HOW TO ADD PICTURES TO YOUR NEW ALBUM

Once you have created your new Album (learn how to create an album ) you will want to add pictures. Unfortunately most modern digital pictures are too big to upload and we need to make them a little smaller, luckily I have a very easy way to do so. If your images are already smaller than 500K each then you can skip this page and jump to the next step.

If your images are greater than 500K each and you do not know how to make them smaller please follow these simple instructions

We are going to use the "paint" application available on most Windows platforms to shrink and rename your images, Personally I find it easier to create a new folder on your computer called "upload" and copy the photographs you want to publish to that folder.  Now browse to that new folder and  select your first image, right mouse click and select "OPEN WITH" and then "PAINT", OR you can launch "PAINT" manually from "START" - "All Programs" -"Accessories" - "PAINT" either way you choose please  open your image in paint.



Once your photograph is open in paint you will select "image" from the top menu and then select Stretch/Skew option



Replace the horizontal and Vertical values with 70 and 70 ( this will reduce the size of your photograph to 70 % of the original size. On my camera (5 megapixal) this takes a  3 MEG picture down to about 350 - 400 KB, on bigger pictures you may have to decrease this number to 60/60 or even 50/50, and on smaller images you may need only use 70/70 or 80/80. Please experiment with the numbers to find what works for you




Select "OK" and then select "File" and "Save" or Save As" to rename the image to something more identifiable.


Please repeat the process until all your images are now saved as images under or around 500K each


Now, lets add those new images to the album you created earlier.  Please follow this link for instructions on how to add your images to you album.

If you have any questions please contact support@ontariocobraclub.ca