Posting pictures

[HanginAround]

I see a lot of people have asked and/or have had a lot of trouble posting pics. I'll give as much help as possible to anyone that needs it, and if I can't help you do it yourself, you can even send me your pics, I'll upload them and send you back the link to them so you can post them in a message.

This site used to have an album feature, but from what I read, they had a lot of trouble, so it has been abandoned. Therefore, you have to have your pictures hosted on the internet on a site of your choice, and then point the forum software to them so they'll show up in your post.

There are tons of free picture hosting sites on the net, they are all kinda similar in some ways, all different in others. Some of the most popular are photobucket.com, and imageshack.us. One that I have used some is thepixplace.com. Some people use Yahoo, but I can't figure out how to get a pic into a message from Yahoo, maybe someone else can tell if they figured it out. If your ISP provides free webspace, or if you already have a website of some sort, you could host your photos there if you want too.

BBCode is what you use to point the forum software to your pics. In it's most basic form, you would just bracket the link to your pics with IMG tags, like this (random pic from the net):

http://www.studiolo.org/WPS/PR/images/WPSPR-DB_Shedding%20Buck.jpg

You can do the same thing to make a link clickable with URL tags, and you might have to do it this way for places like Yahoo if you can't get the IMG tags to work:

http://www.studiolo.org/WPS/PR/images/WPSPR-DB_Shedding%20Buck.jpg

The tags get more complicated with clickable thumbnails, but thankfully, most free picture hosting site provide the BBCode for you, just copy from their webpage and paste it into the message editing window on this webpage.

I'll talk about imageshack as an example because it's the easiest to get started with. You don't have to set up an account at all, unless you want galleries and such. To just upload one image at a time, you can do it from their main page without logging in or anything. Click Browse, Click Resize image if your pic is too large to be comfortable, Click Host It!, and away it goes. A page comes up with all the HTML code and BBCode you could want.

You can choose a clickable thumbnail (small pic that links to a big pic):

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4686/hpim1276vu6.th.jpg (http://img168.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hpim1276vu6.jpg)

Or a hotlinked bigger pic:

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4686/hpim1276vu6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Or the "direct link" that you can put between IMG tags:

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4686/hpim1276vu6.jpg

I have BBCode disabled for this post so you could see what it looks like, I'll post these again with BBCode working so you can see the results.

[mapleman3]

Nice work Hanging around, Thats the thing you do have to have the pic hosted somewhere else and point to it, I have done it with pics I have on my website. yahoo photos and places like that work great.

[HanginAround]

Okay, here is a portion of the previous message with BBCode on:


BBCode is what you use to point the forum software to your pics. In it's most basic form, you would just bracket the link to your pics with IMG tags, like this (random pic from the net):

http://www.studiolo.org/WPS/PR/images/WPSPR-DB_Shedding%20Buck.jpg

You can do the same thing to make a link clickable with URL tags, and you might have to do it this way for places like Yahoo if you can't get the IMG tags to work:

http://www.studiolo.org/WPS/PR/images/WPSPR-DB_Shedding%20Buck.jpg

The tags get more complicated with clickable thumbnails, but thankfully, most free picture hosting site provide the BBCode for you, just copy from their webpage and paste it into the message editing window on this webpage.

I'll talk about http://imageshack.us as an example because it's the easiest to get started with. You don't have to set up an account at all, unless you want galleries and such. To just upload one image at a time, you can do it from their main page without logging in or anything. Click Browse, Click Resize image if your pic is too large to be comfortable, Click Host It!, and away it goes. A page comes up with all the HTML code and BBCode you could want.

You can choose a clickable thumbnail (small pic that links to a big pic):

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4686/hpim1276vu6.th.jpg (http://img168.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hpim1276vu6.jpg)

Or a hotlinked bigger pic:

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4686/hpim1276vu6.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Or the "direct link" that you can put between IMG tags:

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/4686/hpim1276vu6.jpg

[HanginAround]

Thanks mm3 :) Do you happen to know if you can post a photo into a message from Yahoo photos? I mean do they give you a direct link or BBCode? I don't have an account there and was unable to do it with other's images, but there may be more options if I was actually signed into an account.

One more note for people with large images and slow dialup net access.... some sites may have trouble with this scenario, so you may have better luck if you make your images smaller before you try to upload them. I posted this in another thread last week, and some people may find it helpful:

XP has a way to make images smaller without messing with image editing software:
-Browse to where your pics are located with My Computer or My Pictures or whatever, but not with photo managing software, has to be from Windows.
-Highlight the pics you want by holding down the CTRL key and picking the ones you want.
-Let go of the CRTL key and right click on one of the pics.
-Point to Send To and a sub-menu will pop-out.
-Choose Mail Recipient.
-Another pop-up will ask if you want to make all your pictures smaller, choose Okay.
-An e-mail composing window will open with all the smaller versions of your pics as attachments. Instead of composing and sending an e-mail, choose File, then Save Attachments.
-Browse to a place to save them, but if you put them where the originals were, it will overwrite them with the small versions, so you should choose a different place if you want to keep the originals.
-After you saved the attachments, you can just delete the e-mail.

