Posting Photos

[ajsmom]

This may seem like a "duh" ?, but how exactly do we post photos on this forum, and what size would be best?

LS

[Jami Johnson]

You just use the attachment feature, which gives you the ability to attach files of certain types to your posts. This could be an image, a text document, a zip file etc.

To attach a file to a new post, simply click the [Upload Images] button at the bottom of the post composition page, and locate the file that you want to attach from your local hard drive.

After posting, the image will appear in your post.

[Ole' Girl]

That should be easy enough. I have several pics to post.

[ewigginton]

You can also just click on the picture of a mountain on the toolbar above where you type your message. A box pops up in the corner. Post the photo's url (if you have it in a Picturetrail or other online photo account or anything from the web) there and the pic will show up in your message. HTH, Ellen

[Anabelle]

I am so glad you ask but I would like to know how to post photos too? ThanksThis may seem like a "duh" ?, but how exactly do we post photos on this forum, and what size would be best?

LS

[Anabelle]

Everytime I try to upload a photo of a project it says that it exceeds the size limit. How can I upload a photo?:o

[StitchinGrandma]

Everytime I try to upload a photo of a project it says that it exceeds the size limit. How can I upload a photo?:o

What is it saying for the size? I'm sure your picture is exceeding the size limits the administrator put on the site. I can't find anywhere what that size is though. If you have photo software, try reducing the size of the picture and try to reupload it again.

[StitchinGrandma]

Well I am going to try this here. if it works you will see a fish with the letters S.W.A.M on it I made for my Salt water fish club in Maine and their name is "Salt Water Addicts Maine"
<IMG SRC="http://www.ssb4.net/users/11414/dsp_2006_t_shirts_logo__s_011_1161400270.jpg" BORDER=0 width='300'>

How did you do that? If you are using a picture from another website then all you need is just like you had, their address link to the picture. Then click the yellow mountain looking thing at the top of the posting window and paste the address into the box that pops up and nothing other than the address, then hit enter. That's all I did below to get it to show up. I really like that fish. Did you digitize him or use a design and add the letters? He's really pretty with those colors.

http://www.ssb4.net/users/11414/dsp_2006_t_shirts_logo__s_011_1161400270.jpg

[ajsmom]

I finally figured it out... It was not hard, but took a time or two. Hopefully I will be posting lots soon and will get the hang of it.


Thanks,
LS

[StitchinGrandma]

www.ssb4.net/users/11414/2006_t_shirts_logo__s_004.jpg

Thanks vicki, I tried again this moring and it did not work again, I gave up had to go do errands.
As for the design, I used an existing one re sized it and mirrored it so he would be swimming onto the shirt and not off it, lol Changed their color suggestions to be the real colors. Save it at that point to be able to use alone. Then opened a new project imported the fish and added the lettering. I personalized them with members names.
When I figure out the pictures I will add one of me wearing one.

I did read earlier about what you had done to the design and colors. I really love the way that fish turned out.

I quoted your earlier post and it appears to me that you are using a picture from your computer and you are trying to use the button at the top of your posts with the picture of a mountain. You can't use that one unless you are trying to post a picture from the web somewhere.

To get yours posted it's a little more complicated BUT very easy once you learn.

Here's what you'll need to to so that you can upload a picture from your computer:

When you open a box to post a message, type your message
When done typing, scroll down a bit until you can see the "Upload Images" button.
Click the upload images and a box will pop up and you'll see something that says "Upload file from your computer" and next to that a button that says "Browse"
Click on "Browse" then go to the area on your computer the picture is stored and double click the file you are wanting to post.
After double clicking the file, it should fill in the white box to the left of "Browse" with the file and location within your computer.
The next step is to click "Upload" and wait until it changes and says "Current attachments" and you see your filename listed below that.
Once you can see your filename under "current attachments", click on "close this window" or the X at the top right corner.
After that just hit "submit reply" as you would any other time you are posting.Hopefully that helps you out. Let me know if I made you even more confused. As a bonus for reading you will now get to see a picture of my granddaughter wearing a bib I made for her. (had to upload to get the right directions) LOL


January 2nd, 2008 ETA:Because the rule was created after the picture was posted that all project pics must only be an Embroidables design, I have now removed the picture I had posted here during the tutorial.

