How to post pictures

[Mike]

I had a thread on this but don't know what happened to it so I'm posting again for any of you that have problems uploading pictures. Here's a short "how-to":

-Click on " Gallery" at the top of the page
-To the very right of the screen is a link that says "Upload Photos" ..click that
-Choose the appropriate category that your photo should go under
-Click on browse and find the photo that you want to upload and double click on it
-Enter a title for the photo
-Enter a short description of the photo
-Enter a couple of keywords that people would use if they go to search for your photo
-Click on "Upload/Submit" and you are done!

If you choose to upload several photos at one time then you will be redirected to a screen where you can change the title, description, and keywords for each picture. Then you can hit upload again.

[Mike]

If you are having problems uploading photos, it is usually due to the size of the photos. There is a limit of 1000 kB which is close to 1MB.

There are several methods to resize photos but I will cover the basic way:

If you are going to be taking pictures there is usually a file size setting directly on your camera where you can choose a smaller size and meet the 1MB restriction. However if you already have the pictures here's what you can do:

Open Microsoft Paint if you are running Windows by going to start/all programs/accessories/paint

-Click on File/Open
-Double click on the picture you are trying to resize
-Click on Image/Stretch-Skew
-Under "Stretch" change the values from 100% to something smaller like 50%
-Click on File/Save-As and save your newly resized image
-You're done!

You may have to play with that value depending on how large your pictures are but normally 50% will do it.

[Mike]

Now you have your pictures in the gallery but how do you put them in the threads?

-Click on the image in the gallery that you want to post
-Scroll down in the "additional info" section and there is a line of code next to "Linked Thumbnail" that looks like this: [url=http://www.6x6world.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/951][img]http://www.6x6world.com/gallery/data/533/thumbs/Max-ii-an
-Click anywhere on that code
-Hold down Ctrl and hit "C" to copy that code
-Go to the post that you are making and hit Ctrl "V" to paste that code into your post
-That's it. Now you have a thumbnail image that links to your gallery photo!

[Mike]

Thanks to Beeman for recording the steps for uploading and posting pictures on the site:

uploading a picture onto 6x6world.com