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How to post an image on Practical Machinist

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lalatheman

Hot Rolled
Joined
Nov 17, 2002
Location
Western ,Oh ,usa
I am trying to get my photo off google photos into a PM message....I

1) found it on photos ...and clicked it to enlarge and fill computer screen

2) copied the url

3) Paste it into the place that it requests the locaton of the pic ...seems to be OK at that point

4) press OK

5) It DOES NOT show in the message i am creating

????
 

Jdm3

Plastic
Joined
Jun 4, 2021
For such a cool website and for a bunch of smart engineers, this has to be the dumbest way ever to load photos….
 

CarbideBob

Diamond
Joined
Jan 14, 2007
Location
Flushing/Flint, Michigan
My first problems in posting pictures here was that they were two big in file size being bitmaps.
Taking them into paint and making them JPEG which is a compressed photo solved this.
I have no idea what the limits are now on file image size.
Pictures take lot, lot a more room than text for the computers behind the screen here and is given to us for free.
I grew up counting bytes and much lower speeds. This we now have is awesome.
Bob
 

DDoug

Diamond
Joined
Oct 18, 2005
Location
NW Pa
I am asking a simple question, where did all the pix go that we had posted before the change over ?
I had a "Library" of maybe 100 pix, several got re-used on a new topic, was easy to simply pix them from the list.
 

JBTR

Aluminum
Joined
Mar 19, 2020
Location
USA, Northern Illinois
Or if you use Windows, search for and download IrfanView. It's a free image viewer with resize and several other operations. Been around a long time and AFAIK still regularly updated.
If you use Linux, try gThumb, similar but simpler; resize is in the wrench menu.
 

bsg

Titanium
Joined
Jan 17, 2003
Location
Imlay City, Michigan
If you have Windows, you can right click on your picture and click edit, it will open Paint, resize it and save it!
I have been resizing my pictures to 25%, looks to be a good size for this forum?

Kevin
 

ballen

Diamond
Joined
Sep 25, 2011
Location
Garbsen, Germany
Some of the photos that I posted in March have gone missing from the posts. The photos are hosted in PM albums. Does anyone know how to fix such issues?
 








 
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