How do I add a photo to a post?

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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What is the easiest way to add a photo to a post on this forum? You could email me direct, if you prefer.

Thanks!

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You need to post the photo to a website then link to the picture there. There are many free services for posting pictures, but I don’t use them because I have a commercial site and several hobby sites I can upload to so I’ll defer to others for suggestions.

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See this thread in the Layouts forum here for detailed instructions: http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=29285

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Wow, That’s way to complicated! Guess I won’t be doing that anytime soon!

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Actually, just type [“img”] (without the quotes), the URL of your picture, then [“/img”].

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4884bigboy, One would need a URL to have a photo stored there, wouldn’t they?

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You can get a free account at Photobucket http://www.photobucket.com/ and upload photos there. They provide the pre-made URLs to post photos in forums like this one, with the tags at both ends. I’ve been using it and it seems to work great.

Here’s a recent shot of my new Bachmann HO Climax:

Bob Boudreau

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Here’s what I did, I went to http://www.railimages.com/gallery/ and clicked on request account, filloed out the e-mail with the info needed. The next day I had my account. Uploaded the photos.

To get on here, type/paste img](in here type or paste your web address for the picture you wi***o display)[/img]

Hope you you can use the info.

Happy MRRing

Luc

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Mark,

It’s really not that difficult to do. You can go to a place like Railimages.com and open up a FREE account to upload and post your pictures on. Once you’ve posted them on their website, all you need to do to include them in your profile or post is to sandwich the URL of your picture location between [“img”] and [“/img”]. (Minus the quotation signs.)

For example:

[“img”]http://www.railimages.com/gallery/MarkDeshane/coolpicofloco.html[“/img”]

That’s it. If your URL is correct, you’re picture will pop up on the screeen. Mark, I’ll be glad to help you with it, if you’d like. Just drop me an e-mail.

Tom

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That’s true, Don. If I were you I’d get Web Shots. Easy to use and it’s free. www.webshots.com

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Sorry to make it sound difficult I borrowed that post from spankybird.

It’s really very easy once you have a web site to host your pics
I use. www.railimages.com to

Ken.

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Mark,

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:

  1. Taking and editing the photo
  2. setting up a web site to store photos and uploading them to the site
  3. linking to your photos by using the correct codes and language to have your pictures appear in a forum.

1. Taking and editing the photo.

We will presume that you have taken photos of your super cool model railroad with good lighting and clear focus. We need to talk about photo size. Most good, clear digital photos are too big for the web. Generally speaking the larger the size, the better the resolution.

Size is measured in image area: given as a dimension (400x600) and in total file size (256kb). We are interested mostly in total file size. Photos can now be as big as 3 or 4