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Unread 08-12-2012, 02:12 PM   #6
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I guess your internet browser doesn't have a plugin that will allow you to view the video. I will leave how to set up your browser up to you, maybe with some help from your internet provider. I will try to explain verbally what the video was trying to tell you:

In the quick reply window to answer any post, click on the "go advanced" button. Type in your text and then scroll the window down a bit to the next info section box and click on the "Manage Attachments" button.

A popup window will come up and you will see 5 empty boxes and a browse button next to each. Click browse and navigate to the pictures on your computer that you want to load onto the forum. select the picture and its name will load in the empty box. You can do 5 pictures before you need to click the "upload" button to send those pictures up to the web server. If you have more than 5, repeat the above as needed to get them all in.

NOTE: UNDER THE 5 EMPTY BOXES IS A LIST OF INFO FOR YOU. IT LISTS WHAT TYPE OF FILE YOU CAN UPLOAD (the last 3 letter of the file name - after a '.' ) AND MOST IMPORTANT, THE MAX SIZE OF THE FILE IT WILL ACCEPT.

If your picture file is to large it will be rejected AFTER you do click on "submit reply".

If you need to resize the file, I suggest you use the Windows program "paint" which is standard on all Microsoft computer systems. Find paint in the Start list in the accessories folder.

Start "paint" and "open" your picture that is to large for the forum. Then click the "resize" option in the top action bar. That will bring up a small popup window and in that window click on the box "maintain aspect ratio" and then click on the "Pixels" select circle. Then, find the larger of either Horizontal or Vertical info boxes values and change it to the max value (or less) that the forum upload box told you it would select. I use 1000 for all but .gif or .bmp file types. You probably use .jpg picture files so try 1000, that works fine for me.
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