Before you begin
Posting photos the OGR Forum is a great way to share what you are doing with your layout or ask for help. Posting your photos is easy once you know how to do it, but the first few times can be a bit confusing. I wrote this guide in an effort to help those who want to post pictures but are unsure where to start.
Pick a host
The images on your hard drive need to be hosted on a server to be shared with others. There are several ways to do this listed on the left of this page. OGR offers a photo album service, also there are services such as Flickr or Photobucket and finally your ISP may offer hosting. I will cover using all four of these services here, but if I do not cover the service you use, these should directions should give you what you need to begin.
Resize your Images
The great thing about about today's digital cameras is that they take great images that are 8 megapixels and above. Unfortunately the Internet was designed for 1024 x768 pixels (That's .8 megapixels for those counting). The OGR Forum's Terms of Service (TOS) limits all images to under 640 pixels on the longest side.
The chances are that unless you are using some ancient digital camera you picked up at the local swap meet, it cannot take images this small. You will have to size your images before posting to the OGR Forum
Due to the many different ways to do this I cannot begin to tell you every way to resize your images or what your camera can do. Some suggestions I can offer are; check out software that came with your camera, or see if your photo hosting service offers a resize option. For Windows users Microsoft offers Image Resizer. for Macintosh systems I suggest iPhoto which comes with many new Macs. Also you can look at programs such as Paintshop Pro, Picassa and Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom to manipulate and resize your photos.
Remember if you do not resize your images and post some monstrous 8 megapixel image in the forum, there is a good chance those still on slow speed connections will hunt you down at the next York and feed you Scrapple (No Farmer Bill you cannot get free Scrapple this way)
Mac vs PC, IE7 vs Firefox
My primary computer is a Apple Mac Pro Quad core and my preferred web browser is FireFox, but I run a PC Help Desk so I am used to helping people with both systems
There may some differences in the browsers/OS menus and I will try to indicate them in the directions. The screen shots were done on my Mac, don't let the screen shots throw you off, just read the text to see what you are supposed to be doing and go with what looks right for your system. You will find, for the most part they all work the same.