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Title: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Jeff on February 17, 2018, 11:50:55 AM
Here are some video instruction on sharing photos on the Forestry Forum.

Please read these rules for sharing photos on The Forestry Forum before sharing.

1. Offsite Photos and links to offsite photos are not allowed on the Forestry Forum.
2. If you want to share your photo, it MUST be placed in the Forestry Forum gallery and then placed in a post.
3. Directing people to your gallery is also not allowed. The gallery's only purpose is to archive photos used in posts.
4. Photos not used in posts are not to be uploaded.

5. Deleting photos used in posts is not allowed and considered destruction of forum property and is grounds for being permanently banned from the Forestry Forum

6.Do not share coprright images!

SHARING USING ANDROID. 2024


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SHARING USING DESKTOP
Same as Android, just not mobile.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: doc henderson on December 30, 2018, 06:47:06 PM
Jeff, got the photo thing down.  How do I post a vidio like from my phone.  I tried to email to myself and download it to my pc  then upload it to a post.  It seems to not like the format.  also thanks for the gifts for the Christmas contest.  Do I need to do anything else to get my jam?  I. e. do you need a street adress?  Thanks
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: thecfarm on December 30, 2018, 06:56:40 PM
@doc henderson (http://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?action=profile;u=41041).The jam is my fault. Address has been shared on Christmas day. I have been into Dollar Tree at least twice and each time I have forgot the bubble wrap. ::) The jam is coming direct from thecfarm. Don't worry I have not ate your prize. :D 
I will try again tommorrow on lunch.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: doc henderson on December 30, 2018, 07:15:50 PM
No worries.  I just wanted to make sure you did'nt need something else from me.  I want you to know this made my day, hard to do on a holiday like Christmas.  All the nurses at work are so excited.  Thanks again.  I will try to donate something for next years contest as prev. stated so will pay it forward thanks to you! :new_year:
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: thecfarm on December 30, 2018, 07:18:59 PM
That would be a very nice gesture.
The nurses at work will love you. Both men and women. ;)  That's how good The C Farm jam and jelly is. ;D I am the taste tester.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Jeff on December 30, 2018, 07:53:59 PM
Videos need to be uploaded to youtube. By posting the youtube address the forum will auto embed the video
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: LeeB on December 31, 2018, 06:43:21 AM
Quote from: thecfarm on December 30, 2018, 07:18:59 PM
That would be a very nice gesture.
The nurses at work will love you. Both men and women. ;)  That's how good The C Farm jam and jelly is. ;D I am the taste tester.
I heard you even like it on grits.  :D
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: thecfarm on December 31, 2018, 06:57:11 AM
Your source of knowledge on grits is way off involving the person you quoted. :)
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: petefrom bearswamp on December 31, 2018, 11:16:44 AM
Everything evolves into food!
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: doc henderson on December 31, 2018, 02:25:45 PM
we have queso. and are ordering sushi for lunch.  Everyone here is looking forward to J & J.  Happy new year to all :new_year:
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: caveman on June 08, 2019, 06:16:05 PM
This is for Jeff or anyone who can advise me.  Occasionally, I will screen shot a picture that has been texted to me and try to add it to my gallery.  The gallery informs me that this type of file cannot be uploaded (extensions).  Is there a way that I can post these pictures?  

Today, a guy we were going to saw up a large oak log for sent me a picture of his log.  I advised him that it was going to be a major expenditure of money and effort for what he was likely to get out of the log but that I would post some pictures and ask some of the folks on the  FF who have been down this path for their suggestions based on the measurements and pictures.

Thanks,
Kyle
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: btulloh on June 08, 2019, 06:45:51 PM
You should save the photo in the text to your photos on the phone. Then you can do anything you want, including uploading to the ff.

Edit:  save the photo directly from the text. No need to screen shot it
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Ianab on June 08, 2019, 07:54:17 PM
What phone? Just tried with my Samsung and it saved as a .jpg in my picture gallery, and uploaded fine.

