I envy your mechanical abilities tackling this yourself. It’s above my pay grade
. But perhaps I can help with your posting of pix.
Mike, go to the Forum’s Home page (see tab above left of this page). Scan down to click “Forum Assistance” (Members Only)”. There you’ll find a Guide and advice for posting photos here. Generally it comes down to whether you’re using Microsoft/Android or Apple based hardware, but it’s easier these days than it used to be. Be sure that you tap the “Reply” button at the bottom right of the last post and NOT the “Quick Reply” that has no option for adding imagery. Underneath your Reply field is a button for adding attachments, but if I recall you need to have entered some text, however minimal, in the field before it will allow attaching anything.
What trips up a lot of members here is the 300 kilobyte (kb) limit per image:
“Restrictions: 10 per post, maximum total size 5000KB, maximum individual size 300KB”.
So on some devices you might need to use an app to downsize each photo to less than 300kb. Others have built-in easy means of downsizing. Check the above mentioned Guide. Or give us info re. what specific device you’re trying to use and one of us should be able to help.
I’m old school and use preferably one of our several iPads to take, downsize, and send pix, or one of our digital cameras. I have an Android phone but as an amateur photographer I don’t like using it for pix due to quality and control limitations. On my iPads the app I use is “Image Compress and Resize Easily” by DKit. I like it’s slider mechanism for knowing exactly how many kb I’m moving to, and can shoot for just under 300; most apps aren’t that simple. Once I’ve got the modified image saved in my device (and iCloud), I delete the original to avoid confusion should I need to reuse it here in the future. On some devices you can set a limit on size prior to taking the photo, but I like starting with maximum resolution quality and working down and rechecking to make sure necessary detail remains upon posting here.
Joel