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Special thanks to Pat , Roger, and the rest of you who have managed to explain the process to me of how to embed photos with the Mac computer.

I even embeded a Lake Shasta photo in my signature. (Big deal!)

Thanks,

Joe.
 
Sea Wolf":36r56bke said:
Special thanks to Pat , Roger, and the rest of you who have managed to explain the process to me of how to embed photos with the Mac computer.
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Oh crap. The Scientist finds his inner Nerd. Sure hope he never taught any chemistry classes.
 
TyBoo":is28u6dh said:
Sea Wolf":is28u6dh said:
Special thanks to Pat , Roger, and the rest of you who have managed to explain the process to me of how to embed photos with the Mac computer.
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Oh crap. The Scientist finds his inner Nerd. Sure hope he never taught any chemistry classes.
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Actually, I never lost my inner nerd (nor my outer nerd for that matter). To make matters worse, while I'm currently on the faculty in microbiology, my Ph.D. IS in chemistry so yes, I have taught chemistry classes. :lol: Sometime when we are at a gathering, prod me a bit - I've got some good stories about teaching chemistry.

Roger on the SeaDNA
 
like this?
http://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?set_ ... bc47bb9a23

[/img]http://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?set_albumName=LunaC&id=newboat&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php&PHPSESSID=6f58a5ba126a7952ba7c65bc47bb9a23[/img]

[imghttp://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?set_albumName=LunaC&id=newboat&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php&PHPSESSID=6f58a5ba126a7952ba7c65bc47bb9a23img][/img]

[/img]http://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?full=1&set_albumName=LunaC&id=newboat&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php

Hmmmm The first time I achieved a link, but the photo did not show.....

I give up for now!
 
Next question:

Do you have any control over the size (dimensions) of the embedded photo? Some appear to be much larger than others.

Is it the size of the file in bytes, or is there some other way to spelling out the desired dimensions?

Joe.
 
Chris, actually. I was following the directions above but I am missing something!

http://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?full ... _photo.php

[url=http://www.c-brats.com/albums/LunaC/newboat.sized.jpg]http://www.c-brats.com/albums/LunaC/newboat.sized.jpg[/url]

[url=http://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?set_albumName=LunaC&id=newboat&op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&include=view_photo.php]http://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?set_ ... _photo.php[/url]
 
Chris-

You're coping the entire address onto your bilboard, then pasting it into the new post with the brackets and slash, etc. You have to use the location instead.

What you need to do is go to the loation of the photo which is found on the thumbnail or miniature photo in your album just before you open the whole picture to view.

Put the mouse cursor over the thumbnail, push down on the control key and mouse, and a pop up list of alternatives (menu) will appear.

Scroll down the menu to "copy image address" and release the mouse and then the control key. Now the location is on the billboard.

Now go into the post mode, type out the message, and where you want the picture, drop down two or so return key storkes to get a space.

Now with the cursor blinking where you want the photo, go up to the Edit menu with the mouse and hit Copy.

This drops the location where you want the picture.

Add the
at the end and you're done. (Unless you have more text to add.)

I think it's also very impotant that you use the exact right kind of brackets. You want the pair to the right of the "p" key, but not with the "shift" key pressed down, which changes their appearance and probably won't work. Use the lower case style.

I had to print out Roger's directions to be able to follow them and do the job when making all the operations the first few times. You might want to print out these.

Good Luck!

Example of my propane Force 10 Cozy Cabin Heater and 3 burner Gaffers and Sattler Stove:

IM000605.thumb.jpg

Joe.
 
Sea Wolf":3dotv2jz said:
Next question:

Do you have any control over the size (dimensions) of the embedded photo? Some appear to be much larger than others.

Is it the size of the file in bytes, or is there some other way to spelling out the desired dimensions?

Joe.
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Joe,

Short answer - there are actually two copies of the image to which you can link - the thumbnail version and the bigger one. If you ctrl-click on the thumb nail and copy its image location/image link, you'll get a link to that one. If you instead click on the thumb nail to bring up the larger image and then ctrl-click and select the link to that image, you'll get the larger one.

Longer answer - In addition to the above info you also have control over the image size at loading and afterwards through re-sizing.

The image size is not determine so much by the file size but rather by the number of pixels in each dimension. You can find out the size of the image by ctrl-clicking on it and selecting properties. In general, bigger images have bigger file sizes but this isn't always true as the images are typically stored in a compressed format. Image compression makes the file size of an image smaller. There are a large number of different ways to do image compression but essentially they all take advantage of a few ideas:
1) Your eye can only discriminate between so many different shades of a color so some shades can be replaced with others
2) Similar to one + you'll be happy with fewer than you can discriminate between and
3) If the image has large regions of similar colors, that information can be represented more efficiently. E.g. rather than storing the same (or similar) numbers for every pixel, one can store "this region is this color" in a few numbers.

When you upload an image it will typically be automatically re-sized based on preferences set in your photo album. You can turn off or even modify those preferences but I wouldn't recommend it. The defaults are to re-size uploaded images to 640 pixels in the long dimension and to create thumbnails that are 150 pixels in the long dimension. Those values work well for most everyone and are a nice compromise between having good looking images and be able to download them at a reasonable rate over the net (not everyone has a high speed connection). Also after an image is uploaded, you can re-size it later using the resize menu item within your album. If you make an image smaller, it will usually look OK, it you make it larger it may look OK depending on the image and the size factor change. If you upload a small image, when it gets re-sized to a large size the "new" pixel values are guessed from the old ones and the image doesn't look as good as if you had the larger image originally.

Finally, you can modify the images in a number of ways (including size) on your own computer using a variety of different software packages. On the mac the most popular ones are "graphic converter" and "photoshop lite". The former one comes with some versions of the operating systems and photshop lite comes with some cameras and scanners.

Roger on the SeaDNA
 
One more thing that Roger's excellent post left off. You can actually size the display of an image to any size you want when using native HTML. However sine the WSYWIG editor we use on this site wisely has native HTML disabled that option is not something you can do here.

Maybe one of these days I'll pic up a mac for doing Photoshop with. But it won't be anytime soon!
 
Roger and Gary-

What a through and concise answer! :smile

Thanks a bunch!!!

We're really making some progrress here! :teeth

IM000828.jpg

(Photo of our home from winter of 2003)

Joe.
 
modules.php


Joe and others.

First, when I control click, I do NOT have the choice of copy image address. I only have copy link OR image (to bookmark, desk top, new window). Choosing any of these options with any combination of img/{[}] has not worked yet.

above is "copy link"

here is "copy image"

http://www.c-brats.com/modules.php?set_ ... _photo.php

(looks the same to me)

newboat.thumb.jpg

OK, this is what I have to do! Seems my MAC speaks a slightly different dialect!

1) cntrl clk or right click of pic

2) open image in new window

3) copy image

4) past image & add 's

[img]http://www.c-brats.com/albums/LunaC/newboat.thumb.jpg

that was givin me a head ache. Thanks. Your info was very helpful.
 
Chris,

What browser are you using? Also what operating system? Different browsers sometimes have different options, I'll test with whatever browser you are using (I have them all) and get back to you.

Roger
 
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