Hey Guys, Ladies [C):-)][:)][:I][:X]
I have access to a digital camera. I have been wanting to take digital photos of the passenger car interiors that I’ve painted as well as my Metroliner metalizing project and share them with you here.
Would you please tell me “STEP BY STEP” how to get digital photos (or even regular photo prints) on to a post or response. Some of you do it regularly and your photos look great! [:)][:D][8D][:p][;)]
I’m sure that there are others on this Forum that have some very cool photos that they could post also if they knew exactly how. [:D][;)]
Thanks!
I think in order to post a picture to this forum, you have to have a web host set-up where your pictures are sitting out at the host and connect back to this site. I see there is an insert image button in the top of this topic reply, but you can’t actually insert anything.
I have the same question as well, I’d love to post photos.
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Take some nice pictures.
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Go to “Railimages” and set up a free account (you might want to consider donating too). They will instruct you on how to upload your pictures to their site.
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Once your pictures are on Railimages, come here and start a topic about your pictures. You can use the “img” function to display your photos (you copy the web address of your photo on Railimages and paste it here with the “img” commands. If you need to know how is set up, find a topic with a picture imbedded (I’ve done a few) and hit reply with quote. This will show you how the picture was set up on the post (you don’t really reply - you just use it to see how the picture was done).
Hope this helps. Looking forward to seeing your pics.
If you don’t have a digital camera you can get a scanner for prints, slides, or both, almost all of my pics (model and prototype) are prints or slides, I used a digital once on a railfanning trip and I wasn’t happy with the results, I’ll switch to digital only when Kodak stops making 400 prints and Kodachrome.
I ordered my disposable camera pics on a CD so i can post them here. I need to set up a railimages account when i get the CD. I hope to eventualy start my own web site.
The FAQ section on Railimages explains in detail how to post a hosted picture on another site.
i did that with the disposable camera and CD thing. although its nice they don’t look that great. but it was a good cheap way to get my pictures on the net because we don’t have a scanner at all. now we have the digital camera and its a little easier, not much.
all the pictures i take of “real” trains i post on railroadforums.com in the photo gallery. i’m thinking about creating a site and putting my stuff on there shortly.
I’m looking into starting a site on www.trainweb.org just to put my pictures on and then post here and in other forums.
Noah
Thanks Everyone!
I’m saving this page to my harddrive and will refer to it after I take the photos!
God Bless!
I registered to have a page set up for my photos. I hope this venture is useful =)
Lee
Type [“img”] (without the quotes) and then type the URL of your picture(s). The type [“/img”] (without the quotes).
There are lots of free image hosting sites–some for railroaders (modelers included) and others for just about anything. Do a google search for “free image hosting” (use the quotation marks) and see what you find.
Antonio,
If you set up a free account at www.photobucket.com , it will provide the image tags for you. All you
have to do is copy and paste them to you post and the picture will appear. Also, the site loads the
pictures to the forum really fast. I have noticed that Railimages has a slow server. Probably due to the
high traffic flow, a lot of people use Railimages. Just another option. Good luck, Dave
i have done as told, but it still gives me the X
any suggestions?
Guys;
I have noticed that many of you are having difficulty posting your pics after uploading to a free webhost.
If after following the directions for posting pictures here, and the syntax is correct, but you still get the dreaded RED X, I bet there is a good chance the website hosting your pictures doesn’t allow whats called “hotlinking”.
Hotlinking provides a clickable thumbnail of the picture onto another website without having to click on a link to go to the host website to see the picture. With hacking/scamming/phishing incidents on the rise, more and more sites are not allowing hotlinking. Go to your host’s FAQ to see if they allow it. If the policy on hotlinking is not in the FAQ, then it’s probably somewhere with in the policy/procedures statement of the host website.
I have almost reached the same conclusion that dave9999 commented on. I created a RailImages account three weeks ago, to store the pictures from the Thurston County Fair OMRS layout photos. I was able to get some photos loaded. But I find when I went back in to add or change photo comments that it seemed to take forever to get to the gallery page and then to access the photos.
If this slowness causes you distress, then you may want to shop around to find another hosting site with a faster response time.
I have not had the opportunity to go back and fini***he photos, or add in the second and third diskettes of photos that I took. I’d give the URL, but the picture display is not complete yet. Hopefully I’ll get back to it some time this week. {Gads, working, playing with my kids, keeping the wife happy sure does take a lot of time away from running trains…}
Odd, I have done a fair bit of work recently with my railimages gallery, and have had near-instant results.
I prefer Photobucket as a Host for my RR images. All you have to do is upload your pictures to some Album (that you choose). Below each image will be four Options. You choose the last one labelled IMG to click on. Momentarily, the word “Copied” appears. This means that the image is copied to the computer Clipboard. You then go to the Thread to which you desire to add a reply and insert an image. Type in your text and the click on ctrl V The lengthy code for the image will appear below your text. Then, click on Post (lower left corner). The text and picture will be added to the end of the Thread. Don’t double Post! It may take a few seconds fot the Posted text and image to be added to the Thread. You can always “edit” the text, if you want to add something, or correct a typo. There may be a simpler way to Post multi-images, but I add them one at a time, by repeating the sequence described. Bob