computer help

[Polar Bear 4/31]

I have pictures of a couple trees I felled, and wanted for you guys to critique my face, backcut, and hinge. But I can't figure out how to put the pictures on the forum. The pictures are on my computer. How do I get them to the forum? Also, where should I post them as I cut them down for an easement for a powerline? Thanks in advance for the help.

 

[rbtree]

It's easy. First resize them to a reasonable file size....under 300kb.......if that isn't easy for you, download this free and great photo editor/organizer..


www.picasa.com

At the bottom of the picasa page, hit export....this will allow you to choose various file sizes.....

this file is called Picasa exports. It will show in your my pictures folder.

Make your AS post, scroll down to maange attachments, click on it...and navigate in your files to my pictures.....click on the resized ones you want, and they'll attach to your post. You can put a few in each post.

 

[M.D. Vaden]

My favorite size to view on forums or attached is between 600 and 800 pixels wide.

 

[Polar Bear 4/31]

Here it goes.

 

[Polar Bear 4/31]

Thank both of you. I will try to post the rest of my pictures. Please critique this cut. I think my face cut was too deep and the angle was too small. The tree was a 50-65' cottonwood 15" DBH. Cut with MS260 w/18"bar. I did not make any relief cuts on the sides. What do you think?

 

[Sprig]

Once your pics are resized somewhere on your own pc (ie. if you have PhotoShop etc. choose 'save as' and re-save them as a JPEG, generally this will bring them down to a usable size, around 150kb or less. When you bring up the window for posting click on the paperclip icon, this will bring up another window, choose 'Browse' and this will allow you to access your files, find the pic you want and highlight it, then click 'open' or 'open file', X out of there and go back to the attachment window, the URL should be there then, l-click on 'upload file' and wait, when it is done you'll see your pictures URL just below that. To imbed the picture into your post r-click on the URL and go down the list to 'properties' and l-click, then highlight (hold the L button down and drag it through the addy, it'll turn it blue) the addy (the part with "http//:blah blah blah" in it) and with your cursor still in the box on the blue part r-click and l-click 'copy', then X out of there and go back to your post, find the little picture of mountain icon and l-click on it, this will bring up a small window with a highlighted 'http//' in it, hit delete to get rid of that and r-click and then l-click 'paste' your copied URL in there and hit OK, this will put an addy into your post that has image tags around it ({image}http//blah blahURL{/image} ), your good ta go from there. If you are doing multiple images its really good to learn to resize them to 300 or less kbs, and there is a limit I believe of around 3mb for each post (iow if your pics are really big you'll get less in there, if they are resized you could fit several). Resizing your images is not only good for the AS server but also for anyone on dial-up attempting to view your post, personally it can take up to 10mins to open pics nearing 1Mb, where one re-sized to say 50Kb will take several seconds.
I'm really beat right now I hope this makes sense, I'll check in the morning and ammend if needed, sry if its still confusin'. *sigh* :jester:



Serge

EDIT> KK PB4, ya did good, nice pic, here it is imbeded>

 

[Polar Bear 4/31]

Thanks, I will try embedding photos after I get the hang of just posting them as whatever I did that you embedded. I am a computer idiot. Please bear with me.

 

[M.D. Vaden]

Thanks, I will try embedding photos after I get the hang of just posting them as whatever I did that you embedded. I am a computer idiot. Please bear with me.

You just click on the attachment link that you made, and when it opens the photo, COPY the link from the browser's address bar.

Then, go back to your post, select "advanced" in edit, and use the post an image icon, then enter that URL and save again.