As that doesn't help you with those images you've already uploaded, if you've chosen to edit from the in-post Gallery screen, make sure you hit the "refresh/update image" link in that Gallery screen once you've finished editing.

From my FAQ that tt linked to above:

Is it possible to edit the images in my Gallery?

WordPress.com has added some advanced image-display features which allow you to edit the display properties of individual images directly in the WordPress.com Post Editor. However, Gallery images can be edited only in the Media Library, either through the “Edit Image” link which appears in the right sidebar of the Gallery screen of the Media Manager when you have highlighted an image or directly in the Media Library. If you make changes to an image from the Gallery screen of the Media Manager, click the Refresh link to update your image.

If it wasn't for having new windows open up in new tabs and having had quite a few windows open anyway, while focusing on the images I would have worked it out before.

There are bound to be people who take a while to work that one out, so why not SAY a new window will open and you need to close it when done to get back to the gallery.

It's a brilliant feature, which works really well, just spoilt by a simple omission or two to make it more user-friendly.

It seems there are FIVE save buttons, one on the top left for a crop, one underneath the picture, one to scale the image, one save button on the right and one update button underneath it.

How the heck is one supposed to know which one to hit when?

At any rate eventually I worked out how to crop the image and save it most times, but found it impossible to get out of the gallery. That still is the case.

Also can't understand why or how it opens up other windows?

I have read the instructions carefully but they don't help.

They certainly do not give a clue as to how to get out of the image edit and back to the gallery to find another image to resize.

I hope someone can answer this as it really isn't fair to put people through this kind of stress inducing experience. I already suffer from a stress condition and this really is driving me up the wall.

It's a wonderful feature, and looks amazing and seems to work really well, so much better than it was before.

I just want to know how to get OUT of the individual picture and back to the gallery where I can select another one.

I wouldn't bother and would just bodge thru hoping they are going to fix the bugs eventually but I have 1100 pictures that I need to put into a gallery and while I will edit most of them before they go up, it would be very useful to have this feature working properly.

Thanks.

I do have a great deal of patience with PCs but unusually have just been reduced to swearing and feeling as if I could throw the laptop and smash it to bits.

The new gallery feature is so much better, and seemed to work beautifully, that is until I have tried to save it or get out of the individual edit mode and back to the gallery pictures so I could pick out another one to edit.

There are 250 pictures so I need to edit them in a not too longwinded way. In some cases I want to crop them as well but after an image has been cropped it has proved impossible to save the result and also to get out of the edit mode. There is an update button and a save button but neither of them permanently save the result of the crop which just goes back to what it was as soon as I hit the button. Anyway I can't get out of the blasted edit mode as there is no apparent way out, that is whether I crop the image or not.

I'd be very grateful if anyone could help with this.

Thank you.

See here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/image-editing/#rotating

I can no longer crop pictures to size,

You can still crop pictures by clicking the Edit Image button in the Media Library:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/image-editing/

when I go to review a picture I just get a gallery view with the blog header across the top rather than seeing the image on a black ground at the size my visitors will see it..

This is an option you can change easily. When you're inserting an image, just choose "Link to Media File" instead of "Attachment Page." See the screenshot and example on #6 here:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/

If you need any help with this, just let me know.

I will also be using the 'view as web page 'or 'post to blog functions' in Word to copy text and paste into WordPress, as Support recommends at http://en.support.wordpress.com/microsoft-word/.

Hope this helps.

Are you using the Visual Editor to edit your posts? You should be able to either drag an image to a different position within the post, or click on the image and use the alignment option to move it the left, right or center.

We've registered your suggestion and will keep it in mind for future features and updates!

Also, don't forget the ideas forum, where you can discuss your suggestion with the WordPress.com community: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/forum/ideas

However, image editing within a post remains awkward. For example, you can't increase the size of an image over 100% unless you manually change the Width and the Height. And when you change one, the other does not change in proportion -- that's annoying and we should have the option of proportional re-sizing.

And how do you change the position of an image once it's in the post without deleting it and trying to place it somewhere else? We should be able to grab it and move it.

Interestingly, there are 'handles' around the image box when I edit in Firefox and Internet Explorer and I can grab a corner and re-size the image at will. Not so in Google Chrome. But I guess that's a quirk of the programs, eh?

Regards ...

David
Blog url: http://jdavidmclaren.wordpress.com/

Many thanks for your very valuable help! Problems
solved.

Have a fantastic weekend!

In the majority of themes font changes to font families, colors and size in the blog title, tagline, menu, post titles, page titles, categories and tags, widget headings and text, comments, and links cannot be done without purchasing an annually renewable custom design upgrade and doing the required CSS editing. http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/

If you optimize and pre-size each image to fit into the space you intend to upload it into then your will not have to use the cropper, no image quality will be lost, you won't wastes your media upload storage space and you won't have any image troubleshooting to do.

free desktop image editing software http://en.support.wordpress.com/media/image-optimization/#image-editing-software
free online image editing software http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/11/28/ten-free-online-image-compression-and-optimzation-programs/

Could you please tell me how can I change the size of an image in my blog, that is, how do I reduce the size of an inserted image? Also, is there a way for me to change the font (size) of the title? Thanks many.
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