Welcome aboard Paul.
Our Photo section has, shall I say, a few bugs
so you'll need to work around it by following GD's advice and setting up a PB account. The free one works fine.
Once you have a Photo Bucket account and post to it, then read and follow this as written.
Good luck.
Now, once you understand how Photo Bucket works and you still can't post pics, try this.
Read steps carefully.
1: Go to your Bucket account (you need one to post photos on this forum), open and double click on a photo you have downloaded to the site.
2. Place cursor on the top left of photo, tool bar will appear,
place cursor on EDIT then click on RESIZE3. In a few moments a new window will open (call it the re-size window) with your photo and a tool bar above it.
Note the current photo size in the tool bar.Since this site (Classic Aquasport)
limits posted photos to 800 pix wide X 600 pix long you must re-size it in order to post it, if it is larger than that. So.....4. Photo Bucket has preset sizes you can use. They are in a 4:3 ratio and you will notice them in the toolbar just below the width measurement. Also notice that you can manually enter the pixel size for both width and height. Also note that there are two selections you can make when manually selecting the number of pixels. Unless you're a photo genius
make sure you have the "proportion" button highlighted (little red dot to the left). This keeps your photo in the standard 4:3 ratio mentioned above. Why is this important? Under normal conditions, you hold the camera in the standard position and your photo is taken in the 4:3 ratio. Tilting the camera on end alters the width to height ratio. By leaving the proportion button highlighted, you can enter 600 px in the height box and the width will automatically change for a proper photo size.
5.
This is where most members screw up. :o After you set the proper size you must do two (2) additional steps. First, click on the
APPLY button on the right side of the tool box. Nothing much will seem to happen. Now scroll down and click on the
Replace Original button. It's located underneath and to the right of your photo.
If you do not complete this step, you will never place the proper size photo on the Aqua site. This is the thing most members do not do.
6.After clicking on the Replace Original button, the screen will take a few moments to do its thing and a new window will magically appear. Scroll down and look to the right and you will notice several options for "sharing your photo". Click on the last (IMG) one and notice how a little yellow box appears to the left saying "copied".
That's it, you're done.
Go back to your post and place your re-sized photo into the post where you want it by pushing "Ctrl + V" (at the same time) and it will appear as code.
By previewing your post before submitting, you can check that you did everything correctly.
