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Title: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: JesseA on May 04, 2010, 07:19:25 PM
Post by: JesseA on May 04, 2010, 07:19:25 PM
okay, so either i'm very computer illiterate or im getting too used to my mac but i cant figure out how to put pictures in any response messages i post. could someone explain how to do this? i didnt see any earlier questions on this specific problem
...i feel like that answer is going to be really simple.....
...i feel like that answer is going to be really simple.....
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: Osiris on May 04, 2010, 07:36:29 PM
Post by: Osiris on May 04, 2010, 07:36:29 PM
Upload a picture to a hosting website such as photobucket.com then get the URL of the image (example: http://examplephotosite.com/myimage.jpg (http://examplephotosite.com/myimage.jpg)) copy that and paste into your message putting the image code around it
Example-
Photobucket also has the location of your image already with the img code around it so you just need to copy and paste that into your post.
Example-
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[img]http://examplephotosite.com/myimage.jpg[/img]Photobucket also has the location of your image already with the img code around it so you just need to copy and paste that into your post.
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: V M on May 04, 2010, 07:50:06 PM
Post by: V M on May 04, 2010, 07:50:06 PM
You mean like this? All I did was search for "Cute Kitties" and it gave me this so I copied and pasted it
http://home.comcast.net/~ctimjones/DragonCon2004/CuteKitties.jpg (http://home.comcast.net/~ctimjones/DragonCon2004/CuteKitties.jpg)
http://home.comcast.net/~ctimjones/DragonCon2004/CuteKitties.jpg (http://home.comcast.net/~ctimjones/DragonCon2004/CuteKitties.jpg)
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: Osiris on May 04, 2010, 08:11:01 PM
Post by: Osiris on May 04, 2010, 08:11:01 PM
Quote from: Virginia Marie on May 04, 2010, 07:50:06 PMIt'd be like this-
You mean like this? All I did was search for "Cute Kitties" and it gave me this so I copied and pasted it
http://home.comcast.net/~ctimjones/DragonCon2004/CuteKitties.jpg (http://home.comcast.net/~ctimjones/DragonCon2004/CuteKitties.jpg)
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[img]http://home.comcast.net/~ctimjones/DragonCon2004/CuteKitties.jpg[/img]which makes-
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fhome.comcast.net%2F%7Ectimjones%2FDragonCon2004%2FCuteKitties.jpg&hash=0b128eae0b6a2c0e51cbd30d1acc971d31dcf540)
... Mew?
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: V M on May 04, 2010, 08:21:57 PM
Post by: V M on May 04, 2010, 08:21:57 PM
Oh, I see, the dif. is that you put the URL for the pic. within the [img] [/ img] area?
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: Osiris on May 04, 2010, 08:24:03 PM
Post by: Osiris on May 04, 2010, 08:24:03 PM
Quote from: Virginia Marie on May 04, 2010, 08:21:57 PMYup.
Oh, I see, the dif. is that you put the URL for the pic. within the [img] [/ img] area?
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: V M on May 04, 2010, 08:39:25 PM
Post by: V M on May 04, 2010, 08:39:25 PM
Can you type in your img. brackets? Or can you get them only by clicking the thingy that looks like a picture under the B in the posting pain?
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: Hurtfulsplash on May 04, 2010, 08:40:30 PM
Post by: Hurtfulsplash on May 04, 2010, 08:40:30 PM
You can type them too.
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: Sarah Louise on May 05, 2010, 09:24:17 AM
Post by: Sarah Louise on May 05, 2010, 09:24:17 AM
Visitor -- From 0-14 posts. Limited rights other than posting or responding to messages. Specific limitations include no ability to view or edit profiles, not being able to send out private messages, and not being able to upload pictures or link to external pictures.
Sarah L.
Sarah L.
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: LordKAT on May 05, 2010, 03:46:45 PM
Post by: LordKAT on May 05, 2010, 03:46:45 PM
Then how come a person with 8 posts was able to display photos in there posting?
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: Osiris on May 05, 2010, 08:00:13 PM
Post by: Osiris on May 05, 2010, 08:00:13 PM
Perhaps that's been changed since the rankings were posted back in 2005. I've seen people include images in their first post on the forums.
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: Flan on May 05, 2010, 08:26:02 PM
Post by: Flan on May 05, 2010, 08:26:02 PM
Quote from: Osiris on May 05, 2010, 08:00:13 PMyeah, more like no url links to external sites (because of possibility of spam or promotion of a site/product/whatever)
Perhaps that's been changed since the rankings were posted back in 2005. I've seen people include images in their first post on the forums.
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: AJinOz on July 21, 2010, 11:52:34 AM
Post by: AJinOz on July 21, 2010, 11:52:34 AM
Glad I stumbled across this post. Feeling quite tested by my complete lack of tech savvy but am going to test my abilities, so here goes .... hope there's a photo on this post (crossing fingers now)
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs843.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fzz359%2FAshJohnsn%2F%3Faction-view%26amp%3Bcurrent%3D24032009_004-001.jpg&hash=271ce0cbc53044ea697541b821c40de5e4ed1f4a)
Post Merge: July 21, 2010, 10:56:11 AM
Ok so still not tech savvy I see.... hmm will work it out one day..any suggestions? I copied and pasted the url from photobucket betwenn the two [img] things but no luck.