[SewFanatic]

That is a great picture as a demo!! Beautiful baby!

[StitchinGrandma]

That is a great picture as a demo!! Beautiful baby!
Thank you. I hope it helps her and the others having problems uploading pictures. It's very easy once you do it a few times.

She is my very first grandchild that was born Aug 29th. I'm going broke buying and making things for her. Two of my friends and I have made about six or more trips to the Carter's Outlet store now about an hour from here. The women there love to see us come in now since each of spend no less than $100 each on each trip. One trip two of us spent over $200 each. That's just embarrassing to admit knowing she won't wear half those clothes. LOL BUT they are just too cute.:D

[SewFanatic]

That is what grandmas are supposed to do. I don't know first hand yet but it won't be long. My daughter has been married 4 years now and I can't believe they haven't made me a grandma yet. But I know it will happen one of these days!

Enjoy spoiling her!

[StitchinGrandma]

That is what grandmas are supposed to do. I don't know first hand yet but it won't be long. My daughter has been married 4 years now and I can't believe they haven't made me a grandma yet. But I know it will happen one of these days!

Enjoy spoiling her!

:D Hopefully you won't have to wait long. That was part of our Christmas present last year. They told us on Christmas they were expecting. I'm such a sappy old woman that I started bawling instantly. :D

[SewFanatic]

Awww, what a great Christmas gift. I have no doubt that I will be bawling when I get the news!

[StitchinGrandma]

Awww, what a great Christmas gift. I have no doubt that I will be bawling when I get the news!
Oh you will. ;)

[ewigginton]

Aw stop you guys. I have years to wait. My first is getting married next month. :D

[StitchinGrandma]

Aw stop you guys. I have years to wait. My first is getting married next month. :D
You hope? In all truthfulness my son that had that adorable little girl a few months ago had just asked his girl to marry him sometime in Sept 2006 but they hadn't set a date yet. Well.......... OOPS...... the cart kinda came before the horsie a bit and while I would have loved that they were married before having my first grandchild, I'm also not going to love her or them any less because of it ya know. So yea, you never know. LOL

[SewFanatic]

Beautifully said...you're not going to love her or them any less. :)

[ajsmom]

We had been married for 13 years when we had our first... I know my mom thought we were never going to get around to it. This year part of the Christmas presents will be the new little guy!

My mother says that grands are 100 times better than your own kids, you get to love them and spoil them and really are not responsible for them.

LS

[StitchinGrandma]

My mother says that grands are 100 times better than your own kids, you get to love them and spoil them and really are not responsible for them.

LS
Trust me. Some day you will totally understand this. LOL

[StitchinGrandma]

Vicki I am not using a photo from my computer. All my photo's are hosted on the web. Since I do post lots of photos, in other places.
Thanks for the help, it would be hard for me to post photos from my computer since I log in on 3 different computers depends where I am. So all my photos are hosted at "sellers sourcebook". com
I will figure it out sooner or later.

Well DUH! I'm an idiot or was tired earlier. I see yours is online now that I rechecked it. DUH!

I would check with the website you have them hosted at. More than likely, you'll find they have something listed in the FAQS or rules that you are not allowed to hotlink your photos from there possibly. It may be on their end rather than here.

Wait ..... I have photos on our own website. I'll go find one and post that to see if I have a problem with that. Wanna see Duff Goldman from the Food Network's Ace of Cakes show? We just saw him about three weeks ago locally. I got a great pic of him.

[StitchinGrandma]

Ok found it. Let's test this to see if my pic of Duff works from our website.

http://curt.terpstra.us/ljtstuff/Duff/CRW_0315.jpg

Yep, it's showing up already before I hit submit reply.

[SewFanatic]

Seems to be working just great!!

[StitchinGrandma]

Seems to be working just great!!

Yep, it does. I'm sure it's a hotlinking thing now.

In other topic ........isn't he a cutie? :p

[SewFanatic]

LOL...he is a cutie!! ;) Good photo!

[StitchinGrandma]

LOL...he is a cutie!! ;) Good photo!

Thanks. Hubby had run out to the van to get a different lens and I grabbed his camera and just got really lucky when Duff was fairly close to me and looked directly at me smiling. I'm quite proud of that picture. :D

[deesmom]

nice picture, Vicky :)

[StitchinGrandma]

nice picture, Vicky :)

Thank you.

