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Picture Posting Tutorial
Up load pictures to an on line hosting site
photobucket.com/






this site is free.  sign up.  it will automaticaly resize your pictures to fit on most peoples computers
www.imageshack.us/






this site is free.  You do not need to sign up but can if you want to be able to repost the same picture latter.  It does not resize the images unless you tell it to.















I think this would be a good thread to tack to the top of this page.
ETA:
"Hi Everyone,
This is Russ at Photobucket. I am part of our Community Outreach
Team and my job is to make sure that your forum is the best it can be. I
have noticed several posts asking how to use Photobucket to store and
link images to this forum. I created this easy to follow tutorial as an
up-to-date reference; I hope it is helpful.
Most forums require you to link to images that are stored somewhere
else on the web. This "somewhere else” is where Photobucket comes in.
Photobucket is a site that will host your images for free, and allow you
to grab the image’s linking information with just one click. It’s that
easy.
Step number one: Open your Photobucket account or register for a free Photobucket account here.
Step number two: Upload your photos to your new Photobucket account.
Step number three: Post your photo into a forum thread. There are two ways to do this, and with Photobucket, they only require one click apiece.
The first way is to use the "Insert Photo” button in the toolbar when you create a new thread or response.




First, find the photo on Photobucket in a new tab or window, locate
the "Links to share this photo” box to the right of the image, and
simply click on the bottom option, labeled "Direct”. Photobucket
automatically copies the code for you, so there’s no need to right click
and select copy from a menu.




Next, open a new thread or response in the forum and click on the
Insert Image button. A new dialogue box will appear asking you to enter
the URL address for the photo. Simply paste the info you grabbed from
Photobucket into the dialogue box and you’re done. Easy.





The other way to post a photo is to skip the Insert Photo button and
just use the BBCode, or IMG Code. Find the photo on Photobucket that
you want to link to. Then, in the "Links to share this photo” box to the
right of the photo, simply click on the third option from the top,
labeled "IMG”. This is already written in the BBCode your forum
requires, so just paste it right into the text of the thread you are
creating, and presto!





Some of you have also been asking about resizing your images. You
can resize your photos before you upload them to Photobucket, or you can
do it right from your Library.
1. Select "Edit” from the top menu, then click the photo you want to
resize. Additionally, from your Library view you can hover over the
thumbnail of the photo you want till the gear icon appears. Click the
gear and select "Edit” from the drop down menu.




2. Click the "Resize” button




3. Make sure the lock icon is selected to constrain proportions and enter the new height or width you want and click "Apply”




4. The next screen will ask you to save. Below the save button is a
box labeled "Replace Original”. If you leave this box empty, a duplicate
will be created in the new size and will need to be renamed. If you
check this box, the original will be replaced by the newly resized
image.





I hope that helps. If you have any questions or feedback on what
would make your photo hosting experience better, please send it my way.
RUSS




Community Outreach
"



[email protected]


 

looks good

meh, photobucket limits your bandwidth and gives you res X's in a very short time on a busy site like arfcom.

Tinypic.com doesn't care how much bandwidth or how many hits get used.

I like image shack the best... even though it limits band width... It's doesn't resize your images.  So you can post the full size image for people to right click and save.  Other wise tiny pic sounds good.

Yeah the main drawback with tinypic vs some that let you have albums is, if you forget the URL you'll never find the image again.

now we're in business...thanx guys

thanks now my computer fu is stronger

I can't seem to figure out how to upload a pic into the arfcom media serer.  I am a member and have albums.  

Originally Posted By Jake22: tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2r6icxx&s=3

you need the web address of the picture itself.  Not the web address of the page it's embedded in.  If your online host does not give this to you, you can find it by right clicking on the image.

for example your images web address is:
http://i27.tinypic.com/2r6icxx.jpg

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Please work!!!

ok cool i think i got it

I have a web page that is basically an animated gif playing in the center of a jpg image that serves as sort of picture frame around the moving gif.  I want to post this in a thread here so it shows like a frame with the image and animated gif running instead of as a hot URL link.

I saw the code option for posting, and tried iFrame and frameset commands, and those didn't work.  Is there an easy way to do what I'm asking, and is it within the site's rules?

pic test
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Originally Posted By silentmajority: I have a web page that is basically an animated gif playing in the center of a jpg image that serves as sort of picture frame around the moving gif.  I want to post this in a thread here so it shows like a frame with the image and animated gif running instead of as a hot URL link. I saw the code option for posting, and tried iFrame and frameset commands, and those didn't work.  Is there an easy way to do what I'm asking, and is it within the site's rules?

unfortunately no.  the code allowed in posts is very limited.  If you made a gif with the "frame" built in then you could post that using the  tags.

