Can someone please explain to me how to upload a picture of myself to accompany my messages? I cannot understand those directions, it seems very user unfriendly Steve

Steve do you mean an avatar as at left?

Go into My Stuff in the second row of the menu bar...2 along from control panel - and go into edit preference from the option list.

Down at the bottom you will find instructions to upload a picture, just be sure it is not too big.

If you want to upload a picture for a particular message, click
on file manager before you upload your message.

If you are replying to a message, this will only work in Reply mode, not Quick Reply.

I hope this helps.

Thanks for giving those good instructions, Nan.

I found that I have to go to "edit profile" in order to be able to upload a picture to my avatar.

Like you say the image has to be very small; I think it can't be any bigger than 100 X 148 pixels.

John if you are interested in placing a larger image, how would you go about that?

pk

As an avatar, I don't think it's possible to use an image larger than 140 x 148 pixels. That's evidently the limit set by the server that Stan's using. I don't know if Stan can modify that or not.

No not the avatar but just posting images John.

pk

Oh-- lol. Ok. Let me get you those instructions.

thanks john

pk

Try this:

Click on Reply

Click on File Manager

Click on "Choose File"

Select picture from a file on your computer
(Remember the picture can't be bigger than about 800 x 650 pixels and it must be jpg, etc If necessary, resize your images, then save them in correct size to a file.)

Click on "Choose"

Click on "Add File"

Click on "Done Adding files"

You will then need to write something on the post that you intend to post. For instance, identify picture, name photographer, etc.

Finally click on "Submit"

That should do it. Hope this helps.

thanks again john. but what if you want to post a larger image? like you guys post in the photography thread.

pk

Me and my family. That's me in front. Taken in Loma Linda, 1961, about two years before President Kennedy's assassination.

OK, most of the ones I'm posting on the photography threads are about 800 by 600 pixels. This one is slightly smaller. I think you will find them big enough even if 600 by 450 pixels. Try it and let me know what you think. You reach a certain point where no matter how big they are, they won't appear any larger on the post.

Hi Nan, thanks, no I mean my own picture from my computer files, thanks, Steve

Hi John, Don't I know you from Adventist Online? I'm the one who has the thread, Is a rejection of Ellen White a rejection of the Bible, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit? Steve

Thanks John

pk

Hi Steve. Yes, I do remember you. Thanks a lot for your good messages on "My Page" there. I don't go to AO much any more but I do drop by occasionally. I like the discussions you initiated there.

Welcome to Adventist Forum. I hope to see you often here. :-) "John317"

John, you look like a little Rogue. The only thing missing is the pack of Marlboros in your shirt sleeve.

I was already slipping out of my bedroom window in the middle of of the night and wandering the streets and hopping freight trains. Except for godly parents and wonderful memories of growing up in an Adventist community, I know I would have gone out and never come back.

That was pretty young to be doing all that....

There is a size limit, if the image is larger, (1 meg I think) it will not load.

Thanks Nan

pk

Is this a picture of the house you lived in in Loma Linda? (The TV Dish on the roof probably wasn't there when you lived there, was it?)

I lived in Loma Linda in 1961, too -- with my husband and year-old son.

[You were a cute boy in 1961, John. How old were you then, about 12?]