[starsite]

I am so proud of myself, I just posted a picture in the Baby Hats thread of course I had help from many of my new online friends in this message board. Thanks for all of the help.
Wendy

[ewigginton]

Good job Starsite! It's easy. I'm on my way to check it out.

[starsite]

I am so proud of myself, I just posted a picture in the Baby Hats thread of course I had help from many of my new online friends in this message board. Thanks for all of the help.
Wendy

still cannot figure it out

As it was explained to me:

Wendy -- if your pic is posted on a public site (photobucket, picturetrail, etc.) just copy the url for the photo. Go to the little pic of a "mountain" above where you type in messages. A box pops open in the upper left corner of your screen. Add the picture's url there and it'll appear in your message. To add a photo from your computer's hard drive, go to the Upload Images button below. HTH.

[NanaSewn]

Let me get this right. So we are to post pics anywhere not just in one message area?:)

[StitchinGrandma]

I am trying again think I know what I have been doing wrong.
http://www.ssb4.net/users/11414/auction_11-27-05_004.jpg
how silly of me, just kept making the same mistake over and over. NOW I have it. That is my youngest daughter with my granddaughter. Her very first sewing / quilt project. She was so proud. This daughter never had any interest in sewing other than trying on the dresses I made for her.

YAY! You got it finally. Step by step without repeating the same thing works much better. LOL You did good!

Great pic. LOVE the colors in that quilt. Awesome job. That is quite a little cutie admiring it there too. She's adorable.

[StitchinGrandma]

Thanks Viki for sticking with me on the photo topic.
Little Jessica is the light of my life, she is a great crafter and has so much talent already.
No problem. I know how frustrating it is when you KNOW something can be done but you just can't get it right. Have fun.

[ajsmom]

Beautiful quilt and what an adorable little girl! Does she show any interest in sewing yet? AJ likes to watch, and he loves to play in the fabric. His favs are the fleece pieces.

LS

[StitchinGrandma]

YAY! Great job. You did it! :) I think I'd be out on that napping a lot with that gorgeous view myself. Nice.

[pcsews]

hahaha love that pic heirloom John...i should send that to my Dad!!

[sew blessed]

I am trying again think I know what I have been doing wrong.
http://www.ssb4.net/users/11414/auction_11-27-05_004.jpg
how silly of me, just kept making the same mistake over and over. NOW I have it. That is my youngest daughter with my granddaughter. Her very first sewing / quilt project. She was so proud. This daughter never had any interest in sewing other than trying on the dresses I made for her.

I'm glad you finally got it working!;)

[sew blessed]

HeirloomJohn - That really is a funny picture!

[StitchinGrandma]

HeirloomJohn - That really is a funny picture!
For the post you want to answer just click the "quote" button in the lower right corner and then type after the bracketed /quote and hit submit reply. Then it will put his/her post in a colored box with your answer/comment right below just as you see yours in my post to you now.

[StitchinGrandma]

Viki always helping, you are so Nice :)
Awww shucks. I'm happy to help.

[rodneytb]

Are there size specifications for what size the posted photo needs to be?

[StitchinGrandma]

I just use my photo software to resize my pictures. Most of them have that built into them without adding other software to your computer. Do you have any photo software already?

[StitchinGrandma]

Yes Vicki I do have a photo program on my computer, but never had anything as easy as this tool. Nor do I know how to resize. I would not know how to tell it what size to make it ??
Is it easy to do?
With this tool all I have to do is right click on any photo I want to post and it resizes it right there while it is uploading.
I am willing to learn another way, if it is easily explained. I like learning new things. :)

When you have the picture open in your software you'd want to look for somthing in the program choices at the top that says resize. The size would depend on where you are posting photos and the size requirement they have for their message board. As of now, the size on Jami's site is that the photo cannot be any larger than 600 pixes in any direction so when you are resizing and it shows you the current size, all you want to do is to see the largest pixel size and make that one 600 and most programs will change it without skewing the picture. Most of them have a setting checked that when resizing it will resize in all directions keeping the picture looking the same way.

Since I don't know what software you use, I can't help more than that because they are all different and have different setting names.

