Sending Digital Photographs for the Website
Sending from computer as an email attachment, or on a disc.
1. The first thing is to find where your photographs are stored in your computer. If you have followed the options offered when you downloaded your photos from your digital camera, then most likely they will be found in the folder ‘My Pictures’, part of ‘My Documents’.
2. If you have an icon on the Desktop titled My Pictures, then click here.
3. If there is no My Pictures icon then click on My Documents. A window will open showing the folders available. Click on the part of the list, or icon, that shows My Pictures.
4. My Pictures window should now be open showing all your photographs stored, either as a list, or as icons or as thumbnail pictures, etc. Thumbnails view, very helpfully, shows a miniature version of each of your pictures, so it should be easy to find and select the photos you want. So if you are not seeing them as thumbnails then follow the next paragraph.
5. At the top of the window you will see a menu bar. You should see an icon towards the right with a down arrow. Click here, and then another click to choose Thumbnails.
6. Select the first picture you have want by clicking on it once. Then, if choosing more than one picture, hold down the Ctrl button and click any others. (If you change your mind you can remove a selected picture by holding down Ctrl again and clicking the picture.)
7. Make a note of your chosen photo file name details, this will be in the form xyz.jpg with the xyz being a name or other designation. You will need this information later for the captions.
8. When you have made your final choice, elect to either copy these picture files to CD, or to send them by email. You do this by clicking the appropriate panel on the left of the window.
9. If sending by email, your email program will open and the pictures you selected will be already attached to a new message form. Now, you just need to add the sending address to ‘webmaster’ as below, write the subject line, and add any information I shall need about the captions. If you are not already on line, then go on line now to send the email.
10. If copying to disc you will need to place a recordable disc in the CD drive, and then follow the instructions on screen.
Sending a camera shop photo disc.
If you have a photo disc from a processing shop sent out with colour prints, most of these include the photographs saved as jpg files. If so, then let me have the disc, together with the details of the photos you want me to use, and your captions, of course.
Sending Photographs as Prints
Prints should be of reasonable quality as there will be a slight detail loss when scanning to include them in the Photo Gallery. Ideally, each print should be roughly 5 x 4 inches (12.5 x 10 cm) in size, or larger.
All Types of Photograph
Contact me by email by clicking here if you need any advice on how to get the prints to me, or to be scanned, or to send a CD, or to send photos by email attachment.
Whichever method you use, let me have a short caption mentioning which file the caption applies to; e.g. “‘We enjoyed a good lunch’ goes with Insidepub3.jpg file”.
I look forward to receiving your photographs for display on this website.
John Graham
