Post by matthew on Jan 13, 2009 21:55:33 GMT 8
Ok, I was finally able to put up this simple guide to posting pictures on our forum. Hope this helps. 
Before you can post pictures on the forum, you must have an account with any of the available photo websites, i.e., Photobucket, Flickr, etc., where you can upload your photos. I upload my photos on photobucket.com/. it's best to organize your photos into albums, just like on Friendster. ;D
If your photos are big, you have to resize them before uploading. I suggest a width of 600 pixels or less. To do this you can use any image editing software such as Photoshop, PhotoPaint or Microsoft Office Picture Manager. If you have none of the above, you can download this free software: www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm. It's free and easy to use. Photobucket also provides an image resizing option, but it's slower, especially if processing many photos.
Once you have uploaded your photos, everything else is easy:
1. Open your photo in the site where you have uploaded it and copy the image url (for example: i77.photobucket.com/albums/j76/matthew66/psf/okdiver.jpg). On Photobucket, it looks like this:
2. Open the forum in a separate browser window. On the forum's Post Message window, click on the picture button. The image tags will appear on the message box:
3. Paste the photo's url between the image tags. Or you can also manually type the image tags before and after the url:
4. Click the Preview or Post Message button.
Now, let's see your pics!
Before you can post pictures on the forum, you must have an account with any of the available photo websites, i.e., Photobucket, Flickr, etc., where you can upload your photos. I upload my photos on photobucket.com/. it's best to organize your photos into albums, just like on Friendster. ;D
If your photos are big, you have to resize them before uploading. I suggest a width of 600 pixels or less. To do this you can use any image editing software such as Photoshop, PhotoPaint or Microsoft Office Picture Manager. If you have none of the above, you can download this free software: www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm. It's free and easy to use. Photobucket also provides an image resizing option, but it's slower, especially if processing many photos.
Once you have uploaded your photos, everything else is easy:
1. Open your photo in the site where you have uploaded it and copy the image url (for example: i77.photobucket.com/albums/j76/matthew66/psf/okdiver.jpg). On Photobucket, it looks like this:
2. Open the forum in a separate browser window. On the forum's Post Message window, click on the picture button. The image tags will appear on the message box:
3. Paste the photo's url between the image tags. Or you can also manually type the image tags before and after the url:
4. Click the Preview or Post Message button.
Now, let's see your pics!