I use Paint Shop Pro X2 and in all previous versions resizing is the same. You would click up at the very top on the word "image" and then the drop down box comes up and you'd click on resize. A new window will appear and you just change the pixel sizes there.

[StitchinGrandma]

You're welcome

[sewingfor3]

Wow, that snow looks great, wish we had some.

[StitchinGrandma]

Wow, that snow looks great, wish we had some.
I'll share. We just got six inches of snow a few days ago. YUCK!

The first picture is out my sewing room window and the second is what I see while standing in my kitchen cooking or doing dishes. It was a gorgeous snowfall and I could enjoy it much more AFTER my husband got home from work that day since he works an hour away from our home and had to drive in that mess. The trees are still coated with all the snow. I LOVED the way the snow coated all the trees but really loved seeing my lilac bushes to the left of the 2nd picture that day.

[Sew 'N Sane]

Wahhhhh! I want snow....The closest I've gotten this year is the little bit left over from Christmas near my parents house in Arkansas. In Texas we tend to get sleet and ice.

:elefant:

[StitchinGrandma]

Wahhhhh! I want snow....The closest I've gotten this year is the little bit left over from Christmas near my parents house in Arkansas. In Texas we tend to get sleet and ice.

:elefant:
We have sure seen our share of ice this year. I feel for you guys. It's been snowing here again since early yesterday morning but it's not very heavy thankfully. I'm sure the police departments were kept busy last night because my husband was seeing people sliding off the road on the way home from work yesterday afternoon. We talked about turning on the police scanner but I didn't get around to it since I was busy making our traditional yummy NYE snacks.

[Alligator]

how cute. the baby is. Also the bib. Where did, or how did you get that design. I have just done it with the pea pod here and put give peas and chance but i like the way you did it in a peace sign.....

[Alligator]

Wow at the pictures of the snow...I am in SC and we never get it. Love it...i wish we could get at least one good one. but really we jsut started get cold weather...

[StitchinGrandma]

how cute. the baby is. Also the bib. Where did, or how did you get that design. I have just done it with the pea pod here and put give peas and chance but i like the way you did it in a peace sign.....
Oooooh you found a picture that was posted before Jami made the ruling of no designs but hers can be posted.
oops. I need to get rid of that one. http://terpstra.us/images/vickiljt/Gifs/Attitudes/blush.gif

[Alligator]

that is amazing....i want to see some snow here. pretty cold her thgouh. 19 this morning....brrrr

[Alligator]

oh sorry. forgot that. but glad you could find it.... :-)

[artsiegirl]

Okay Emily W...hope this thread can help! There's lots of info to scroll through. Good Luck!:)

[Emily W.]

Thanks so much for helping to pull these threads for me.....

[artsiegirl]

You're welcome. Vicki and Dawn are really so much better at this technical stuff than I am, so they can help you so much more.

[StitchinGrandma]

Thanks so much for helping to pull these threads for me.....
There is a section here of just tutorials and how to do things. I still have about six more to do and have been really very bad at ignoring them. However, I did get a few done already and they are posted in a separate section where only tutorials will be put for how to do things on the message board.

You can find that here http://www.embroidables.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=14

[Emily W.]

Vicki-you are so kind to do these tutorials. And thanks for sending this link...Emily

[StitchinGrandma]

Vicki-you are so kind to do these tutorials. And thanks for sending this link...Emily

You're very welcome. Hopefully that helped to see the info layed out in a step by step picture tutorial. Let me know if you still need help. Feel free to send me a PM if you would like to.

[sew4fun]

Thanks for the downloading help ~ I was wondering too!

[Happytobestitchin]

I have downloaded designs from other web sites and they go into a zip file I cannot figure out how to unzip this file to be able to use the designs can someone help me
thank you

[StitchinGrandma]

I have downloaded designs from other web sites and they go into a zip file I cannot figure out how to unzip this file to be able to use the designs can someone help me
thank you

I'm a bit lost here. You download zip files from other websites. Are you saying you don't understand how to unzip them? Or are you asking about the designs from this website?

Assuming you are asking about Embroidables designs, read through this page (http://www.embroidables.com/downloadinstructions/)and see if that helps you at all.

[Emily W.]