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10460/Screenshot_20190609-114905_One_UI_Home.jpg?easyrotate_cache=1560037808)
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: caveman on June 08, 2019, 08:44:00 PM
Its an IPhone 5c.  I'll see what I can do.  Thanks, Kyle
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: caveman on June 08, 2019, 08:52:18 PM
Thanks, fellows.  I think it went through.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Jeff on June 08, 2019, 09:20:43 PM
I think some phones render screenshots as png. We dont allow png due to huge file sizes.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Tramp Bushler on June 26, 2019, 12:31:56 AM
 This is stupid. I have to basically agree to give you my pics. I don't remember it being like this years ago on this forum. 
 Oh well. Plenty of other forestry , logging and arborist forums on the web . 
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: thecfarm on June 26, 2019, 05:53:28 AM
Alway been that way since I've been here. Better than seeing a red X.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: WDH on June 26, 2019, 11:59:35 AM
Quote from: Tramp Bushler on June 26, 2019, 12:31:56 AM
This is stupid. I have to basically agree to give you my pics. I don't remember it being like this years ago on this forum.
Oh well. Plenty of other forestry , logging and arborist forums on the web .
You have always had to load pics to your gallery before posting them.  Nothing has changed but your memory.  If you think that the picture posting rules are stupid, then you can create your own Forum and make your own rules, go somewhere else where you don't think the rules are stupid, or get over it and load pics that you want to post into your Forestry Forum gallery. 
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Magicman on June 26, 2019, 04:41:19 PM
Finally got started making lumber in Sawmills and Milling (http://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=106824.msg1665959#msg1665959)
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: lxskllr on June 26, 2019, 10:42:26 PM
Sometimes I get a little irritated with the picture policy/upload procedure, but it really is a good policy. Just about everywhere else on the web, you find posts missing pics cause the hosting service changed it's policy, had server issues, or simply went out of business. If the pics disappear here, so will everything else, and it won't matter.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: ENTS on January 28, 2020, 08:06:34 PM
Ques: on photo size.  Coming off an i-phone I down load to my p.c.  I then resize either to .25 mp (thumbnail), 2mp (emails & msg.), 4 (best for viewing), and custom ????   What should I resize to?

Thanks and have a great day.


Fred
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Jeff on January 28, 2020, 09:36:12 PM
The forum server will do final resize on anything that is under the max upload size which is around 20mb.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: hidn45 on January 04, 2022, 08:13:41 PM
I seem to be having an issue trying to upload a photo for my avatar/ icon.  I tried it directly & through my gallery, but it ends up rotated 90 degrees.  I looked around for a solution, but no joy.  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks from an admitted Luddite....
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: WDH on January 04, 2022, 08:47:48 PM
Go to the pic in your gallery and just below the picture is a rotate function.  
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: hidn45 on January 04, 2022, 09:41:18 PM
Thanks! Apparently I missed that in my stumbling about.  I'll see if I can make it work...

Randy
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: hidn45 on January 05, 2022, 08:03:42 PM
Hmm, still no luck.  I rotated the photo in my gallery no problem, but can't seem to find a way to use it as my avatar.  I have an option to choose an avatar from gallery, but it's a generic gallery, not mine.
I remember seeing a "use this picture for your icon" button, but haven't been able to find that again....

