Adding images and other attachments to posts. - king1 - 04-11-2021
Adding Photos
There are two methods of adding images to your posts, based on where the images are stored...
Online images - For example Facebook, Twitter, Blog or other websites- Use the 'Insert an Image' button in the full editor toolbar.  These are not limited by dimension or file size but you can optionally set a Width and Height for the image. Simply paste the URL of the online image and select insert.
- Beware of linking to some low profile image hosting websites. Should the website go belly up, the images will disappear...
Offline images - For example photos stored on your computer, laptop, pictures folder etc
- These images need to be uploaded to the messageboard.  
- Find the Attachments section of the 'New Post' window or as a 'Full Reply', located immediately below the full editor. 
- Select the 'Choose Files' button which will open a file explorer window on you device.  Choose the file (or files) you would like to upload.
- Complete the upload by pushing 'Add Attachment' on the right. 
- Next you can choose whether to 'insert into post' or attach it to the post 
Notes:- Make sure the cursor is located where the image is to be inserted
- All attachments have size limits depending on the file type ie JPG is 2MB  
- For security reasons only certain file types are allowed
- Until we trust you    only Recruit level and above can add attachments i.e. the Trusted user group. 
Resizing images before uploading.
For Windows: 
there is an image resizer in the power toys package
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...ge-resizer
For Mac:
[Can someone please provide a quick and easy instruction or tool built into mac]
Other options:- There are any number of online resizers e.g https://resizeimage.net/
- If feasible you could take photos again with a reduced DPI or Megapixel level
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