posting pics

[stormie427]

guys...i'm soooo frustrated! i have a kodak digital camera...very easy to use, but i can't seem to resize the pics for cc. can anyone help me with this problem http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/confused.gif pretty please http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif all help is much appreciated!

stormie

[McDuff]

Stormie, I was going to reply to your post in pic forum, but saw this so:

There are many ways to do this but it all depends on your s/w and such. The *simplest* way is actually posted in the pic forum. It is the top link over there. Jeff has written a routine that lets you pick a picture on your computer, then it uploads it, resizes it and downloads it back to your computer using a filename of your choice. Then you would just post the *shrunk* pic back up like you already have.

Give it a try, I've used it flawlessly.

Good luck, McD

"Rather be ridin' than rollin'"

[stormie427]

mcduff...i've tried jeffs resizing format but for some unknown reason nothing happens. the pic appears but doesn't prompt me to save. if u point me in the right direction i'm pretty good at directions, but i'm not computer savy http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/frown.gif
stormie

[McDuff]

Stormie, I think I know where it could be going wrong. I am assuming that you got to the point of picking your picture and hitting the "upload" button and that it appeared that the file got sent.

The last step of the flow should be a popup window asking if you want to open or save this file; you want to save it, not open it. Then you will fill in a filename to save it to. This would then be the filename to post to the picture forum. If you say "open" it will just pop the picture up in your browser.

Let me know if this works. If it does not, are you using Internet Explorer on a Windows XP computer? That is what I use and you may be getting different results on a different setup. Don't worry, we were all not very savvy at one time.

McD

"Rather be ridin' than rollin'"

[This message was edited by McDuff on 01-06-05 at 12:14 AM.]

[This message was edited by McDuff on 01-06-05 at 12:18 AM.]

[stormie427]

mcduff...i browse...pick the pic and it starts uploading. after that it just pops up...no save or open window appears. i've been having problems with this computer...it's running ME. i have a laptop that has xp...so i'll try and see what happens with that tonight. thanks for the help!

stormie

[McDuff]

The ME computer must be automatically "opening" the resized pic and not giving you the option to save. This could be occuring because the file type coming back down is listed as an .html and ME is set to automatically show/open this filetype.

A workaround; after you see the new picture, you can choose to save it anyway. Just right click on the pic and use the "save picture as" option and give it a filename to save to. This will work just as well, with one extra step.

McD

"Rather be ridin' than rollin'"

[jimnms]

Get this free program. When you're viewing the picture, either click view/resize or hit CTRL-R. Pic a size, then hit "S" to save the file. Save it as a new file and don't overwrite your original.

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Learn from the mistakes of others, you won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.

[stormie427]

mcduff & jim,,,i tried and tried and to no avail,,,nothing so i figured i would try my old faithful laptop and sure enough it worked, my laptop is running xp professional, but the poor thing has seen better days, the reason i cant post the pic though is because the lower left panel on the keyboard is fried,,,lol no periods, so i cant type in the pic description, at least i know it wasnt me,,,why would the ME edition with the same kodak program give such a problem, maybe u guys can figure this one out,,,down the road i plan on upgrading but for the moment ill have to deal http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif thanks for for the help,,,oh yeah my guy would like to know why there has to be a file description when uploading,

stormie

[McDuff]

Stormie, whew you been workin' hard at it. I've never worked with ME so can't be much help there.

Did you try the workaround method I gave? Seems like that oughtta work.

The file description is really just a caption heading for the pic, you can put anything you want in there.

McD

"Rather be ridin' than rollin'"

[jimnms]

Originally posted by jimnms:

Get this free program. When you're viewing the picture, either click view/resize or hit CTRL-R. Pic a size, then hit "S" to save the file. Save it as a new file and don't overwrite your original.

I just noticed I forgot to put the URL to the program. http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/wink.gif

http://www.irfanview.com/

My instructions will make a lot more sense one you have it.

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Learn from the mistakes of others, you won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.

[stormie427]

thanks u guys http://sci.rutgers.edu/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif for all your help,

stormie