Posting Pictures Or Topics

It's not difficult to post images here, it just takes a few steps and they need to under a certain size. Everything is outlined in the link Fuzzy posted.

You can also post your pictures to a service such as Flickr or Photobucket, then paste the link to the image in a post here. Many people do that as it allows for larger sized images.

If you still have trouble, let us know where specifically the trouble is and we can try to help.

Part and parcel of "the ability to take pictures" includes the ability to do what needs to be done with those pictures. Our system is easier than any postprocessing software which would achieve the same result - downsize the image sufficiently to post online.

The smallest of modern cameras take images of a filesize which would be offensive to post online. Those on smartphones and slower Internet connections would end up waiting minutes for your images to load. The skill to manipulate your images in postprocessing - be it with our software or (preferably) that on your own computer is imperative. Required, if you're going to post them at an online forum.

The whole point of our Optimizer forcing you to save the image locally is so you don't have to repeat the process the next time, and as a hint that you should be doing it locally.

Scott, there are many free, simple softwares not requiring a guru designed to let you do this locally. Some off the top of my head:

Irfanview
Paint.NET
Picasa
PhotoScape
Pixlr

And then there is the Gimp, which is *not* user-friendly but every bit as powerful as Photoshop. And it's free.

If you would like, feel free to post a thread in our Photography forum asking for opinion on processing software; it's a discussion we haven't had for a while and we would really prefer to see you comfortable with posting images.

Nothing wrong with what you said, thryan9. What we often run into is the reality that people learn in differing patterns. A thing which comes easily to you might not to another, regardless of anyone's "intelligence." Quite frankly, I had a bit of trouble with the Optimizer initially and I've got graphics experience going back to the 1980's.

So part of what we have to figure out, in order to be helpful, is how the person we're assisting learns. One's approach has to be tailored to the student.