Posting pictures

**Cynthia** · 7th March 08, 06:52 AM

Yup, Christopher and I are being patient. He was excited to post some new photos, but is waiting to make sure everything's working smoothly before he tries. I'd seen that people were having issues posting a photo yesterday, and I'm sure he wants to create his own little gallery to keep his photos together. I didn't see any help files, but it seems similar to another site's gallery that I've used, so I'm trying to go by that when we're looking at the site together to figure out how to work it.

But yeah, we're being patient to see how it works and give it a chance.

**thescot** · 7th March 08, 06:54 AM

I managed to get one posted as well. I had to use the http: address from Photobucket as it would not let me directly upload from my computer. It was not completely user friendly, but it worked. (Maybe you can add a feature to take off a few years and pounds; now that would be a true Improvement!

I'm not sure what the real intent is here. I seem to be a little confused, but then it could be that my meds haven't kicked in. Or maybe they have, I forget which.

The process doesn't seem to be any simpler; it the point just to add photos by alpahbet?

**Mike1** · 7th March 08, 07:22 AM

Originally Posted by thescot

I managed to get one posted as well. I had to use the http: address from Photobucket as it would not let me directly upload from my computer.

What kind of error did you see, when you tried to upload from your local box? Was it a file size error? If you could try that again for me and report back here with the specific error mesage, I would appreciate it.

Cynthia, go ahead and try to upload an image. Be aware the image must be smaller than .5 MB. If the image is larger than that, it will need to be resized with something like IrfanView.

I would appreciate it if we can use this thread to identify specific problems and that will help me narrow down what needs to be done. Thanks!

**thescot** · 7th March 08, 07:36 AM

Originally Posted by Mike1

What kind of error did you see, when you tried to upload from your local box? Was it a file size error? If you could try that again for me and report back here with the specific error mesage, I would appreciate it. . . .

I just gave it a shot; tried to upload a .jpg directly from my hard drive, and this is the error message:

"Sorry, thescot: Bad File - No File or File is too Large or of the Wrong MIME Type"

It's a similar photo I uploaded from photobucket, just includes SouthernScot and another friend.

**thescot** · 7th March 08, 07:45 AM

I don't now is this helps any, but I just changed my avatar using a file form my hard drive.

But it wouldn't allow me to use the same photo from photobucket saying that the remote file was too large!

**Mike1** · 7th March 08, 07:45 AM

OK, I'm betting the file is too large. Check the file size and see if it is over 512000 bytes.

Did you just change avatars, BTW? EDIT - DUH, if I had read ALL of your post, I would have seen that bit.

OK, we posted at the same time.

Check the file on your hard drive and verify its size.

**Cynthia** · 7th March 08, 08:23 AM

Mike, sorry I was replying to your original PM instead of posting here to keep everything together on this thread. I'll try to reply here instead from now on instead of PM's.

Christo13 logged in (he's working from home, so I can't bother him too much today) and posted a photo without any problems to the Me In My Kilt album.

His biggest concern is flooding that album with too many in a series. For example, his kilted in the snow photos we took yesterday. I think he was wanting to create an album to group his photos together so someone could skip those and not wade through them if they weren't interested in viewing those photos. He was able to create an album, but he was unable to actually upload anything into it (I don't think we saw that as an option to upload into his album that he'd created, only the already-existing ones).

I guess what I'm asking is are we only supposed to be uploading photos into one of the already-existing albums/categories? Is that correct?

Thanks so much for your help.

**thescot** · 7th March 08, 08:34 AM

Originally Posted by Mike1

OK, I'm betting the file is too large. Check the file size and see if it is over 512000 bytes.

Did you just change avatars, BTW? EDIT - DUH, if I had read ALL of your post, I would have seen that bit.

OK, we posted at the same time.

Check the file on your hard drive and verify its size.

Well, the size on disk is 316 KB (323,584 bytes), well below the 512k. And it loaded OK as an avatar from the disk, but it wouldn't load from Photobucket.

On the other hand, the original picture I tried to upload to the album was about 1.2 megs, so it was quite large. However, that's the one I uploaded from Photobucket with no problem.

**McClef** · 7th March 08, 08:37 AM

I expect that most of us, when we resize an original photo, do so by pixels but when there is a size limit as here it's also important to check the resultant file size.

Different pictures with the same pixellation will still end up with different file sizes and also the orientation can make a huge difference.

As no doubt can the program used to resize.

Oh by the way, photobucket warns you that it will resize the photo if it's too large when you upload a photo there so it will be a smaller file on their servers then.

**Mike1** · 7th March 08, 08:47 AM

@ thescot - OK, I'm trying to narrow down one problem at a time, so please bear with me. Let's not concern ourselves with avatars or PhotoBucket just the now.

With respect to just the 316K image on your hard drive - can you or can you not successfully upload it directly to the photo gallery from your hard drive?

If you cannot, please give me the error you're getting.

@ Cynthia - Have you tried the suggestion I gave you in the PM?

@ McClef - I appreciate your comments, but can we please use this thread to identify problems only? I'm getting covered up with questions and problems and trying to use this as a central location is a big help to me. Thanks!