Posting Pictures to the forum can be a bit difficult at times, and Eggy's post from yesterday, prompted me to look at different options.
Its still best to save photographs to Imageshack, Flickr, Photobucket etc as you can preview the photo(s) on your post before it is published. I don't think that the "forum" Attach option at the bottom of the post windows allows you to preview before posting
The new software I have tried is Shrink Pic and it can be downloaded here ..
http://www.onthegosoft.com/sp_download.htmDownload the software and install it. After installation you can see an example of how Shrink Pic is used for emails.
Once Shrink Pic is installed, you load it when you want to upload photos, and it just sits in the system tray and shows as an open envelope.
If you right click on the icon you can choose settings.
The following screen will be displayed
The High Compression Setting (as Shown) is the best to start with as it gives smallish pictures.
If the uploaded pictures are still too large you can use the custom option to reduce the size. This may take a bit of trial and error
The good thing about this software is that once it is loaded you can just upload your photos without doing anything esle.
To test photos sizes, I send myself a message on the forum, and keep using Preview to see the size of the photographs.