Sorry for the trouble... I really am smarter than I look...
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: thecfarm on January 05, 2022, 08:16:52 PM
I suppose you watched the how to video at the start of this thread. I did mine a long time ago. 
Click on to Profile, that's the one that is in the Home, Help, Search line, a drop down will appear, click onto Forum Profile and the place to upload a avatar should be there.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Jeff on January 05, 2022, 08:29:06 PM
Uploading and avatar has nothing to do with your gallery. It is a function in your profile. Make sure you orient and resize your avatar before uploading. The forum can resize, only if the upload in under the maximim limit. Most times its not.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: SwingOak on January 05, 2022, 11:32:15 PM
Quote from: Tramp Bushler on June 26, 2019, 12:31:56 AM
This is stupid. I have to basically agree to give you my pics. I don't remember it being like this years ago on this forum.
Oh well. Plenty of other forestry , logging and arborist forums on the web .
Really? You suffering licensing income loss from sharing your photos here?  
You're given free hosting for your pictures of trees and wood etc., and the links will work on other websites as well. If you're that worried about your IP, then don't post photos. 
All my photography is copyrighted under Creative Commons and registered with the Library of Congress. I'm not posting my art here, just photos of trees and wood i.e. "unpublished media".
And yeah, I'd post a link to my photography website but it's not allowed...
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Don P on January 06, 2022, 09:37:54 AM
Actually, don't use the gallery here for posting stuff elsewhere. Host/posting, every time we or someone clicks something, all of this costs the forum money.

Anything I post elsewhere is linked to from webspace I rent. The difference is, when the server goes bust, a hacker takes it and demands ransom, (yeah good luck with that friend  :D), or if I don't pay that rent, everything I linked to from there goes to little red X's. I like Jeff's plan and try very hard not to abuse it or cost him unduly.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Magicman on January 06, 2022, 01:40:42 PM
I believe that is called "hot linking" and it is forbidden to hot link anything from the FF anywhere else, even an emoji. 
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Jeff on January 07, 2022, 09:14:00 AM
Swingoak, the penalty for posting photos here for use on other websites is banishment. Hot linking images is bandwidth theft
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: 47sawdust on January 16, 2022, 11:12:37 AM
Can I upload directly from my phones photo gallery to my forum gallery.

I'm trying but can't quite get there.

What am I missing ?

Thanks, I figured it out.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Jeff on January 16, 2022, 02:09:51 PM
There is no reason why you should not be able to, but not knowing anything about any phone but mine, and not having any idea what kind of difficulty you are having past you say cant make it work, im afraid I've no idea how to help.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Cynthia Moore on January 31, 2022, 09:33:22 PM
Quote from: Jeff on February 17, 2018, 11:50:55 AM
Here is a short video to show how to post photos. Please read rules for sharing photos on The Forestry Forum beneath this video link. It's not as hard as you think. 8)

Posting a photo on The Forestry Forum - YouTube (https://youtu.be/--d93OoEV_o)

1. Offsite Photos and links to offsite photos are not allowed on the Forestry Forum.
2. If you want to share your photo, it MUST be placed in the Forestry Forum gallery and then placed in a post.
3. Directing people to your gallery is also not allowed. The gallery's only purpose is to archive photos used in posts.
4. Photos not used in posts are not to be uploaded.

