Pro - Does anyone else's nest boxes get soaked in rain?

[Donna_0]

Hi Guys..

 

Any tips on uploading pics from my pc? Would like you to meet our girls but cant get photos onto my message!

 

Donna

[Egluntyne]

Have a look **here**

[atsw]

Just to add to the excellent advice in the link Egluntyne provided above ......

 

As a general rule, to fit properly on the forum your photo must not be wider than 600 pixels. Something like 480 x 360 is almost perfect size. Forum members might like to consider reducing the size of their photos before uploading them to facilities like Photobucket, Flickr or ImageShack. Not only will they fit correctly in your posts, but the upload will be much, much, faster too.

 

If you would like to do this, I recommend Paint.NET. This is a free and easy-to-use photo manipulation program for computers that run Microsoft Windows (Xp, Vista or Windows 7). It supports a wide variety of useful and powerful tools, but most importantly it is simple to shrink the size of images from today’s high-resolution digital cameras.

 

This is what you would do.

 

1) Make a copy of the picture(s) you want to show on the forum. Save them to a temporary directory on your computer. This will ensure you preserve your original pictures.

 

2) Start Paint.NET and open the copied picture using the File -> Open menu.

 

3) Reduce the size of the picture using the Image -> Resize…. menu. A box will pop-up, set the Width to 480. The Height field will automatically change to ensure the correct aspect ratio for the picture is maintained. Press the OK button.

 

4) A smaller version of your photo will now be displayed. Save the file using the File -> Save menu and then exit Paint.NET using the File -> Exit menu.

 

Now upload your reduced-size photo to your chosen on-line photo store and then link to it as normal from the forum.

 

Paint.NET is free for personal use. If you would like to download Paint.NET then click here.

 

Hope this helps!

 

Andrew