Adding pictures

If you have a digital camera, a scanner or some other access to digital images, then you can add them from your machine to a travelog entry. You can do this when you first write the entry or you can do it at a later date from the Add Picture to Entry page.

Adding a picture

• Use the Browse button to locate and select an image on your computer. If you want to put an image from another website into your travelog, you must download it to your computer first.
• Give your picture a name. This will be visible when the image is loading, will be read to people viewing your travelog with a screen reader and will of course appear next to the image when viewing its associated entry.
• Use the Add picture button, or if you want to, the Add another! button.

Limitations

There are some limitations with the picture system that it helps to be aware of. Some of these are technical, some political.

• You must use either JPEG images (with a names that end in .jpg like sunset.jpg or ) or PNG images (like golden.png). For almost all photographic purposes, JPEG is the correct sort of image to use, as it tends to result in much smaller file sizes than other formats. You cannot use GIF images because GIF technology is controlled by the man, and Travelog likes to stay away from the man. PNG is a freely available and in many respects superior image format.
• You can only add pictures from the computer you are using. You can't put in a web address, and doing so will result in an error.
• Pictures can't be very big. As a general guide, please keep them below 1MB. Very big pictures will take a long time for Travelog to process, a very long time for readers to download, and may possibly crash the image processor, which will result in a garbled web page and possibly a messed up looking travelog. If this happens, mail me and I'll dig into the database and fix it for you.

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