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fs843.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fzz359%2FAshJohnsn%2F%3Faction-view%26amp%3Bcurrent%3D24032009_004-001.jpg&hash=271ce0cbc53044ea697541b821c40de5e4ed1f4a)
Post Merge: July 21, 2010, 10:56:11 AM
Ok so still not tech savvy I see.... hmm will work it out one day..any suggestions? I copied and pasted the url from photobucket betwenn the two [img] things but no luck.
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: V M on July 21, 2010, 01:28:11 PM
Post by: V M on July 21, 2010, 01:28:11 PM
Quote from: AJinOz on July 21, 2010, 11:52:34 AMHow did I do that? Simply change the s843 to i843 then remove all the ?action=view¤t= stuff so it just has the picture #.jpg at the end ;)
Glad I stumbled across this post. Feeling quite tested by my complete lack of tech savvy but am going to test my abilities, so here goes .... hope there's a photo on this post (crossing fingers now)
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi843.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fzz359%2FAshJohnsn%2F24032009_004-001.jpg&hash=f81d445c3077e22c102901fad4baa4d595fb7375)
Post Merge: July 21, 2010, 04:56:11 PM
Ok so still not tech savvy I see.... hmm will work it out one day..any suggestions? I copied and pasted the url from photobucket betwenn the two [img] things but no luck.
The reason for these changes is because the s indicates slideshow and the i indicates image...
The ?action=view¤t= is removed because it is also part of the slideshow stuff
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: Muffin on July 21, 2010, 09:50:20 PM
Post by: Muffin on July 21, 2010, 09:50:20 PM
I'm looking for a new host as I don't like photobucket, I'm currently using tinypic but it's crap because you have to type in a code to upload.
I've used imagehost and imageshack in the past but they don't show images or come up error for some people I show them to for some strange reason.
raarrrr!
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi30.tinypic.com%2F2u5qpdx.gif&hash=06ae436b4e4856fd30b5f1835f9d50658e5a474a)
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi26.tinypic.com%2F260y5np.jpg&hash=1630780f267e00d96819c15742cc3106b75f2d43)
I've used imagehost and imageshack in the past but they don't show images or come up error for some people I show them to for some strange reason.
raarrrr!
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi30.tinypic.com%2F2u5qpdx.gif&hash=06ae436b4e4856fd30b5f1835f9d50658e5a474a)
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi26.tinypic.com%2F260y5np.jpg&hash=1630780f267e00d96819c15742cc3106b75f2d43)
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: AJinOz on July 22, 2010, 11:15:40 AM
Post by: AJinOz on July 22, 2010, 11:15:40 AM
Thanks Virginia Marie. Don't think I would have worked all that out by myself after all. Didn't realise that pic was so large either... didn't appear to be on photobucket. anyway just wanted to say thanks :)
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: V M on July 22, 2010, 11:24:08 AM
Post by: V M on July 22, 2010, 11:24:08 AM
Your quite welcome... Glad I could help :)
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: Hurtfulsplash on July 22, 2010, 08:46:19 PM
Post by: Hurtfulsplash on July 22, 2010, 08:46:19 PM
Quote from: Muffin on July 21, 2010, 09:50:20 PM
(https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi26.tinypic.com%2F260y5np.jpg&hash=1630780f267e00d96819c15742cc3106b75f2d43)
Aww, poor squirrel LOL
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: confused on July 22, 2010, 09:04:14 PM
Post by: confused on July 22, 2010, 09:04:14 PM
Quote from: Hurtfulsplash on July 22, 2010, 08:46:19 PMseconded , that's just too mean :(
Aww, poor squirrel LOL
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: Hikari on July 23, 2010, 12:58:31 AM
Post by: Hikari on July 23, 2010, 12:58:31 AM
@muffin Photobucket has got terrible and slow (I have dial up, it can take 3-7 minutes to load the main page!) and I have since switched to picassa which is a google service so if you already have a g-mail account it is easy to sign up.
Picasa lets you share and upload pictures either from a program on your computer which is pretty cool (at least the Linux version is I haven't used the others) or directly through your browser just like photobucket does.
Picasa lets you share and upload pictures either from a program on your computer which is pretty cool (at least the Linux version is I haven't used the others) or directly through your browser just like photobucket does.
Title: Re: Posting pictures on threads
Post by: V M on July 23, 2010, 07:29:50 PM
Post by: V M on July 23, 2010, 07:29:50 PM
For those of you who are using photobucket.... Something that makes it easier to post photos...
When you click on a photo in your photobucket gallery you may notice to the left of the pic. is a box that says...
Share this image
Email & IM
Direct Link
HTML Code
IMG Code
If you click the IMG Code box area it will turn blue then automatically copy the pic. including the [img] brackets and then all you have to do is paste it in your post
Hope that helps :)
When you click on a photo in your photobucket gallery you may notice to the left of the pic. is a box that says...
Share this image
Email & IM
Direct Link
HTML Code
IMG Code
If you click the IMG Code box area it will turn blue then automatically copy the pic. including the [img] brackets and then all you have to do is paste it in your post
Hope that helps :)