You may know that I am a lazy writer, but tend to photograph my world A LOT, and post those images here. Some of you are kind enough to look, rate, and comment. OpenSalon's I Love Life is having trouble uploading large size images on her posts here, being limited to 2MB, etc. and has asked me to explain the technical details of such postings.
Not everyone here is at the same place, tech-wise, so it is difficult to make a lesson plan that is suitable for all. So, I am writing those methods exactly as I perform them. I apologize in advance if these instructions are confusing.
How To: Post Big-Ass Photos on OpenSalon
1. Create a photo album on my computer with all the images I will use in the post.
a) I begin with a blank template, say 300 dpi, 2.5 inches by 2.5 inches. (Do the math and you will have a 750 pixels by 750 pixels template.)
b) I gather photos that speak to the theme, place them on the template and move them until they are cropped to my satisfaction. I save each one in the photo album, naming them lesson1.jpg and lesson2.jpg etc.
2. Upload all the photos to flikr.com where I have an account.
3. Create the linking html code for the post. (I use Microsoft notepad.)
a) Within flikr, I open my Photostream, look at lesson1.jpg and click "share" and pull down the full size 750 pixel by 750 pixel choice, copy, and paste that to a Notepad note. It will look like this to start:
b) Again, within flikr, I click "share" and pull down the 500 pixel by 500 pixel choice, copy, and paste that into the existing note. Now, it looks like this:
c) I edit that lesson1.jpg link so that the 500x500 is the posting image, and the 750x750 is the linking image, like this (notice, I edit width="485" which is the OpenSalon column width):
d) repeat 3a, 3b, and 3c for all photos to be used in the post
4. Begin my OpenSalon New Post
a) Click New Post
b) fill in title and tags
c) type my first line
d) click HMTL from the toolbar
e) copy my Notepad note, and paste it in the HTML window of OS New Post
f) click Update from the HTML box
g) write more lines, correct spelling, check by clicking "Save Draft and Preview"
h) click "Publish"
(I feel pretty certain that my ex-sister-in-law, Jackie, will not object to being the photo guinea pig here. She is a lot of fun, right?)
I am happy to elaborate, if I can, so ask questions. Thanks for reading.
(click on last photo to enlarge)
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Photo sharing on OS can be tricky and well done my friend.
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I had the same problems with some photos being too many MB to upload. I still try to upload directly but if it rejects me then I use flickr but I'm lazy, I go to All Sizes and pick the medium size and copy and paste it right onto the post instead of using that photo upload box thingy. Mainly because I'm frustrated that my photo was rejected as too large a file (in truth I'm lazy). I post the videos right into the post instead of using the HTML box so the size isn't perfect, when you save draft it becomes a video. Yeah okay, I'm just lazy.
You're awesome to put this together and I really love the photos of laughing Jackie!
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The digit world knows I am a tech-idiot.
I always need a tutor and they get angry.
Angry?
Impatient.
I'm like a toddler.
I was born `BC.
`
Before computers.
I left a government job with the VA just when the computers were coming. I 'fear' them?
I call gadgets`gizmos.
Scary big contraption.
One day I take a class?
In Canada - In a library -
The geezers get together.
They giggle and have fun.
Gizmos hurt my feelings?
`
I ask . . . "Please kiss boo boo."
I think . . . "Whack-A-Mole."
Snoops open-up gadgets.
It's a federal crime. Yes?
Mail isn't to be opened.
I'll dial `9-11 asap!
Guess what? What?
Snoop read my mail!
Call FBI and Eric Holder?
okay.
`
Seriously. I share this.
It's a foreign language.
I just learned a word.
A hard drive is what?
`
Robert Frost wrote:
`
In three words I can
sum up everything
I've ever learned
about life: it goes on.
`
Carl Sandburg
`
Let a joy keep you.
Reach out your hands
and take it when it runs by.
`
I know we gotta adjust.
`
I recall a senyru by Deluty:
`
I do love spellcheck. Why?
I'm not biblically versed -
`
Biblical scholar
cursing 'spell check' for missing
'Sex of Galilee
Marty'sHusband, it IS a little mind-boggling. When I was writing this, I got the "showing image" versus the "linking image" switched. Glad I caught it before hitting "publish." That would be pretty embarrassing.
Linda Seccaspina, Jeanette cracks me up! I am so glad we can post here, stories or poems or photos or drawings. If it takes work, so be it.
Marilyn Sands, too true. Gawd knows I do not need any big ass photos.
I Love Life, I am really proud of you for pushing yourself to learn HTML and all to make your "Spring Has Sprung" post today. Nice photos!
Myriad, yes, that does work, but there is a bit of loss in some of the photos, at least I see it on my work computer screen. On my iPad, all look really nice.
Scarlett, that laughing woman is such a bunch of fun. Yes, if you just stretch the photo in OS, there is some loss of clarity (in my opinion). You are so welcome, thanks to you!
LuminousMuse, deal. I know who to ask about any dang musical thing in the whole dang world, too!
fernsy, good luck! You and Jackie would be a hoot in the same room!
designanator, it had not occurred to me to show big asses. I suppose I could come up with some .... I just tend to use that as a colorful descriptive, sorta like shit-load.
l'Heure Bleue, I did a similar thing, ass-wise. Bought some new slacks, turned around and looked in the mirror, made a mental note to never turn my back on anyone. About the photo-display-method espoused here, it is more work than writing, don't I know it.
Thanks, Algis, and to you too.
Hellooooooooo, Art. You make all the sense in the world, the Sex of Galilee sounds like a good movie.
Spike, I haven't tried Lightroom, nor Lightroom Gallery. You are stuck on the upload part? I will help if I can?
Peeper Pond amaze me.
It's sorta like a sexual fire.
I mean a furnace of energy.
It's a creativity Place. Belly.
The sounds sort of coo cool.
There's a coiling at a cooler.
It's a slowed down spiral.
It's a subdued typhoon.
And no ocean waves.
Ya feel deep depth.
A natural current.
A what 'muse' is?
A Male-Female.
Ay Ponderous.
`
A White Goddess.
Robert Graves ref:,
The Poetic-essay.
Muse-Magic ref:,
Old Traditions.
Old Legends.
Dragon Lady.
I still Wonder.
Maybe yes/no.
I'll go tonight.
Thanks `gin.
I'll share.
I get big.
Bog ay.
Photo.
Gaud.
Later.
Behave
You do.
I do too.
My gads.
O gizmo.
Gadgets?
I not sure.
Peepers
at the
Pond
Seem
Safe
Oho
`
Stathi, good luck, and I am happy to help, if I know how.
Your friend has the joie de vivre I love to see in a face.
Time for me to suck it up and take a computer class...although my kids love to lord their computer knowledge over me -- I hate to wreck their fun. : )