Originally Posted By Master_of_Orion: unfortunately no.  the code allowed in posts is very limited.  If you made a gif with the "frame" built in then you could post that using the  tags.

Thanks.  I kept plugging away at it and couldn't get anything to work.  I guess I could turn the whole thing into a gif as you suggested.

http://http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/70/502hv9.th.jpg" border=0 id=img>

Originally Posted By wagner0311: img339.imageshack.us/my.php?image=502hv9.jpg]]img339.imageshack.us/img339/70/502hv9.th.jpg' target='_new'>img339.imageshack.us/img339/70/502hv9.th.jpg' target='_new'>img339.imageshack.us/my.php?image=502hv9.jpg]]img339.imageshack.us/img339/70/502hv9.th.jpg

http://img339.imageshack.us/my.php?image=502hv9.jpg

that's what you have

you need

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/70/502hv9.jpg

know where I got that?  from the page http://img339.imageshack.us/my.php?image=502hv9.jpg opened up

[img=img177.imagevenue.com/loc206/th_10590_2thumbs_122_206lo.JPG]" data-featherlight="image" target="_blank">[img=img177.imagevenue.com/loc206/th_10590_2thumbs_122_206lo.JPG]" />

Dammit!!! Strike two!

Originally Posted By JKirk: [img=img177.imagevenue.com/loc206/th_10590_2thumbs_122_206lo.JPG' target='_new'>]img177.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc206&image=10590_2thumbs_122_206lo.JPG][img=img177.imagevenue.com/loc206/th_10590_2thumbs_122_206lo.JPG]

clicking on this

http://img177.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc206&image=10590_2thumbs_122_206lo.JPG


right click


copy link











ETA: you've apparently moved or removed the picture.

Originally Posted By anotherhession: <a href="http://s300.photobucket.com/albums/nn1/anothrehession/?action=view¤t=freelr2.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn1/anothrehession/freelr2.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

I took this link

http://s300.photobucket.com/albums/nn1/anothrehession/?action=view¤t=freelr2.jpg

and copied into my address bar.

Photo bucket provides every thing you need.  



See the red arrow? simple copy and paste that into your post.  No need to press any buttons.

like this

Let's see.....

Test

i cant get the pic to post for nothing. I have tried using flickr and tinypic and neither will work.

On tinypic it says copy this to post your pic on a forum so i do and all i get is what is in the post right above this one.

this is starting to anger me!!

http://i25.tinypic.com/sq4ikk.jpg

well looks like you finally got it and then moved or deleted it. Sorry I didn't see this sooner.

as far as I can tell you were putting {url] tags when you should have been using {img] tags.

everyone is welcome to IM me if they have problems.

Substituted { for [ to make things visible.

ETA:

from your first post:

test!

First pic post thanks!
http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm151/safes2small/100_0878.jpg

http://img372.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sd531713ka3.jpg

trying this out

my image shack link won't work. and it's not because the pic isn't there, i just put it there so i could post it here. i don't want to use photo bucket because they are forcing me to sign up for some cell phone videogame that's gonna cost me $10 a month and i don't want it. i don't even play video games and (LOL) i don't know how to text so i wouldn't even be able to cancel the damn thing. and jeez,hinking.gif, what if someone didn't even own a cell phone? how would they get to use photobucket then?

http://img372.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sd531713ka3.jpg

http://img372.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sd531713ka3.jpg

http://[IMG=img372.imageshack.us/img372/9315/sd531713ka3.th.jpg]

this sucks!

this sucks!

http://http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/9315/sd531713ka3.th.jpg" border=0 id=img>

http://img372.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sd531713ka3.jpg

http://img372.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sd531713ka3.jpg

trying again

CCCRAAAAAAP! WHY?WHY?WHY?

http://3ka3.jpg

Ok the link I keep seeing in your posts
http://img372.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sd531713ka3.jpg

IS not the link to your picture.

it is a link it a page that has your picture on it... as well as other things.

you want the direct link to your image.

http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/9315/sd531713ka3.th.jpg
this seems to be it... but when I go there I get a 403 Forbidden error. This most likely means there is security enabled preventing me... and thus Arfcom from seeing the image.

Also when I copy those links into my browser the page comes up... without an image.  Perhaps there was a problem uploading? or you have permissions set up so no one else can view your images.

Either of those problems would prevent arfcoms image posting system from working.  

test post

Thank You -

FINALLY!

Thank you.  Thank you.

First try?