Posting Pictures

[Glendamax]

Okay guys, PLEASE DON'T SHOOT ME. I did do a search, and asked someone else this. But, I still need to know if there are any step-by-step instructions to posting pictures on this site. I recently pruchased a digital camera (Canon A620), and would like to be able to post some of the pictures.

Thank you

 

[bazzanoid]

Hi and welcome to the over-complicated world of online photo sharing

Firstly, you'll need somewhere on the interweb to host the pictures - if you don't have your own personal webspace, try something like Flickr or Photobucket. Set up an account, and read up on their limitations etc, and most importantly, upload some photos. Not sure about flickr, but Photobucket allows you to resize the photos on or after upload - for this forum and many others a general guide is about 640 on the long side of the picture to avoid stretching the forum layout horizontally or not fitting the whole image on one screen vertically.

Once you've done that, you need to make a post as usual and just point at the image you want to post using IMG tags in the same way you would a URL tag - photobucket makes it easy by giving you [ img ] code which you just copy and paste into here to display your pic. :

For example, this code links to a picture of homer simpson...

...and then you can see it in 'preview post' to check you've got the correct pic/looks ok before submitting:

Hope that helps!!!!

EDIT: Footnote - the code example above is an image, otherwise you wouldn't be able to see the physical source code... just thought i'd point that out in case anyone asked how it was done

 

[Glendamax]

Thank you very much! I will attempt to do this before the week is out (hopefully today). So stay tuned!

 

[Glendamax]

Ok I just tried it, I saw the picture when it came up but it's HUGE. Please tell me how to make it smaller. I chose "resize to 25% of picture" but it's still HUGE! Please help! thanx!