How to post an image

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[hoggjaww]

Originally Posted by Baldy

Got pics? Here's how to flaunt them:

Option 1: The quick & dirty (but not very good) way.

Attaching pics to posts. Okay for n00bs.

If you're not in Jo Momma, when you write a post you should see an option to add attachments. If you scroll down below the area where you type your post, you should see this button:



When you click that button, the following window comes up:



Click the browse button to find a photo on your hard disk and upload it to ADVrider.

Gotchas:

1. Your photo has to be small enough to post, which means it probably has to be re-sized after you fetch it from your camera. Paint.NET or Irfanview to the rescue.

2. You can only attach one image per post.

3. It uses ADVrider's disk space and bandwidth, making it harder for me to keep the site fast.

4. When people reply to your post, they can't display your image again, which they usually want to do.

Option 2: Open a SmugMug or Photobucket account:

SmugMug and Photobucket specialize in image hosting. They do the image resize thing automatically, allow you to post many images per post, and you can post to other message forums. They don't use ADVrider's disk storage or bandwidth, which helps keep ADVrider fast.

In addition, with SmugMug, you get real online albums you can arrange, customize, use for family, travel, hobbies, etc. Disclaimer: I own SmugMug. The idea came from ADVrider and the need for good photo hosting.

You can tag any album at SmugMug as part of the ADVrider community, and it will show up with other member's galleries in the ADVrider community home page, most recent on top.

Photobucket offers limited free accounts and easy upgrade to more capacity for a nominal yearly fee. SmugMug offers a free trial and full accounts for a nominal annual fee.

Once you have an account, you can use the IMG button, , that you see above the area where you type when you post. The image button let's you specify an Internet address (URL) to identify the image.

Here is a tutorial at SmugMug that should answer your Qs.

Clear as mud?

Q: "But... But.... I followed your directions to link to a photo exactly from some other photo sharing site and it didn't work!? Computers really piss me off."

A: Some sites don't appreciate you linking to their images for mindless posts, so they block it.

Hello Chris,

It is probably just me, but I have tried on and off for over a year now to post pics from my smugmug to ADV, and I can't do it, used to work great!

I have tried copy image, copy link, copy html, copy this ,copy that, I mean WTF am I doing wrong? Something has changed and maybe your first post needs to be updated? Or I do.


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[Guano11]

Originally Posted by hoggjaww

Hello Chris,
It is probably just me, but I have tried on and off for over a year now to post pics from my smugmug to ADV, and I can't do it, used to work great!
I have tried copy image, copy link, copy html, copy this ,copy that, I mean WTF am I doing wrong? Something has changed and maybe your first post needs to be updated? Or I do.
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Ditto (sorta). Opened a trial Smugmug account to post some photos to hopefully assist some fellow inmates -- but nothing seems to work.

[Guano11]

[marchyman]

Originally Posted by Guano11

You're not posting a link to an image. If the link doesn't end in .jpg it's not an image. You tried this:

[*IMG]http://guano11.smugmug.com/Motorcycles/Ride-Reports/15651072_NBCy4#1172844244_iUH3Z-A-LB[/IMG]

I added the * so the IMG tags would print. That isn't a link to an image. It is a link to a gallery with a selected image. To make matters works it's a gallery that needs a password to see the images.

http://snafu.smugmug.com/Motorcycles...19584158_KLqhX

That is a link to one of my smugmug galleries with the image of my brake rotor wall hanging selected. Since the URL doesn't end in .jpg it will do me no good putting it in IMG tags. The link for the image is

http://snafu.smugmug.com/Motorcycles...58_KLqhX-M.jpg

If I wrap that in [*IMG]...[/IMG] tags (without the *, of course) it looks like this:



Does that help?

[Guano11]

Sweet. U da man, Marchyman. And so is Shay from Smugmug!
Looks like I got 'er goin' now. Thanks Guys!

[i_isntreal]

Let's see if I can earn my stripes as a n00b. Picture posting attempt #3.

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IMG]http://i489.photobucket.com/albums/rr258/Buzz363/BWDR1002.jpg[/IMG]

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