Ok, this seems like a redundant statement by now, and I promise I've tried to read every thing I can on how to post a picture. When I follow all the directions and finally click submit reply-it says my pic is too large. Is says it's like in the 2000'sx3000's or something massive like that. I'm not real tech savy, so I'm not sure how to resize this picture....Help!!!

[artsiegirl]

Ok, this seems like a redundant statement by now, and I promise I've tried to read every thing I can on how to post a picture. When I follow all the directions and finally click submit reply-it says my pic is too large. Is says it's like in the 2000'sx3000's or something massive like that. I'm not real tech savy, so I'm not sure how to resize this picture....Help!!!

You have to resize your picture in a photo editing program, I think. Vicki, Stitchin Grandma, can help with that...she's really good with techie issues!

[StitchinGrandma]

Ok, this seems like a redundant statement by now, and I promise I've tried to read every thing I can on how to post a picture. When I follow all the directions and finally click submit reply-it says my pic is too large. Is says it's like in the 2000'sx3000's or something massive like that. I'm not real tech savy, so I'm not sure how to resize this picture....Help!!!
What photo program do you have? It does need to be resized and if you can't figure it out, I will give you my email address and you can email it to me. I'll then resize and email back so you can post if you'd like.

[StitchinGrandma]

You have to resize your picture in a photo editing program, I think. Vicki, Stitchin Grandma, can help with that...she's really good with techie issues!
:D You're too cute.

[Emily W.]

I am using Corel, but I think it's a trial that's expired b/c my DD told me not to save a certain picture b/c we'll get charged for it. How does she know that? Anyway, I'll have to research the deal when I get home this evening. If all else fails, I'll be "that" chic that drives you crazy sending you my pics to resize just so I can post pictures...j/k. Thanks so much for your help, as ALWAYS!! :)

[StitchinGrandma]

I am using Corel, but I think it's a trial that's expired b/c my DD told me not to save a certain picture b/c we'll get charged for it. How does she know that? Anyway, I'll have to research the deal when I get home this evening. If all else fails, I'll be "that" chic that drives you crazy sending you my pics to resize just so I can post pictures...j/k. Thanks so much for your help, as ALWAYS!! :)
You must have Paint Shop Pro by Corel maybe? I can tell you that with any trial program that I've ever seen that once it's expired you can't even use the program so it isn't something they can charge you for so don't stress that too much. I know if you are talking PSP that's the case. After expiration that program is not usable ~ at least the last I knew. Once the program is expired unless you click the button to purchase it you can't do anything with it.

If you need a software program I can tell you that Corel Paint Shop Pro IS one of the best and compares with the capabiliites of Photoshop but is MUCH more user friendly. That's the program I have and have used since about 1999.

Anyway, let me know later if you need help and if I'm home I will be more than happy to resize them. I have been sick the past three weeks and have been hitting my bed VERY early some nights and even some days. Last night I was in bed by 5:30pm and couldn't even eat supper so when I do get up I'll be happy to get it fixed. I'll PM you my email addy.

[stitchcrazy]

If you're running Windows XP you should be able to right-click on the image, click edit and it will open up MS Picture manager. There is a resize option here where you can resize to a defined size, resave your picture, and upload the new one. You could also use Paint, too, but the quality is not as good.

[StitchinGrandma]

If you're running Windows XP you should be able to right-click on the image, click edit and it will open up MS Picture manager. There is a resize option here where you can resize to a defined size, resave your picture, and upload the new one. You could also use Paint, too, but the quality is not as good.

You can use that also. There are two ways to do it: one by using the image size handle built into that program which is in the lower right bottom corner of the picture or by using the attributes under the image menu. The problem is that using the image handle and dragging the pic to the size you want, it just resizes the entire picture space and doesn't maintain the picture in its entirety. Some pics may cut off what you want to have unforutnately. The attributes way where you can enter the size you want the finished picture to be doesn't maintain the integrity of the picture resizing all sides uniformly so you can end up with a skewed picture and it also only resizes the complete area of the picture so you may still have stuff cut off that you wanted to have. I don't mention it because it's kind of a pain to use because of those problems. I guess I'm used to having a good program where I don't have to mess around like that. :D I'm spoiled I guess. LOL

[stitchcrazy]

I'm spoiled, too - I use Photoshop because I do a lot of graphic design at work. I was just trying to provide an option where you don't have to buy software just to resize an image. When I resized using Picture Manager, it resized proportionally, but I must have done it differently than you.

