Worth The Wait

[waddis]

well done mate!!

[Newt]

Bill Dingley:

I have managed to save the photos into the computer but am having trouble transferring them into an email.

First step is to do yourself and everyone else a favor and when you've finished working with they photo (chopping out bits, whatever) save it as a .jpg file. Your scanner probably gave you some other format and all I know of give much larger files than .jpg will be. If you can open the photos on the PC, most any program will have an option under file => save as for .jpg. While you are doing the additional saving, giving the files a name with no spaces is a good idea since some programs hate spaces and will do fine with Bills-biggun.jpg but will have problems with Bills Biggun.jpg

 

Once you have the above done, emailing a copy should be easy enough. It will vary depending on the email client you use (outlook express, ms outlook, netscape, opera, whatever) but there should be an option to 'attach' a file so just point it to your picture.

 

If you want to put a copy on here, that is fairly simple as well but you'll most likely want to shrink the picture a little since a size of 800 by 600 is about the largest that will do well on an internet forum. Again, your picture editor should make it fairly simple to shrink it although you might want to use a different name for the smaller version so you don't lose your original. Maybe Bills-biggun-shrunk.jpg or something. Then http://www.go-fishing.org/upload/ and fill in the various blocks (you do not need to put anything in the 'message' portion). click the bottom button to 'upload' and when you get to the next page, copy the entire line that begins with [img and ends with /img] and paste it in a post here.

 

[ 03. January 2005, 04:40 PM: Message edited by: Newt ]

[Bill Dingley]

Thanks Newt and a Happy New Year.

Well I have managed to send the pictures via email

but still cannot find how to send them to the forum. I am getting no joy from the link you suggested.

I have emailed the photos to Elton in the hope that he can get them to where they should be.

I am afraid that computers came a bit late in life for this old man. Technology becomes more technical by the day and my poor old brain moves at about the same rate in the opposite dirction.

 

Thanks Newt and keep well.

 

Bill

[Bill Dingley]

Quick follow up Newt. Have just read your very

amusing stories about signs.

I guess you had better send me one reading "THICK"

by return of post.

Cheers

Bill

[Newt]

Bill - I am 60 this month. Chevin, vagabond, poledark are all somewhat older. So unless you and the chalk in the White Cliffs are about the same age, this stuff can be learned. Here is a step-by-step on posting a picture from your PC to the forum.

 

I have a document in c:test named out-of-step.jpg that will appear when I'm done.

 

Go to http://www.go-fishing.org/upload/ where you will see this screen

 

 

Fill in the two orange sections with something similar to what I have put in mine. The email address needs to be real. The top line just needs something in it.

 

 

Then click on the Browse button and locate your picture and double click it. The file name will be in the line for 'photo to be sent'.

 

 

Click on the 'Upload' button and it should take you to a new page with a line of text like this one.

 

 

Copy that line - easiest to put the cursor at one end, hold down the left mouse button and drag the cursor while holding the button to highlight the line then release the button. The line should remain highlighted. Put the cursor anywhere in the highlighted section, press the RIGHT mouse button and then left click on the work 'copy'. Deed done and it's easier to do than to describe.

 

When you paste that line into a thread, it should show up like this

 

[poledark]

Newt, excellent instructions, clear as a bell, thanks.

 

 

BUT,,,,when I want to Copy and Paste I have to open the program where I want to paste to first, I then put cursor in place and minimise the page and then do the upload.

 

Can't seem to get it to work otherwise.

 

Den

[Bill Dingley]

Picture 1 as promised

[Bill Dingley]

Picture 1 shows carp at 31lb 10oz

Picture 2 shows carp at 32lb

sorry it took so long

 

[Elton]

Aaargh! Just resized the ones you emailed to me, ready to upload now, and saw this

 

Nice fish

 

Tight lines,

 

Elton

[Bill Dingley]

NEWT, many thanks for your help and patience.

Both pictures now on the thread.Anglo/American relations triumphant once again.

Age-wise Newt I am a little ahead of you (70 in June). I agree things can still be learned, its just that it takes a little longer to sink in.

 

ELTON, my apologies for giving you work for nothing but before you could help me, Newt came up with the goods. I am grateful to you anyway.

 

Bless you both.

 

Bill