5. Deleting photos used in posts is not allowed and considered destruction of forum property and is grounds for being permanently banned from the Forestry Forum
Jeff,
This is a great tutorial, but both of the examples were of posting photos that had just been uploaded to your gallery. How do you do it if you want to post photos that were uploaded to a gallery sometime earlier? I have some photos in a gallery that I would like to post to a forum. But when I select the gallery, the only option I can see is to upload more photos. Can you extend your tutorial to show how to post photos and were previously uploaded to and are already in a gallery?
Thanks 
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Cynthia Moore on January 31, 2022, 09:42:48 PM
Quote from: Jeff on June 08, 2019, 09:20:43 PM
I think some phones render screenshots as png. We dont allow png due to huge file sizes.
There is a good, free photo editing program called IrfanView that will easily convert a png to a jpg or pretty much anything else and you can also crop it. Here's the website:
IrfanView home page (https://www.irfanview.com/)
They also have a user forum like this one. It is run by a very opinionated and socially unpolished moderator, so if you can tolerate that, the software is pretty good.
I'm pretty sure it's Windows only.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Jeff on January 31, 2022, 10:09:06 PM
Once you open upload, in that window click on the my gallery ling to go to your existing phots
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: WV Sawmiller on February 02, 2024, 07:30:47 PM
Improvements noted!!! :)
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Brad_bb on February 03, 2024, 06:12:52 PM
Ok, from a post the method appears to have been changed for uploading photos.  At the bottom as you are writing a new post or reply, instead of the old button for uploading photos, there is a button that says upload file.  Is this what we're supposed to use?  I tried dragging a photo to this, but it said the photo is too large.  The old software used to automatically resize it for you behind the scenes.  Are you going back to resizing our pics manually or is this something yet to be fixed or added?  Also, how do you get access to your gallery while writing a post?
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Jeff on February 03, 2024, 08:20:24 PM
Use your gallery as normal and use the embed code under the photo. The gallery link is in the toolbar. If you simply want to embed a photo in the post you can, but you need to reduce the file size on your phone first, and that photo will only be in that post, and not in any album.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Dakota on February 04, 2024, 11:09:06 AM
What picture size would be best for "drag and drop" ?
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Wlmedley on February 04, 2024, 12:37:50 PM
I've also been trying to resize pictures on iPhone and IPad and can't get anything to work.Does anyone know of a app I could use or a way to do it.Would have to be fairly simple (I'm not very good on this sort of thing)
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Jeff on February 04, 2024, 12:43:18 PM
On android it is easy. Pick a photo from your gallery and clcik the pencil , or edit, then, in edit mode, the 3 dot menu in the corner, click that and you see resize. 40% is still a bic pic on mine, but small enough to easily upload.

If you continue to use the gallery, it will resize for you unless you have really high octane photos.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: doc henderson on February 04, 2024, 01:09:42 PM
after the photo is in the gallery, it seems like more clicks to inset it.  I see the click or drag bar, but not going to the gallery, then I back space to get to my post and then hit modify and paste it.  must be an easier way.  I do the pic to the gallery on my phone and add it to the post on the desktop.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Jeff on February 04, 2024, 01:39:25 PM
Quote from: doc henderson on February 04, 2024, 01:09:42 PMafter the photo is in the gallery, it seems like more clicks to inset it.  I see the click or drag bar, but not going to the gallery, then I back space to get to my post and then hit modify and paste it.  must be an easier way.  I do the pic to the gallery on my phone and add it to the post on the desktop.
Thats because it does NOT wok the same way. You must get the embed code from under your full photo in your galery, and post that in your post. There is no longer a click to add.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: doc henderson on February 04, 2024, 02:16:40 PM
ok.  is there a fast way to pop into my gallery copy and go back to paste? :computer_nerd_md_wht:

I feel like I am missing something.  I will get it.  I have done it two ways so far.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: doc henderson on February 04, 2024, 02:20:10 PM
now i get some emojis at the top...more  :skunk3:
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Wlmedley on February 04, 2024, 02:30:48 PM
I get internal server error any time I try to upload a picture to my gallery.If I try to put a picture in a post directly from pictures in iPhone or iPad it says format is wrong or it's to big.I'll try and find someone to show me how to do it.I've tried to search how to do it on the internet but they talk over my head.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Jeff on February 04, 2024, 02:33:34 PM
We are working on addong the old smilies. They all got dumped in the pist form, we are slowly moving them to the more pane.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Brad_bb on February 04, 2024, 04:26:53 PM
Ok, I just experimented and figured out how to post a picture from my gallery to a post.  I uploaded the picture to my gallery as normal.  I'm using my PC.  Go to the picture you want in my gallery.  Scroll down to the link labeled BBcode (normal) and copy that link.  
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/16191/Screenshot_2024-02-04_161418.jpg) (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=352271)

Then go and paste that link in your post where you want it and the picture will immediately appear in the post you're writing.  To be clear, you'll need to have two tabs/windows open, one with the post you're writing, and one with my gallery to copy the link from. 

