posting photos

[Parker]

I cant seem to upload pictures to photobucket or shutterfly,,always get an error or page cannot be found,,any ideas?? it is driving me crazy!!!! Thanks

[HanginAround]

Parker, are you on dial-up? Some sites have trouble with slow dial-up connections, the page times out and you'll get that error.

It might help if you make your pics smaller before you try to upload them. XP has an easy way to do it without messing with photo-editing software:

-Browse to where your pics are located with My Computer or My Pictures or whatever, but not with photo managing software, has to be from Windows.
-Highlight the pics you want by holding down the CTRL key and picking the ones you want.
-Let go of the CRTL key and right click on one of the pics.
-Point to Send To and a sub-menu will pop-out.
-Choose Mail Recipient.
-Another pop-up will ask if you want to make all your pictures smaller, choose Okay.
-An e-mail composing window will open with all the smaller versions of your pics as attachments. Instead of composing and sending an e-mail, choose File, then Save Attachments.
-Browse to a place to save them, but if you put them where the originals were, it will overwrite them with the small versions, so you should choose a different place if you want to keep the originals.
-After you saved the attachments, you can just delete the e-mail.

It sounds complicated, but not as bad as it sounds. The new versions of your pics will be much smaller, a large pic will wind up 1/3 to 1/4 the original size and much easier to handle, even for high speed users.

If you don't have much luck or sounds too complicated, just email me any pic you want to post, and I'll send you back the URL ( the link) to it so you can post it in the forum.

[325abn]

Is there still such a thing as dial-up? :D

[Parker]

I still have a pretty slow dialup connection,,,I think that is a large part of my problem.....

[rschoo]

325abn,
I recently saw on the Smithsonians web site a section devoted to arcane forms of data transfer. Apparantly there was once a device called a MOdulator-DEModulator that was used to send digital information over analog phone lines. It was preferred by people who ride around with dogs and shotguns in there pickup trucks and boil dilute solutions into concentrate for recreational purposes. Fascinating.
Bob.