Uploading photographs directly to Team-BHP

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The facility of uploading pictures directly to Team-BHP has now been enabled. Henceforth, please do not use imageshack or any other external photo hosting solutions. Attachments have been enabled for all membership levels, only to increase the level of convenience to BHPians, as well as to ensure that pictures never expire from threads.

How do you load pictures?

Step One : Click on the "Manage Attachments" button when creating a new thread. To include attachments in a reply to an existing thread, simply click on the "Go Advanced" button under Quick reply, to access the "Manage Attachments" button.



Step Two : Choose the pictures you wish to upload from your computer. Then click the "Upload" button on the right side of the screen.



Step Three : Wait for the confirmation of a successful upload. Then, click the "Close this window" button.

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Optional : If you want to include photographs within the text body, click on the attach icon and choose the picture you wish to insert (at that position in the post). If you don't choose a specific position, the pictures will be displayed at the end of the post.

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Photo Upload Rules:

• The file size must be no more than 500 KB.
• Each post may include a maximum of 20 pictures.

Technical Information:

• There is absolutely no restriction on the image resolution (e.g. 1920×1080). However, within posts, the uploaded image will display in a maximum size of 800 pixels. To view the larger resolution copy, simply click on the image (within the post) and the original size photo will pop open in a separate window.
• Images smaller than 800 pixels will be displayed in their original size only.

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How to resize images:

Several BHPians have written in asking for a guide on resizing large pictures down to 500 KB (or less). Here are the simplest ways of going about it:

Option ONE : If you are running Windows XP, download the official Microsoft XP image resizer. Once installed, right click the picture you wish to resize, and choose the "resize pictures" option. On the resultant menu, you may choose dimensions and some other advanced options. Click Ok, and you should see the resized (smaller) picture in the same folder as the original.

OPTION TWO : Open the picture in Microsoft Paint (standard on your Windows OS), then press "Ctrl" & "W". Under "Stretch", enter 50% for the horizontal and vertical fields. Click Save.

OPTION THREE : Download third-party softwares such as the Fast Stone Photo Resizer.