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posting photos(I know)but I'm old

BigOly - 1-25-2011 at 04:55 PM

I have my photo album on computer A. I can't tie this computer up, Its my wifes. I can email photos from her computer to "my computer" but is there a way to post photos from an email to a reply post or even a new post on the forum?

BajaNomad - 1-25-2011 at 05:04 PM

You have to "save" the photo to the computer - then upload from the location on the hard drive where you saved it to. I'm not aware of anyway around this.

I'm still trying to figure out how to (or if I can at all) upload pictures from my phone.

:biggrin:

David K - 1-25-2011 at 05:14 PM

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Originally posted by BigOly
I have my photo album on computer A. I can't tie this computer up, Its my wifes. I can email photos from her computer to "my computer" but is there a way to post photos from an email to a reply post or even a new post on the forum?


Once you have them stored in a computer... we can help... post one at a time from a file of 'reduced' size copies... OR from a photo host site such as Photobucket.com.

You aren't Parnelli Jones, are you?




1973 Baja 1000, day before the race. Parnelli 'warming up' the tires on the Big Oly Bronco!

BajaNomad - 1-25-2011 at 07:46 PM

If you have no ability to download the attachment to upload as a photo attachment here is to use a photo hosting site like Flickr or Picasa that have the capability of adding email photo attachments to one's photo stream. You'd then need to determine the "BB Code" way of posting such images on a third-party site to your postings here on the forum.

David K - 1-25-2011 at 11:19 PM

Doug, maybe if you said that in 'English'... it would help?

Here are the two methods:

There are two methods... One is direct onto Nomad from your PC files, using the 'Browse' button under the normal posting box... In that case you can only post one photo per post AND it MUST be UNDER 50 kb. in file size. Since this is smaller than most all photos you have on you PC, you need to make a duplicate file with the photo size REDUCED to under 50 kb.

*The BETTER way to show your photos is to hot link to them stored on another website... such as Photobucket.com. It is free (to a certain limit) and has an automatic resizing service... In this case, Nomad requests photos to not exceed 800 pixels in width.

On Photobucket, to upload from your PC,

1) click the red button 'Upload now'.

2) In the next window you see, at the bottom of the big box, in small blue letters, click: Customize your upload options

3) In the pop up see these choices (and more to resize to):
100x75
160x120
320x240
640x480
800x600
1024x768 ...
>>Pick 640x480 for most photos... this is the selection refered to as 'Large'.
>>Pick 800x600 for maps or max. detail images max. size to fit on 15" screens.

[note: this doesn't affect your photos on your PC, just sizes them for perfect message board viewing on any PC]

4) Select photos (press Select Photos button) from your PC to resize and store on Photobucket. You can have multiple files on Photobucket to organize them.

Now, to put on Nomad!

1) Place your mouse arrow over the photo (in your Photobucket album) you want and get a small pop up with some codes for linking them to various media.

See the one called 'IMG code'? Click your mouse on it to copy it... It will confirm 'copied'.

2) On the Nomad posting box, paste that code.

You can have text above or below the image link... have several images perhaps a dozen max... and then do a reply post to add more... so as to not have too many on a single frame.

The photo url begins with http:// and ends with .jpg (usually) and the IMG code puts your photos url between the tags [img] and [/img]

If your photo is already on a web site, you can click this icon located above where you type onto Nomad (not quick reply):
and just put in the image url, and the tags are automatically added on to show your photo here.



[Edited on 1-26-2011 by David K]