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TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO POST A PIC SINCE I CANNOT FIND THE DIRECTIONS ON THIS FORUM OR KINGSNAKE.COM.

I loaded the pic to the gallery. Is that necessary all the time? Also, pic came out enlarged but was saved reduced? Any help is appreciated.

I loaded the pic to the gallery. Is that necessary all the time?

Yes, the picture must be on some publically accessible web server, such as the photo gallery here at KS.com.

Also, pic came out enlarged but was saved reduced?

You should resize your pictures before you upload them. You can do that in a variety of photo editing programs, but if you don't have one, you can just use Microsoft Paint, which comes with Windows (if you have a Mac, well,....I'm sorry....for lots of reasons - actually, I'm sure there is an equivalent program in the MacOS).

Open paint (programs - accessories), open your photo, then choose Image, Stretch/Skew from the menus up top. Simply reduce the horizontal and vertical dimensions of your picture by the same amount (if you don't do both the same, it will "deform" your photo). Then save it as a new file (or over the old file) and upload it to KS.

For example, I did this by reducing the horizontal and vertical dimensions each to 60%, which produced this picture (hope you don't mind me borrowing for demonstration purposes here!). Now it will be visible to all who want to see it and it will fit on their screens (and download faster).

Or, if you are using a program such as a photo editing program, try to reduce the pixel dimensions so that it is less than 800 pixels wide.

Your original image was 1152 x 864 pixels. This reduced version is 692 x 519, so fits on most screens without scrolling.

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Chris Harrison