Attaching a photo...here's some instructions I sent someone else. It's actually very easy.
First, you need a place to upload and host your pictures. It doesn't really matter where.
- Photobucket is very popular, though I've never used it. I'm sure it's free. I'm pretty sure it's relatively easy to use.
- tinypic.com is extremely quick and easy to use with no signup and no BS, if your pictures are somewhat anonymous or you don't care to keep track of them.
- Flickr and Picasaweb are great but require a little more work and thought, as they aren't designed specifically for use with forums.
- You may be able to upload them here, too, but that's a bit of a hassle and I never bother.
- There's a million other photo hosting sites too, and there's general purpose file hosting sites that don't care what kind of files they're hosting. It really doesn't matter.
Are you registered at any sites where you might be able to upload, other than forums?
Once your pictures are hosted somewhere, you have to embed them in your messages...
- If you used a site that's made for forums, it will provide stuff you can copy and paste.
- If not, you have to get the address of the image itself (not the address of the page). Right-click on the image.
- -- If you're using Internet Explorer you'll have to click Properties, and its address will be there.
- -- If you're using any other browser you can choose something like "Copy image address" or "Copy image location".
- Once you have the image address, you have to paste it into your message, surrounded by image tags. The tags look like this: {img} address-of-image.jpg {/img} except they use square brackets [] instead of curly braces {}.
- The message editor can do the job for you; instead of pasting the address into the message, click this button in the tools above the message edit box:
and paste the address into its dialog box. That doesn't do anything special, it just saves you the keystrokes of typing in the img tags.
Avoid putting images on the same line, that makes people have to scroll sideways to see them. Here's an example of images on the same line; you can see the code by quoting this message:
Here's the same images on separate lines:
I simply pressed the Enter key after each [/IMG] tag just like I would after typing a paragraph.
Try not to post images too small to see well or too large to load quickly / fit on people's screens. I like to post images from 500x500 to 1280x1024, depending on how much detail is necessary. Many of the hosting sites will automatically resize the picture based on the URL, and in fact, if you use Picasaweb you need to manually change the URL to specify a size or it won't display for anyone but you.
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