Fly4rfun wrote:...Now how do I make the photos correct size, these were at 256. bur original were larger . (canon 70D) point me to the info on doing that please. also unable to find how to do a posting in the gallery
I assume you wrote this before you figured out how to fix the attachment to your earlier post. The way you have the images there is fine now. (At least when I view them).
For the gallery, there's a limit in both file size and pixel dimensions. It should say so when you try to upload a new image.
I use a cheap photo editor or free image resizer (have both) to do the work: setting jpg quality to "medium" or about 60-70% gives you the desired file size, while you have to set the pixel dimensions to within the limits for the gallery.
Maximum dimensions:
File size: 500 KiB
Image width: 1280
Image height: 1024
Allowed filetypes:
jpg, gif, png
In some editors you may have change the "document" or "image" size to get the pixel dimensions, in others you can select the size when you export an image. An image resizer will focus on that aspect and give you a value to select.
Sometimes, if you mail an image to yourself, your mail software will offer to reduce images for you. One of the settings may well fit inside the above limits.
My recommendation for gallery use is to use it for images that you feel you'll want to refer to again and again from different posts. (Each album only has a limited number). Like an archive; I prefer attachments for things that are "of the moment" like images of damage, etc.. We didn't use to have the ability to attach images directly in the past, so some of that stuff sits in my gallery.
Now, once you put something into your gallery and use it in a post, please don't delete the image, because then we have a broken post. (Same for images you may have linked from photo sharing sites).