Help please! Would like to upload an album...

[Bellasmom30]

Ty! She really is the most precious perfect pup! I am sad because I did what you said and it is still saying it's not a valid image file. I'm bummed cause I really wanted to show her off in an album. However, I appreciate your relentless help and I will try "playing around" with it more later. I'm sure it's not my computer and is the person navigating it! Trial and error I suppose.

[alaskayorkie]

LOL, oh no! Don't read this yet! I've managed to screw up the picture!

Follow this directions only after you see the picture.

Oh, I'm so sorry, I keep abandoning you!

I may be confusing things even more here, but if you want your picture to appear below your name like ours do, you'll want to upload an avatar.

I resized your picture to avatar size and am reattaching it here. It's NOT album size. Your original picture was good for that.

Here's how to ad an avatar:
* Click on the picture I'm attaching and drag it to your desktop
* On the main YT page, click on User CP (located on blue bar below the ad at top)
* In lefthand column, click on edit avatar under settings and options
* Click on choose file and find bella6_avatar that I just gave you.
* Save changes.
* Voila, it should appear below your name.

[Bellasmom30]

LMBO! Go figure?! Someone who knows what they're doing and they get caught up in my confusion and get jinxed! No I'm kidding. So, maybe my WHOLE prob is that even though all of Bellas pics are saved to my computer, they are saved under documents. Not necessarily in a folder like my other pics. Is this the reason for all my headache? If so, how do I move them to a folder? Geez, I never have had this much trouble doing such simple stuff! Or maybe I should see if my teenager can show me how! lol
Ya'll are great though! You and Nancy are either incredibly frustrated with me at this point, or laughing hysterically!

[alaskayorkie]

Originally Posted by Bellasmom30

LMBO! Go figure?! Someone who knows what they're doing and they get caught up in my confusion and get jinxed! No I'm kidding. So, maybe my WHOLE prob is that even though all of Bellas pics are saved to my computer, they are saved under documents. Not necessarily in a folder like my other pics. Is this the reason for all my headache? If so, how do I move them to a folder? Geez, I never have had this much trouble doing such simple stuff! Or maybe I should see if my teenager can show me how! lol
Ya'll are great though! You and Nancy are either incredibly frustrated with me at this point, or laughing hysterically!

LOL, your teenager could probably do it in a second! But I figured my issue out. See, look at my avatar

For some reason, it's not allowing me to upload your avatar as an attachment, but it still works. Try this: Just drag the avatar below my name to your desktop. THEN follow my above instructions.

If that doesn't work, PM me your e-mail address (if you feel comfortable with that) and I'll e-mail it to you.

[AllDogBoots]

Originally Posted by alaskayorkie

LOL, your teenager could probably do it in a second! But I figured my issue out. See, look at my avatar

For some reason, it's not allowing me to upload your avatar as an attachment, but it still works. Try this: Just drag the avatar below my name to your desktop. THEN follow my above instructions.

If that doesn't work, PM me your e-mail address (if you feel comfortable with that) and I'll e-mail it to you.

I love your avatar

Ok. I'm ready to go remote on your computer and get this darn pic uploaded!!

OMG. I had no idea you can drag those photos onto your desktop!!

[Bellasmom30]

O-M-G!!! I am beside myself with happiness!!! God Bless everyone who had the patience to deal with and help me!!

P.S. My 13 yr old walked right and said "here let me show you."
I was already catching on at this point though thanks to everyone's help!

Now, don't ask me how to ever change it. That's a different story!

[alaskayorkie]

WOOHOO! You did the avatar all by yourself! Congrats. I'll change mine back!

Now for an album, just listen to Nancy1999. She's the real guru around here.

[Nancy1999]

I didn't know she was trying to do an avatar, you can do a direct link from photobucket for that, I thought she was doing an album I'm so confused right now, I don't think I could help anyone, but at least the avatar is uploaded!

You can also upload a picture as your "profile picture", it shows up on your profile page, while your avatar shows up besides your posts. To upload a profile picture click on this: http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/pro...editprofilepic. Please don't feel stupid about not knowing how to do this stuff, it was really hard for me, and every time I learned how to do something I wrote a "how to guide" so I wouldn't forget!

[alaskayorkie]

Originally Posted by Nancy1999

I didn't know she was trying to do an avatar, you can do a direct link from photobucket for that, I thought she was doing an album I'm so confused right now, I don't think I could help anyone, but at least the avatar is uploaded!

You can also upload a picture as your "profile picture", it shows up on your profile page, while your avatar shows up besides your posts. To upload a profile picture click on this: http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/pro...editprofilepic. Please don't feel stupid about not knowing how to do this stuff, it was really hard for me, and every time I learned how to do something I wrote a "how to guide" so I wouldn't forget!

LOL, I think she decided to do both. I was replying to her Post #4.

[Bellasmom30]

Nancy, please don't be confused. That is my fault! I did/do want to do an album too. Just couldn't figure out either one. lol

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by Bellasmom30

Nancy, please don't be confused. That is my fault! I did/do want to do an album too. Just couldn't figure out either one. lol

I'm still trying to figure out why you got the message of invalid image file, I just don't get it.

[Bellasmom30]

This is strange also. Even though it has now let me post both a profile and avatar pic, after I hit the "save changes" button it told me the same thing. However, they are visible. So, IDK either?? Going to keep working on an album though. This was my goal of the day and I'm halfway there!

[Nancy1999]

Originally Posted by Bellasmom30

This is strange also. Even though it has now let me post both a profile and avatar pic, after I hit the "save changes" button it told me the same thing. However, they are visible. So, IDK either?? Going to keep working on an album though. This was my goal of the day and I'm halfway there!

I can answer that one, the pictures are so small, that they are uploaded before you even hit "save changes", older slower computers on dial up took longer to upload. So when you hit save changes, the pictures already uploaded and the computer thinks you are trying to upload something else, so it says "invalid file". This is true for both the avatar and profile pictures. However when album says that, it's usually means the picture is too big or are not the correct forms of file. Certain file types don't work in the albums, but it will tell you which file types you can use.