[StitchinGrandma]

I'm spoiled, too - I use Photoshop because I do a lot of graphic design at work. I was just trying to provide an option where you don't have to buy software just to resize an image. When I resized using Picture Manager, it resized proportionally, but I must have done it differently than you.

Ok so? How did you do it? I never saw anywhere that you could click to retain the size ratio. I guess you've finally found something I'm stupid on and don't know. :p

[stitchcrazy]

I did a screen shot to show you where I entered the resize information. If you enter a percentage, such as 50%, it will reduce the entire picture by 50%, which keeps the original proportions, but reduces the size and number of pixels in the picture, thus reducing the file size. Then you just hit save and it saves on top of the original file. Is this what you did? Or are we possibly using two different functions or even two separate programs?

[StitchinGrandma]

ahaaaaaaa if I right click a picture and then edit it brings up Paint - not picture manager. Hmmmmm That would be the difference here. Must investigate now. I can right click and then "open with" and choose that picture manager but then it will change the program preferences I want to open pics so I didn't mess with it any further.

[stitchcrazy]

Aha! I figured that we might be talking about two separate things... if you right-click and select "open with", you can then choose to open the picture with MS Picture manager. I feel better now - I was thinking I was losing my mind! ;)

[StitchinGrandma]

Yea, me too until you did that screen shot. :D

[for my kids]

ok I'm trying to upload a pic from my computer but the box that is supposed to say current attachments does not come up...it just comes up blank...I'm thinking my pics are too big so how do you reduce them? Do you need some kind of editing software? I'm new to this pic. thing so I'm totally confused...trying to enter the inspirations contest and I have other pics. fellow posters want to see...can you help me? thanks

[Emma]

You can open the file in paint, then go tools, stretch and skew, and then in the top 2 boxes, try 50 then 50(%) and that should solve all your problems size wise :)

[for my kids]

Emma...ok..I'm a novice to this picture thing...my husband is the one who enters the digital pics into the computer...anyway...how do I open the photo into paint? don't know how to do this...sorry so dumb when it comes to this...any suggestions on how to get this done a little easier? Thanks

[StitchinGrandma]

ok I'm trying to upload a pic from my computer but the box that is supposed to say current attachments does not come up...it just comes up blank...I'm thinking my pics are too big so how do you reduce them? Do you need some kind of editing software? I'm new to this pic. thing so I'm totally confused...trying to enter the inspirations contest and I have other pics. fellow posters want to see...can you help me? thanks
I'm sorry I haven't been around today. I just got your PM and answered it so as I said in that, if you can email the file to me right now I can help you out. I am about to head to bed because we have to be up at 3am tomorrow and I will not have any access to any computers again until later in the afternoon unless we stop somewhere that has net access and I get my laptop out.

ETA: I need to get to bed since we have to be up again in 4 hours so I will check my email before leaving tomorrow and get it done for you then if you have emailed it to me. What I'd like you to do is to post in the contest thread and type whatever you are going to add to the explanation of your picture. Then add a note that says "waiting for Vicki to upload my picture" and I can edit your post to add the picture(s) to that post of yours.

[Emma]

Um it depends where the files are located in your computer(or if they are still on your camera).
To get into paint, go Start, All Programs, Accessories, Paint. Then click File, Open.
If youre files are still on your camera, click my computer, and then probably what will be called a "removable drive:E" (the letter may be different, may be f, g, etc) double click to open that folder, and then double click on the picture you want.
If youre file have been removed from the camera and put itno the computer itself, then ask hubby where he puts them if he does that, most likely they will be in "my documents" and then "my pictures"(you get to that by doing "file open". Find the picture, and then open that picture by double clicking on it.

Hope that helps :)

[for my kids]

thanks Emma...I'll try this tomorrow...it is 11:56 here in Texas and I'm tired...thanks for the help and I'll get back to this delima tommorow morning :) thanks again

[Emma]

No worries, I hope I've explained it well enough for you.
It's nice to be able to help with something I know about lol, I've had plenty of help off here with embroidery things :)
Let me know if you need anything