I don't use photobucket, not because it's not a good way to post pictures but because I've never used it for posting. My computer uses microsoft and so does most everybody elses, so, after I put or save a picture in my computer under photos, I right click on the photo I want to post and some files will open that tell you things about the picture. You will see the word "properties", left click on properties and you will be able to see what size file the photo takes up in either kb's or mb's. To post photo's most pictures need to be sort of small. I usually don't even try to post photo's with larger file sizes than about 250 kilobytes. Most people freak out when they have to resize a photo to make it small enough to be able to upload it. It is really easy to me to make a photo smaller by escaping out of the properties file, and getting back to where you just have the photo album photo you want to post looking at you. Right click it again and the computer will prompt you with some more files of which one will ask you what program you want to open the picture with. Click the "paint or microsoft paint" (can't remember which one it says!) Paint will open your photo up for editing or use. At the upper left hand corner of your photo that Paint opened, hit the "home" icon, then you will see another prompt that opens up in the same area of the screen that says "resize". Click resize and you will see a place besides the word Horizontal that has 100 beside it. Highlight the 100 and change it to, and I'm just giving an example, 40. Paint will change both the horizontal and vertical pixels to 40 % of what they were. It does this automatically if you just change what the horizontal number says. Save your way out and you will find that your picture is now a much smaller picture, but postable, and it is still in the photo section of your computer. You will have to play with learning the file size of your photo's before you make them smaller in order to know how much to downsize them for posting. Some really big picture files have to be resized down in the 20% range, while others that start out smaller may not need to be resized down much at all. I know I got long winded here, but in reality with very little practice you can do what I just typed up on a photo resize in about 30 seconds or less. Once you have the resizing downpat, on your post where you want to put the picture up, at the bottom of the post you will just click browse to find the "smaller photo" you resized, click on it (the photo) to open, and in no time you are posting pictures. Maybe Photobucket is easier than the way I do it. I can't say, but I can say the way I do it works for me! Good luck on your trip and have a ball.:very happy
