Picture(s) of the day....

[NewcastleFalcon]

Nice can do plan there Mick
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I have provided POTD with the Ryhope Angel captured on a very sunny Sunday. This is today's Spittal Angel 70 odd miles further North on a less sunny Wednesday afternoon.

Spittal Angel

or candle

The aforementioned Ryhope Angel May 2018

Neil

[Peter.N.]

They have changed it to LED.

Peter

[CitroJim]

The magnolia is coming to life!!

I love magnolias and that's a cracker Mick

I spotted a rather lovely one during my morning run today...

Such a shame they have such a short life...

[mickthemaverick]

Sorry to say it looks like this year's magnolia season may be shorter lived than usual, two of the flower heads have begun to shed petals already!!

Own work

[NewcastleFalcon]

I'm shoving this in the mix for the end of month POTD random selection awards as well as on the excellent "one for the train buffs" thread

viewtopic.php?p=794471#p794471

Always a joy when you fling open the curtains on a nice sunny morning....



Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

POTD Signs of Spring

First Frogspawn

Two Clumps in a muddy puddle

...yes an appeal needs launching to the FCF faithful. Please bring to POTD a better, clearer picture of March 2024 frogspawn than that

Neil

[myglaren]

Unpaid door guard

[mickthemaverick]

The story behind this picture will hopefully appear tomorrow on the DIY with Function over Finesse thread!!

Own work

[CitroJim]

The story behind this picture will hopefully appear tomorrow on the DIY with Function over Finesse thread!!

It is now viewtopic.php?p=794579#p794579

Huge thanks Mick

[Vic Evans]

I'm struggling to get my pics to a size acceptable to FCF. I've started a post umpteen times but been told they're too big or whatever so give up . I use the Lit photo app on my Android phone to get 'em down to less than 300kb which is ok for other forums but this'un seems to have height & width restrictions or whatever. It seems like I should crop them but what a faff.
I'm a bit of a Luddite with this stuff so how do I easily achieve piccies that comply?

[mickthemaverick]

Vic, If you put your pics onto a windows PC then follow this sequence you will end up with postable images:

1. Open your original image in Paint and you will see part of the image:

You start here

Then click on the resizing tool, indicated by the green arrow here:

Above the green arrow

You will open a window showing the size set at 100%:

Now change the 100 to for example 25% and ok, the image will be reduced. Save that with a different filename eg 'original mk2' or something. You can repeat the resizing as many times as you like within reason so you can always go 50% then another 50% rather than a straightforward 25% as I have done. Once you get the original to a size that fits on your screen save that as 'original final' or something, then use that image to post on the forum. the above example looks like this:

and the final image:

Ready to upload

I hope that helps, have a play!!

[Vic Evans]

I've just bought a new W11 laptop to replace my old W10 model but was hoping to cut out the 'middleman' & post photos direct from the camera aka my Android phone.
I'd love to contribute more piccies to this forum but life's too short to faff about changing machines when the original should be able to do it.
I'll have another butchers at ways to comply with my Android phone but seriously, what's so special about this place that it won't accept photos others will? I've managed it before but dog knows how I did it.

[NewcastleFalcon]

I've just bought a new W11 laptop to replace my old W10 model but was hoping to cut out the 'middleman' & post photos direct from the camera aka my Android phone.
I'd love to contribute more piccies to this forum but life's too short to faff about changing machines when the original should be able to do it.
I'll have another butchers at ways to comply with my Android phone but seriously, what's so special about this place that it won't accept photos others will? I've managed it before but dog knows how I did it.

Yes it needs to be made easy. I dont have a mobile phone and havent a clue about posting pics up in a forum post from a phone. I'm sure the more tech savvy members like Marc (Givemeabreak) and Mike (XantiaV6) could help.

Meantime if you look at the posting screen and select attachments, and then add files there is an option called
upload from mobile. Never tried it.

Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

...easy from a laptop

Today's East Coast Mainline ^*hidden Northumberland Viaduct of the Day

^*-Can't be seen from any public highway

Guyzance Viaduct East Coast Mainline

Neil

[myglaren]

Any photo's I take on my (Android) phone I transfer to my laptop via a USB cable. Can never get BlueTooth to work.
Only takes seconds and the images can then be manipulated with Image Viewer or The Gimp.

Note that many pictures taken on mobile phones will 'fall over' or be displayed upside down when uploaded to the forum and need to be corrected in advance.
This doesn't seem to apply to digital cameras, and not all phones.

It should be possible to have your photo's uploaded to a Google account and you should be able to upload to the forum direct from there.

I don't use this option as the account my phone has linked itself to is crammed to the gills and in danger of shutting down if any more images were to be uploaded there.
I should switch it to one of my other Google accounts, and may even do that one day.