Your Computer Questions...Answered!!

Jeanie, at the top of the lounge forum there is a sticky from Anne that says "new to the forums...." Click there, and there are directions on how to do the hyperlinks, and other cool stuff too.

Just thought that might help anyone who is looking to learn how to do that.
Here it is.

ok, I have some way cute pics of my girls I'd like to post (I'd like to put one or two in the captions contest) but I have no idea how. I can get them into the computer, onto a disk, and even into an email, but after that I'm clueless. what do I do??????

To post a picture here, the size has to be less than 400x400 pixels, and less than 33Kb. On this page (page 5 of this thread) about 1/2 way down, KimWard gives really good directions on how to edit the size of the picture. To post it directly from your computer to the forums, click on the Browse button at the bottom of this box by the Attach File box. Then find your picture on your computer that has been resized, and click Open in that window. Then, Submit Reply like usual. If the picture is too big, you will get a message at that time. Note, you can preview to make sure it's the right pic, etc., but you will have to re-attach the picture when you submit the reply to the forum. One of the little quirks is that if you preview it, it erases the location of your pic in the box below.

For the Caption This! forum, just email the pics you want to submit to [email protected]. She then goes through them, resizes them, etc. and passes them on to Deb25 to put up in the forums. I'm sure she has received hundreds of cute kitty pics to choose from by now, so we just have to wait until they show up on the forum. What a rough job that must be - going through all those kitty pics!

Hope this helps!

I read the "new to forum"-but how do I get an avator under my name?

To get an avatar go into your User CP, and click the Edit Options. At the very bottom, there is your Avatar options. You have limited options as a Kitten, you get more as you post more. I think you can create your own once you hit 100 posts (in order to save some space on the server, they made it so you have to stick around a while ) There are still a lot of avatars you can choose from, though, even as a kitten.

thanks valanhb,
I am sooooo new to this computer thing-only touched a computer for the first time August 13.
addicted to it-can't get enough! Hope I did the avatar thing right.

If you wanted a little yellow box with a white kitty, you did it just right! Glad I could help! Don't be afraid to ask any questions here, whether with cats, computers, etc. We all started somewhere.

Does anyone know of any sites that animated gif files can be uploaded to and mirrored to this site? I sometimes find animations that I like, but the various sites they are on require that they are downloaded before they can be used.

How do I get a picture into my signature? I've figured out how to attach a picture to the posts, which also means I've figured out how to resize them. I've also figured out how to use my own avatar. But I just can't figure out how to get a picture into the signature!!!!! HEELLLLPPPP!!!

Thanks!

In answer to both Lorie and Laurie's questions, I think you have to have a web site (of your own) to host the images. If the site you found it on doesn't allow remote viewing, then you can either save it to your computer and attach it like a normal pic or you would have to have access to another site that allows remote viewing where you can put it. I'm pretty sure that the pics in the signature have to be online and linked, but I'm not 100% on that one.

To have a pic in your signature you must use a website that allows remote viewing. I know places like photoisland.com allow it, as well as webshots.

Thanks Heidi and Daniela! I used photoisland - it was real easy!

To get the pic to appear in your signature, you DO have to have it posted on the web. Once that is done, just right click on the single image and "copy image location." Then go to your signature in Edit Profile, and TYPE [ img ] and paste the image location here and then type [ /img ] (but without the spaces between the brackets - I had to do that to get the text to appear.

so it looks like: - but without the spaces between the [ img ] or the end one [ /img ] and without the spaces between the brackets and the img text...

and it worked!

:tounge2:

Thanks Valanhb,

Been back to purrringpanthers thread and read your advice on the resizing of photo's.
Will try that out right now fingers crossed, if no picture appears you will know i am a thicko if a picture does appear....welcome to Pip & Sox my 2 Birman kitty's.

Many thanks,

Yippee

Just checked the thread and it's worked thankyou thankyou thankyou as you can see i'm jumping for joy.

Mind you the quality isn't great ...oh!well i'll have to get my hubby to buy me a decent camera won't he be happy ....NOT !!!!

Keep in touch,

Well - the pic was there in my signature yesterday, and then it wasn't there this morning! I went to photoisland to see what was up - and lo and behold, the address of the pic had changed!

I guess that means they don't "host" pics that people can link to - this must be their way of getting around it. ????

Laurie

They have a "For Dummies" book for everything now, I think...they even had one called "Pregnancy for Dummies"

Click to expand...

You're absolutely right! I've also seen:

Quantum Physics for Dummies
The Complete Idiots GUide to Understanding Einstein
and Stellar Cartogrophy for Dummies

Help....i got a new camera for xmas, it's a HP Photosmart 812, i have pics saved on my PC and also got them on Photoaccess.com, i tryed the copy and paste, nothing, the IMG thing, nothin. Tryed the attach file and nothing, i don´t know what else to do.....please help

Thanx

Lulu- You and I can eagerly await the answer to that question together!
I just got my scanner working, how do I put my scanned images in posts?
Last time I trieddo it, I clicked "Preview Reply" and the page took forever to load before finally I just closed the window!
-Ryan

To post from your computer: If your pictures are too large, you have to reduce the size in a photo editing program. There is a pretty good Freeware program that I use, which you can download at www.irfanview.com (I should get paid for all the advertising I do for them! ).

Open your picture using Irfanview, then go into the Image pulldown menu. Select "Resize/Resample" and in the first set of boxes on the left side of the window, make the largest side of your picture 400 pixels. Generally, as long as the picture is less than 400x400 pixels, you should be fine to post here.

To add the pic to your post (you can only attach one pic per post using this method), just below the Options section in your posting window is Attach File: Click the Browse button and open your picture as you would in any other program.

If you post from your computer and you Preview your picture, you will have to repeat the Browse process. I know that at one point we were having problems with seeing the pic in the Preview, so you may just have to take a leap of faith and just Submit Reply with the picture attached.

I have the pictures saved on photoaccess.com and they are the right size, i have sent them in e-mails no problem.

I'm gonna try and post one here..hope no one minds

Here goes, wish me luck....

http://www.photoaccess.com/servlet/G...37415253224803