Help:Pictures

This page will tell you how to sprinkle your article with photos, as in the Cribbage article.

1. To ensure a smooth upload, ensure your photo is a reasonable size. If you open it up with whatever photo program you use, and a zoom of 100% lets you count nose hairs, it's probably too big. The software recommends a size limit of 140 KB; 400KB is as high as you should go. Most image programs have resize features to help you out.
2. Log in
3. Visit the Special:Uploadfile page.
4. Select the image from your computer, and give it a unique Destination name. It's a good idea to include the approximate date, e.g., "Jimmy getting funky at Bhangra After-Party - May 2006.JPG")
5. Add any additional notes in "summary."
6. Click "Upload file."
7. Now your image should be on the server. To include it in your article, just type in something like:

[[Image:Jimmy getting funky at Bhangra After-Party - May 2006.JPG|right|thumbnail|Look at Jimmy go! After-party 2K6.]]

That is, you'll have "Image:" followed by the image name you chose, then a pipe ("|"), then the alignment you want ("left" or "right"), then the size (either "thumbnail" or some number of pixels, like "200px"), then another pipe ("|"), then the caption. All between two brackets. Make sense?

If you want to include a photo in the "info box" on a group page, just add something like this to the info box:

| image = Jimmy getting funky at Bhangra After-Party - May 2006.JPG

And it'll show up just below the group's name.