OS X and forum incompatability - Page 2

Carol Norton · 08-27-2004, 10:43 AM

For the past year I have been an avid student on The Forum but have not posted any paintings nor photographs. At this time, however, I would like to be able to do so directly from iPhoto. I also use Photoshop Elements 2.0 and am on a learning curve here, too. How can I get started with this procedure and is there a compassionate soul out there who can teach me how to go about this via iMac, Jaguar and Safari mode? Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.

Elizabeth Schott · 08-27-2004, 10:59 AM

Carol your post brought me back to this thread, I am not sure what your question was to be, but I can't help with iPhoto.

I have been running Panther for months now, at first if I logged on using Safari, the site would look like code, now it's fine.

Marvin you mentioned above:

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However OSX has no extensions. That is why it is so problem free.

My 10.3.3 has the same old extensions as classic. You will see them listed in the "more info" in the "about this mac" pull-down, go to the software section.

Marvin Mattelson · 08-27-2004, 12:21 PM

Beth since I upgraded to Panther I've had no problems getting on and posting. Yesterday I discovered the extensions and low and behold you post this today. I guess I was misinformed.

Carol I don't use photoshop elements or iphoto but you should be able to save your image as a jpg in elements the same as you would in Photoshop. Just look under " file" on the menu bar at the top of the screen and click on "save for web" which should give you a choice of jpg (jpeg) or GIF. Choose jpg.

Carol Norton · 08-28-2004, 06:57 PM

Thank you Beth and Marvin for the time you took to answer my question . My question is much more basic than it appeared. Very simply, I don't know how to post either a picture of myself beside my name nor an image of a painting for discussion. I have an iMac that came with iPhoto. It runs Jaguar X.2.3. I also bought the program called PhotoShop Elements 2 per recommendation of the Mac store as its cost was about $150 as opposed to the Photo Shop of 7 or 8 hundred $. Does EVERYONE use that big, fat, lovely expensive program??? I have read Cynthia's info re: how to post and frankly I don't know how to apply that to my computer. I also down load all my photos from my digital camera into iPhoto and store nothing in the camera. The answer to my queston of "How do I post an image?" is probably as simple and illusive as it was when all I wanted to do was to learn how to word process on a computer and couldn't...and just as frustrating. If there is anyone out there who can direct me just like a kid in her first word processing class, I just know I'll get it. Thanks in advance to anyone who can explain the process that everyone else in the universe gets but me. Arghhh!

Steven Sweeney · 03-01-2003, 10:15 AM

Proof that breaking up is hard to do, but sometimes it's the right thing. Sigh.

Jean Kelly · 03-01-2003, 12:55 PM

I still can't post images so guess I'm on my own for a while. I'll e-mail Cynthia the image later. Beautiful day today so we're going for a long ride in the country.

Jean

Elizabeth Schott · 03-02-2003, 01:30 AM

Steven,

Here are my test results.

Hardware: Macintosh
Processor: 2x Power Pc G4
memory: 640 mb

system software: 10.1.3
The forum works great with Internet Explorer vs. 5.1

I then tried Netscape 7.0, which brought up "classic environment" and it worked fine.

Next Opera 6.0, it worked fine in this too. But I am assuming it was still running classic enviornment.

The AOL browser I use to check my site wouldn't load (the software), since I am not registered, I didn't push it.

So I am not detecting any incompatibilities with the forum.

Marvin, when you loaded your OS X it should have put an icon for IE on the pop up bar along the bottom. I would think that would be compatible. I didn't try my old vs. of IE to see how it worked. Maybe they have a "bug" fix.

I would still love to hear if anyone is running Quark, or if they even have their OS X version out.

Steven Sweeney · 03-02-2003, 01:57 AM

Beth,

According to a February 18 2003 press release (search for OS X at www.quark.com), Quark has not yet announced pricing or an anticipated ship date for the OS X compatible QuarkXPress 6.

Marvin Mattelson · 03-02-2003, 10:24 PM

Beth and Steve-

I have a G4 400. I have just upgraded to !0.2.2 the latest. I have also upgraded to IE 5.2.2 (the very latest, I'm not positive about the number) since I'm on OS 9 at the moment due to my problem. I also have updated Netscape 7 and installed Safari, the latest browser from Apple. I get the same results with all of them, no topic names down one level from the topic area. For example if I click on "Computer Hardware and Software" I come to a screen that has "Portrait Artist Forum> Computer Hardware and Software " at the top of the page. Under topic the list is bare, although the names of the topic starters are there.

I'm assuming that since I get the same result from each, the problem lies with my provider. I will be calling them tomorrow to see if they have any software fixes. Maybe it's my cable modem?

Linda Nelson · 03-03-2003, 12:32 AM

Just to let you know, I have a G4 that I changed from OS 9 to OS X 2.3 a couple of months ago when the hard disk died and had to be replaced, and all reinstalled.

I've never had any problems of any sort with SOG.

I use for my connection ATT Broadband digital cable.

Good Luck,

Linda

P.S. Mac rocks.