FAQ - How do I post a picture?

[admin]

This is one of the most common questions on the forums: How do you post a picture? Below are the 2 basic choices.

Option 1 - Become a site Contributor
For $12 a year you can upgrade your forum membership to "Contributor" which includes photo uploads directly from your computer, not to mention helping support the site. Read this thread for instructions or click here to signup.

Option 2 - Use a free photo host or your ISP

1. Free Picture Hosting sites that allow "remote linking" - These are getting hard to find and usually have restrictions as to how many photos you can show per day before they cut you off. Try this new site set up specifically to show photos on forums (it's free!):
http://ForumFotos.com

2. Your ISP (Internet Service Provider) - Most ISP's include some free web space with your paid internet account. So if you're using an ISP like Cox, Earthlink, MSN, Sprint, etc. then you probably already have free space just waiting for you to use it. Check with your ISP for more info on how to access your web space and upload files.

OK, so my picture is on the web. Now what?
Once you have your picture online you need to find it's URL (web address). If you surf to your picture on your web space then right click on the picture, a menu comes up. Go down to "Properties" and left click on that and it will show you a bunch of info including the Address (URL). Highlight the entire address, right click and select copy. This is what you'll need to show your picture in the forums.

Now go into the forums and post or reply to the message that you want to show the picture in. Right above where you type the message body are some gray buttons. Click the IMG button. A window will pop up. Type in the URL of or right click and select paste.

Can I post a picture from my computer?
No. The picture has to be already on the web somewhere. (The exception is that Contributors can upload photos directly. See option 1 above.)

That's about it. If anyone can think of anything to add please post it. (But please don't use this thread to test your pictures. Start a new topic in "Test and Help" for that)

Thanks!

[brewdude]

Here is the link that I am using

http://brewdude.classicbroncos.com/c...i/DSC00024.JPG

[admin]

Brewdude, that's acutally a link to a page with the image on it, but not the image itself.
http://brewdude.classicbroncos.com/DSC00024.JPG is the image itself (right click on the image and go to "properties" and it will list the URL under "address")

Unfortunately you can't use the free classicbroncos.com web pages to post images directly to the forums. It works sometimes, but it's not supposed to.

The best thing to do is just use the link as you have so people can click on it and see the image.

[Dennis]

I'm tring to link a pics and it doesn't seem to want to take it. Did you change something? Am I doing something wrong?

[admin]

I don't think it likes the special characters (ie the parenthesis) Try one without and see if it works. I haven't changed anything on my end.

[tonto]

I just downloaded some pic’s into a thread and there were thumbnails with them to open larger versions, are the thumbnails new and will this be how it is now?
Because the pic’s I downloaded into the same thread last week doesn’t have thumbnails but have links that need to be opened to view the pic.
Just wondering, Francois.

[admin]

Yeah, the thumbnails are new and I'll probably keep them that way. It's easier on the server loads and people with slow connections.

Any pics attached prior to last night (when I did the forum upgrade) will be links and any new pics will be thumbs. There is a conversion that will update all old pics to thumbs, but it's really, REALLY server intensive and takes several hours of solid processing time. So I'll need to wait until off-peak when I have some free time to babysit it.

[BigFord74]

Can I not post banner's in my sig unless i'm a paid member?

[admin]

Actually no one can post pictures in their signature. Signatures are text only on this forum.

[BigFord74]

Got ya thnx.

[Airborne69]

lets see if this works

[zombie66]

pic test

[zombie66]

pic test part 2

[the fool]

test

[Salgood]

hmmmm...cant get the little pic by my name to work?????