Forum Picture Posting "How To", one way to do it.

MARCMAF Forum Picture Posting Tutorial

If you have been having problems with adding a picture in your forum post or have been scared to try, give the following instructions a go. (for the ImageShack free image hosting gizmo located near top of most all forum pages)
Might seem complicated at first, but after a few successful attempts, it will be second nature to you.

This will require using your computer "Copy & Paste" feature.
If you have trouble with Copying and Pasting, Copy & Paste Instructions - Click Here

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Above example done with Windows XP operating system and Firefox 3 browser.
Should be similar to other Windows OSs and most browsers.

everything does just fine till i get to the paste part, and that's where i seem to be having problems i'm gonna let apezilla wake up in the morning and see if she can figure it out

"apezilla" - I like that. You have a way with words, Jade.


Detailed Copy & Paste Instruction With Video - Click Here

Oversized in file size and dimension picture removed. Please use the "Thumbnail for forums (1)" ImageShack code as shown in the Picture Posting Tutorial.
Jade did good on posting the picture below, just right.




This post has been edited by alvinonline on Aug 14 2009, 08:05 AM

well we finally got it, just got to make picture a little smaller

Is that the kitchen table????

You did OK for the first try, Jade. Thanks for your first picture and we will be looking forward to many more.
You and "Apezilla" finally got that thumbnail in the post, my log shows a bit of activity there.


General Information For All Budding Picture Posters:
Yes, picture file size and dimension are very important for a web presentation like on a forum or web site.
Over sized pictures will require much scrolling on average sized monitors to see all of picture one part at a time.
An overly large picture file size can take several minutes for surfers on dialup to download and view.

Though a thumbnail is in post, the full size picture to be downloaded is still 3648x2736 pixels dimension and 2955kb file size which is too big for the average surfer. Would require scrolling to view full size and several minutes to download for some.

Using most any graphics program, like the one that generally comes with digital camera software, will be capable of cropping and resizing pictures for optimum web presentation.
Get the size of picture down to 800-1000 pixels width would be about perfect.

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Idea for easy picture resizing:

Let ImageShack do it for you.

Go directly to ImageShack - Click Here.
Browse to your picture on your computer, then follow instruction on screen shot below.
ImageShack will auto resize the picture for you when it uploads to them.

Post the thumbnail for forums (1) code as usual.

yep, thats my kitchen table and work table. see jon, i figure april will get tired of my stuff being on the table sooner or later, and might be able to talk her into building me a work shop

General Information For All Forum Posters:

And it would be nice if pictures and/or posts were posted in correct topic in the appropriate forum.

Not sure where? Go to forum main index page and go to the forum that seems most appropriate according to picture subject.
Make a new topic or add to existing topic.

thank's for all the help alvin and frits. yall are the best

I made a video showing how to do the post also...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaozQtOFlzU

hey jon , thanks for video me and april was doing everything right accept the copy and paste we would click copy and then paste without clicking back to where i was supposed to paste it . i was thinking when i clicked paste it would automatically put it on my post, if that makes any sense