grouper52
Masterpiece
I spent/wasted quite a bit of time last night trying to load applicable photos to illustrate a tutorial I offered there for beginners. To demonstrate the techniques of the tutorial and their results, I tried to load four-photo progressions for each of three trees of different species. I struggled for about an hour and a half long into the night to get these photos to load. The number of roadblocks were enormous. Ultimately I gave up and the post is a mess, with one review already wondering if the photos could have been more useful.
First, I was only allowed to upload six photos for the entire tutorial.
Second, when I discovered this, I tried to delete half of them, at least offering a two-photo "progression" for each tree, but I couldn't easily delete the ones loaded, and when I finally was able to do so it left little "missing picture" blue boxes on the thread.
Third, I could only get the photos to post as embedded thumbnails apparently, too small to see anything at all about the technique, and when clicked on the thumbnails wouldn't expand to full size.
Fourth, there is a bar of the six photos then at the bottom of the page, but when these are clicked on and expanded the size is still too small to really be useful, unlike the size normally on a post, especially if embedded.
Fifth, it was very difficult to get the photos loaded onto the page in the correct order, i.e. to move them around to make a proper progression. This was also a problem with the bar of six expandable photos at the bottom of the page as well, which ended up all out of order.
I'm wondering why this is so difficult. It puts a real damper on my enthusiasm to post a couple other tutorials I was thinking might be useful. I'm really not interested in hearing some complicate set of maneuvers I have to go through to address each of these problems, but rather I'd like to see this section fixed to upload a series of images in the same simple way it is done in the forums. Can this section simply be fixed to make it user friendly and useful? Thanks.
First, I was only allowed to upload six photos for the entire tutorial.
Second, when I discovered this, I tried to delete half of them, at least offering a two-photo "progression" for each tree, but I couldn't easily delete the ones loaded, and when I finally was able to do so it left little "missing picture" blue boxes on the thread.
Third, I could only get the photos to post as embedded thumbnails apparently, too small to see anything at all about the technique, and when clicked on the thumbnails wouldn't expand to full size.
Fourth, there is a bar of the six photos then at the bottom of the page, but when these are clicked on and expanded the size is still too small to really be useful, unlike the size normally on a post, especially if embedded.
Fifth, it was very difficult to get the photos loaded onto the page in the correct order, i.e. to move them around to make a proper progression. This was also a problem with the bar of six expandable photos at the bottom of the page as well, which ended up all out of order.
I'm wondering why this is so difficult. It puts a real damper on my enthusiasm to post a couple other tutorials I was thinking might be useful. I'm really not interested in hearing some complicate set of maneuvers I have to go through to address each of these problems, but rather I'd like to see this section fixed to upload a series of images in the same simple way it is done in the forums. Can this section simply be fixed to make it user friendly and useful? Thanks.