Clearly the add picture to post button is no longer in my gallery like it used to be.  Also there is no longer the add picture to post button at the bottom of the post you're writing.  There is an icon at the top of the post you're writing to add a picture.  I think Jeff said that if you upload that way, the picture will not be saved in my gallery.  I tried uploading with that once and it says my file size was too big.  This was a pic off my iphone, so I suspect that I'd always have to resize a photo off my iphone for this to work.  I also noticed, if I'm not mistaken, that the photo has to be a jpeg.  I have to be careful because sometimes when you just try to copy a pic from the web or use my snip program, it can save as another file type like a PNG or something else if you don't check or set the file type to jpeg or jpg.  I think it's going to be easier just to upload to my gallery and go through the copy and paste procedure above.  
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Jeff on February 04, 2024, 04:41:16 PM
We had never allowed png as our image manipulater did not work with png
Phone photos are usually many many times bigger than a web photo needs to be, and we will not be using server resources any longer to convert such huge file sizes.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: mike_belben on February 05, 2024, 02:49:56 PM
I had things working so so for a few days and have been unable to upload a pic in about a week. Jpg, one image at a time, normal procedure. It goes as normal the entire time, the counter bar thingy shows its pretty much complete and then boop, red message internal server error.  Every single time. I dont know what else to do. 

Also my gallery is full of stuff that isnt mine. Images of things that look like stainless steel cylinder liners. Tons of them.   

Any one else having these issues?  

Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Magicman on February 05, 2024, 03:59:43 PM
I have some of the cylinders.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: doc henderson on February 05, 2024, 07:46:23 PM
the cylinders are in just one of the tabs in My Gallery.  I think I hit edit, and it lets me do stuff.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Jeff on February 05, 2024, 08:07:43 PM
Quote from: mike_belben on February 05, 2024, 02:49:56 PMI had things working so so for a few days and have been unable to upload a pic in about a week. Jpg, one image at a time, normal procedure. It goes as normal the entire time, the counter bar thingy shows its pretty much complete and then boop, red message internal server error.  Every single time. I dont know what else to do.

Also my gallery is full of stuff that isnt mine. Images of things that look like stainless steel cylinder liners. Tons of them. 

Any one else having these issues? 


Ill check that out tomorrow mike. Im mentioning Jeremy to remember to look see  whats missing. We are working off the files we paid to have moved. I went back and made good back up hopefully we can get rid of the pipes. You need to reduce your photo size before upload some @Nobohdy
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Ianab on February 06, 2024, 03:35:09 AM
I'm also the proud owner of a nice metal cylinder picture. I wonder if it was a "place holder"  left over from the gallery upgrade? Not so much a "bug" as an "undocumented feature".  Either way, not a priority to fix as it's not breaking anything else. 

I did have a look at Lil's new phone. Default pictures are 12 Mp, 4,000 pixels wide, and 5 or 6 mb in size. That means they wont upload now. Not sure what the "wide angle" 200mp sensor puts out, but I doubt it's smaller. 

A new tutorial, with the file sizes and how to fix that probably needs to be on the to do list, even it's not an immediate priority.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: mike_belben on February 06, 2024, 07:43:26 AM
Thanks jeff.  Cropping before upload will reduce the pixels right?


So the cylinders arent placeholders for an actual photo ive uploaded?  I didnt wanna delete them only to find out that i break a bunch of links that may have been working. 
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Jeff on February 06, 2024, 08:05:07 AM
Quote from: mike_belben on February 06, 2024, 07:43:26 AMThanks jeff.  Cropping before upload will reduce the pixels right?


So the cylinders arent placeholders for an actual photo ive uploaded?  I didnt wanna delete them only to find out that i break a bunch of links that may have been working.
You dont need to crop, you need to reduce the file size If your pics are 1200 pixles wide, that is plenty to look realy good here. Some of you start out with photos that are 4 or 5 or 6,000 Pixles. Huge. When I was allowing the forum server to try and alter the size that much, it can cause performance issues, as photo manipulation on the fly is a resource intensive operation.

