Posting Pictures on RMweb

[Poor Old Bruce]

Dear All,

 

I would like to post some pics in various topics (as I used to in the past - it used to work OK on my previous computer - I'm on Vista now BTW) and after spending a lot of time searching through the Forum Rules bit, I found Mr. Beastie's description of what to do and did a download of Irfanview. If the dowload was successful, I have no idea where it has gone to or how to access it. All I seem to have done is alter my web search browser page which I didn't want to do anyway. Has anybody got the vaguest idea of what I have done wrong please?

[DaveF]

Downloads often go to a folder called "Downloads" on your hard drive.  My downlwads folder shows up in "My Computer" from the Start button.

[Poor Old Bruce]

Thanks Dave. I have looked at the Downloads in 'My Computer' but can't find anything about 'Irfanview' anywhere. When I tried the download it said it was completed and thenasked me if I wanted to update/alter something else (I didn't) and clicked on 'Cancel'. Could that have cancelled the whole lot I wonder?

[beast66606]

Basic steps to get started - check you've done these.

 

Download Irvanview - if your browswer asks where to save it, put it on the desktop for now.

 

Double click the downloaded file - iview435_setup.exe

 

This should start the installation.

[Rowsley17D]

I am confused by the title of the thread "Posting" and "downloading" in the gist of what's being discussed. Do you want to add pictures and photos to RMweb or do you want to take pictures and photos off RMweb and put them on to your own computer?

[Poor Old Bruce]

I am confused by the title of the thread "Posting" and "downloading" in the gist of what's being discussed. Do you want to add pictures and photos to RMweb or do you want to take pictures and photos off RMweb and put them on to your own computer?

Hi Rowsley (I've been there this morning!),

 

What I would like to do is what it says in the thread title and POST pictures ONTO RMweb. There are size limitations on what you can post which means I must resize the images. The nominated program to enable me to do this must be DOWNLOADED from the interweb to my desktop computer, that's where it gets complicated (for me anyway). Pinching pics OFF RMweb to my computer, I can manage.

 

I hope this clarifies what I want to do.

 

Then to try what Beastie says in post #4.

 

Regards

[martin_wynne]

The nominated program to enable me to do this must be DOWNLOADED from the interweb to my desktop computer, that's where it gets complicated (for me anyway).

 

Hi Bruce,

 

You don't need to download the IrfanView program if you don't want to. RMweb has it's own online image editor which can resize images. Click the Image Editor button at the top of every page:

 

 

Martin.

[Miss Prism]

When I tried the RMweb Image Editor, I got a message "The image must first be rasterized to be editable." Which wasn't particularly helpful. I suspect it can handle only jpg input?

 

Btw, how does one determine the name of a file uploaded to a gallery?

[Rowsley17D]

What I do is resize pictures in MS Picture Manager. There is a facility there to save pictures especially for uploading to the web.

[martin_wynne]

Hi Bruce,

 

Here is how to use the online Image Editor:

 

1. click this:

 

2.Find the picture on your computer and click on it:

 

It will open in the editor.

 

3. If you wish you can add a copyright notice, or any other text or mark-up. Click the A button on the left and add your text in the box which appears:

 

4. Click Image size in the Image menu:

 

5. Set the required size in the box which appears. 800 x 600 is good for general pics:

 

6. Click Save... in the File menu:

 

7. Choose My Computer as the destination. If it is a photo from a camera, choose JPEG as the format. Slide the Quality compression control until the image size shows as less than about 250KB. Click OK:

 

8. You can then choose where you want to save it on your computer. And finally upload it to RMweb:

 

 

Martin.

 

 

[Rowsley17D]

When I tried the RMweb Image Editor, I got a message "The image must first be rasterized to be editable." Which wasn't particularly helpful. I suspect it can handle only jpg input?

 

Btw, how does one determine the name of a file uploaded to a gallery?

 

It's the same name as the one you save it under on your own pc. On my Black 5 thread I saved the pictures I took with the file name Black 5 - (number) and that's the name they appear as on RMweb.

[martin_wynne]

When I tried the RMweb Image Editor, I got a message "The image must first be rasterized to be editable." Which wasn't particularly helpful. I suspect it can handle only jpg input?

 

Btw, how does one determine the name of a file uploaded to a gallery?

 

Hi Russ,

 

You mean the URL? Right-click on the image. Click Direct link to this image file. The image URL is then in the address bar.

 

The Image Editor accepts all common bitmap (raster) formats. You must have been trying a vector file such as EMF, PDF, DXF, etc.

 

Martin.

[Poor Old Bruce]

Martin,

 

Thanks for the blow-by-blow. I managed to make it work. Thanks also to the others who offered their help.

[Miss Prism]

You mean the URL? Right-click on the image. Click Direct link to this image file. The image URL is then in the address bar.

 

Ah yes. Now found that. I believe however that the RMweb system now renames the file (from a couple of upgrades ago) to its own reference number. It seems to work ok now, and I don't know why I got the previous message - I wasn't trying a vector file.

 

What I found a bit difficult was inserting an image into a blog comment, which can only be done via a gallery (accessible via 'My Media'), and there seems to be a width constraint on images inserted into blog comments.