Picture embedding in Posts

[gwashorn]

I have put pictures into posts etc. However, mine show up as small thumb nails types you have to click on to see it larger. I make mine to fit the size that allows it to upload. I see other here put in pictures and they are full size in the post directly. What am I doing wrong to get mine to show that way? Thanks.

[uthornsfan]

Most people are probably uploading their photos to a website like Photobucket or Imageshack and then using the [IMG] [\IMG] tags

[USA1]

Most people are probably uploading their photos to a website like Photobucket or Imageshack and then using the [IMG] [\IMG] tags

Yep that's right. It also helps if you have a kid handy to show you how.

[gwashorn]

OK, I have just been doing the site upload photo when doing the message post. You don't use that to put the picture in and instead you edit the post message directly with an embedded file routing tag to say Photobucket or Kodak etc?

[MoJo]

You got it.

[gwashorn]

OK, so I have some photos on a photo file server somewhere such as Photobucket. I am assuming this site requires a specific command at the beginning and end of the website address. I see the following listed by uthornsfan as " [IMG] [\IMG] " . Is this the command that brackets my web address?

[Pawpaw]

OK, so I have some photos on a photo file server somewhere such as Photobucket. I am assuming this site requires a specific command at the beginning and end of the website address. I see the following listed by uthornsfan as "

On Photobucket, when you put your mouse pointer over a picture, a drop down with several codes will appear. Left-click the code beside "IMG Code" and it will copy the address like this: "[ img]http://i666.photobucket.com/albums/vv27 ... /Scope.jpg[/img ]"

All you have to do is paste into your message and it looks like this:

[Skiprr]

What Pawpaw said. Note the fully-qualified URL to the image, with the "http://" and whole path and file name. All that needs to be between the [IMG] tags to work properly.

[LikesShinyThings]

So does that mean that "last century" young fogeys like myself (who don't upload pictures to inet like Photobucket or other non-local computer) are stuck not being able to have a full-size pic in our posts?

[Skiprr]

So does that mean that "last century" young fogeys like myself (who don't upload pictures to inet like Photobucket or other non-local computer) are stuck not being able to have a full-size pic in our posts?

Yep. In order to display in-line in a Forum post, the image has to reside somewhere publicly-available on the Internet. The [IMG] tag summons it just as you would if you were to display it on any other Web page. But if the image isn't sitting on a Webserver somewhere, your only choice is to use the "Upload Attachment" option at the bottom of the post window.

[gwashorn]

thanks Skiprr. Now how do I get what you got in the pic? Nice looking!

[Skiprr]

thanks Skiprr. Now how do I get what you got in the pic? Nice looking!

That was Pawpaw. But I have it on good authority that he's holding it for you, just waiting for you to come pick it up.

[gwashorn]

OK I am trying this,

HEY It works! Thanks PawPaw, I did not notice who posted that help. That was what I was looking for. BTW, this is my baby! But picture is cut off. I am guessing there is a width and height limit I need to resize the picture.

[RPB]

So does that mean that "last century" young fogeys like myself (who don't upload pictures to inet like Photobucket or other non-local computer) are stuck not being able to have a full-size pic in our posts?

Being an oldster myself, I've discovered benefits to free photobucket.

Among other things

1) My friend (in Australia) got a new computer and all her photos were on her old dead computer so they were lost forever, but I had uploaded them, stored them on photobucket for her, so she still has them all.
(I won't post her photos here)

2) My brother carves fruit artistically and likes to e-mail photos, but e-mails take longer to send/receive with attachments and some ISPs limit e-mail message size. I made him an account so he can e-mail links to the photos and people wanting to hire him get their e-mail faster and photos in a much less annoying manner



3) I set up separate "family account" on photobucket for all distant family members to upload old photos from the past and present and we now have a shareable album with great great relatives etc.
(This is the only photo I've ever seen of the "circuit preacher" who married my parents, his grandson married into our family so they are now relatives too.)


4) you can post full sized photos here on forums


I'm still staying away from facing a book or booking my face though, but photos in a bucket are good, great backup if a hard drive motor dies, lightning eats a computer, you "upgrade" to Winders 8, etc etc etc.

If visiting a relative, I can show them my photos. even on their computer, no need to bring mine or copy all photos to a CD or flash drive to take along.. and in case of fire ... I still have my irreplaceable photos stored at the photobucket place. (Well, not my old wedding photos, after the divorce in 1970s, I'd just as soon they burned anyway )

[Pawpaw]

thanks Skiprr. Now how do I get what you got in the pic? Nice looking!

That was Pawpaw. But I have it on good authority that he's holding it for you, just waiting for you to come pick it up.