Rookie Alert!! O.K. I'm new to the site and to photography I have always enjoyed taking pictures just have never been taught the correct way to get the image I am after. I am into old...

oldsjoe Loc: A Very Small Village

O.K. I'm new to the site and to photography I have always enjoyed taking pictures just have never been taught the correct way to get the image I am after. I am into old cars and photographing them but also like to take scenery and portraits too! So any and all help and suggestions will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! Joe

oldsjoe Loc: A Very Small Village

O.K. I'm pretty dense but I can not get any photo's to upload anywhere on this site what is the secret?

Country's Mama Loc: Michigan

Make sure that they are downsized. I use 600 dpi then save for web.

oldsjoe Loc: A Very Small Village

Thanks for the info guess I'm in over my head I have no idea how to make them smaller they are jpg format. I'll just leave it as is maybe I'll learn by reading some. I can't even get the Avatar to load keeps dissappearing in the box when I hit the apply box I'm out of ideas.

Country's Mama Loc: Michigan

oldsjoe wrote:

Thanks for the info guess I'm in over my head I have no idea how to make them smaller they are jpg format. I'll just leave it as is maybe I'll learn by reading some. I can't even get the Avatar to load keeps dissappearing in the box when I hit the apply box I'm out of ideas.

What kind of software do you have? Maybe I or someone else can walk you through it. It isn't all that hard once you know how to do it.

David707 Loc: Medford OR

oldsjoe wrote:

O.K. I'm new to the site and to photography I have always enjoyed taking pictures just have never been taught the correct way to get the image I am after. I am into old cars and photographing them but also like to take scenery and portraits too! So any and all help and suggestions will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! Joe

Welcome to the forum, Joe. I'm sure you will find lots of useful info here.

SUSIE Q Loc: Colton, California

oldsjoe wrote:

O.K. I'm new to the site and to photography I have always enjoyed taking pictures just have never been taught the correct way to get the image I am after. I am into old cars and photographing them but also like to take scenery and portraits too! So any and all help and suggestions will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! Joe

Welcome.....I am new too, but have learned a number of things already! I bet you will too.

Emmett Loc: Onalaska, Texas

Welcome, Oldsjoe, can't wait to see some of your car photos.
What programs do you use to post process? Do you have any photoshop?

hipfarmchick

Welcome Joe!! I won 't have wireless long as I'm traveling...I will check back in with you soon...go to the Topic"Down on the Farm" and there are two guys who are excellent..with all sorts of information and are willing and able to be there to help you...gessman and gizzy.whickers tell them Chick sent you!! You can ask them anything!! have a beautiful Thanksgiving!!
Chick

gessman Loc: Colorado

oldsjoe wrote:

O.K. I'm new to the site and to photography I have always enjoyed taking pictures just have never been taught the correct way to get the image I am after. I am into old cars and photographing them but also like to take scenery and portraits too! So any and all help and suggestions will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! Joe

Okay. First, you must resize the images to no wider than 600 pixels. You will need to use a graphics program to do that. Not knowing what kind of graphics program you have ties my hands in being able to advise you on that. I'm pretty sure your computer came with a program that will do resizing for you but I cannot tell from where I'm sitting. You'll need to do some reading and looking in your computer to see what you've got.

Then, you must know where in your computer the images are so you can navigate to that folder to attach the images to your entry or post, as it's called.

Up at the top of any page in the forum there is, on the bottom left in the heading, "Create New Topic." Click on that a white drop down box will open in which it says "Main Photography Discussion."

Click on the down arrow on the right and the selections will expand downward. Select "Pictures" and you'll be taken to another page where you will need to give a title and description of what your pictures are about.

After you've done that, below those boxes you will see "Choose File" with blank spaces out to the left. Click on the first "Choose File" button and navigate to the folder where you have your pics stored. When you select the first one to open, the name of it will appear where it now says "No file chosen." Repeat for the next two and then click on "Send." If you decide to "Preview" and click on that, it will detach your pics and you will have to repeat the process of choosing all of them. I don't use "Preview" because it only causes more work.

Another thing is that some users using various versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox for their browsers are having trouble with their posts making the trip. They've found that downloading Google Chrome and using it as their browser has fixed the problem. You can try it with what you're using but if it doesn't work, Chrome may be in your future. If that's the case, you just get Google up and on the menu bar up near the top, you want to select "more" and then "even more" and there you'll find Google Chrome. Clicking on it will install it on your computer and you should be on your way. If you get stuck, let you can send me a Private Message (PM) and I'll try to walk you through it. Good luck.

hipfarmchick

gessman wrote:

oldsjoe wrote:

O.K. I'm new to the site and to photography I have always enjoyed taking pictures just have never been taught the correct way to get the image I am after. I am into old cars and photographing them but also like to take scenery and portraits too! So any and all help and suggestions will be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance! Joe

Okay. First, you must resize the images to no wider than 600 pixels. You will need to use a graphics program to do that. Not knowing what kind of graphics program you have ties my hands in being able to advise you on that. I'm pretty sure your computer came with a program that will do resizing for you but I cannot tell from where I'm sitting. You'll need to do some reading and looking in your computer to see what you've got.

Then, you must know where in your computer the images are so you can navigate to that folder to attach the images to your entry or post, as it's called.

Up at the top of any page in the forum there is, on the bottom left in the heading, "Create New Topic." Click on that a white drop down box will open in which it says "Main Photography Discussion."

Click on the down arrow on the right and the selections will expand downward. Select "Pictures" and you'll be taken to another page where you will need to give a title and description of what your pictures are about.

After you've done that, below those boxes you will see "Choose File" with blank spaces out to the left. Click on the first "Choose File" button and navigate to the folder where you have your pics stored. When you select the first one to open, the name of it will appear where it now says "No file chosen." Repeat for the next two and then click on "Send." If you decide to "Preview" and click on that, it will detach your pics and you will have to repeat the process of choosing all of them. I don't use "Preview" because it only causes more work.

Another thing is that some users using various versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox for their browsers are having trouble with their posts making the trip. They've found that downloading Google Chrome and using it as their browser has fixed the problem. You can try it with what you're using but if it doesn't work, Chrome may be in your future. If that's the case, you just get Google up and on the menu bar up near the top, you want to select "more" and then "even more" and there you'll find Google Chrome. Clicking on it will install it on your computer and you should be on your way. If you get stuck, let you can send me a Private Message (PM) and I'll try to walk you through it. Good luck.

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