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    Default The Ultimate in pic-posting help

    While there are certainly other ways of posting pictures on a forum such as this, I think this is one of the most basic methods that most folks new to picture-posting will find fairly straight forward.

    Okay, you have a picture on your computer that you'd like to post on the forum (this one or practically any other). Here's how you do it:


    1. Set yourself up a free account on Photobucket by following the instructions for doing so on http://www.photobucket.com.

    2. Okay.... You know where the pics are in your computer. Like in "My Pictures" or wherever.

    3. With that in mind, go to: http://www.photobucket.com

    4. With your account set up (my Photobucket username is "Timulator"), when the page opens, it will look like something like this:





    5. Click on the green "Upload" button at the center up top. Your screen will then look like this:





    6. Click on the big, green "Select photos and videos" button and a window will open from your computer with your pictures, looking something like this:





    7. Note which file that window is showing, then get to the file where your picture is located.

    8. Highlight the picture you wish to upload to Photobucket by clicking once on it. (If you wish to upload more than one, simply hold the "Ctrl" key as you click each one.) In the example below, I have highlighted the picture titled "2006fishingseason."





    9. Click on the "Open" button in the lower right corner of the window. You will see a progress bar indicating the upload status. A video ad may or may not play (advertisements are why Photobucket is free!) During the upload, it will look something like this:





    10. When your upload is complete, Photobucket will tell you so, like this:





    11. Click the blue "Save and continue to my album" button and then your own personal Photobucket album will appear, showing thumbnails of all the pictures you have uploaded, looking something like this:





    12. See the boat pic that I uploaded there in the upper left corner? Move the cursor over it and a drop-down menu will automatically appear, like this:





    13. Next, move your cursor down to the "IMG code" line at the bottom and click once. Watch the box and you'll see a brief "Copied" appear and fade out. That code is now copied and ready to be pasted in your forum post.
    Last edited by Binford; April 24th, 2012 at 12:09 AM. Reason: Updated procedure

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    ImageShack limits it to 1.5 megabytes, but that is a huge file and will take a very long time to upload. I try to keep pics at around the 50kb size.
    Binford, How does a person make their pictures smaller? I have several to post at 1.57-1.69MB in size.

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    If you have an image editor you probably have a option to save the pics at less than the original resolution or pixel density.

    For images posted on the net, over 75 dpi is wasted as the screen cant display better....for printing its a whole nother story...

    So if you have such a program, you can save a copy of the pics you want to post online at 75 dpi AND keep the high resolution for yourself or for someone who might want them.

    Also reducing the size of the image helps if the image is really big to start with...like a 1600X1200 or larger image cut down to 800X600 or less will cut the file size a chunk.
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    Thanks for the assistance. I used MS Office Picture Manager to compress the photos.

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    I have updated the procedure. What was there before was from 2008 and was completely different from how Photobucket works today!

    On the boat forum I hang out on, the question kept coming up, so I was going to copy the post I'd done here, but found it to be too out of date, so I made a new one for the boat forum and copied it to here for y'all. Hope it helps!
    -- Tim Taylor


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    Default boonie"s Photo bucket Cheat sheet



    I am posting this cheat sheet to help.

    Open photo bucket sign in { have 715zone open also in the tab bar}
    View library
    Click on a picture
    On links to share box, click on second one (direct) it showed copied for a brief moment
    Go to tab for M715 zone
    Go to the spot you would post a new add reply
    Quick reply will not work!!
    Left click mountains & sun icon
    A box comes up it says "please enter URL of your image" & has a small box in it that says "http://"
    You must now hit backspace
    The letters http:// will disappear - right click in this box
    Another little box comes up - left click paste
    Your image numbers show up - left click OK
    Photo bucket album numbers appear
    Left click at end of this picture number so next picture will line up below your last picture, stacking pictures
    Next click enter button
    First picture is done
    Reopen photo bucket and hit back button in left top to go to library
    Select next picture & start over
    INDIANA FFL

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    hey m715chef sorry about the size of these pictures ,haven't learned how to control this yet hope this helps you should print this cheat sheet & try it
    INDIANA FFL

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    I don't think the "Insert Image" icon ("mountains and sun" above, or what is supposed to look like a postcard) was an option on the earlier version of this forum software. That is another option for posting pics.

    Usually Photobucket will resize the images to postable sizes when you upload them. Could be a setting there you can change.

    But if you click on the IMG link to your picture on Photobucket (where it briefly flashes "Copied"), you don't need to use the postcard icon at all. You may then paste (position cursor where you want the picture to appear, then hold "Ctrl" key and press "V" key) that image anywhere in your reply box, using Quick Reply or not.

    Remember to add a space (hit "Enter" key) between the links to the pictures or they will appear butted up against one another, which can be confusing to see where one picture ends and the next begins. By add a space, I mean like this:


    Here is one picture link code
    Here is the next picture link code without a space.



    Here is another picture link code

    Here is the next picture link code with the space.



    So there will be a gap between the two in the latter posting.


    Photobucket keeps changing the layout of their web page. I have updated this sticky about 4 times over the past years, but I have given up on doing that. For one thing, there is now the postcard icon one can use to post pictures (though I really don't think that's any easier) and for another, the key principles in this sticky remain the same even though the appearance of the Photobucket (or ImageShack or whatever) may have changed.

    As always, post for help if you need it!
    Last edited by Binford; December 3rd, 2013 at 10:38 AM.
    -- Tim Taylor


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    Default Pic-posting help addendum

    I am typing here to say whatever it is I wanted to say about this picture I am about to post. I have no idea whose boat this is, but it appears to be a Canadian vessel based on the registration numbers, eh?

    So I want to place that picture in the middle of this post. What I'll do it type these words until the point I want to place my picture, which is just below this:





    So the picture will appear above these words I'm typing now and below the words I typed just before posting the code for that picture. Putting a few blank lines (by hitting "enter" a couple times) helps set apart your picture from the text. You should also put a space between each picture link too. If the picture links appear one below the previous, without a space, the pictures will appear butted up against each other, which is often confusing as it can be difficult to tell where one picture ends and the next begins.

    So that's all there is to it. Feel free to post a reply here if you have any questions, or if I wasn't clear about something.

    Happy pic-posting!





    And here is what the above looked like as I was typing it, showing how I put spaces before and after the picture code was placed in there so the picture would stand apart:

    -- Tim Taylor


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    use the IMG code, paste it here.


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