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the traveler
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November 03
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VP of everything
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I am an avid photographer and traveler living in the Washington DC area. My photo is obviously not me, because I am a white male and not a monk, and is one of my favorite pictures from a trip to Myanmar.

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MARCH 2, 2012 9:49AM

How to post column wide pictures on Open Salon

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OS has a terrible way to deal with photos guaranteed to either present too-narrow images or unsharp images. Whatever size image you upload, OS automatically shrinks it to 240 pixels wide, about half the column width.

 You can edit the html code that OS uses but that just expands the 240 pixels to 440 pixels and makes the pictures less sharp.

An infinitely better way to post pictures is to upload them to Flickr, a free hosting site, and then share them from there to your OS post.

This is a step by step

a) start a Flickr account and upload your pictures.

b) click on the picture thumbnail so it opens to be  large picture, the only one on the page.

c) click on the 'share' dropdown.

d) 1) click on html

      2) choose a size very close ot 440 in width

      3) highlight the code in the box and copy it.

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 Then go to Open Salon and in the post edit box, click on html

 action-html

 A box entitled HTML Source Editor will open and then paste the code you copied from Flickr and click update.

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 Sometimes, the page will take you back to your post with no edits being done, even a blank screen. Do not panic, this is a glitch in their code. Just click save draft and preview and your text and picture(s) will appear.

 Like this.

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Wow! Thanks for that. I have struggled with the problem many times...and just could not figure out how to do it.
No problem, Frank.

It is beyond me why OS resizes pictures to be so narrow, the different in storage space is minuscule.

(It is sort of odd that Flickr puts the steps in an inverted order also but I guess there are mysteries in this world that mortals will never know.)

Lew
Dear Lew, Who knew, besides Alexis! Now we all can play, fairly. Thanks so much. I wonder why OS doesn't educate us on their own procedures?...oh I guess that would take away the edge some might have over others. You are brave to share this and they should EP it. TG
No need for all that html voodoo with flickr. I keep flickr and os new post open in separate windows. Click on the pic I want at flickr... choose the size, copy image, paste into os
You can do that copy and paste, the disadvantage being that the viewer can't get back to see the originally sized image by clicking on your OS image.

Since I love pictures, I like to see the originals and so I generally link to the full size ones.
This has been driving me crazy! I usually just copy and paste from my Wordpress site to overcome the size limitations. But I'll give this a try in the future. Although, frankly, I hate Flickr with a passion. Maybe the same trick will work with Picassa. Anyway, THANK YOU!
Good tip. Thanks for sharing it!
Thank you so much - this was really helpful!