QUIK< what are the specs we need to place a photo on this forums?

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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What are the specs of the pics to upload to THIS forums!

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Quick, you can’t .

You need to have your own webspace or access to someone elses. You can only link to images.

Wayne

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you will require your own website/space or get a photo posting host, then you copy the image URL into the forum go to help at the top of the page and click on the link for images and smilies
if you get a red ‘X’ you have done somthing wrong

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A perfect example of doing something wrong!

Bob Boudreau

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Chears Bob, how the heck do you show how to enclose the picture URL to somebody without getting the red X, tried about five times but i gave up

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Here we go again:

Bob Boudreau

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Trainnut1250 Posted: 27 Jan 2005

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.

  4. 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 si

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Here’s an example:

(Click to enlarge)

Bob Boudreau

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Hey Bob,

Can you send that over, I’m a little short on geared power right now. It would just be a loan. I’ll be able to return it when CP renews it’s lease with SP. Everything will be fine then. I just need that geared unit until it comes through.