Gallery Upgrade

[Tank]

Dear all,

This weekend we'll be installing a new gallery to the forum.  Your images are all safe and nothing will happen to them, other than migrating to the new gallery.

Some new features will include editing your photo's on the forum, use of filters, and hopefully an easier way of uploading your photo's.  I know some members are put off by the current method of uploading - forums are more complex than Facebook! 

Sorry for any more disruption, but I feel that it's best to get as much out of the way as soon as we can.

Many thanks as always for your wonderful support.

Tank/Chris

[RailGooner]

Mr Administrator with all these upgrades you're really spoiling us!

But seriously, many thanks for doing the impossible - improving the world's best forum.

[Tank]

Merry Christmas! 

[MinZaPint]

Look forward to it, I haven't been able to edit my photos for some time and my last uploading effort was rejected! All the best with this 

[daffy]

Just testing the Reply System in this thread.

Okay for me.

[mk1gtstu]

Thank you Tank & the team for all your hard work keeping the forum going 

Cheers, Stu

[weave]

Hi all,

Really sorry but can't find the original post re upgrade, I can't post pics, don't know how to resize them if that's the problem. Can someone please help me.

Don't know what to do. Sorry again for being a numbnuts     

Cheers weave 

[RailGooner]

Hi all,

Really sorry but can't find the original post re upgrade, I can't post pics, don't know how to resize them if that's the problem. Can someone please help me.

Don't know what to do. Sorry again for being a numbnuts     

Cheers weave 

If you want to resize your pics image files I recommend IrfanView (https://www.irfanview.com/). It's free for non-commercial. I haven't used it for years, but it had a simple option of resizing for web use. Give it a go.

HTH.

[themadhippy]

if your a windoze user why not just use paint to resize your image?

[RailGooner]

I've edited my previous post (#7) as I intended to say resize the image files. With IrfanView one can reduce the file size without reducing the image resolution.

[nookfield]

You can also use Image Resizer (free) on windows machines

https://www.bricelam.net/ImageResizer/

Once installed you can just right click on an image and select the desired size.

[Dorsetmike]

Any half decent photo editor allows resizing in mm, cm or pixels as well as allowing cropping,  adjusting brighness, contast and colour balance, adding text and cloning out unwanted bits and a few other manipulations; some are free, some cheap and some ridiculously expensive. Ease of use also varies!

[kirky]

@Tank  So is the gallery still down then?

Ive just had a 'you are not allowed to add an item in this category' message, when trying to post to the gallery.

Probably just me being impatient.
cheers
kirky

[Tank]

We're still having some issues!  Files have been uploaded (again!), but some of the coding needs to be changed in order to work on the new server.  I'm in talks with the author of the new gallery and I hope this will be rectified soon.  Nothing is ever easy!!!   

[Malc]

As I always used to say,"If it was easy any idiot could do it."