How To Post a Picture

[DarthDaddy]

Well this has come up a lot so here goes.

To post a picture using "Photobucket" I have used many, but this is the one I currently use. If you google free image hosting I am sure you will find plenty of options.

http://photobucket.com/

First you need to have an image that is in a digital format and sized well. jpg is my prefered method, but gif and bmp will work as well. I also make my images no larger the (8" x ?) This way it shows up nicely on the screen, but does not required scroll bars to view left to right. All the images I am posting here are 8" x Whatever...

Get a FREE account from photobucket. Simple sign up procedure. Once you have signed up you will have access to the following page. (Image 1)

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c158/darthdaddy/UploadExample1.jpg

Select BROWSE and find your saved image on your computer and then upload. After a few seconds (or Minutes with dialup) you should get a "Load Successful" screen and have your image uploaded into a box with 3 boxes of code below. (Image 2)
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c158/darthdaddy/PicPostExp1.jpg

You will want the third box. Just copy and paste the contents into your post. (Image 3)

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c158/darthdaddy/edittpostExm.jpg

Notice there are [img] tags on either end allowing for the image to appear in the post.

Hopefully this will help and if I need to add more detail to the "How To" then let me know. I am sure many of the other guys out there will be able to assist in many of the different hosting sites.

You can also PM me and I would be happy to help.

[SGTDad]

Very nice guide!

[sao95]

good guide Darth, the only thing I would add is if you don't have a photo program to resize, or if you don't know what programs will resize et cetera, you can download Irfanview for free from here http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm
with it you can also do batch conversion so you can resize tons of pictures all at once instead of opening them seperately.