Picture and video posting guidelines

So you want to include pictures or video in your post? Fantastic! Here's what you need to know:

Pictures

The forums picture upload will accept .JPG, .JPEG, .GIF and .PNG formats, limited to 1000 x 1000 px and 750 kB in size.

Keep this in mind, as most cell phone pictures are bigger than this. There's several free services out there to resize your photo, but I find that MS Paint works perfectly

Video

The forums doesn't support uploading videos directly, but it does support video embedding from a wide range of online services. By embedding, I mean that videos are directly viewable on the forums, like this:



This is done simply by grabbing the videos URL and posting it straight into the Message section when composing your post. Easy!

If YouTube isn't your thing, here's a list of other services that the forums will embed:

Bofunk
Break
Clipfish
Dailymotion
DivX
Flash
FlashVars
MediaPlayer
MetaCafe
MySpace
QuickTime
RealPlayer
RuTube
Sapo
Streetfire
Veoh
Videojug
Vimeo
Wideo.fr
Youku

Pico Waveforms

The forums won't allow us to directly upload the .psdata files that Pico software generates, but you can use the procedure below to save your waveform as a PDF. Credit to robert.lesaca for the suggestion!

1. from your pico file, get the waveform you want to upload;
2. go select "Print";
3. click portion that say "Name" (right beside the "Properties" button) and change "Canon iP7200 series 200" to Microsoft Print to PDF" ; click OK;
4. it will take you to your windows folder; CLICK on folder you want to save the waveform in (or you can create another folder);
5. in the filename area, type in the title of the waveform you want (ex: bad injector honda .....etc);
6. press SAVE.
when uploading to the forum, click ADD FILE and it will take you to your windows folder, choose the folder and click on the title and click open.

You can also use the Save As function and change the format to .JPG picture.

for what it's worth...here are steps to upload waveform pictures from PICO file to the forum:

Hi Tyler...i found a way to upload your pico waveform to this forum.
1. from your pico file, get the waveform you want to upload;
2. go select "Print";
3. click portion that say "Name" (right beside the "Properties" button) and change "Canon iP7200 series 200" to Microsoft Print to PDF" ; click OK;
4. it will take you to your windows folder; CLICK on folder you want to save the waveform in (or you can create another folder);
5. in the filename area, type in the title of the waveform you want (ex: bad injector honda .....etc);
6. press SAVE.
when uploading to the forum, click ADD FILE and it will take you to your windows folder, choose the folder and click on the title and click open.

Robert

Added that to the sticky.

Thank you Robert

you're all welcome...sharing makes this world a better place to live !