donny h
08-08-2007, 03:42 AM
Inspired by the outdoor photo thread. I've never tried to teach this, I hope I don't make a mess of it.
The first step is to organise the pics you may want to use, put them all in one folder, and they probably need to be resized.
Go to the folder with the pics, right click on a pic, select 'resize pics', select the small size 640x480 and click ok, a small copy of the pic will appear in the same folder.
Click and drag your mouse across a group of pics, then right click, to resize them all at once.
Organise all these new, smaller pics into a folder of their own, to avoid confusion later.
Most forums, including this one, require pics to be posted on the web, not on your pc. Many photo hosting services are out there, like webshots and yahoo photo, I'd suggest using this one, it's easy:
http://photobucket.com/
It's free, all you need is an email. You can make your photobucket (PB) albums private, requiring a password to view, but then you can't hotlink to forums like this, so it defeats the purpose.
Don't post pics you don't want the whole world to see, because they might.
I'd suggest editing license plate numbers and addresses out of pics posted online, I'll do a follow up post on how to do that with mspaint, which you might all ready have on your pc.
Let's say you now have an account at PB, and you're logged on, click on 'my album', scroll down to 'my sub albums', on the right is a box for 'new sub album title', enter the name of your new album, hit 'submit', the new album will appear, click on it, the new screen should read 'upload to:yournewalbum'.
Hit the browse button, look through your files and find the pics you want to upload, double click on the pic and it's title will appear in the PB upload box. Repeat until done, I think 20 pics at a time is the maximum.
Now click the 'upload' button, and wait for PB to do it's thing.
Now the pics are on the web, and need to be hotlinked to this forum. The web address of the pic must be posted here between two sets of brackets, with the letters 'img' between them, like this:
[IMG]web address of your pic[IMG]
PB makes this easy, go to your sub album, below each pic are four choices, the bottom one is 'IMG code', left click on it and a little yellow window will tell you 'copied', come here to where you want to post the pic, right click, and 'paste'. Hit enter on the thread, and you're done.
There is a button above to 'insert image', what that does is adds the brackets and IMG to your post, if your not using PB you may want to go that route.
To post pics that are on the web, but not at PB, go to the pic where ever it is, the pic itself, not the folder it's in, and look at the web address above, right click on it, copy, come here, hit the insert image button, and paste the address into the box, make sure that there is only one set of- http:// at the beginning, hit ok, and you're done.
Jeez, I hope that makes some sense at all to y'all, it is the wee hours here...
Feel free to test picture posting in this thread.
The first step is to organise the pics you may want to use, put them all in one folder, and they probably need to be resized.
Go to the folder with the pics, right click on a pic, select 'resize pics', select the small size 640x480 and click ok, a small copy of the pic will appear in the same folder.
Click and drag your mouse across a group of pics, then right click, to resize them all at once.
Organise all these new, smaller pics into a folder of their own, to avoid confusion later.
Most forums, including this one, require pics to be posted on the web, not on your pc. Many photo hosting services are out there, like webshots and yahoo photo, I'd suggest using this one, it's easy:
http://photobucket.com/
It's free, all you need is an email. You can make your photobucket (PB) albums private, requiring a password to view, but then you can't hotlink to forums like this, so it defeats the purpose.
Don't post pics you don't want the whole world to see, because they might.
I'd suggest editing license plate numbers and addresses out of pics posted online, I'll do a follow up post on how to do that with mspaint, which you might all ready have on your pc.
Let's say you now have an account at PB, and you're logged on, click on 'my album', scroll down to 'my sub albums', on the right is a box for 'new sub album title', enter the name of your new album, hit 'submit', the new album will appear, click on it, the new screen should read 'upload to:yournewalbum'.
Hit the browse button, look through your files and find the pics you want to upload, double click on the pic and it's title will appear in the PB upload box. Repeat until done, I think 20 pics at a time is the maximum.
Now click the 'upload' button, and wait for PB to do it's thing.
Now the pics are on the web, and need to be hotlinked to this forum. The web address of the pic must be posted here between two sets of brackets, with the letters 'img' between them, like this:
[IMG]web address of your pic[IMG]
PB makes this easy, go to your sub album, below each pic are four choices, the bottom one is 'IMG code', left click on it and a little yellow window will tell you 'copied', come here to where you want to post the pic, right click, and 'paste'. Hit enter on the thread, and you're done.
There is a button above to 'insert image', what that does is adds the brackets and IMG to your post, if your not using PB you may want to go that route.
To post pics that are on the web, but not at PB, go to the pic where ever it is, the pic itself, not the folder it's in, and look at the web address above, right click on it, copy, come here, hit the insert image button, and paste the address into the box, make sure that there is only one set of- http:// at the beginning, hit ok, and you're done.
Jeez, I hope that makes some sense at all to y'all, it is the wee hours here...
Feel free to test picture posting in this thread.