Posting Pictures
Here we go, it's a VERY common question (please sticky this)
The explanation below is very long winded to read but in reality, doing it takes just a few moments.
Firstly a picture published in this forum must exist somewhere on the internet (not just on your computer)
For this you will need to "upload" it to a server, there are many free and pay for sites that offer picture hosting some are useable others are not.
The one's that are not useable are often MSN, Yahoo etc this is because they don't allow "external linking" to a file which you will need to do.
Here are some known useable one's:
www.photobucket.com (free)
www.imageshack.us (this one is very good, completely free, best to register so you can delete if needed)
There are plenty of others but I'm sure you've all heard of Google
All of these places will have file size limitations, probably the best size for a forum is no more than 600 pixels tall
If your pictures are still full size from your camera you will almost certainly need to edit them in your favourite image editing program on your PC (you did install one didn't you)
Once your file is uploaded to the internet make sure you are viewing the full size image (not a thumbnail) and right click the image, then select "properties" a box will appear in which you can see the address (url) of the image, drag your mouse over this url to highlight it (make sure to include the "http" all the way to the end of the image name which will normally be ".jpg")
Once highlighted, hold down "CRTL" and at the same time press "C", this will copy the highlighted text
Now you're ready to post your image on the forum
Start your post as normal, you will notice above the text area that you type in there is a button that looks like this
, click on it, it will insert the [ i m g ] [ / i m g ] tags into your post, click between the two tags then hold down "CTRL" and press "V", this will paste the url you copied a moment ago.
The result should look something like this (but without all the spaces):
[ i m g ] h t t p : / / w w w . y o u r h o s t . c o m / mypicture. j p g [ / i m g ]
That's it your done, you can now preview or submit your post
For a more advance image display you can manualy type a url reference and embed an image like this...
[ url = h t t p : / / w w w . y o u r h o s t . c o m / b i g i m a g e . j p g ] [ i m g ] h t t p : / / w w w . y o u r h o s t . c o m / t h u m b n a i l . j p g [ / i m g ] [ / u r l ]
Without any of the spaces of course
The first url would be a link to the full sized image, the second would be a link to a thumbnail sized image, this would allow you to show a reasonable size picture on the forum but clicking it would open a new window with the full size image in it, like this...
CLICK PIC FOR A LARGER IMAGE