Uploading Photos

If the photo that I am going to add is on my desktop or in an Uploads folder that I have created, I will usually just drag the photo into the post box. I will also do that if I am going to add multiple photos to the same post. However, if I'm not sure where the photo is stored on my computer, I find it easier to use the Upload a File button and search. I suppose it would be just as easy to use Finder, but that's not usually what I do.

 

An IMG file is a disk image file, so it won't work here. There are several programs available that will convert an image from one format to another, and this will probably include some free ones. I use a Mac so I don't have a name of a program for Windows in mind but I could probably find one for you if you'd like. Otherwise, here is an online converter, for which you can upload an IMG file and it will convert it to a JPEG format, which is the same as a JPG format. I haven't used this particular converter before, but I have used similar ones. Here's another one.

Being unfamiliar with Windows 10 or any recent versions of Windows, I don't know the name, but the OS very likely comes with a program that will convert an IMG file to a JPG or to another format that will be recognized here. For example, the Mac comes with a Preview app. By default, if I click on an image, it will open in Preview. Once opened, I can click File, then Export, and it will give me the option of exporting the file to several different formats, including JPG. I expect Windows has something similar. The same program should also allow you to resize the photo. I always keep the original photo file unedited though and make changes to a copy.

WAIT ... When you say your pictures are IMG files, I was thinking you were talking about an image format. However, the IMG data format is a disk image file that stores information otherwise available on the disk the image was created from. Such files can be stored on the hard drive of a computer but are treated by said computer like a disk drive or an optical disc. It's not a photo image file.

I am thinking that, perhaps, what you mean when you say that your photos are IMG files is that IMG is in the file name, which is also the default of my camera, as below:



However, as you see, although the file name begins with IMG, that is not the extension. The extension is the letters following the period in the file name, and it represents the file format. My camera uses IMG as the beginning to the default file name, but the extension it uses is a JPEG image.

The photos in the above screenshot use the default file names, although I have already resized them to fit. As they come from the camera, they are too large, as you can see from the following screenshot:


If I were to try to upload the above image to the forum, it would give me the error that you receive, not because it is in the wrong data format, but because the file size is too large. The default image size for my camera is more than 4,000-pixel width.

You can resize the photo by clicking on it to bring up Preview, or whatever program your program uses to open an image by default. Then if you go into Tools, you should find an option to resize it.

 

Videos still wouldn't be IMG files, though. The forum does not allow direct uploading of video files. You would have to upload them to Youtube or one of a few other places whose embeds the forum is set to accept, then link to them here by pasting the URL into the post box, or by clicking the Media icon on the top of the reply box and pasting the URL there.

 

Yeah, it accepts Facebook videos, as well as those posted on Liveleak, Metacafe, Vimeo, and Dailymotion.

 

Or drag and drop it in the reply field.