Hi
I really want to post some pictures but i dont know how.Do You need a website.?
Is there a simple way? Lots of people post pictures and i am sure not everyone that posts a picture uses a website. Is there no way of cutting and pasting or something?I clicked the inset image button but i am not sure what to do from there.
Help!!!
PAvariangoo
This is our monthly question, comes up regularly; you’ve been on here for a while, I imagine you’ve seen it many times yourself. How to’s have been posted many, many times - do a search on the messages “posting pictures” and you should come up with the answers many times.
Bob Boudreau
I did search.
My searches were…
“help posting pictures”
“posting pictures”
Neither had much info on posting pictures.
Look for yourself if you dont beleive me!
Pavariangoo
Pavariangoo,
You will need to get an internet picture posting web site like railimages or webshots or any number of others then you will need to follow the instruction and upload you pictures to there site after you do this you rick click on one of you pictures and get the properties copy the utl and then come back to this site and in your message field, click the icon above for Insert image in between the [IMG] you paste your url.
I could not post pictures for a very long time. I think the problem was the website I was using for “hosting” (a place to upload ans store the photos). My computer has too many security features.
I finally found a website called Shutterfly
http://www.shutterfly.com/home/signin_member.jsp
which is free because they hope you’ll order photo prints someday. I did, and the service is fast and cheap.
Sign up there, take some digital photos, and upload them. To post one of these it’s easiest to run 2 Internet browser sessions at the same time (run Internet Explorer twice and tile both windows). One window has your photo album and the other window has the forum reply.
Then on the Shutterfly site view one of your pictures alone (big size so it posts big). Right-click the photo and select or highlight the “address URL”
Copy this info (hold Ctrl, press “C” for copy), switch to the forum reply box and type the following without spaces inside the brackets.
[ i m g ]Ctrl+V will paste the photo address here[ / i m g]
Repeat forever so we can see your pictures. Have fun!
Now I’ve got to post more since I’ve got Shutterfly open…
Tbat55, those are some very nice pictures, keep em coming.
Here’s a very complete post on posting photos on this site. I found it by using the “Advanced Search” form on this list. Too bad this cannot be a “sticky post” so it is always on top for the monthly question that always appears.
Bob Boudreau
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Trainnut1250 Posted: 27 Jan 2005, 00:25:41 Quote
I have posted thie before. Thought if you haven’t seen already seen it, maybe it could be be of help.
I decided to give a try at an explanation of web photo posting for other forum members who are interested in posting and haven’t had any experience with photos on the web. There are many points of view on this and I am trying to present a simple, straight-ahead explanation that is general enough to be understood and specific enough to be helpful.
First, a simple explanation of what happens when a photo is posted to the forum. Contrary to popular belief the photo is never actually stored on the forum. When a person views a photo in an online forum, the photo is sent from another web location (other than the forum) to the viewer’s computer. This means that in order to post photos in a forum they must be stored at another web site first. When pictures are stored at an online site, they are given a specific address. When a person posts the picture on the forum for others to view, he is actually giving the forum an address to the photo. The viewer’s computer uses this address to go out and get the photo.
The process of posting photos can be broken down into several categories:
Taking and editing the photo
setting up a web site to store photos and uploading them to the site
linking to your photos by using the correct codes and language to have your pictures appear in a forum.
Taking and editing the photo.
We will presume that you have taken photos of your super cool model railroad with good lighting and clear f
Type in the url address of your photo between the brackets ( ][ )
like this?..first find an internet provider that stores pictures…(webshots doesn’t work unless you go to their website then vew the picture-use shutterfly…it works) once you download the picture to the site from one copied on a floppy disk, (you’ll have to click “browse” then go to a/: drive from the menu, then download it to the site from the disk) once the picture has been downloaded, right click the mouse with the arrow on the picture for a pop up box, go to “properties” and highlight the url address then left click and “copy”…now, go to the MRR forum and type
[ img ] (be sure there are no spaces) then right click and then click “paste”, then type [ /img ] (with no spaces) and the picture should take…chuck