OK - blogging tip alert! I've finally decided that the fastest way to upload pictures directly to a blog post is by using email. If you don't want to use a slide show, but you have multiple pictures you want to post, it's really annoying using the out-of-box uploading tool that blogger provides, because you can only pick one picture at a time, and after picking that picture you have to navigate back to the exact same file location to pick the next picture - instead of just selecting multiple pictures in one fell swoop. And there's a 5 pic limit on top of everything else.
Well, you may know that you can send an email to your blog, and it will get published as a post. If you need the email address it's on the "settings" page for your blog.
You just create an email - use Microsoft's nice robust file attachment dialog - which will allow you to select as many files as you want, put your post title in the email subject line and hit send! Superfast. Blogger does impose a 10MB file restriction on teh emails, though - so watch your file sizes fellow SLRs...
Now if you want text in there as well, you're fine as long as you just want one whole blurb. If you want text in between the pictures it gets a little more tricky - then you have to paste the pictures into the actual body of the email. As you know, normally when you attach a file into an email, it just puts the little icon in the attachments field near the subject line. But you can actually paste a picture into the body of the email inbetween text, and then send it like that. Will take a little more time, but still less than using the blogger editor I think.
Hope that was a helpful tip for all you fellow blogger/housewives (I really only have a couple minutes to get this done!) folks out there.
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