Board Thread:Questions/@comment-34118934-20181022212613

Well, I've heard a lot of people saying "I can't/don't know how to upload pictures on AJIWW/AJW". Well, doing so can sometimes be tricky. That's why I'm making this post here. So, here's one problem I've encountered with taking pictures: How to take the actual pictures. Some people use their phone to do so, which makes them bad quality, blurry, and slightly tilted. It also doesn't look very pleasant or neat. Here's an example of a picture taken on a phone/iPad that I might use for some kind of trade thread.



That doesn't look too good. Well, there's another way you can take pictures. It's a screenshot, which basically takes part or all of your screen and saves it as a picture. This way of taking photos is really nice and clean. However, there are two types of screenshots you can take. There's a full screen screenshot, which takes a picture of your whole screen, and a region screenshot, which takes a picture of a selected part.

So, to take a full screen screenshot on Windows, the easiest way is to use the Snipping Tool app. It should be automatically installed on your computer. When you pull it up, it should look like this:

Then, click on the "Mode" button, and select "Full Screen". It will then take a screenshot. It will immediately be copied to your clipboard. You can also push "File" then "Save as..." to save it as a file. For region screenshots, select "Rectangular Snip" in the "Mode", and drag your cursor around where you want to take a screenshot of. If you are on a Chromebook, it's a bit different. For a full screen screenshot, push Ctrl and the Window Switcher Key (below) on your keyboard. For a region screenshot, hit Ctrl, Shift, and Window Switcher, then drag the cursor to select the area you want in your screenshot.

Here's an example of my same trade list taken with a region screenshot.

PHEW. We're done with that. Now, we need to figure out how to upload them into wiki. So, go to a page, like this, and edit it, and there should be a bar somewhere along the page. There should also be an image icon with a plus sign. Click on that. Then, near the word "Upload", click on "Choose file". This will bring up your files, and then, you select the picture that you want to load. Sometimes, it says "Permission Error" and I find that to get rid of that glitch/bug, just either rename the image or retake it.

Well, there ya go. Hopefully, now you know how to upload picture if you didn't already. If you find any issues that I didn't list here, comment, and I'll see if I can figure them out. Sometimes, your computer/the wiki just freaks out, and even if you know how to do this, it won't work. :( 