Here's a tip for posting pictures. If you have MS Office on your computer it makes things a lot easier, but it's not required.

Choose the picture you want to post. Now either "reply" to the last post or start a "fast reply". You can also go back and "edit" an old post. The first and last methods are the fastest way to obtain the note "upload more files?" at the bottom left of the post window. If you start a "fast reply" you will have to post it and return to it to "edit" to obtain that notation.

Now click "upload more files?" and it will take you to a new window where you can select different folders on your computer. Locate the folder that has the pictures you want to draw from and right click on the picture files. Select "Preview" so you can find the exact picture you want if you don't already have the file name. Once you have it, left click it and then click the "open" button at the bottom. That will place it in the "select file" part of the RCU upload tool. If it's a large file you may only be able to upload one at a time. If you have dial up and a large picture file you might never get it uploaded. Now click "OK" on the RCU file upload tool and wait for the file to upload. When it's done you will receive a message that the "files uploaded successfully". Now return to your post and click "OK" again to submit the post.

If you have MS Office you will have a couple of programs that are quite helpful for sizing and cropping images. MS Paint is the fastest and easiest for reducing the size of a picture. Right click on a picture and select "open with" from the drop down menu. Select "Paint". Now go to "Image" on the top bar and left click. Select "Stretch and Skew" from the drop down menu. Enter the size percentage you want the picture to be. Be sure to make both the "vertical" and "horizontal" the same number unless you intend to distort the picture. Now go to "File" on the top bar. Left click and select "Save As". Rename the picture file or place the resized picture in a "New Folder" If you put it back in the same folder without re-naming it the full size picture will be replaced with the smaller one and be lost forever.

If you have MS Office you will also have the MS Office Picture Manager. There are a lot of picture editing tools in that program, including "Crop" which let's you cut down a picture to just the parts you want to show. When you save the edited picture, do the "Save As">rename>new folder things again. When you close the picture the program will ask if you want to save the file. Click "No" or the original picture will be replaced with the edited picture. Upload to the internet in the same manner.

Using the picture sizing tools let's you reduce pictures to a smaller size and permits posting more pictures in less time on the internet. I like to reduce 2.4 meg pictures down to 35% so it still has high resolution but posts faster. On those cold, rainy days when you don't have anything to do, playing with some of the programs that you've never bothered with can end up a lot of fun.