That’s a good question for the administrator. As of now most people put their photos directly into their post.
This software is designed to keep the photos here so they will stay around even if photo bucket stops working. I don’t know if that is the greatest setup but thats how it works. So if you put a photo bucket picture here it will eventually be uploaded to growingfruit. So far we have been OK on picture storage room and as long as disk space keeps getting cheaper we could be OK indefinitely.
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Thank you for the info. Scott.
Dax
Are you saying Liberty is not a good Apple to grow on a Frankenstein tree? It does grow out of control.
@scottfsmith, I get an error when I try to upload a pic about 2.7 MB in size. I thought the size limit is 4096 kilobytes…or is it kilobits?! 
Hmm… I may have had an incorrect setting when I configured the new proxy server this weekend… try it again and let me know here if it worked. I just tried a large image now and it worked fine for me.
Worked now!
Cool! I bumped the size back to 2048kb but the upload service should automatically scale images as big as 20MB down to below that. Unless folks really want super high density … I noticed I could read the brand on the flip-flips in one of your pictures when I zoomed in
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That’s fine with me. Most of the photos I post are from my cell phone. It takes 12mp photos that are typically 3.5mb each. It can be a pain in the butt resizing them or dumbing them down manually in order to upload them so it’s nice that we can upload the original picture without messing with it. What it ultimately gets stored at I personally don’t care.
I am a member of metalworking forum and their uploads are limited to 75kb! It’s terrible and the worst part is that their forums do not automatically resized. So every time I want to post a pic I have to crop it down and resize the image in order for it to be under 75kb. That usually means 640x480 and low res. No zooming in on those pictures. 
Why can’t the administrator just have the paperclip item here to add a photo? So many other sites do this. I’m no computer genius, not what I do for a living, so why not make it easy for us computer dummies to just click and add a photo? I’ve got pictures I’d like to add but I’m really not gong to add yet more programs to my computer just to add photos. Just my rant, thanks for reading.
I’ve tried clicking and dragging, no luck. Clicking “copy” and “paste”, again no luck.
@MikeC Drag and drop from the pictures folder to the forum reply box looks like it works for me.
Instead of an attachment paperclip the forum has an upload button that works the same way. Copying and pasting works for a picture on the internet, but not one that is on your computer.
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I tried dragging the pics on my computer to the reply box but it does not work. Ugg
So frustrating.
I do appreciate your suggestions. Time to go to the computer store.
Have you tried a different internet browser? I’m using Chrome.
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True, I may use a different browser. I never thought if that. Perhaps that is the answer. I know some browsers have quite a few quirks. I’ll try it tomorrow. Too frustrated tonight.
I’m kind of surprised to read this comment as I’ve always thought this forum was the easiest I ever used as far as adding photos to your posts. There are multiple ways to add photos to your reply including cut and paste, drag and drop, and the most obvious is to click the button I circled in the image below and it will allow you to select any image from your PC.
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Me too as this is by far the easiest site to upload a photo, one click, not sure how you make that easier? Many sites require a smaller size so you have to resize the photo.
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I used a different browser. Now I can add a photo. TY for this suggestion.
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Most people on this forum (it seems) have PCs and not Macs. So, I don’t know how useful this suggestion will be. But - I have found that if I email a photo to myself - (either from my phone or from my computer’s Apple Mail program) - I get to choose which size I want to send the photo. It ‘asks’ if I want to send Small/Medium/Large or Actual Size. And it tells you how many kbs or mbs the photo is at each ‘category’.
I don’t know if this helps - or if in other mail clients you will get the same choice. ?
Maybe this sounds like too much trouble, although it is far less trouble than fiddling with photos in Photoshop or other image editors.
Just for my convienience, I have a folder on my computer for ‘Small Photos’ - so that I can access them easily . . . but I find it very useful. Most of these photos get shared several times and it keeps me from having to redo the ‘shrinking’ process over and over!
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I just tried the drag and drop, straight from an email. It worked fine! I am on a MacBookPro, and using Chrome browser. Very easy way, instead of searching through ‘Photos’ for an image.
But, the ‘upload’ button, in the menu, works great too.
@scottfsmith scottfsmith Just an aside . . . I was on the Houzz site and in the gardening section - and there you were too! So funny to ‘see a guy I don’t know - that I know’ on another site! Hope that makes sense!
There were some posts about pomegranates - and I was interested in hearing what those folks had to say.
Again - thanks for all you do in creating and maintaining this forum! - karen AKA KikiVA
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