Posting images

Sounds like the police.
Just give us a crime number.

 

I noticed the use of a Lightbox since yesterday

 

What is a lightbox.

 

Perhaps what @OwdPotter is using to upload? Browser/ISP?

 

@pete Lightbox is the term for a plugin that allows to show linked images in full size or at least inside a certain width/height like "fill only 95% of my monitor out".

If you hover of my images, you can see it:
Hidcote in April

 

A light box was a box often A0 size with a translucent top and a light inside. They were designed to give a uniform light over the surface not particularly bright though.
You found them in drawing offices when people still used drawing boards on a daily basis. They were used for examining drawings on draughting film, so you could check and edit with a scalpel and Letraset (scalpel was used to scrape the errors off the surface). you could also compare a copy with the original. Also could be used with printed circuit layouts, typically A0 as produced, then photographically reduced by the PCB production company..

 

I'm not sure if this is just something I get or others see it as well, but sometimes when I click on post reply it hesitates and I get a small black square appear in the top right hand corner of the screen .

Most of the time this doesn't happen just occasionally.

 

I get that sometimes too. I thought it meant the computer was slow on that day, or maybe too many people using the 'line' or whatever brings the web to your computer.

Re photo resizing - I have ... oh, something I can't remember the name of - microsoft edge maybe ?... anyway when I look at a photo there are three dots on the top right and if I click on them I get a menu, and one of the choices is 'resize photo'.
If I click on that I can manually put the size I want it to be and then save it.
I always make sure I keep a copy of the original size, and after I post the photo I can delete the resized one from my computer.
It doesn't happen often, and never on here, but I have to do it every time when I post on an art phorum I belong to.

 

This was one of them, so the fix seems to have worked. Thanks & well done @JWK

 

This is the sort of quick & simple tip that a tech thickie like me needs, Thanks FC