Opps - I forgot another important and easy option: You can post the pictures and videos to the Facebook KR group.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/KR2S.aircraft/photos/ Cheers, Owen > On Oct 9, 2018, at 2:04 PM, svd <osprey...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> >> I thought I knew, but now can't seem to do it. >> >> Help? >> >> Wayne > > > There are lots of good photo uploading options out there - but Krnet isn’t > one of them. This is from the KRnet “rules”: > > 17) The best way to send photos to the list is to put them on a website > somewhere else and send the link to the list. If that's over your head or you > only have one or two, you can send them direct to the list, as long as the > total size doesn't not exceed approximately 200kB (a total of 250kB, but your > text and "encoding" will cost you some of that). That's likely only one or > two pictures. This means you will likely have to shrink it down to something > reasonable like 800x600, AND compress the image by about 50% using something > like IRFANVIEW, a free image processor available online. If it's oversize > you'll get a message that the moderator is considering it, but the same guy > that wrote this is the moderator, so you can guess what the answer is. If you > can't find an image processor and can't post it online and send a link, you > likely should not be building an airplane either. It's really not that tough. > I've posted a LOT of 70k images on the list and on my website that are quite > acceptable. Surely you can do it with three times that allotment. For those > who take photos with cell phones and want to post them, first send the photo > to yourself, compress it while sending, and THEN post the resulting image. > It's that easy. > > Options for "uploading pictures to the web” include: > 1) photo services like Flikr (which allows you to upload up to a terabyte > of pictures uncompressed free), > 2) online storage sites like Dropbox (which gives you something like 2 > gigabytes free), > 3) your own websites - there are many easy and free basic website services: > wix, weekly, wordpress, squarespace, yola - and many more. Check > out my son’s site: > https://hugheskr2s.yolasite.com > <https://hugheskr2s.yolasite.com/> > > 4) Free online user group sites like Yahoo Groups. These are nice places > to collect files, articles, discussions, and photos. > I made this one focused on KR Aircraft: > https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/KRaircraft/info > <https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/KRaircraft/info> > > Online services evolve quickly - so its a good idea to think about the > longevity of whatever picture hosting service you use. Its a shame when > these things disappear. While Yahoo is no one’s favorite, the Yahoo Groups > I watch have stayed intact (complete with pictures and files) since before > 2001. Google is also a good longevity bet. _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
