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.....

Upload a picture to a hosting website such as photobucket.com then get the URL of the image (example: http://examplephotosite.com/myimage.jpg) copy that and paste into your message putting the image code around it

Example-
[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.

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

Quote from: Virginia Marie 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

It'd be like this-
[img]http://home.comcast.net/~ctimjones/DragonCon2004/CuteKitties.jpg[/img]
which makes-



... Mew?

Oh, I see, the dif. is that you put the URL for the pic. within the [img] [/ img] area?

Quote from: Virginia Marie 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?

Yup.

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?

You can type them too.

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Then how come a person with 8 posts was able to display photos in there posting?

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.

Quote from: 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.

yeah, more like no url links to external sites (because of possibility of spam or promotion of a site/product/whatever)

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)

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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.

Quote from: 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)

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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.

How did I do that? Simply change the s843 to i843 then remove all the ?action=view&current= stuff so it just has the picture #.jpg at the end

The reason for these changes is because the s indicates slideshow and the i indicates image...
The ?action=view&current= is removed because it is also part of the slideshow stuff

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!

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 

Your quite welcome... Glad I could help 

Quote from: Muffin on July 21, 2010, 09:50:20 PM

Aww, poor squirrel LOL

Quote from: Hurtfulsplash on July 22, 2010, 08:46:19 PM
Aww, poor squirrel LOL

seconded , that's just too mean

@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.