In light of the large numbers of images that are uploaded to the forum as attachments without resizing them from the original picture from the digital camera/other device. This results in a really large image.
FOR THE FORUM THE RECOMMENDED IMAGE SIZE IS 800*600 Pixels
TO RESIZE AN IMAGE FOR UPLOAD
There is an easy workaround to this which is too resize the image before you upload it. This can be done in any number of freeware programs. The one that I would recommend (and I use it for quick jobs when not using Photoshop) is Irfanview. This can be downloaded from here:
IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide
To resize a picture with Irfanview is easy and can be done is 3 simple steps.
1) Load Irfanview and the image you wish to resize.
2) Go to menu Image
Resize/Resample and reduce the image dimensions in pixels.
3) Go to menu File
Save as, choose JPG and save as new file with a different file name to the original and upload to the forum.
For many files you can use File
Batch Conversion