Milpitas Pics & Clips

Contributing photos to Milpitas Patch is fun, easy and best of all, gives you the power to contribute your awesome photos to the site.

If you have an iPhone or an Android smart phone, you can download our free Patch app by clicking here for iPhone users or here for  for Android phones.

If you prefer to upload photos via your computer, it's just as easy. Navigate to the green box at the top of the screen, click "Add Photos, Video & PDFs," and then simply upload a favorite photo from your desktop. A complete  is also available.

For a more detailed explanation, here's a simple how-to for you to follow:

1. Sign up as a Patch user. To add a photo or other content such as events or announcements, you need to be a registered member of Patch. You can do this by clicking "Sign Up" at the top of the site.
2. Select the photo you'd like to upload.
3. All photos should be original, meaning you need to have taken them yourself. Photos should be in a "jpeg" format. This is the most common photo format. If you see an extension of your photo file that says "tif," "gif," "bmp," or something else, look for a way to save your photo in a "jpeg" or "jpg" format.
4. Photos should be saved, if possible, at a medium size and a "resolution" of 72 dpi. If you do not know or have the ability to do this, don't worry too much; our system does some "crunching" for you. But the smaller the size of your image, the quicker it will upload to our site, so for efficiency you may want to keep the file sizes smaller.
5. To add a photo, click on the link under the current photos that says "Add your photos and videos."
6. A window will open; click on "Choose files to upload." This will take you to your computer files, where you can choose the image you wish to add. Click it.
7. Once your photo is ready to be uploaded, you will see a screen with a link that says "Start uploading." Click that.
8. Your photo will upload, and when it is done the computer will ask you what you want to do next. Click on "edit your new photos." This is where you add your caption information.
9. Click to add caption information. You may also change the "photo credit" if you need to do so. If someone other than you took the photo, click to change that.
10. Be sure to include in your caption information about when and where the photo was taken, and fully identify any people in the photo. If relevant, tell why this photo says "Milpitas" to you.