Our new "Media" section

[Yvonne G]

It's nice to see so many members setting up albums. I've tried it out myself and its very easy to use. Let's see everyone set up an album so we all can see your turtles and tortoises.

When I turned on my computer this a.m. there were only 20 or so new media, and now there are 46. Way to go Forum!!

 

[Levi the Leopard]

I'm still struggling to use this section. More than half the photos I try to upload give me an error message but don't say why they've been rejected.

Or, I'll attach 5 photos to upload but only 2 appear in the album.

I really like the idea of this album feature...so I'm hoping to get the hang of it.

 

[Yvonne G]

I don't have a problem with it at all. Here's what I do with all my pictures:

First of all, way back when, I downloaded a free picture-saving program onto my computer called Irfanview. So I take pictures, then plug my camera into the computer and download them into Irfanview. I open each picture one at a time and size them to 1024 by 768 or smaller and save it. Then I delete the larger copies. So when I put my pictures into Photobucket they are already sized to smaller pixels and Photobucket doesn't have to re-size them. Or, when our new media section goes to pull the picture, its already sized smaller and is readily accepted. Plus, my computer doesn't have to have all those very large pictures in its memory. 1024/768 takes way less time to load anywhere - email, etc.