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HOWTO - Post Pictures

HOWTO - Post Pictures
by MudDawg on Thu, Mar 18 2010 11:18 PM
Last Edit: Fri, Mar 19 2010 1:16 AM
Ok, I'm probably going to regret this, but I thought I'd post a little HOWTO for posting pictures to the forum. :-)

To start off with, you can't actually upload pictures to our forum, so you need to use some other website to host your pictures. There are several free ones out there, but for this example, I'll use Photo Bucket . You'll have to figure out for yourself the whole signup/upload thing, but once you have your pictures there, here's what you do:

Navigate to the picture you want to add to your posting in the forum. (For best results, resize it in Photo Bucket so that it is no bigger than 600x480. Anything bigger than that really is not necessary, and will spill over the borders of the forum.) Look for the Direct Link text for the photo, highlight and copy it (CTRL-C).



Then, goto the forum and start your post.



Paste the Direct Link text you copied from Photo Bucket (CTRL-V)



Select the text you just pasted in with your mouse. (Click Hold & Drag)



Click on the Image button. The image tags should be added before and after the text you had highlighted.



Click on the Preview button to see if your image link is working correctly.



If all looks good click on the Start Thread button to submit your post.



Ta-Da!



Hope this helps. If you're really good, you can figure out how to edit your post in case you can't spell and forget the e on awesome!

Don't post anything that will get you banned. You know like dirty pictures, anti-mopar pics etc. :-)
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