Tutorial for uploading photos and video

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  • DSB
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    edited May 2017 #242

    1200x2133 portrait works

    David 

  • brue
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    edited May 2017 #243

    Phone test at 1000

  • brue
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    edited May 2017 #244

    Looks OK on phone but not very sharp. DSB's look clear and sharp when expanded. Probably the limits of my cheap Android!

  • brue
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    edited May 2017 #245

    Laptop, at  500, Helston Furry Dance preferred method!

  • DSB
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    edited May 2017 #246

    Brue, I downloaded the 'Photo and Picture Resizer' on to my phone and was experimenting with the maximum size I could use to upload to CT - my  idea being that the maximum size permitted on CT would give the best quality when expanded.  Using that particular app and the photos from my phone it appears the maximum size is 1600x900 landscape and 1280x2276 portrait.

    These days I take most photos on my phone as it's easy.  Now I have an easy means of converting them by using this app.  When I have uploaded them to CT, I just then delete the one I have just reduced from my phone.

    It seems to work for me, and it's quick.

    David

    This took me just between 1 and 2 minutes to do.....

  • DSB
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    edited May 2017 #247

    Photo and Picture Resizer also tells you the Kb too.  For uploading to CT you have to keep it below 500kb...  this one is 466kb

    David

  • DSB
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    edited May 2017 #248

    ........ I've now found a quick and easy way of uploading photos from the phone..... I'll stick with it!

    David 

  • N1805
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    edited May 2017 #249

    A test to see if I can manage to do it again -  hope you don't mind brue if I use your photo.  Took me 5 attempts

    It is showing so hope it stays when I click on reply !

  • brue
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    edited May 2017 #250

    I've got an android Ulephone. If I go to more than 1200 CT rejects my offerings!

  • peedee
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    edited May 2017 #251

    Test.http://www.wheelgotravelling.info/Miscellaneous/PavementArtist_3.jpg

  • ValDa
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    edited May 2017 #252

    How do you manage to get the photograph the size shown in the above posts?  I'm using a laptop, and google chrome, but my pictures end up about the size of the avatar photograph.

  • peedee
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    edited May 2017 #253

    I size them to 430 pixels wide and drag and drop them into a reply from a web site host in this case my own web site where I have created a repositery for files I might want to share. If you right click on the photo you can obtain info about the actual location.

    peedee

  • Goldie146
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    edited May 2017 #254
  • Goldie146
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    edited May 2017 #255

    But how do I get it the size of the lion photo?

    This one is 1000 pixels wide.

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited May 2017 #256

    Goldie

    If you reduce it to 500/600 pixels wide I think you would have more luck. I have recently inserted photos into both a discussion and a story using Chas's method using a split screen in Firefox and it works OK. However when I tried to load a photo of 1000 pixels wide it failed. I have given up on third party photo sharers like Photobucket and now upload my photos to my website so I can copy them across using the above method. I appreciate not everyone has a website to load photos to!!!

    David

  • eurortraveller
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    edited May 2017 #257

    Thanks David. I have none of that fancy kit so will have to continue to send out tinies straight from the I-pad .  Here's our sort of campsite at Sallanches in the Alps.

  • Goldie146
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    edited May 2017 #258

    I get the same size image if  I resize to anything between 500 and 600.

    it's easy enough, and does away with copying from online storage - just a bit feeble looking.

     

  • peedee
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    edited May 2017 #259

    You don't have to resize them David as long as you advise readers to right click on the image and select "View image". It probable failed because of the total size rather than the dimensions. Reduce the jpg quality and it would probably load ok.

    peedee

     

    http://www.wheelgotravelling.info/Miscellaneous/Gulls.jpg

  • Goldie146
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    edited May 2017 #260

    test

    Right click and open image in new tab

  • N1805
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    edited May 2017 #261

    Goldie 146 -  Am Guessing this is silage ?  Hope you don't mid me testing with your photo. Can't follow Peedee's way.

     

  • N1805
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    edited May 2017 #262

    Wow it worked - Test to try one of my own now.  Removed. not worked. will try again

     

  • N1805
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    edited May 2017 #263

     

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    edited May 2017 #264
  • Goldie146
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    edited May 2017 #265

    Yes - last year's. This year's looks the same!

    Your version is a bit distorted - too narrow and squashed in from the sides.

  • peedee
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    edited May 2017 #266

    You can drag and drop a pic from Facebook into a reply ET. FB will have already resized it for you.

    peedee

     

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited May 2017 #267

    Good tip Peedee, it certainly gets over the need to have third party photo hosting like Photobucket. Just one tip, you do seem to have to copy the full size picture across rather than than from a group of photos. I found that if I copied from a group all I got was the URL.

    David

    PS it doesn't seem to resize automatically?

    Image may contain: plant, outdoor and indoor
  • peedee
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    edited May 2017 #268

    It doesn't resize the dimensions but does automatically reduce the jpg quality to something smaller than the original and seems to acceptable to CT. I am guessing whatever dimension you load to FB, it is not resized so you could load something about 500 pixels wide and it would drag and drop nicely into CT?

    peedee

  • peedee
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    edited May 2017 #269

    Just checking, I loaded this pic to FB (430 pixels wide) making it visible to "only me" and drag and dropped it here.

    You can tell its raining here I am still at my desktop!

    peedee

     

  • chasncath
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    edited May 2017 #270

    We're off to the Ardeche to rendezvous with our grandsons for a few days. here's a publicity photo from the campsite's webpage.


    Drag and drop technique works on public webpages. That's not us by the way! Looking forward to a quiet few days!!

     


     
  • ValDa
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    edited May 2017 #271

    That looks a bit like us, nineteen years ago, when my eighteen year old son came with us with several of his friends, and we had three pup tents on our pitch - and lots of teenage girls, too!  Different site, though, and we were still left with plenty of room - unlike those pitches!