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Can someone tell me how to post pictures in the body of the post without them being an attachment? Thanks in advance

snow

Whether you are using scanned photos or digital, first you must be sure the picture is no larger than 760 pixels wide. This will keep the picture from throwing off the frame and readers will not have to scroll back and forth. You can to that with whatever photo program you have or can be done in photobucket.

Which brings us to the next step. You must sign up for a photo hosting site such as photobucket.com.

Then load your photos onto that site, follow their prompts.

To post a picture.
1. Highlight the last line (assuming you are using photobucket) and copy it, easiest by clicking "ctrl+c" on your keyboard.

2 When you are at the place in your post where you want to insert the photo, be sure your cursor is at the left margin and click "ctrl+v" on your keyboard.

Very easy, once you know the drill. I had to have my 11 year old show me how. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />

Finding your pictures on your computer might be a challenge, so be sure to load them in an easy place to find them, such as "my pictures."

If you have more questions or any problems, please don't hesitate to ask.
M

If you have the photo at a web site such as PhotoBucket, copy the URL listed in one of the blocks right below your photo. Logout of PhotoBucket, and come to this site. At this forum, select "Post" (new post), type the title, type whatever you want to say about the picture in the text box below the title or heading, and then click on "Image" (at the right lower corner of the Post window). Delete the "http://" that appears on the text box, paste the complete URL that you copied from PhotoBucket in the box, and then click on Continue. That's all there is to it.

If you post the URL on the "post' then it will show as a link, but if you post the URL on the "Image" box, then the picture opens and shows on the screen automatically.

Nice Photo Snowchaser61,

When making these posts in forums across the net I get confused with the different options some of them offer for the task. Remember I'm a little slow at catching on to this stuff.
On the boards here, which are common of many, I don't use any of their auto buttons they have to assist me in doing this.
I just manually type in the *tag's* that are required to be added to *Your Photos URL* that makes them appear in the post.

These *tags* for images look like this

Opening tag = [ I m g ]

Closing tag = [ / I m g ]


Make your post look like this....

[ i m g ] *Your Photos URL* [ / i m g ]

To get *Your Photos URL* just right click on your image, or any image you see online that you might want to post and *Copy Image Address* doing this saves the address to your clipboard.
Now you can right click again here while composing a post and hit paste and the saved URL will appear where you want it.

For the current photo you are working with the post should look like this

[ i m g ] h t t p ://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/member_images//691662-deer%5B4%5Dresize2_resize_resize.jpg [ / i m g ]

You can't have any spaces in the string, I left spaces in this so it would not go active and you could see what it looked like in it's raw form.

Posted with out the spaces the same string would look like this.



There is always more than one way to skin a cat..........

A couple of related but unsolicited tip's

I keep photos that I use online in many places.
You will find as suggested to you by others that Photobucket.com in rather user friendly and a grand site for free storage. I use photobucket as well as some of my own web space that I pay for.
Sites that offer free storage of your photos such as this one, where you have uploaded your deer photo would frown upon you posting this photo outside of this site. If you were to do that it burns up their bandwidth while being viewed and they pay for their bandwidth and most likely would rather in be reserved for their viewers so respect this.

Photobucket and other such sites offer their services for *free* and you are more than welcome to post the photos you store there anywhere you wish.

There is often a catch to these *free* services.
Even thought they don't charge you a cash amount to use their services you might find if you read the fine print in their users agreements that using their services also requires that you release all rights to your photos to them to do with as they see fit.
In short, once you upload a photo to their site they own your photo.

For this reason I limit what photos I store with these so called *free* services.
With all of that aside, here are a couple of tips I thought I would offer.

These URL's for your photos are often long and complex. Manually typing them will inevitably result in errors so the copy and paste technique is a given.

Now while you are uploading photos to whatever resource you have chosen you might want to consider this.

Create a couple of folders in your documents and dedicate them to these URL's.
I name mine "photo_urls" duh:). Then I will add subfolders such as "outdoor_photos", "hunting", "fishing" and so on.
This helps me keep them in a sort of retrievable form.

Now, right when I do my photo upload I copy and paste my URL to one of these folders along with a short description so I will recall which ones which at a later date when I desire to use a given photo in a post.
This way I don't have to go hunting for the URL at some online site when I want to use it.

Once you get all this stuff down pat and find that you have stored a considerable amount of your personal photos on sites scattered across the net, you may want to think about this.

Get your own web space and learn how to upload to it.
This cut's out those middle men that you have given your photos to and gives you full control of what yours to start with.
If you were to look at the ISP you already paying for to get online to start with, you might find they have given you web space when you signed up with them.

Most do.

I just have a crappy dial-up service, they charge me under 100 bucks a year for my Internet connection service and I get 100 megs of webs pace for free with them and they are nationwide.
That's "integate.com" if you're interested.

Now if you wanted to go hogwild, you could get your own domain and web hosting service.
I own a few domains and multiple websites.
I pay under 10 bucks a year to have my domain's hosted and on the average of a 100 bucks a year per 1000 Megs of web space.
You will find thousands of companies online offering such services. Just do a Google search on "web hosting" and take your pick.

By now you must be wondering what all this crap has to do with posting a photo in a forum:)

Here is what I am getting at.

Lets say you make the plunge and get your own site and domain.
Now you have blessed the world with a new site called "snowchaser61.com"

Now when you upload a photo you your very own web space it can be a simple as adding photos to your documents. You build a folder on the web space and add photos. Lets say you have built a folder named "deer" and the photos you have in it are named "deer01.jpg", "deer02.jpg" and so on.
The URL for these photos will first read like this:

http:// snowchaser61.com

This identifying your domain.
Then you have to direct it to the particular folder where you have the photo you want, so the URL grows and will now include the folder name and will look like this:

http:// snowchaser61.com/deer

Now we have to add the particular photo to the URL so again it grows and looks like this:

http:// snowchaser61.com/deer/deer01.jpg

This would be the entire URL you would need to add to a post to direct people to your image.

This URL is short and coincidently easy to remember.
This is my point (finally), Now while you are typing away in a forum and you want to add a photo to the post you just might be able to remember the URL you need and have no need to go looking anywhere for it.

I would be dead-meat without knowing my URL's off the top of my head.
I host a couple of different forums on my web sites much like the one we are currently logged into.
I make hundreds of post's, which requires speed, but at the same time precise accuracy.

It just makes it a little bit simpler to do the stuff I like to do.
I seldom post on this site just due to the time I have being dedicated to my own sites but I will always slow down to offer a little advice if requested.

To everyone,
Thanks for all the tips and info. I have printed all of them. I am new to the digital camera thing and am just a bit overwhelmed by it. But i am learning. I will start out with photobucket and take it from there as i am not ready for my own domain and websites just yet. Thanks again

snow