HI Guys,
Being new to the forum, i need some direction on how to attach a picture to a post on this forum.
I’ve tired the Inset/edit Image button but it only allows for a url address and no way to upload a picture from my computer.
The Content Selector button opens a window for what appears to be a photo adding option but there is no indication on how to get photos to this window in the first place.
Brian
Brian,
Simply put, you first have to find a host for your pictures (Photobucket.com or RailImages.com are two examples), upload them to their server, then link to them in the body of your post using the picture’s URL.
Here’s an example of what it would look like in your Message text box of your post:
[img]Picture’s URL[“/img”]
(Minus the quotation marks around the 2nd bracketed img.)
The URL can be easily obtained by right clicking on the picture your want to post then left clicking “Copy Image Location”. All that’s left to do is to paste the URL in between the bracketed imgs then press the Post button.
That’s pretty much it. Let us know if you have any troubles.
Tom
Tom,
Thanks for the reply. Does the above actually imbed the image into the reply or just post the link?
Brian
It will cause your web browser to display the image along with the rest of your text.
Stein
It is not too difficult. I use Photo Bucket, a photo and video hosting site. You can post your own photos and videos.First of all, figure out what albums you want in your account. The amount of photos you upload to the editing service can get quite cumbersome and difficult to locate. Also, if you move a photo to a different album, whatever forum you posted the photo to, the photo will disappear in that forum.
Below is a photo of a screen shot of what I do. You can see at the lower left, IMG code. Click on the code to highlight it and copy it. Paste that code into your message. The photo will be in the message whenever someone looks at the message.
I too use photobucket to post pictures always been a piece of cake, but i noticed the last couple of days that when attempting to post my paste button is now gray’d out…
Anyone come across this problem in the past ?
I always use Ctrl c to copy or Ctrl v to paste. Sometimes use the mouse. Never tried the paste key.
Rich
Well this is whacked, tried your way Rich ,nadda…also now my paste button is no longer grayed out but trying it still no image code…nothin’ , wondering if maybe its a problem on photo bucket’s end. Guess I’ll just wait and see…lol
I am using Firefox browser. Most of the time I right click with the mouse and select copy or paste. Though I now use a Linux OS, I use to use Firefox with Windows PC and it worked just fine in these forums with the mouse or keyboard. I copy and paste to a Open Office document for spell check. My way.
The only time I use the buttons is for the smiley and that is rare.
My stepson has a laptop with Vista Basic running the Firefox browser just fine. The PC switches to IE when updates are needed. He has had IE and Firefox browsers open at the same time. No big deal.
Rich
This is something I wish MR would change. Posting images here is more hassle than it’s worth a lot of the time, IMO.
Another railroad forum I visit allows uploading of images directly to their servers making posting images so much easier. They also provide free blog space for members to use for their own personal railroad blog. Pretty cool if you ask me. I wonder why MR wouldn’t do something similar?
Yes, the Yahoo groups are like that. I know the cut & paste forum buttons do not work with Firefox except for the smileys. I do not bother with the other buttons.
I found out when I joined these forums to learn how to adapt and use the key board and mouse for copy and paste, though that is the method I use for everything anyway. Never, ever any issues here when using Firefox with my methods which many PC users use also. It is nothing special and I am not a software type. I just learned those methods some years ago from other PC users.
Rich
Easy: the terabytes all those photos would take (and lots of the original photos are hi-res, upwards of a couple megs).
Considering there’s something like 850,000 posts on the MR servers (and that they don’t charge any extra for the forums (not that they’re altruistic, I’m sure they charge advertisers based on the hit counts)), that’s a lot of horsepower and bandwidth just for the text and links. To host photos multiply by a factor of maybe 100. And that doesn’t just impact the hard drive space needed for storage – it would hit the bandwidth and throughput.
I’ve just posted a bunch of pictures from photobucket in the “Bridges - show yours” thread - photobucket is working fine.
Everyone seems to have their own method of posting from photobucket - here’s mine:
Here’s what I see when I first go to the page of the sub-album from which I want to take the picture:
I then scroll down to the thumbnail of the photo which I want to post (denoted by the red arrow). When the cursor is hovered over a photo, note the data which appears beneath the photo:
I then “click” on the thumbnail, and it changes to an enlargement:
Note the box marked “Share this image” in the bottom left-hand corner. “Click” on the “IMG CODE” line - it will turn blue, as shown, and a momentary message of “COPIED” will appear.
Now return to your composition window here, place the cursor where you want the picture to appear, then, on your control panel click “EDIT”, then “PASTE”. A line of data like that below will appear (I’ve changed the first “[” to “(” so that the data will remain as data when I hit “POST”.)
Without the changed “[”, when I hit “POST”, the line of data will appear as a picture.
[IMG]http://i2
Depends on how you do the copy from the photobucket site (and possibly on what web browser you use).
On the photobucket site, just clicking in the image code box under your picture in listing mode (where you see all the pictures on the same page in your album) used to cause the code to be copied - a small yellow sign saying “copied” used to pop up briefly on photobucket. Once you have something copied, you also could paste it using the paste button in the editor here on the trains.com site.
But either my browser or the photobucket site (or both) obviously has been updated. Happened quite a while ago. I no longer get “copied” if I just click in the image code box in listing mode on photobucket.
Two workarounds:
Just clicking in the img code box on this web page will cause a “copied” message, and you are ready to post the reference on the trains.com website.
Probably the easiest way for people who get nervous about computerese concepts like “mark text” and “placing text on clipboard”.
Ie, for Microsoft Windows, e.g. click and drag mouse marker over text to mark, right-click plus copy to copy. Or doubleclick text
I see. Well it seems strange that another FREE forum is doing this and the world has not come to an end yet. Now I’m worried!
Just curious - why do you feel it is bad that some company, which is giving you something for free, isn’t offering you even more for free ?
Grin,
Stein
Personally I prefer to have my pictures and video in one location, such a Photobucket, instead of spread helter skelter on various web sites. It really is no harder to link a picture from Photobucket than it is to upload to each web forum. With Photobucket I can upload picture #1 once, copy the link and post that link on several different forums. Photobucket is a free service, this is a free forum, I fail to see the difference. I dislike Yahoo groups because they severely limit the size of the picture.
MHO
Doctorwayne,
Thank you for going to the trouble to post the above tutorial on “how to add pictures”. This reallly helped. Now I need to start a photobucket account. Funny thing really, I used to chuckle at my daughter for all the time she sent on her photobucket account. She is very much into photography. Now look at me. I starting the same thing! 
Cool pictures BTY,
Thanks again, Brian
I have been using Yahoo Groups for many years. When I started using Photo Bucket, I found I could also post the Photo Bucket links in Yahoo messages and post photos into the Yahoo Photos section. which I agree are limited. I stopped going to the church of “we have never done it that way before”. [:)]
There are times I include Photo Bucket links in email messages to others in a couple different email services I use. I am not a software type, I have and are still learning on how to adapt using the 'Net.
You have to be willing to adapt to the situation.
Rich
Always glad to be able to help out, Brian. [swg]
I always thought that my kids wasted a lot of time on the computer, and was planning on getting rid of it when they moved out. Of course, then I discovered the various train-related sites and was hooked. They never fail to remind me, though, of how much time I’m “wasting” on the computer. [(-D]
Wayne
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