I have asked a few questions about this topic recently and received some great answers from ‘Steinjr’ and ‘Cudaken’ and others. I was actually able to understand their advise well enough to make it work! However, I received an e-mail from ‘Cedarwoodron’ asking me to try to document everything I went through in my learning curve because he suggested that there were others out there who could use a more detailed description. These instructions are a direct takeoff of 'Steinjr’s and 'Cudaken’s responses to my first enquiry on how to post pictures to a thread. There are other ways to do this.
One word of caution - now that I have learned to post pics I am looking at my models through the eye of the camera. You will be suprised at how many deficiencies pop out from that view. I have a lot of work to do!
General Overview. There are 3 parts to the process of posting your pictures:
Moving your pictures from your camera to your computer and organizing them
Moving your pictures into Photobucket
Moving your pictures from Photobucket to your posts to MRR
On the registration page enter a user name and password and answer the other questions. Make a note of your user name and password because you may need them later. Click on ‘sign me up’
On the next screen you will be asked to sign up for the ‘pro’ version. According to Stein there is no reason to spend your money but you might want to read the small print. Stein’s suggestion is to click ‘no thanks’.
Next screen, accept the default setting ‘public’ for albums. You are now ready to post pics to Photobucket. Keep in mind that anyone will be abl
If you search in “Search Our Community” which is part way down the right hand column (not Search this Site) you should find some answers. I know it is a frequent topic, however, I don’t have the needed stuff to do it, so cannot be a lot of help. I think most folks have an account with Photobucket.
Maybe getting this back to the top, someone will see it who can explain it to you.
Once you create your Photobucket account and upload your photos, I’ve just been using the old fashioned method of putting the URL to the photo between the[“img”] [“/img”] tags
That works too. But the original request was for the simplest way of doing it. The simplest way (IMO) is to not give people uncomfortable with computers several different either/or options.
I just tried to pick a way that will give them direct feedback on whether it worked or not - using a “direct link” from photobucket combined with the “insert media” dialog here makes them see the image right away, while editing the post.
Pasting IMG Codes in text and not seeing the result until you post is likely to unnerve people who are uneasy about computers.
Having to add codes by hand (and remembering what kind of brackets to use, whether to have space or not, adding the / at the start inside the end tag) is likewise likely to cause these people to get spooked (or just do it wrong).
But you can do this in several different ways - including clicking on the “HTML” button in the forum editor window and editing the HTML code behind your post, if you so desire
I’m still amazed that some still add the IMG tags to their Photobucket URLs, because Photobucket already supples the URLs with the tags already. Why bother messing around, taking the long way to do something? Just copy the URL WITH the tags and paste directly into your message where you want the photo to appear.
Thanks! Very helpful. I tried it this way and it worked well. But by the way, in my investigating I found something else also. I use a Mac and found that once in Photobucket, and with the picture selected opened to the larger view, I could just drag and drop it into the message where appropriate. Very easy.
When I wrote this I had been asked by a fellow forum member who was not computer savy at all to explain things in full detail. That is exactly what I did.
You should keep in mind that this thread was written 3 years ago. At that time, not very many people understood the much quicker shortcuts that are now commonly used to post pictures. I would also venture to say that there are still a large number of people who are still not comfortable with computers and whose (older) eyes still glaze over when somebody outlines the “three simple and easy steps” to posting pictures. Many of these fellow modelers would love to share pics but they can’t because nobody has taken the time to help them through in the detail that they need to get over the learning hump when first delving into these things. They need ‘Computers 101’ before they can understand and they likely have never had it.
So, I respectfully disagree with your suggestion that 81 pages is overkill. For most people it absolutely was overkill, but not for all. It might interest you to know that in the past three years I have received eight or so thank you notes and my blurb is still referred to regularly. (Thanks Jeffery). In fact it probably needs to be updated as a result of the recent changes to Photobucket, but that is for another day.
By your use of capitols and exclamation marks I sense that you are upset. Sorry. Perhaps to help you to calm down you could post your own “3 button” method…in a manner that everyone who reads it can understand exactly what to do without having to search for anything. Also, don’t assume that they already know how to do anything.
I don’t know how old you are TATANS but there will come a time when you will need a detailed explanation. I hope there is someone willing to take that time.
Seemingly “simple method” of posting pictures as compared to starting a B-17, one page of instructions, Boeing has a film on taking an employee off the line and showing him how to start a B-17 in less than 1/2 hour, can’t find it on youtube, but another video shows starting the engine is: James Kelly covers the B-17 engine starting —on youtube, guess maybe it’s the instructor eh?
What is your point? You seem bent out of shape that I tried my best to help a few people who needed help. The excess use of capitals and punctuation marks was yours - not mine.
By the way, your link to the B-17 video doesn’t work. Perhaps someone will offer to show you in detail how to copy a link into your post so that it actually works. I wouldn’t dare attempt it.
