Evening on the deck.

[Parker CA]

[Mira]

1. I like - I like - especially the green leafy ones But I for one need more size

to view them for my eyesight and perspective. You have very interesting crops and subject matter, I just want them bigger.

[Parker CA]

2. Mira, I don't know how to make them bigger. I'm really not tech literate. It's an accomplishment

that I was able to get them posted at all, haha. Any suggestions would be helpful. I've been linking them through picasa.

[Mira]

3. Alright then. If I could learn, you can learn. Your photos are more than worth it.

Others will be able to fill in blanks, but here is how I got there:

download www.photobucket.com
install and make an account with a password

save the password and then in the future it will open in your account

Once your account is established (FREE)
when you have the photos ready to be moved on to the photoforum site, export them from Picasa into a folder on the desktop.

When you are in photobucket go to Upload pictures
(I can't right now follow along or I would get kicked out of this letter and lose it, so I am going by memory of the words)
Determine size, right under that empty gray square. I suggest 15 " window, make sure you click on "save" for that size.
Before you now go to "source" and find your file(s) in the folder on the desktop, make sure that 15" size held and is saved.

Then click on the file in the folder, or highlight all if there are more.
Then wait.
It will take about 10 min to upload 3-5 photos.

After that click on "return to account" or something like that.

Then, magically, your photos show up in a lineup. You click on the photo, wait til it gets a bit bigger, then you highlight the BOTTOM one of the links it gives you next to the photo.
cut =ctl/c

Then you copy that into a word file to hold.

If making several picture links, separate them by two spaces, and just line them up on the word file.
Meaning back and forth between photobucket and the word file you are creating for the forum.
Give the whole thing a title, while still in the word file.

When you're all done, highlight the whole shebang and cut it for pasting.

Then go and open the Photoforum, holding the pasted info, click on the "post" icon (saving it on the wordfile til it is posted to your satisfaction, just in case something goes awry). So you don't have to do that work all over again.

Click on post, paste the whole thing in, and click on: preview.
If you have no header in the empty header line, it will not accidentally post unfinished.

Then if you like how it all comes in (or re-arrange in that window if you don't) then you can cut and paste the title into the header, delete it from the original text, look at it one more time, and hit "post".

TWO important points:
Fist : If I was too elemental, I sincerely apologize. I just go from how I needed to be told when I did not know.

Second: If we are still friends print this for reference, and after a few times you will maneuver like a pro like I'm doing. I will be like taking candy from a baby.
Even though I make my living using lots of CAD software and stuff. I AM IN NEED OF EVERYTHING BEING LOSER FRIENDLY.

I am so visually oriented, and so un-technical it is pathetic, yet I make my living with both.
Go figure.

[Parker CA]

6. Mira. Perfect explanation. Now it seems they may be a bit too big, but a better

alternative to too small. Thanks so much for the help. I've reposted in another thread.

[Celebration]

4. Lots here to like

The web is great!

What a good eye for detail.

[JeffR]

5. I concur.

These are really nice. I hope the evening was as peaceful and relaxing as you make it look in these.