Tutorial for uploading photos and video

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  • Tinwheeler
    Tinwheeler Forum Participant Posts: 23,135 ✭✭✭
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    edited June 2020 #452

    FG, go to My Profile at the head of the page, not the one on the right, and next select My Profile Information. You will then find the place for adding a photo but, as has been said, it needs Adobe.

  • brue
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    edited June 2020 #453

    Android won't allow profile pic uploading without adobe so I only attempt this via my laptop.

  • cyberyacht
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    edited June 2020 #454

    Mine is like the picture of Dorian Gray, being about ten years old. I'm loth to update it lest I end up as yet another Spitting Image John Major.

  • Forest Gate
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    edited June 2020 #455

     Thanks. Unfortunately, I am one of those sad people using Apple products; i.e: MacBook and iPhone!

    i did try though. On Safari there's no hope. On Google Chrome it says I need to install Flash. I tried but Apple doesn't support Flash..

    I also tried to upload a photo to this comment but it says it's too big.

    Oh well. Back to living a life! frown

     

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited June 2020 #456

    You'll have to find a mate with a Windows system to do your profile. 

    The pic resizing problem is far more easily solved. You need a resizing app. I use Image Size from the App Store. It’s free and simple. 👍🏻

  • Vulcan
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    edited July 2020 #457
  • skodaman
    skodaman Forum Participant Posts: 141
    edited July 2020 #458

    the web site is so slow to up/down load anythng Iam not going to waste my time on C T

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    edited November 2021 #459
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  • cyberyacht
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    edited November 2021 #460

    That didn't work then. All I've got on my MacBook is a couple of small blue squares with a question mark. Trying to open the image in a new tab comes up with a Google Code 403 Forbidden.

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  • EmilysDad
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    edited November 2021 #462

    it worked yesterday ..... I saw them.

    I gave up with posting pictures here years back .... I shouldn't have to resize pictures to be able to post them, I don't need to on any other forum I use, some of which are hosted by people in their box room, not by a multi million quid organisation.

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  • DavidKlyne
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    edited November 2021 #464

    I saw the photos yesterday as well. 

    I have employed drag an drop from my website but I do have to resize the photos first. I save them a separate page on my website and use Firefox to add them into a Story on here. I tile the pages so its easy to pull the photo across. ( I seem to remember Chasncath pointing out how it was done) It is not the most straightforward way of doing things but this website relies on photos being uploaded complete rather than relying on URL links which is the reason why they have to be resized. I seem to be unusual in that I still use a proper camera so I am used to resizing and editing photos. Many now seem to use their phones for taking pictures and these images are quite large in MB measurement.

    David 

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  • brue
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    edited November 2021 #468

    I resize using an app on my phone, I tend to use my phone for photos on here. I can see your photo of boats but not the next one David.

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  • nelliethehooker
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    edited November 2021 #471

    Nothing visible for me, on my Kindle, just small blue squares.

  • cyberyacht
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    edited November 2021 #472

    Still little blue squares on my MacBook AD

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  • N1805
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    edited November 2021 #474

    Also small blue squares just now.  The pics seem to come and go have seen pics of boats and what looked like sat nav. if I remember correctly.  Using laptop I right clicked on small square and got this which I have no idea what it means and I was using edge at the time

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited November 2021 #475

    I may be having a stab in the dark here but is the source from which you are loading the picture accessible to the public? If its behind a login it will only show whilst you have that source open on your computer? That might explain why we can all see the picture immediately after you post but when we go back to view latter we its not there? Have you tried saving the pictures to your desktop and loading from there?

    David

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited November 2021 #476

    I have drag and dropped this from my website:-

    image

    It had previously been resized and saved to my web site.

    image

    The slightly bigger picture I used in a story which seems to allow slightly larger pictures but they must be under 500kbs.

    David

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited November 2021 #477

    Lets have another try!!!

     Edit:-

    I am beginning to wonder if this is a browser issue? The photos I dragged and dropped don't appear in Chrome or Edge but they do in Firefox which is the browser I used to load the photos in the first place. In this post I added the photos by saving them to my desktop and use "Add Photos" button before posting. I suspect we won't see a resolution to the problem until if or when the forum software is changed/improved.

    David

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  • nelliethehooker
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    edited November 2021 #480

    Still nowt!😁

  • DavidKlyne
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    edited November 2021 #481

    Strangely I can still see the picture of the Storks. If I view this website in Firefox I can still see the pictures I drag into the post but not when using other browsers. It always used to work so why it doesn't now I have no idea.

    I have just downloaded an extension for Chrome that allows you to tile two pages side by side. However when I tried to drag pictures across from my website to the forum it wouldn't work.

    David