How to create an album

[BarleyBop]

Somebody, anybody!

How does that work?
Is it something I have to do or is it magically auto-created?
I'd like to upload 'albums' of "completed" work from before I joined.

Cheers

 

[urumomo]

You can just start a thread in Introductions and upload them there .
or , click on Media just below the Scale Model Addict at the top of the page and post away

 

[urumomo]

The Works in Progress section is for completed builds also .

 

[BarleyBop]

Thanks!
I just found the Personal Album page, loaded images and comments, then clicked away and promptly lost it all!
Will try again.
Success! ...but only some thumbnails came through.

cheers

 

[BarleyBop]

Just found out why... the images that didn't render thumbnails were HUGE!

Is there a way to resize from within the album, or do I have to resize and reload?

Guess not, custom thumbnails time!

 

[Jakko]

IMHO, images attached to messages are much more useful than in albums — you have to specifically search out the albums to find those, whereas new messages just show up in the forum itself.

As for resizing them before uploading: if you use a phone or tablet, chances are you can choose to upload a smaller version in the screen where you select the images you want to upload. At least on an iPhone or iPad, anyway —see here for details (it works slightly differently in modern iOS, but the basics are the same).