Please excuse my ignorance......I've been unable to post any pics on the forms. I have several pictures of my truck stored on my thumb drive & would like to post them... been unsuccesfull so far. Any help would be appreciated!!

Chip

 

What problems are you having exactly?

Are you having trouble finding the Photo Gallery?
Are you getting an error while uploading?

The more we know about the problem, the better that we can help you.

 

Hey J.R, I was just trying to load a picture "anywhere" on the web sight. I wanted to just show a pic of my truck on one of the strings or to the Photo Gallery. When I tried before, I kept getting a message stating the picture was to large. I guess I need A to Z instructions......I'm just an old snipe you know! I know how to e-mail pics. cut & paste and all that but, I ain't got a handle on this yet.

Thanks

 

If the error you get is the picture is too large you will need to resize them first. Sounds like you are probably doing it right, just too big of a picture.

 

Don't take offense cause I was a pic re-sizing dummy too until someone told me the steps.
Here's how I do it. First I create a shortcut icon of the pic file on my desktop, highlight it in my computer photo album, copy it, create shortcut on desktop, then:

1) right click the pic icon

2) select "open with"

3) left click "paint"

4) pic will open on your screen left click "image" at top left corner

5) left click "re-size, skew"

6) you will see two fields with 100% in them change both of those to 50%

7) then left click "ok"

8) then left click "save" changes and close out everything

9) now come back to DTR and try uploading the pic it should be small enough now

note: you could try 75% and 75% or 65% and 65% in those two fields I just always do 50% cause it works for me look at all the pics in my gallery. First one an admin did for me and took me a while before I finally got some help from another member getting the others uploaded but now it's easy as 1,2,3...

 

Hey Chris, aka "DiEseljunKey" I think I might have done it, I got a message on the DTR site that says " image awaiting approval"!! Thanks...........

Chip

 

Yeah that can be a problem sometimes if you're up at 4am or something they seem to have normal hours.

 

Yep, looks like you are good to go.

We screen all the pictures to make sure nothing fishy, or dirty is getting uploaded. The only downside to this is that it becomes a manual process, as one of us admins browses the latest upload to make certain that nothing bad will get though. On the plus side, the Gallery is checked several times daily. Normally a picture is approved and available for view within a few hours of you uploading it.

 

Thanks guys, now........how do I post a pic on one of the forms "Reply message blocks??

Chip