It sounds complicated, but not as bad as it sounds. The new versions of your pics will be much smaller, a large pic will wind up 1/3 to 1/4 the original size and much easier to handle, even for high speed users.

Anyone having trouble, feel free to ask questions. Anyone who really thinks it is beyond them, feel free to e-mail me your pics and I'll take care of it for you.

[HanginAround]

Here's a little update (copied and pasted from another thread w/edits):

Here's the page you got after your pic uploaded on Imageshack:

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/2135/imageshackhq7.jpg

Use the code from the first box to get a clickable thumbnail.
Use the code from the second box to get a clickable full sized image.
Use the URL from the third box if you don't want BBCode on it, or want to add your own BBCode when you post your message.

Imageshack gives you options for re-sizing your image before you upload, incase you want somewhere between thumbnail and full-size.

[Fred Henderson]

Wouldn't it be a lot simpler to just click on browse and that would take you right to your photos, click the one you want, click submit and it would automaticlly be sized to fit. That is the way most forums do it. :D

[HanginAround]

That is a function that is not enabled here, I presume because it takes a lot of server space and network bandwidth to host pictures, so I can't say I blame them.

[Fred Henderson]

I do not know the low down of all that has to be done for it to happen my way. So I am happy to use photo bucket.

[mapleman3]

Works for me
Cool

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/2659/dscn0735ce9.th.jpg (http://img207.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscn0735ce9.jpg)

Our booth at a craft fair

[Pete33Vt]

I am trying to set up image shack just , checking to see if I can get there from herehttp://img235.imageshack.us/img235/4832/img0009mq1.jpg.

[Pete33Vt]

OK Now that I can get one picture to here, how can I have it set-up so people can go into image shack to see all my pictures? Don't go yet just one on there.

[HanginAround]

Hi Pete, I just PM'd you and I think I answered your question. The public link to your profile and pics should look like this, just paste the URL into your message or in your signature:

http://profile.imageshack.us/user/Pete33Vt/

[Pete33Vt]

BY GOD I THINK I GOT IT!!
For today at least.
Thanks Again for the help

[Sugarmaker]

Pete,
Looks like you have some serious tubing going on.
Pictures look great. We are ready for more.
Chris

[HanginAround]

You're welcome Pete.

You gonna use that stuff for drops? LOL

[Parker]

HMMMM, Pete I have been trying to get the pics I sent to you to come up in my signature ,,but imageshack say they dont exist? any suggestions? Thanks

[HanginAround]

There is an "s" missing... should be stevospics rather than stevopics.

The easiest way to avoid typos is to copy and paste... highlight the text you want, right click "copy" and then right click "paste" where you want to place it.


Do you want the image in your signature or just the link to it? If you want a clickable thumbnail, copy the whole line in the e-mail I sent you, it has all the code you need to make it show up and for people to see the big pic too.

http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/4979/stevospics009bx4.th.jpg (http://img391.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stevospics009bx4.jpg)

[HHM-07]

I have an album set on photobucket but can't get it to my link sig. any sugesstions any help would be great thanks

Dick @ hobby Hill Maples

[WESTVIRGINIAMAPLER]

If you are trying to put it in your signature, go to your photobucket account and go up to the internet address bar and click one time and it should turn blue. Hit Ctrl + C at the same time and then go to your signature and hit Ctrl + V at the same time and it will be there.

I guess this is what you are asking as your question is kinda confusing??

[HHM-07]

Brandon Thanks for the help
Dick

[Brian Ryther]

If you are like me you like to look at other traders pics. I posted some from this season in my photobucket album (09 Maple)
Brian

[BarrelBoiler]

a little help please. i posted some pictures(for the first time) in homemade equipment, from my photobucket acc't. they took up the whole area, the detail was great!!! but it felt alittle out of bounds to BLAST EVERYONE WITH MY PICTURES if you get my drift. what is the easyest way to do thumbnails? i would like to do that instead, then if someone wants to see the detail they can make it large and it takes up less space went just browseing. i am alittle computor-eeze chalenged so.......

thanks in advance for the help

[Clan Delaney]

BB-

What web browser are you using? Once I know, I can work out a step-by-step.

[BarrelBoiler]

windows internet explorer -- i know-- 6.0 -- i think

[Haynes Forest Products]

Hey Clan How about us morons just sending them to you and you post them for a small fee. Its better tham me ripping this comp off the desk and throwing it over the wall.:mad: I see a thriving little side buisness with a old photo reader before digital