How to post photos on the forum

[p38arover]

Here's some notes written for the Two Wheels forum by my son on how to post photos in the forum.

Bucko wrote:

I've seen quite a few people aren't sure of how to post pictures on the forum or how to use imageshack to host them, so here's a little tutorial to help out those who don't know.

First off, go to www.imageshack.us and the first screen you come to should look like this:





STEP 1 Click on the browse button. This will take you into your My Pictures folder on your PC. Find your way around and select the picture you want to host.

STEP 2 If you don't know how to resize pics on your PC, use this (optional) function. Tick the box and then select the size you want your large picture resized to. Choose the 640x480 as it is a large enough size for people to see the picture and detail, without slowing down dial-up users too much. Also it means not having to scroll the screen side to side when a large image is posted.

STEP 3 Click the Host it! button.

That will take you to the next screen after the picture is uploaded.

It should look like this if your picture is bigger than about 200x200 pixels.



If you did host a larger picture because detail would have been lost if you shrunk it, don't worry, use the Thumbnail for forum (1) that is circled in green. Copy the whole URL that is there and when you post on the forum it will come up as a thumbnail image like the one circled in green. It shows the size of the image and when you click on the thumbnail in the post on the forum, it will open a new page with the full size image.

If the picture is under about 600x600 pixels, just use the Hotlink for forums (1) circled in blue and copy the whole URL and paste it into your post.

While you can register on imageshack to keep track of all; your pictures, I found it didn't like remembering me when I went back, so I didn't worry too much.

If I want to put a picture up again that I have already posted, it's normally easier to just go back to imageshack and rehost it.

[one_iota]

Thanks Ron.

Also heed Incisors request:

http://www.aulro.com/modules.php?name=Foru...iewtopic&t=9765

Such is the capability of digital cameras these days but not band width.

The software recommended by Inc is easy to use.

Under Image you can choose the resizing command and pick the 800x600 option to keep the file size down.

[wovenrovings]

Just tried posting some photos for the first time on here.
Managed to get some duplicates in the album.
Does any one know how to get rid of them,

Cheers.

[4bee]

When I post the url of my image from my ISP FTP Server & use the "Insert Image" icon, it does not present the image in the body of the text but posts the url as a link.

Is this normal for using your own ISP Server to post images?

[DiscoDave]

Here's the result of posting all the code choices I get from the image hosting site I use (www.imagehigh.com) for one image I uploaded today. When the image is first posted I get a "Link to Large Image" code that works a treat but is never shown again when you select 'image codes'.

The image part of "Link to Large Image" code:


Hotlink 1 for forums:

- clicking on this takes you to the full size image AFTER a whole load of advertising has loaded.

Hotlink for forums 2:
[img=http://Serv3.imagehigh.com/imgs/04/28388_PICT0969small.th.jpg
- same as above.

Image to friends:
http://Serv3.imagehigh.com/view.php?...path=/imgs/04/
- same as above.

Direct link to images:
http://Serv3.imagehigh.com/imgs/04/2...T0969small.jpg
- opens a new browser window with just the image in it. (Yay!)

My Space HTML code:

- clicking on this takes you to the imagehigh homepage NOT to the pic.

Direct link to images code pasted into an 'Insert Image' box:
[IMG]http://Serv3.imagehigh.com/imgs/04/2...T0969small.jpg[/IMG]

Direct link to images code pasted into an 'Insert Image' box, 2nd source:


It seems that if you copy the 'direct link to image' code, paste it into the 'insert image' box and then DELETE THE URL TAGS (if present), that will put the full size image into the post.

[4bee]

Thanks Dave, but still a little confoozed.

Do all images posted on here need to be posted on an Image Hosting Site as opposed to my ISP FTP Site?

[Phoenix]

No, if you have them hosted somewhere else you can use them, imageshack etc are only for people who have no online hosting of their own

[4bee]

Thanks Phoen. So, back to my original question. When linking to my ISP, it shows as a Link in the message body & not an image? Normal?

[Phoenix]

how are you trying to post the image, by clicking on the picture tab, or the url tab ?

[4bee]

URL in address bar & then pasting that into the AULRO image box. This is how I normally do it. Is the AURO setup different?

Des