After seeing folks have questions on how to post pictures to the forum, I decided to lend a hand and make a photo tutorial that shows how to post pictures. This tutorial is focused on photobucket since that’s the one I use and is intended for anyone who is not too familiar with posting pictures. This will seem very basic to some of us, but in any event I hope it’s found to be useful.
First things first:
Create an account at www.photobucket.com, it’s free and most users find it easy to use. There are quite a bit of ads and stuff on the site, but all that is what makes a free website possible.
After you create your account, it’s time to upload pictures to your new photobucket album. If you aren’t already, you need to log into your photobucket account. You will see a small area in the main screen that says “Upload images & videos”.
May I make a couple of additions to Tony’s excellent tutorial. Another way to transfer the Photobucket code (for a given image, that has been “Copied”), is to click on ctrl V (while the cursor is at the place where you desire to place the photo. If you discover that you have made a “typo” in your text (or wish to add to the text) after it has been Posted, you can click on Edit. Each time you reEdit a given Post, there will be boxes for additional Tags, and Edit Notes. The Post sign will appear at the bottom left corner, so that you can repost. Your text and image/s will appear at the end of any previously Posted Replies. As Tony says,“The text can be Edited, but don’t mess with the picture/s”, ( or you will have to explain to the " Forum Manager, why you desire to delete, or rearrange a photo"!" Bob Hahn
This can be important. After setting up an account and Before posting photos, determine what your album names are going to be. If you change your mind and select a better album name and move a photo or two, your links in a forum will go away. That is called “messing” with the photo. The amount of photos you post can get quite large before you know it. Been there, done that.
Thanks for the suggestions guys, I added them to the tutorial in blue text. I’m not a Mac user, so that paste command was very necessary.
I’m guilty for not creating an album to organize my pictures, so this is also something very good to get into the habit of doing. Your suggestion was added as an extra tip since I didn’t really show how to create any albums. I was considering making a tutorial on how to use some of photobucket’s other features, but I don’t want to come accross as a photobucket spokesman or promoter. Besides, I’m still getting the hang of some of PB’s features.
How do I make my photos come up smaller? Mine come up too big. I want them to come up small to where you can click on it and then it will grow. Someone please help me!
I think that glitch is a software issue that reared its ugly head after the new forum software change and it’s pretty much out of our control. I’m hoping the IT crew from MR is going to fix this and the other bugs that the new software came with.
I’m not sure just what occured that I couldn’t quite do it the way described by jasperofzeal—BTW, very concise and to the point(probably redundant,oh well) sure got me on the way though…
I am thinking Vista doesn’t quite work with PB like your tutorial–I found that if I right clicked the IMG field I could just copy and then right click on my posting to paste. I linked on after the fact and got a 17" screen view… I’ll figure this thing out yet… Tnx![swg]
