The Idiot's Guide to Digital Photos ... anyone?

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1-15-20, 5:50pm
kib

The Idiot's Guide to Digital Photos ... anyone?

Am I the only person who struggles mightily to move pictures? I wanted to post a picture on my phone here, and it seems like the "easy" way to do that is to send the picture from my camera app to my email - which for some reason now takes hours to get to one email and won't go to the other at all - and then download the picture to my desktop, and then upload it here. I can go find a cable and hardwire my phone to my laptop, speeding the process a little, but that just seems like a lot of effort too.

I see plenty of people posting photos here so I assume I'm being an idiot about this. Anyone?
1-15-20, 6:09pm
rosarugosa

Kib: I do the e-mail > desktop > upload thing myself.
1-15-20, 6:10pm
Alan

Uploading a photo to the forums requires the picture be on the device you're uploading from and then the forum software will resize it to meet forum requirements and then post it for everyone else to see, often sideways or upside down.

The best and easiest way to post a photo is to first place it somewhere else on the internet and then copy the link here. My new favorite way is to send the picture from my phone to my wife in Facebook Messenger, then open the pic in Messenger from the device you'll be posting here from, right click on the image and choose 'copy' from the options, then 'paste' it into your forum post. Works every time!

Example below: Me on Christmas Day, posted in less than a minute.

https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net...bd&oe=5E99F8F2

Edited to add: linking to another internet source also prevents the use of our diminishing storage space with our web space provider as the picture does not reside on our server.
1-15-20, 6:15pm
SteveinMN

kib, what kind of phone are you using?
1-15-20, 7:21pm
kib

It's an inexpensive samsung luna. My emails are at hotmail and gmail, my pc is windows10.

I wonder if I can just place a link directly to the photo where it resides in email, assuming I can get it there. ...

test ...

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0?ui=...=att&disp=safe
1-15-20, 7:27pm
kib

Still driving me bananas. The phone insists on me sharing by selecting a from and a to address, and if I select hotmail as the from address it sends it rotated. Even if I edit and rotate the picture before hand, it rotates it again to be sure it shows up sideways. If I select gmail as the from address this doesn't happen, but it insists on sending the picture without any option for reducing the size, they're about 1.8MB, and hotmail won't open them, it just says "image". >:(

Anyone using a camera or gallery app they really like? These are the ones that came with the phone and they're lousy.
1-15-20, 7:47pm
kib

couch potatoes
1-15-20, 7:48pm
kib

Oh for f's sake. That one was using the upload function right from here.
1-15-20, 7:49pm
kib

1 Attachment(s)

Attachment 3101 couch potatoes.
1-15-20, 7:51pm
kib

Well that was a lovely use of half an hour!

I'm pretty sure the problem is my phone, the only thing it likes to do is send pix to messenger, and I have no idea how to get a photo from messenger to here, there's no option on messenger to copy, just share.
1-15-20, 7:57pm
Alan

Quote:

Originally Posted by kib

Well that was a lovely use of half an hour!

I'm pretty sure the problem is my phone, the only thing it likes to do is send pix to messenger, and I have no idea how to get a photo from messenger to here, there's no option on messenger to copy, just share.

Click on the picture in messenger to view it full screen, from the full screen do a right click and you'll see an option to copy image, once copied paste here. Easy Peasy!
1-15-20, 8:56pm
iris lilies

Quote:

Originally Posted by kib

Attachment 3101 couch potatoes.

i see the couch kittie!
1-16-20, 1:04pm
kib

Quote:

Originally Posted by iris lilies

i see the couch kittie!

:cool:
1-16-20, 1:33pm
kib

So here's one more test. Flickr. I can access this from both my phone as an app, and by logging in from my pc. So I uploaded a photo by opening Flickr on my phone, it was able to see my photo gallery easily. I started this post. I went to Flickr on my pc and logged in. I selected the photo, it gave me the right click option to copy location. Pasted that here. ... it just gives me the link, not the actual photo. It also apparently gives people access tomy entire photo album. Aaargh.
1-16-20, 1:40pm
kib

I using both flickr and google photos, all that gets posted is a link.
1-16-20, 1:46pm
kib

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alan

Click on the picture in messenger to view it full screen, from the full screen do a right click and you'll see an option to copy image, once copied paste here. Easy Peasy!

This isn't facebook messenger, or I don't think it is, it's the messages app on my phone.
1-16-20, 1:59pm
Alan

Quote:

Originally Posted by kib

This isn't facebook messenger, or I don't think it is, it's the messages app on my phone.

Well, that's a horse of a different color.....
1-16-20, 2:02pm
kib

Yup. I don't use facebook on my phone because it slows it down horribly.
1-16-20, 11:01pm
SteveinMN

I'm sorry -- I'm not Android savvy and I don't have an Android anything nearby that I could play with...
3-5-20, 3:02pm
wildflower3

Did you ever get things sorted out? While I'm new to this forum and haven't uploaded a photo here before, I've been a forum administrator elsewhere and help my mother with backing up her phone and photos on occasion.