Can anyone help me learn how to scan in a paper drawing, and attach it to my posts here, using windows xp? I don't want to waste people's time with explanations that are clear only to me. Perhaps a private message reply is appropriate, unless others want to know, too. Thanks!
The scanning part, I'm going to have to trust you already know how to do - there's too many different scanners & softwares out there, for me to be able to walk you through your particular setup. I can help you with the posting part, though.
First thing, is to make sure the file is small enough to upload. For most kinds of pictures, that's 97.7 KB. If the picture file is too big, you can shrink it, or adjust the resolution, using any of a number of free image-management softwares.
I'm partial to
GIMP, it's a full-featured editing program... but it's not exactly user-friendly. If all you need to do is resize, I really like
Pixresizer; it's a small file that doesn't clutter up your system memory, and it's super=easy to understand.
If you don't know how to check the size of your picture file, right-click on it & select "properties", the info will be in the pop-up window.
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Okay, got the picture down to less than 97 KB?
When you're starting a thread, or replying, the window should something like this:
Click on the "Manage Attachments" button, that I circled in red.
You should get a pop-up, looks like this:
Click on "browse"
You'll get another pop-up window, showing all the folders on your computer:
(Okay, pause. Apparently I have too many pictures in my post, so I have to split it up. TO BE CONTINUED...)