First attempt at posting images. Have a peaceful day

Beautiful photo! Thanks for sharing with us.

That is nice. Focused on the subject, blurred background. Good job!

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Originally posted by adirondackgardener:
Nearly every computer on the planet that runs Windows has Microsoft Paint already installed which can be used for quick editing and resizing.
(Use the Images-> Stretch/skew" function.)
Wayne

Wayne, you have photos elsewhere though don't you?

How do I get the pitures on the pc? I don't have the benefit of an DH who knows this stuff anymore? Do I need a digital camera?

Pea, of course it'd be a lot easier to just load your photos directly to your computer if you had a digital camera. But, if you don't have a digital camera you could do what I did before I bought mine.

If you have a printer/scanner like I do, what I did first was scan an already developed photo. When your computer "asks" 'what do you want to do with this image?" or 'where do you want to place it or file it?', I used to save it as a .jpg file and file it in my PHOTOS file folder. Then when I wanted to upload it to an online album or to a forum, I'd just go through the same steps we do now when loading digital images to an online album.

You could either change the size of the picture when you're scanning it, or just let the album resize it for you as it does now for digital images that are uploaded.

I did this 'scan and save' of old pictures when I was compiling a slide show of old tintype photos of my grandparents and my parents when they were children.

Maybe this site can help someone, I haven't tried it yet, but I am planning to try it.
http://www.shrinkpictures.com/

Hello, thatgardenfairy. Welcome to OG, btw.

I checked out your link to shrinkpicture.com and read up about them. Seems like a very helpful and simple service (and free too ) for folks who can't resize pics through their own computer programs. Even though I have iPhoto, I tried shrinkphoto just to see how it worked. It was, indeed, easy and gave good results and could be quite helpful for members who want to load resized pics here into their own OG album.

But, folks should still remember, if they want to use that resized photo as an avatar or place it within a post, the picture has to link to a bona-fide "URL". (i.e.: online album). It still can't just be stored on your own computer and uploaded from there onto OG.

I noticed that shrinkpictures.com has a 'sister' site that hosts pictures for free called: 4freeimagehost. So one could use '4freeimagehost' to store pictures and from there load them onto OG in lieu of, say, using a Flickr or Photobucket account.

Whichever service anyone choses to use re storing pics, however, it seems like each would still involve the same and the same number of steps. But, this shrinkpictures.com does overcome a lot of hurdles for those members who simply want to place pictures in their OG albums and have no other means to resize their pics.

Thanks for the very helpful link.

So let me get this straight, after reading everything, I can create an Album to store all the pics I intend to use, instead of jumping back n forth from photobucket, I can just use this Album as a shortcut?

Also, if I make an album, can anyone view it, or is it for personal use? Thanks, Blane.

No Blane, the album is for here only. It shows up as a slide show for the rest of us to look at. There is a tab for leaving comments. If you look at the topics here, you will find a few. The comments don't show up by themselves. You have to click comments to see what we all wrote about someone's pics. Try it. You can always delete it, if unhappy. That's the beauty of the edit/ do-over tab

Ok, I see what ya mean, Just had to ask, but I have seen a few, Thanks David.

I started an album but I found an easier way to do it. I insert pictures I want to share into my pictures and photobucket puts it into a url for me. But I have been getting pictures from my family or online. When I have my own photo, I'll see then I plan on getting myself, (if noone took the hint for Christmas) come the new year

It's that time again to remind newcomers to OG about how to size and post pictures on these Forums.

**NOTE**
Please see my initial post on this thread as to how to post a picture within a post: "Here's How To Post Pictures".

But, about halfway through that post you'll note that PHOTO ALBUMS, HOWEVER, ARE NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED BY OG. So it's entirely irrelevant how you downsize or tweak your photos with the intention of loading them into an OG Album....since THERE'S NO MORE ALBUMS BEING ACCEPTED. DUH! Pictures within a post...yes. Albums...no.

OK I clicked new, photo album. reply: no new photo albums being accecepted. Sorry I know this was addressed just a week or so ago but I didn't pay attention. Any help?

You might also like to try GIMP. Its free, and rivals photoshop, with its assortment of plug ins.

If you do try it and have any questions, feel free to let me know, and I will try to help you out.

Another thing you can do if you don't have a digital camera, most 1 hr. photo services will do a CD from your images, then you can load them on your computer or directly to an online service that makes albums. You might try Picasa for sizing and cropping pics as well.