For some of the people that are either new to forums or ones that have just been having problems posting I thought that I would create this little tutorial for them.
First is to get the image down to a size that is friendly for everyone. There are a few ways to do it. If you are comfortable with image editing software then great if not, then there are programs out there that can do it for you. One is from
www.xat.com another one is the one that I use which is Easy thumbnails from
fookes.com / Easy thumbnail (I like it because it’s free)
EZ thumbnail is the one that I will be using for my example.
Here is a screen shot of EZ thumbnail when you are looking at your files.
Select the file(s) that you wish to create the thumbnails of the bottom of the screen you will tell it what directory where you want the thumbnails to go.
This screenshot is of the settings tab (located at the top)
This is where you will tell the program how large you wish to make your thumbnail.
I will use 640x480, 800x600, or 1024x768. You can click original and preview output tabs to see the difference between the image sizes. The file will be renamed so that it doesn’t affect the original. There are other adjustments that you can make but I won’t go into that, you can play with that on your own.
Next you will have to find a place to host your pictures (if you don’t have your own website). Two of the more common ones are
www.photobucket.com and
www.imageshack.us
After creating an account at either (or another of your choice) you will need to upload your pics.
Here is a screenshot for photobucket.
You either create a directory first or happily upload it to the default page. Repeat this process tilt you have all your photos uploaded
Now that you have it uploaded you will need the information so that you can put it in your post. Clicking on the IMG area will do that. It will highlight all the necessary text.
Then simply right click on it, copy, and paste into your post.
The reason that I did photobucket first, was because you would have to resize your pictures prior to posting.
Imageshack has a neat feature that will automatically resize the pics for you as you are uploading.
As you will notice it gives you a choice as to what size you want them uploaded as.
Once again the preferred choices would be between 640x480 to 1024x768. Once again repeat until you have all your photos uploaded
Now that you have your resized photos uploaded you will need the info to get them onto your post. If you click on “My images” it will take you to a list of your images, once again click on the forums section to highlight it and then right click to copy then paste onto your post.
I hope that this helped a few people with any problem that they may have had with either hosting, posting or resizing.
Now that you have gotten the whole image posting thing down , you can check out this thread that The Chee found on
How to take pictures of your car
Happy picture taking and posting.
So lets see those cars
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