I am a dummy, help please

I have NO idea how to post a photo on here. What is a URL? Old guy here not computer savvy. I want to post photos of a sedan I am working on

 

when making a message theres three buttons (Post reply, upload a file, more options) to upload a image press the upload file button

 

After you hit the "upload a file" button, a box will appear wanting to know where the picture you want to upload is located on your computer. You need to find where the picture is on your computer (mine is in the picture section), and post that location in the box. Then you need to pick out which picture you want to post from that section. and highlight it. Once it is highlighted, on my computer I need to hit "open" and the picture should appear on your typed response. If you want to type something after the picture, you will want to hit your "enter" bar a couple of times, the step up one line and then you chose if you want a thumbnail or full image (choose full image).

Then you can add something after the picture. If you don't add that extra "enter" I find it really hard to add more information after the picture.

 

Don't worry about a URL. It might be "United Resistance League" for all we know... ha! Gobblygook for those that think it is so important...

Hello,

There is no such thing as a dummy when it comes to technology. A lot of it just goes by most of us in a flash. It is moving faster than we can absorb easily. But, hang on and the old school style always works.

Photos are simple when taken with a digital camera. A digital camera or for folks who don’t like actual cameras that offer the old feel of shooting photos and movies by looking at what is happening on the screen… a phone camera.

No need to worry. It all comes down to how you save your photos to your computer for editing. Most photos are saved as Jpegs. (Joint Photographic Experts Group) for most, it has no meaning so we all tend to just convert our photos to that JPEG and move on. If it does not work, something is different with the web site than 90% of the other sites, including this one.

If you have a camera with an sd card, that will load your photos to your computer files. Now, take a photo from that file and paste it on the Paint program. It is the easiest program to use. Once the photo is on the paint program, now it can be saved as a JPEG for all files on your own photo files. Each one saved as a Jpeg can now be used on just about any website.

But, before your computer takes over, it will copy the photo in a large format. So, when you paste it on some websites, it will be huge and sometimes fuzziness creeps in, making it not so good. take the photo and paste it on a Microsoft Word Document.


The actual photo is a standard color Kodak Ektachrome slide 35mm transparency. But I mounted it in a harder plastic sleeve for constant play in a Kodak Carousel projector. That way, the continuous in and out of the slide in the metal sleeves is protected for many plays.

Jnaki

Now, see the little bubbles surrounding the photo “clicked.” Take one on a corner and move it inwards to the center, slowly. You will see the size decrease smaller until you get to the size you want in your HAMB photo story post. Most folks just copy photos and paste, so, it is large and sometimes blurry. We all like quality photo composition and the resulting adjusted photo for all of our hot rod viewing.

Note:

When I post the photo slide as a thumbnail. This is what appears on the post.

This is the same photo in full size:

So, as you can see, some adjustment is necessary to make sure your photo is not too large or too small. That is why the little dots at the end of the photo on a Word Document is handy to adjust the overall size of the photo and keeping it in focus at the same time. YRMV

Note 2:
This is an original 35mm color slide, not Kodak Ektachrome, but an experimental 35mm film strip. The size copied and saved to my own files looks good as shown on my computer. But, when I copy and paste it to show the photo, it automatically enlarges itself to this size. Making it somewhat fuzzy as it gets larger.
A copy of the photo slide is used and directly posted to this thread makes it automatically this large. Then, it becomes fuzzier than the original in focus slide. It is just not as clear as the original color slide film transparency.

If I use the "upload a file" portion of the HAMB thread, this is the result. So, it is still somewhat in focus and the idea of the hot rod still gets across, but it is not enlarged to the point of being so fuzzy from a normal size 35 mm color slide.

And, it is harder to place directly into a series of paragraphs of the typed story. It is used just for an add on accessory to highlight the whole story with a photo or two at the end.

Good Luck in your writing journals with photos. Remember, it is easier to write a story and then add photos to accentuate what is in the story with good photos sized just right.

The same thing goes for drawn artwork, too.

 

When you select the photo you want to post, use the full image the picture will be larger. HRP