Downloading images direct from my computer.

[spanner570]

I don't use photoshop and the like, I prefer to down load photos directly from my computer on to the forum.

Is such a thing possible on SMA? If so, how?

Please remember I'm a certified computer bird brain!

Cheers.
Ron

 

[urumomo]

Just hit the photo icon between the chain link and the smiley , follow the prompts ,
" Drop Image ( or click here ) " or the chain link to copy and paste an image address from the net .

 

[airdave]

Do your forum a favour...
reduce the (data) size of your images before you upload.

Maybe the forum has a resizing protocol in place, in that case it probably doesn't matter.
Images take up a lot of storage space and I know of many forums that ran into a problem running out of storage space because of attachment sizes.

Personally I have always reduced the size of my images before storing them online, or uploading them to a forum like this one.
Photos right out of my Nikon are quite large.
Even my smartphone shoots fair size images (on high quality).

I use a simple (free) program to handle resizing.
Its called Fotosizer - get it here: https://www.fotosizer.com/

You can quickly resize one photo at a time, or dozens all at once (its called batch resizing).
I have a simple tutorial on how to use Fotosizer for just this purpose,
but it's on my own modellers forum which can only be viewed by members.
If you or others are interested, I would be willing to copy it over here. (it has pictures! lol)

But I won't do that before I hear comments.

 

[urumomo]

SMA auto resizes them ,
to a point .
Usually my pix have been cropped , but if not , I have to drop the horizontal to below 6000 for the forum to accept and resize them .
I just reduce the horizontal to 4000 , maintain aspect ratio , and the forum resizes to something like 1200 across .

The horizontal limit is somewhere above 5000

 

[Jim62]

It's very nice to be able to put pics here directly from your computer. I have been to other forums that require you to use a photo hosting site to post pics. I don't go to those anymore and that is the main reason.

 

[Jakko]

Ron, this forum uses the same software as the one I know you from, also did before things went south there last year. You can, in other words, do it exactly the same way as you used to do there