How to Post Pictures

[Larry M]

How to Post Pictures

Click Quick Reply and scroll down to bottom of text box.
Click Go Advanced, add text to message window and then scroll down.
Under the screen called Additional Options, go down to Attach Files, there you have the button to 'Manage Attachments'. Click Manage Attachments. A separate window will pop up.
Click Browse... then select the file to be uploaded. Be sure that the photo is appropriately sized. 1024 x 1024 pixels (or smaller) and no more than 100K. Forums software will automatically reduce the size, but smaller size photos will upload much faster. You may select several photos to upload at the same time by repeating the last step.
Click Upload. After pics have loaded, close the pop-up window.
Click Submit Reply to post the text of your message - photos will automatically appear at the bottom of your post.
You can also:
Click Post Reply or, if starting a new thread, click New Thread
Click on the paperclip symbol in the top row of the message box. A separate window will pop up.
Click Browse...then select the file to be uploaded. Be sure that the photo is appropriately sized. 1024 x 1024 pixels (or smaller) and no more than 100K. Forums software will automatically reduce the size, but smaller size photos will upload much faster. You may select several photos to upload at the same time by repeating the last step.
Click Upload. After pics have loaded, close the pop-up window.
Click Submit Reply (if you are replying) or Submit New Thread (if a new discussion) to post the text of your message - photos will automatically appear at the bottom of your post.

[Larry M]

If you post pictures that look normal on your phone or tablet, but after upload here seem to post upside down or sideways, the issue is likely that the images were taken on a mobile device that auto rotates content to always appear right side up.

Some options:

1. Always take the picture in portrait orientation or:

2. After taking picture hold your device upright and then edit the picture, resaving it with a new name.

The forum software can't discern what the intended orientation was so it defaults to the actual orientation of the image (regardless of how your device auto rotated it to appear correctly in your local view)

[koliver]

Originally Posted by Larry M

If you post pictures that look normal on your phone or tablet, but after upload here seem to post upside down or sideways, the issue is likely that the images were taken on a mobile device that auto rotates content to always appear right side up.

Some options:

1. Always take the picture in portrait orientation or:

2. After taking picture hold your device upright and then edit the picture, resaving it with a new name.

The forum software can't discern what the intended orientation was so it defaults to the actual orientation of the image (regardless of how your device auto rotated it to appear correctly in your local view)

I don't know how to fix photos that come up oriented incorrectly, but I did take a photography lesson recently, from a guy who knew how to make them come out correctly the first time, on iPhones.
Those have the camera in a corner of the back of the phone, and must have that corner as an "upper" corner. If a photo is taken with the camera in a lower corner the orientation will be wrong. To make this work in portrait, it is a normal orientation. In Landscape, tilt to the left.
I hope this helps, even a little.

[Bacchus]

If a photo posts with incorrect orientation it can be corrected by doing the following:
Note the orientation of the posted photo and which direction it needs to be rotated and how much (90° CW or CCW or 180°)
Open the photo file on your PC with a photo editing program
Rotate the photo as noted above
Save As a new named photo
Open the post and Edit then Go Advanced
Scroll down to "Manage Attachments" - Upload the new file name to the post and confirm the correct orientation using Preview
"Remove" the incorrectly oriented photo file from the post
Save your changes

[Peter B]

Originally Posted by koliver

I don't know how to fix photos that come up oriented incorrectly, but I did take a photography lesson recently, from a guy who knew how to make them come out correctly the first time, on iPhones.
Those have the camera in a corner of the back of the phone, and must have that corner as an "upper" corner. If a photo is taken with the camera in a lower corner the orientation will be wrong. To make this work in portrait, it is a normal orientation. In Landscape, tilt to the left.
I hope this helps, even a little.

I agree, that does seem to work mostly. Pilou also advised me to do that, and she knows quite a bit about this stuff as well as Covid.