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[Peter Drouin]

I had a way to post one after the change with my PC. It's been a while since I put up a pic in a post. I forgot at 70 that will do that. I went to read how to do it, but now there's stuff for a phone. I remember- post- pic then r click on the middle line and so on

I give up. This whole pic thing is killing the form. The add thing was licked. 
I think this pic thing is why the posting is way down.

[caveman]

I hope that you get it figured out.  I like seeing your pictures of the sawmill and the hot rod.  Putting the pictures in the gallery from my phone is much easier for me than from my computer, but I suspect that the process is about the same on the PC, except you have to download the pictures onto the PC from your phone or camera first.

[Nebraska]

I get the pictures from my phone into my gallery. I open two windows into  the forestry forum one on the topic I wish to post in and one on the gallery with my picture selected. Then below the picture are three lines of meaningless to me goblety gook. They have to do with image size etc.  I use copy to copy all the text in the line then switch over to the other window to paste them into the post I am working on.  On my dark side I phone I just have to hold my finger on the screen long enough and the cut copy paste options come up.  Slower than it was before for me but I can do it.  

[Magicman]

I don't use my phone, only the laptop for posting.

I also use two tabs; one with the Reply window open and then open the FF in another tab, select Gallery, My gallery, then Upload file.  After uploading, select the pix and copy the BBCode (normal).  Then back to the Reply window and Paste it in my Reply.

[SawyerTed]

Peter, don't feel bad.  It's not a fluid or intuitive way to post pictures.  Don't give up, I too appreciate seeing your photos!

Are you able to upload your pics into your gallery?

If so, open your gallery in a new separate window from your new thread/reply window.  As Magicman mentioned above. 

 You have to open the individual pic in the gallery  you want to put in your post/reply.

Once the pic is open, there's the three lines of gobbletygook. As Nebraska mentioned above.  See the photo below.

Then select the bottom line and copy it.  The line you want is circled in red in my pic below. 

Put your cursor in the reply window where you want and paste the picture. 

It will paste the gibberish in the reply.  Click on preview to check your picture is like you want. 

[Peter Drouin]

I use a camera so to zoom in on stuff. Pull the card from the camera and stuff it in the PC .put that in a file. then put that pic in my gallery. It's been a long time and I think I'm just skipping something.

I guess I just have to post more pic more often. I'll get it.
Maybe I should eat grits then my memory will be as good as Magic Mans.

Sorry Boss for the rant. That is why I have my own file here on the FF.

[Ianab]

Part of the problem is modern phones have such good cameras, that they create HUGE files. 

Lil shot video on her phone at a concert last night, and wanted to post it to FB. Hmmm, seems to be taking a LONG time to upload? Ooops, shot the video in 8K (7,680 horizontal and 4,320 vertical pixels), so the file was HUGE. We don't even have a display in the house that can do 4k, let alone 8K. Fortunately the phone has a "downscale" option to shrink a video to a more sensible size. A single screen grab from the video would be oversize for posting. The still camera is worse, it can take pictures at ~100 million pixels. 

Now the hires pictures are great when you want them printed A0 size on the wall, but they are 10X bigger than needed for a web page. Most phones now have a way to shrink a copy of a picture in your gallery, so it can be emailed or uploaded easier. From the phone mine get synced to Google (Apple has the same), and you can access them from your laptop / PC that way.  

[SwampDonkey]

You should not even have to pull the card from your camera at all. There should have been a USB cable that you plug into the camera and into the computer. It has two different sized ends, small end plugged into camera. Turn the camera on and it mounts that card as if it were a drive. Should see it popup when you open explorer, right click on it and the option to import should show up in a list. Sometimes the PC will set it up to import automatically off the camera once you power the camera up. Regardless, you have to direct the files to where you want them and can find them. Once you set that once it's set from then on unless you change it. Default is 'Pictures' folder.  This camera has been used on 3 versions of Windows.

[Peter Drouin]

Hay Boss, Is there a way to resize a pic automatically when one puts the pic in the gallery? From a ph--pc or the moon?
Is that from your end or the new program we have now?

[Peter Drouin]

Not complaining just asking.

[SawyerTed]

If it's possible, it's a good idea.  

[Jeff]

The gallery already does that, but at a limit, and that limit is stated I think,on the upload screen.

[Jeff]

It says

Maximum allowed file size is 21 MiB

The gallery resizes after that. If your starting size is bigger than 21mb, the server dont want it. That is bigger than it was on the old server a year ago.

[Peter Drouin]

Ok thanks for the info Boss.