Another dumb newbie question.

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ERIK V. Apr 29, 2007, 4:23am EDT

I wished I could help you but I have problems with uploading pictures. Everytime I try to upload a pictures it is too dark. I used these pictures for several sites but it seems not to work here.

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Charles D. Apr 29, 2007, 8:32am EDT

Me too, I grab photos from photobucket and upload. I also know how to take my own photos and upload, but beyond that, I am lost!!!

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Kevin (''The SiteWizard'') V. Apr 29, 2007, 11:52am EDT

Erik,

I don't work for Gather, but the darkening of your images when you upload them is a known problem. I am certain that Gather is working on a fix. However, in the interim, you can fix this yourself if you have image editing software that allows you to change the image mode (RGB, Grayscale, etc.).

Here's how:

This requires image editing software, like Adobe Photoshop.

Open your image using your image editing software.
Determine how to change your image mode parameters (Grayscale, RGB Color, etc.) in your software program.
If the current image mode is set to RGB, then change the image mode to CMYK color, and then change it back to RGB.
If the current image mode is not set to RGB, then change the mode to RGB (even if the image is black&white [grayscale]).
Save the image under a different name (not necessary, but it preserves the original image for you, just in case).

Upload the new image to Gather!

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Kevin (''The SiteWizard'') V. Apr 29, 2007, 12:05pm EDT

Zel,

Unfortunately, you must upload images to each article individually (for now). However, images uploaded to articles do not also populate your 'photo page', so you don't really have to worry about duplication....just duplicated effort. ;-)

I have switched over (almost) entirely to HTML coding for article images, and it has saved me a lot of time and frustration.

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Zel H. Apr 30, 2007, 12:54am EDT

Hmmm, certainly food for thought. I do like Photo Bucket except my free account is full to bursting. Which means either deleting a bunch of photos and having my photos in forums all over the Internet going to 'red x land' or buying a pro account on photobucket. And since I just bought a pro account on Flickr, I don't really need both of them.

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Gretchen Lee Bourquin Jun 3, 2007, 10:23am EDT

Good question. I had never heard of photo bucket. I don't take a lot of photos, but I worry that if I start to take more it will clog my hard drive. It may be something to consider

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Merry W. Apr 20, 2009, 8:02pm EDT

Thanx, good question. I have only uploaded one pic thus far since I'm still rather new but I didn't have a real problem with it. It is good to know the answer to this question, thanx for asking!

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