Posting Pictures

[Ralph]

Posting digital photographs on the board is fairly simple so long as you are familiar with a few things.

Of course you will need to have you digital photos on your computer in a file you can find easily.
You will also need to have your photos hosted by an on-line hosting service such as Photobucket.com or Tinypic.com.

First you upload your photos to your hosting service, you will usually see an Image Tag (IMG) on each end of the photos URL address when finished next to you photo.

To post your photo; copy the entire IMG tag (as well as everything in it) and paste the entire mess in the Reply Box where you want the photo.
You can check to see if it all worked by hitting the Preview button just under the Reply box.

If that fails to work for you, or your hosting service does not offer the IMG tag address, copy the URL address provided and then to insert your photograph paste it between the board provided IMG Tags by clicking on the "Insert Image" icon in the "Add Tags" area of the reply page. The icon looks like this: .
Insert your copied addy dead center between the two IMG Tags

If you continue to have problems or have any questions, feel free to contact a Staff member to assist you.

Note: If you are familiar with resizing pictures, we ask that you try and keep them no wider than 560 pixels and no higher than 450 pixels.
We do have a special re-sizing Code built into the board. This will automatically resize your picture should it be beyond the designated limits, but for best results we do suggest keeping them smaller than 560 x 450.

Thanks!

[frankcor]

In another topic, Lucy's Corner, Thelma asked how to post pictures. Ralph's directions above are pretty good but may not be detailed enough for some folks.

I'll try stepping you through it, Thelma. If anybody else wants to chime in if I leave something out, feel free to do so.

Step 1, go to photobucket.com and look for a link named "register" or "signup." Because I already have an account, I can't be positive what it says.

Make sure you write down whatever username you chose to use and the password. I keep a little index card file next to my computer and every time I sign up for a new account someplace, I fill out a card with username and password on it. Over the years, I must have accumulated over 100 cards.

If they show you a little checkbox that says you want them to send you free offers or info from their partners, make sure you don't click on it. I don't think I get any spam from photobucket -- they're pretty much a legitimate outfit.

When you have the account set up, report back here. We'll move on to step 2.

[Disgusted-Daily]

I am ready for step II. I will check back periodically.

[Ralph]

If you have chosen Photobucket to host your pictures, under each picture you will see four beige shaded boxes with codes in them (Email, Direct Link, HTML and IMG Code).

Hold your cursor over the IMG Code box and left click it to highlight it in blue.

Then right click on it to bring up your menu box and left click on copy.

You can then open a reply or new thread box on the board and paste the IMG Code that you copied into the box.

If you want to make sure you did it right just hit Preview to see if it shows up.

I hope I answered your question here, and Frank, I didn't mean to steal this away from you!

[Swimmy]

if you just left click, it automatically copies the code for you, in photobucket.com.

[Ralph]

Hehehe......don't work for me most of the time.

It says it's copied, but sometimes it fools with me!

[thelma]

Ralph and Frank - Guess what? i found a simplier way of posting pictures (and I'm NOT computer savy-LOL)

I have Windsow 98 XP on my computer. All I did was have my GD transfer Mora's picture to my Photobucket account (which I didn't know how to do!)

Then all I had to do was hold down the Ctrl & c buttons over the IMG Code (which was highlighted) and

Go to the Pet Chat thread, under Reply and hit the Ctrl & v buttons together and

Magic - her picture got posted!!!!!! Go see how beautiful she is (and she knows it!).

[frankcor]

You rock, Thelma! (with a little help from your grand daughter who obviously has the benefit of a strong gene pool) You figured out steps 2 and 3 all by yourself!

[thelma]

I learned how to "cut and paste" a few years ago with the help of someone on another Message Board. With Windows 9 XP it is really easy using the Ctrl + C & V keys. I wouldn't know how to do it any other way - LOL.

My GD is taking a computer class in High School so she is much more knowledgeable than I am. I had a picture of "Mora" my cat in "My Pictures" on my computer - but didn't know how to get it over to my Photo bucket account so I could post her picture here.

That's when I cried "Help" for GD to help me and she did that part for me.

[Swimmy]

Funny story about "cut and paste". I was interning at this one law firm where one man, about mid-40s, was computer illiterate. He brought two documents up to me and asked me to "cut and paste" a few sections of one document into another. Well, neither file was on the computer, so I typed up the one he wanted as rapidly as I could, and included the sections he wanted copied and pasted into it. I was 3/4 complete when he came over and asked what was taking me so long. I explained, and he started laughing. He asked me to hand the documents over to him and give him a pair of scissors. And he proceeded to "cut and paste" the sections he wanted from the one document onto the other document, made a photocopy, and then with a huge smile he says, "Now, my friend, you know how to "cut and past."

Talk about a generational gap, eh?

[frankcor]

And now you know the origin of the term cut and paste. Only, we once used hot wax, not paste, because you could pick it up and put it down again if it wasn't straight the first time.

[Ralph]

I had been thinking of that myself Frank.

Not to mention the countless hours or even days one could spend in the photolab/darkroom that I can now do better in in under an hour digitally.

[frankcor]

Ah yes, Ralph. The bad old days.

When laying out pages, we always left extra space on a page, breaking to the next page sooner than absolutely required. That way, you could revise text, making it longer, without requiring spilling to the next page and having to lay that one out, and possibly others, all over again.

[Ralph]

And from what I have been told, that space was always a great place to throw one of those little one column tiny ads into afterwards!

[frankcor]

Most excellent, Ralph. I never laid out newspapers before. But when we laid out manuals, we would use some rub-off transfers to apply a scroll or banner to fill up extra space. Then, if a paragraph had to grow in the next revision, we'd fill up the space with text. Chart-pak made sheets of letters and scrolls and bullets: www.business-supply.com/product_images/image/EJ034098.jpg