It would be helpful, if you guys know what phtos are missing by the name, to round a copy up. The only photos that are missing, are that last couple days before we shut the server down to move as the host, once again, messed up, (not what I wanted to say) the last backup. I still may have them, but finding them is another thing.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: mike_belben on February 06, 2024, 08:19:45 AM
Cropping got them from like 7mb to under 2 and it worked, thanks! 

So i guess i have to try figuring out how to change camera settings.  Im not very bright in the tech dept. Thats why i stick with old iron and fluid power!
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Magicman on February 06, 2024, 08:41:15 AM
For your phone it is a simple matter to get an Image Resize app.  After resizing I have both the original and the resized picture on my phone and I can use or delete either.

I have been using one for years.  Before I even text a picture to someone, I resize it and the message goes much faster. 

Uploading pictures onto a forum is a breeze.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: DbltreeBelgians on February 06, 2024, 12:57:41 PM
Test picture posting

(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/31436/C5B9012C-7523-4607-9A25-D3EE2E76A159.jpeg) (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=352306)

I think I might have it figured out

Brent
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Magicman on February 06, 2024, 02:57:11 PM
Now all that you have to learn is how to tap Maple trees.  ;)   :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: DbltreeBelgians on February 08, 2024, 07:36:33 PM
Ha!
Me thinks this hobby  tapper already figured dat part out!!! :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Magicman on February 09, 2024, 08:00:48 AM
And looking good Sir.  ;)
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Jeff on March 05, 2024, 01:43:34 PM
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/1000023825.jpg) (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=352810)
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: WELumberjack on March 19, 2024, 11:55:59 AM
The metal cylinders must be the "default" forum picture when you have created an album in your gallery, but haven't uploaded any pictures into that album. I have some of those. Other albums I have pictures in, have one of that album's pictures as the thumbnail.
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Magicman on March 19, 2024, 06:13:01 PM
Mine have all disappeared.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Ianab on March 19, 2024, 11:08:54 PM
Quote from: mike_belben on February 06, 2024, 08:19:45 AMCropping got them from like 7mb to under 2 and it worked, thanks! 

So i guess i have to try figuring out how to change camera settings.  Im not very bright in the tech dept. Thats why i stick with old iron and fluid power!
Cropping is basically like cutting out a smaller section of the picture, and throwing away the rest. It may be the right thing to if say you have a small image that you want, like a deer in a field. You chop out most of the grass,  and have a smaller image of just the deer.

Resizing is where you take the whole image, and shrink it all in size. I take images down to about 1,000 pixels (dots) wide, and that gives a good screen size, and generally gets the image down to a couple of hundred Kb.

There is another setting called "compression". When you save a jpg image, you can adjust how much detail you are willing to lose when it's displayed again. May be under "Image quality" in some programs. You can increase the compression, and that makes the file smaller, but also more "fuzzy", because it's lost some of the details. If you have this setting, you sort of have to play around and see what setting it needs to be. Too much compression and the image looks like mud, not enough and the image is bigger than it needs to be.

But those are the 3 basic photo editing tasks you might need to tidy up a picture for any web page, often you will want all three to get the best image / smallest image.

If you want to dig deeper there is contrast / colour balance and now AI editing.

This is a (shrunk ) image that Lil took the other day, the original is ~8,000 pix wide, WAY too big.

mj mt0.jpg

Then using the phone photo editing tools, crop out the shed on the right, some of the bushes and sky, and then get the phone AI to remove the dead tree and shed on the left and the last corner of the right shed. (and make up some detail to go in their place). Can you see where the dead tree was? I can't. 

mj mt1.jpg
Title: Re: Updated Photo Posting Tutorial
Post by: Jeff on March 20, 2024, 08:37:25 AM
Put it back! With a dragon perched on it!