What size are the pictures when you take them? Is your camera setting down low? I don't think it has anything to do with your Mac. Mine uploads from my camera whatever size they are when taken on the camera.

Your picture is 240px � 180px. That is small.

When you right click on the picture on your Mac (uploaded from your camera, not on this thread) it should say the same size.

I'd check your camera's setting.

I found this on a forum - it was in response to someone asking to make a photo very large and square, so ignore the references to that. You can experiment and see if you can upload the larger image to photobucket. (note that I think the photo has to be in your pictures folder and not iphoto).

"Mac OS X has a built-in application called Preview that is quite capable for simple edits like resizing.

First, open the image in Preview (should be the default; if not, right-click the file or click the Action toolbar item (the gear icon) with the file selected and choose Open With and then Preview). Then click on the Tools menu and select Adjust Size. This will open a sheet asking for your desired resolution and dimensions. Type them in, unchecking the Scale Proportionally option if necessary to get an exactly square image. Click OK, save the file (I�d recommend saving it with a different name), and you�re done.

Please note, though, that upscaling JPG files will undoubtedly result in a loss of quality�sometimes a drastic one."

allison704 and olychick - thanks for your help.

My pictures are in iPhoto first and the image info shows them to to be 1536 x 2048 in size and 626 kb.

To get them into the PhotoBucket account, I go to the "upload" button in PhotoBucket which sends me to the mail account. I go into iPhoto, click on the photo I want, hit "copy", go back to the mail account and paste. Than I hit send and the photo shows up in the PhotoBucket account.

Is this how others do it? Is this why the photo size gets smaller and is there a way to resize it once it is in PhotoBucket?

I export my photos from iPhoto into a desktop folder before sending them to my online album. I can size them as I export...

Thanks golddust, I will try that!

What golddust does. Under "File" choose "Export." You can export at full size, or small, medium or large. I think I usually choose medium for Photobucket and the pictures are a good size when posting on a forum.

I don't upload to iPhoto, but to HP Photosmart Studio (from last printer). Then I drag the good ones to a folder on Desktop. Then I upload to Photobucket.

I had to do it through tinypic.com! Tried everything you suggested but it still came out the same small size. I was unable to load the pictures from the camera to another software because they are no longer in the camera.

When I get a chance, I will make a stop into the Apple store and maybe they can explain what I am doing wrong as far as PhotoBucket is concerned.

Anyway, ta da:

Thanks for all your help - It is really frustrating to be techno challenged - I admire you all.

Chris

Well, glad you persevered - it was worth it to get a better look at that beautiful settee!

I don't even use iphoto. I save all of my photos to a folder in Documents; I then go to Google's Picasa & upload online; selecting the pics from documents. If you have a gmail account; you get a free picasa account.

They also have picasa software for Mac which will find the photos on your computer as you open the program; from there you can select the photos to upload.

Posting pics from Picasa is really easy; you click the photo; on the right it will say link to this photo- you then can select what size you want & whether you want the album shown- like my photo below. It gives all of the html code- you don't have to do anything.

Here is a link that might be useful: Google's Picasa