Problems with Pictures Uploading with Grey Backgrounds???

Hey guys. I don't know about you, but I have been having some issues with jpgs uploading to blogger with a greyed out background that should appear white. Now, I've experienced this over on Creative Bug on the Loose when trying to upload freebies. Sometimes, they'll look grey but after a few more times uploading them, it will revert back to a white background. I have also had situations where I thought that the image uploaded okay, but one or two people would write me to tell me they thought the image looked grey and I would have to send them the image directly. I had similar issues on my own blog but with cards that have a lot of white in them, uploading looking like I used grey paper, which made me have to convert them to pngs to look appropriate.

Well, this week Naomi, the owner of Creative Bug on the Loose and Creative Bug Digis, informed me that she had come across a solution to the problem.  However, I am afraid I have a bit of bad news, for anyone who is having this issue of the grey background with your jpg uploads, and who DOESN'T have Google +.  There may not be an immediate fix to the problem.  Naomi was only able to fix it because she has Google +.  I was hoping there would be a solution for those of us who abhor prefer not to sign up with Google + but according to the information that Naomi came across, those of us who are unwilling to upgrade, will continue to experience the issue--that is of course until some other brilliant techie out there figures out a way for us to correct the situation without upgrading. 

According to the article at  http://www.vtechie.com/2013/09/blogger-and-google-pictures-uploading.html, Google has "buried two settings in there that affect your Google wide account when uploading pictures to any of their services even if you're not uploading the pictures to Google+."  This means that if you want to fix the issue, you will need to upgrade to Google +.  
 
Now there is some good news if you are one of those who have already upgraded to Google +, and are experiencing these issues with the greying.  Apparently, it is a simple matter of a quick fix.  If you are in this situation and interested in correcting it, you can check out the article and follow the instructions the author has laid out (link above).  
 


Now for the rest of us...

Calling all brilliant techies:  Please help those of us not wanting to upgrade to Google +, figure out how to correct this.

Until next time,

Searching Blogs To No Avail?!

Hey guys.  I don't know about you,  but I use the Blogger search feature continuously.  Whether I am looking for something on my own blog or on another's, it is one of the tools that I find invaluable!  For those of you like me who use this feature constantly, you will have noticed that it has been on the fritz for a few months now.  Occasionally, I can get it to work but 99% of the time, it doesn't.  

When catching up on a few posts at a friend's blog yesterday, I came across a post dealing with just that subject.  Donna over at Creative Smiles wrote a short article discussing how you can add your own search by using HTML code.  She gives a clear and concise tutorial on how to fix it.  She herself found the information at another blog and wanted to share it with her readers.

Well, you know me, when something goes wonky and there is a way to fix it, I feel it is important to share that information with all of you too; so, that is what I am doing today.  However, since both a concise and a more explicative tutorial has been created, and more importantly, ones that are easy to follow, there is no reason for me to reinvent the wheel.  I merely need to send you spinning in the right direction.

For a concise breakdown and resolution please check out Donna's post by going HERE.
If you would like to see the original one that is a bit more explicative and also has the coding in a form where you can just copy and paste it, head to Diane Carlisle's post HERE.

I am sure that Google will get their search function fixed eventually but it is nice to know that there is a remedy in the interim.  Please spread the word yourself to your own readers if you can, since the more people who get it fixed, the less frustrated their own readers will be, searching for specific items.

Well, that is it for now.  I'm off to tackle the elusive 'to do' list.

Until next time,

*Image Courtesy of Farconville/freedigitalphotos.net