I have just checked and it loads and displays fast enough not to be anoying both on WiFi and 4G.
peedee
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Apologies - and no I don't mind you saying at all. If you hadn't I wouldn't be able to correct it. I'll try again when I find a picture worth posting!
On my laptop there are no size problems. I can see scroll bars but the whole photo fits in the frame without needing to be scrolled. I'm sorry they don't appear in the same way to others using other devices, but I did resize them before posting and as they appeared to be OK to me I thought they would be OK to everyone else!
Can you tell me how I know when a photo will appear differently, when it tells me that it's the right number of pixels and only 87kb.
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I wonder what other people can see? I've just tried another, which was the correct number of pixels, and as I said, 87kb but that did have scroll bars again so I guess that makes it appear big to other users so I removed it before actually posting.
It's difficult to understand what others might see when I see it normally. I'm glad that my photo appears OK to you EasyT but perhaps those who see it differently could say just what part of the photo they can actually seen and what has to be scrolled.
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ValDa – My posting “perhaps posting such large photos in discussion threads could make it difficult/time consuming scrolling for some CT users when out & about using phones/tablets etc” was meant to refer to scrolling through threads rather than meaning scroll bars on an individual photo. I only access CT via Laptop & don’t see scroll bars on your photos. I guess there is no problem of scroll bars being visible on your individual photos on other devices either as peedee & EasyT say your photos are fine on phone, tablet & laptop so others will see them the same way. I have only noticed scroll bars on this practice thread the most recent being as below where scrolling needed wasn’t worth doing.
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It works, nice one CT
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Yup, 3rd of May this year B2
, you do realise the growth in the foreground are rushes growing on marshland. Did you think-'Windmill=corn?'
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There ya go B2, 7th July 2016. . . .Oats at sunset(no Windmill
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This is from my Android tablet using Photo Resizer app, resized to 1024 x 768 ( I assume that's pixels, maybe not!!
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Who is this happy chappy? Hasn't got a beard, so he's not you, Easy. Is he saying " Mine's a pint of 'best'"?
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