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General => Forum Tech Support => Topic started by: Brian Gallimore on November 29, 2011, 11:51:23 PM

Title: How To Post Pictures in the Forum
Post by: Brian Gallimore on November 29, 2011, 11:51:23 PM

Go to the blog entry at http://northtexasvegetablegardeners.com/blog/2011/11/29/how-to-post-pictures-in-the-forum/ to view these instructions in a nicer format
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Posting pictures in the forum is easy, here is how to do it:
Step 1
Log in with your username and password (have to be logged in as a real user before you can post anything)

(http://northtexasvegetablegardeners.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Guest.png)

Step 2
Start a new post or reply to a post by pressing the 'New Topic' (http://northtexasvegetablegardeners.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/NewTopic.png) or 'Reply' (http://northtexasvegetablegardeners.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Reply.png) button.

Step 3
Choose a method for inserting pictures into the body of the post:

• Method A (simpler, limited in picture size and number of pictures) - upload the picture to the forum
• Method B (more steps, more versatile, unlimited resolution and quantity) - upload to webhost and embed link

Step 3A1
Press the 'Additional Options' button near the bottom of the text entry box.
(http://northtexasvegetablegardeners.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/AdditionalOptions2.png)

Step 3A2
Press 'Choose File' button to upload your picture.  Note that the file size must be small, and that it only lets you attach a few pictures to each post.  My favorite programs for re-sizing pictures are irfanview (http://www.irfanview.com/) and picassa (http://picasa.google.com/).  Sizing your images to less than 600 pixels will usually make the file size small enough.
(http://northtexasvegetablegardeners.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ChooseFile.png)

Step 3B1
Upload your pictures to a hosting service or server of your choice.  (I like picassaweb (http://picasa.google.com) best)

Step 3B2
Copy the link to the file and paste it in the body of the forum post.  (the link must be THE FILE, and not to a webpage, you can tell it is a file because it will end in .jpg, .gif, or .png and look like http://somewhereontheweb.com/somefolder/somefilename.JPG)  (from picassaweb, the link is found by clicking on the 'link to this photo' and checking 'Image only - no link')

Step 3B3
Highlight the link to your picture in the body of the forum post and press the 'IMG' button (http://northtexasvegetablegardeners.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/IMGbutton1.png) which adds the proper BBcode (http://href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBCode) to the link so that the forum software will display the picture instead of displaying the link to the picture.

Step 4
Press the 'Post' button (http://northtexasvegetablegardeners.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/PostButton.png) to publish.  The end!

Title: Re: How To Post Pictures in the Forum
Post by: Brian Gallimore on July 16, 2013, 01:09:50 AM

Google has changed up their 'picasaweb' product and it now requires Google+ sign-in and other non-sense. 

I did find an easy-to-use service:  http://postimage.org/

Steps:
1- upload your picture to postimage.org (browse, click upload button)
2- copy the 'direct link' address
3- paste to your post, then press the 'insert image' button to embed it.

Title: Re: How To Post Pictures in the Forum
Post by: admin on July 06, 2014, 11:23:14 PM

(http://s14.postimg.org/qm8hh7wql/Screenshot_from_2014_07_06_23_21_34.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/qm8hh7wql/)

added mod that adds easy button for uploading pictures --- uses postimage.org