discussion Posting pictures on the forum using the gallery

[John]

There's seem to be a few people having problems posting images on the forum using the new manage attachments, the be way to put images in your posts is using the gallery, it's very easy to do here's a short tutorial, just remember if you have a few pictures it post then it's best to have 2 tabs open in your browser that way it's easier to switch between them.

First of all go to the gallery

Once there click on upload photo's

Easy so far :banana:

Then do the following not necessarily in the same order.

1: Browse for the pictures on your computer.

2: Choose what gallery they belong in

3: Add your title and description

4: Press Upload/Submit

Your picture(s) should now be uploaded.

Click on the expand button (A) then copy the URL in the Direct Link box (B)

Go back to your post

Click on the insert image icon

In the the box that pop's up paste in your url that you copied from box B

Press OK

Your done, when you submit new thread or use the reply to a thread you should have an image there.

Any problems let me know.

(Just a foot note, if you are asked to login to the gallery just use your forum username and password)

 

[Guest]

I have just uploaded a couple of photos into the gallery and found them to be on the large size. The current size is 1280 x 960. I would like to reduce the size. What size do you recommend?

 

[John]

I generally make mine 800x600 that seems to work well for me

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the info, tried again and although it says the pictures are there they can't be seen and appear as a dot above the description. i have loaded them into my folder/album "starting out"...???

 

[John]

Your pictures are there, this is one of them

 

[Dave W]

I don't have a problem posting pictures on the forum.But i cant work out how to make my own gallery.How do i do that?.

 

[John]

Just upload your pictures your own gallery will be created automatically

 

[Dave W]

I've uploaded loads of pictures since i joined this forum.There are no pictures in my gallery.

 

[colin m]

Did you upload directly from your computer ? If so, you need to upload to your gallery separately. You can link images directly from your gallery to your post, but this doesn't work for me these days so I have to upload twice, once to my post and once to my gallery.

Regards

Colin M.........

 

[Dave W]

I click on the picture icon in reply to thread.Then i upload pictures from my computer.I cant upload from my gallery because theres nothing in it and i cant find a way to put pictures in it.John says gallery is automatically created when i upload pictures.Doesnt seem to work for me.

 

[Guest]

I thought i had a gallery from the pictures i posted a while back but when i went to look at them just this week i found the forum wanted me to log in seperatly to the gallery, then it told me i hadn't got one.

I just upload from the pc to any relevant post now ... just easier.

One thing you can't do (or i can't in my settings) is manage the attachments, i can only view them and the thread they were included in.

I'm admin on two other forums and we have always given the user the option to delete, rename or whatever.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, but is there a settings box that i have accidently ticked because I can't see any pictures at all from anyone?????

 

[Guest]

just tried again to look at your Gallery by clicking on the highlighted "John's gallery" and can't even see any of your pictures they are just dots above the description....god i feel stupid.

 

[Dave W]

Your not stupid.Like me you probably havent spent half your life playing with computers.Personally id rather spend my spare time building models.

 

[John]

If you are asked to log in to the gallery it's your normal username and password I have checked permissions and they seem ok, can you send me a screenshot of what you are seeing.

 

[Guest]

Not working.....I'll try and describe it.......when i click on Gallerys and get the Grid of all the albums/ pictures, all I'm getting is a dot where the picture should be on all the grids, if i click onto anthing with pictures on the home page,left side, the pictures are fine, it's just when I go from the home page onto any otherlinks Galleries ect the pictures are not visible and are just a dot in the box above the description. Even my own pictures which I fisically put into the album and saw them when I did it have become dots, were as you can even see them. hope this helps.

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[Guest]

Just tried again can't see anyones pictures in there gallerys they are just dots....!!!!

 

[mossiepilot]

Please help !

I think I must be suffering from terminal stupid.

In the past when I wanted to post photos I would download them from my digital camera to my computer and then up-load them to my post. They would come up as images within the text and I could move them around as I pleased, inserting text between the images.

But now whenever I post an image it is put at the bottom of the screen as a thunbnail image which is not how I want it.

Please tell me how to insert images within the body of the text like I used to do. Have I done something wrong, told the up-loader to post only thunbnails, or what.

I'm not overly computer literate, I can post stuff but without instructions I really don't know how to post images like I want them.

In hope of a savior.

Tony.

P.S. If it's any help I'm using a Fujifilm 16 megapixal digital camera

 

[mossiepilot]

Done it, resized the images using MS paint, I feel dopey now.

Tony