[Bluebreezer54]

Hi Ross. Yes my files are Jpeg. The error message I got from UKww was the one Ive quoted above mate. Make sense of that if you can !! All the photos I tried to post were set at 800 pixels and under 200kb.

Cheers. BB

[Bazmundo]

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Bluebreezer54 - 12/10/2010 00:54

Hi Ross. Yes my files are Jpeg. The error message I got from UKww was the one Ive quoted above mate. Make sense of that if you can !! All the photos I tried to post were set at 800 pixels and under 200kb.

Cheers. BB

Were they under 150kb Martin? See: http://www.ukweather...posts=6&start=1

Sometimes the original picture is bigger than average, or contains more detail/colour information. In these cases Picasa, presuming you are exporting resized pics with quality set to "automatic", will end up over 150kb. A good way to check your 800px ready for upload to UKww is with Windows itself: whilst looking at the folder in Win Explorer just highlight the pics one by one and check the file information (bottom or left, depending on which version I think). Change the Picasa export quality settings to "minimum" or even have a play with "custom". Hope this helps mate. :-)

[StephenS]

Martin, the message relates to the settings of the UKww forum software, which obviously you can do nothing to change.

Essentially, you're being told that your attachments (pictures) are too large. If you work on a standard of 800 pixels wide, max file size 150k, you should be totally safe. You can reduce the resolution almost as much as you like to achieve this: even 72dpi should be fine (though I don't use Picasa, so I don't know how these things work in that software).

I also found posting photographs horrendously difficult at first, and I've worked professionally with Photoshop. The interface isn't intuitive at all. It's not just you, honest!

I'm sure you're completely fed up with going through this time and time again, but I found it helpful to set up a bookmark to Howard's notes on posting photos   so I could keep referring to them. I eventually did crack it.

Also, don't forget that you can preview your posts before you submit them and delete them for a few minutes after they've been sent. This can avoid some embarrassing moments, not only in relation to images that go pear-shaped. ;)

Sorry, Glyn - we were obviously replying at the same time. I think we're pretty much saying the same thing.

[Bazmundo]

Yes Stephen, except I forgot about the post preview - good point.

Martin, here's the Picasa export menu to show you what I meant. You can use Windows "character map" to copy and paste the copyright symbol into your watermark too.

[Bluebreezer54]

Glynn, Stephen. Many thanks for your patience and advice. I do take some consolation from knowing that Stephen, despite his experience also had trouble posting here !!

Glynn, thats where I must be going wrong, I had image quality set to max. For some reason I was thinking up to 200kb was acceptable rather than the 150kb it actually is. Doh. Another idiotic question if I may, where do I find the Windows character map to get the copyright character ?



Cheers all. BB

[Bazmundo]

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Bluebreezer54 - 12/10/2010 12:53

..where do I find the Windows character map to get the copyright character ?

Just about the same for most versions of Windows, I think (currently I'm running Windows 7):

Start> Accessories> System Tools> Character Map Select the Copyright icon when you find it then click "copy". Right-click in the watermark option in Picasa export menu and "paste" then type your name or copyright notice. [y]

[chrisips]

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[Lightning Hunter]

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Bazmundo - 12/10/2010 13:04

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Bluebreezer54 - 12/10/2010 12:53 ..where do I find the Windows character map to get the copyright character ?

Just about the same for most versions of Windows, I think (currently I'm running Windows 7): Start> Accessories> System Tools> Character Map Select the Copyright icon when you find it then click "copy". Right-click in the watermark option in Picasa export menu and "paste" then type your name or copyright notice. [y]

Or just type alt+0169  ;)

[chrisips]

Flickr is really starting to wind me up. It always worked just fine, i could choose a photo click on "All sizes" pick the size i wanted and copy the code underneath. For the last couple of months Flickr has changed how you grab the code now, there is now a share button on the main photo page but when i grab the code from this and insert into my post the photo doesn't appear, just a symbol like the one in the bottom left corner of the one i just posted. Then when i submit my post at first that is all that appears in the thread, i then have to press edit and re-submit and finally the photo appears.

Is anyone else using Flickr having the same problems since they changed things?

[Bluebreezer54]

[QUOTE]Lightning Hunter - 12/10/2010 14:42

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Or just type alt+0169  ;)

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That works, cheers [y]

[Bluebreezer54]

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[Ellio]

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[Howard Kirby]

If anyone would like to practise uploading photos...here's a thread where you can test to you heart's content. :-)

[Howard Kirby]

sherrie	Posted 14/5/2011 21:21 (#627854) Subject: test
Online Location: Axminster Devon	test (SAM_0580-1.JPG) Attachments ---------------- SAM_0580-1.JPG (10KB - 0 downloads)

[youstorm]

Lets see if I can do this [dunno]

[kevin paxton]

[kevin paxton]

just tried to send my first ever picture and just got a blank box with a red x. at 45yr old im still stuck in a 1970s time warp, modern technolligy really left me behind.its so frustrating when you dont understand computer jargon and what your meant to be doing.ive read the info regarding posting pics does any one know why the pic hasnt appeared??i know itll be something silly ive done,done everything but the pic doesnt appear on the bit that comes after insert on the test page ,going back to saturday night fever to practice a few more moves any help or advice PLEASE

[admin]

You tried to post your album as a photo, that's why it didn't work.

[kevin paxton]

[kevin paxton]

thanks dave ive spent the last hour and a half pressing buttons god knows what ive done but a small picture has appeared im so chuffed but i dont know whats happened,off to bed spent 5 hours to get this far try again latter ,i supose practice makes perfect need to perfect.totally thick where computures are concerned but will keep trying