How To Add A Photo To Your Post

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[edit] Can I post Images?

Images can indeed be shown in your posts. However, there is no facility at present for uploading images directly to this board. Therefore you must link to an image stored on a publicly accessible web server, e.g. my-picture.gif. You cannot link to pictures stored on your own PC (unless it is a publicly accessible server) nor to images stored behind authentication mechanisms such as Hotmail or Yahoo mailboxes, password-protected sites, etc. To display the image use either the BBCode [img] tag or appropriate HTML (if allowed).


[edit] Adding images using Flickr

Fred has created this guide to using Flickr to post photos on the forum.


[edit] Adding images using Photobucket

The only way to add photographs or pictures to your postings is to have them hosted somewhere else on the internet already. There are lots of photo hosting sites like www.photobucket.com where you can upload photos which can be used on forums. When you have a picture uploaded in one of these sites you'll see under the thumbnail picture that there are three boxes of codes. Highlight and copy the bottom one - the IMG code - then this can be pasted into your posting box when you are replying or starting a topic on the forum. The code you've copied will already have the [IMG] brackets on either end so you don't need to add them when posting it.


[edit] Guide to using Photobucket

Thanks go to Egluntine for a very good step by step set of instructions for Photobucket.


Upload pictures to your PC then:

Step 1: Browse till you find the location of the picture. You can also upload from a web address.

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Step 2: Upload photos. You can upload several photos at a time.

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Step 3: Copy the image code and paste it in to your post.

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Step 4: If the picture is very large, you can reduce its size by clicking on the Edit Image button and then on resize button

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Step 5: Select a new size. I generally go for medium. Save. Copy and paste the new Img code.

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