How/where to post photos
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Lanny
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There are a few different ways to post photos here.
One way is to have your photos in one of the many different Free photo hosting sites, such as "Photobucket", and you can transfer them to this site. Do a search here for "posting Photos from photobucket" and there should be a few threads to help you.
Another way is to have your photos in a file in your 'puter, such as "Kodak Easy Share", so then you can just scroll down to the bottom of your post to "Go Advanced", click on that and then scroll down a little more, and you will see "Manage Attatchments", click on that and then click on "Browse", and it takes to your Kodac Easy Share pictures, and you just click on the picture in your file, and then click "upload", then click on "submit reply", and the picture will transfer to your post, like this picture I will post.
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JM 35 Sedan
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Now go to bottom of page and click on forum jump. Page down and find test forum. You can try the procedure that Lanny suggested there for posting pictures. It amazes me how many folks here can't or don't post pictures and don't really want to learn.
rustyemerson
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I would go with Flickr or Photobucket.
raceron1120
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Folks, you can also post pics from your album - you don't really need a host website like photobucket or picasa to do so.
Just go the the User CP link at top, create an album & download your pics there. Once done, click on the pic, when it opens you'll see a couple of links at the bottom: "Picture URL" and "BB Code" I use the "BB code" - copy the link, then paste it into your message and voila - like below (sorry, I don't have pics of my '47, but my '56 will do for sample):
Hope that helps!
FL&WVMIKE
Well-known member
ford35lh .............................
Also, if you are posting thumbnails, from your computer, you MUST have then downsized to, at the most, 800 pixals wide. Otherwise, it will just hang up and not tell you why. It's actually pretty easy, when you learn.
Good luck,
MIKE
Also, if you are posting thumbnails, from your computer, you MUST have then downsized to, at the most, 800 pixals wide. Otherwise, it will just hang up and not tell you why. It's actually pretty easy, when you learn.
Good luck,
MIKE
BILL WZOREK
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Paste it,,,,,, Heck I ain't even allowed to have my Coffee & Crumpets near the computer let alone PASTE !!!!!! LOL LOL
Old Redneck
Well-known member
I always gorget the correct way but usually get it done. Lets see if I can do it??
raceron1120
Well-known member
Do you have the picture in one of your albums here on the Barn? If not and if you're unsure of how to, you can send me a PM with your e-mail address and I'll walk ya thru it. (might not be till Tuesday)
Ron
UPDATE - TUESDAY - Steve, here's your pic (below). I'll send the "how-to" instructions to you later.
Ron
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Hotrodladycrusr
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I use a place called Photobucket.
www.photobucket.com
It's free, unless you go over their monthly allowance but we won't even worry about that right now. The nice thing about Photobucke is they "resize" the photo for you so if there are size requirements on the website you want to post your images on, you don't have to resize the photos first.
First step, go to Photobucket and register. This gives you a blank album AND in that album you can create sub-albums. This is an important step to stay organized. I've been using this site over 5 years and I wasn't organized at first and it was tough keeping everything straight and finding photos after awhile, so learn from my mistake. For example, lets just say you have two cars, a Ford and a Chevy. Create a separate sub-album for each car, or like I do, each event I attend. OR lets say you want to do a tech piece on rebuilding a trans, lable an album with "Trans Rebuild" and put all the photos in there for easy access and reference later.
Once you've titled your sub-album, click on it so this exact sub-album is the one the photos are going to upload to this time.
Now your ready to upload a few photos. See the green box right in the middle with the words Upload Images & Video? click on that, it gives you access to your picture folders on your hard drive. Double click on the folder of photos you want to open. There are a number of ways to upload a number of photos at the same time. I'll explain one for those of you that might not know. Left mouse click on one photo. See how the photo name is highlighted AND it copied down into the file name area? That one photo is the one that will be uploaded to Photobucket BUT if you want to do multipal ones from the same folder then with your left hand fingers hold down the CTRL and ALT keys and continue to left mouse click each of the photos. See how they are all highlighted? All these photos will be uploaded at the same time.
After you've chosen a number of photos that you want to upload to this specific album then hit the open tab. You can watch it upload each photo. Once completed, all those photos that you choose will be in your Photobucket album.
Now you are ready to post some photos on this site. But before we start that I want to make sure your photos are going to post in a message board size. While still in Photobucket look right below the green upload images and video box and see the words "more options" in green. Click on that. It will give you options in the size that your photos will post. You want to make sure you chose "large (640 x 480)" as your image size. This will give you a nice large photo without being too big where you have to scroll back and forth to view it. You only have to do this step ONCE and the size will always stay this size unless you change it.
Now open up your sub-album. See the 4 lines of text underneath each photo? You are going to COPY the last one labled "IMG Code". If you left click on it right at the very begining, it copies it without having to right click an draw your mouse across. If you do have to drag your mouse to copy it make sure you copy the whole image tag. If you leave off even one character, it won't work.
Now come over to the post you're making here on Ford Barn. Start your thread, type in your text then hit ENTER so you're on the next line, then right click and hit paste. The whole image tag will appear. Now hit enter twice so you are two lines below the photo and either type more text or copy and paste another image. You can post a number of images and all the text you want. Hitting "enter" twice allows for some white space between each photo.
Most of the sites I'm familiar with allow 20 images per post BUT you can always reply to your own thread and make another post with more images. Smilies count for an image.
Under no circumstances should you ever delete any of the photos you have in Photobucket, if you have posted those photos somewhere on the internet. If you move or delete an image this breaks the link to the photo on the website you pasted the img tags to and everyone will then see a big fat red x.
Using Photobucket is free to use AND does not cost the site you're posting the photos to any additional costs for extra bandwidth usage. Kinda like something for free. If you go way over the allotted bandwidth they then want you to pay. I went a couple of years before I started paying, so don't even worry about that now. I have over 21,000 photos on just one of my accounts there with 2,172,515 files viewed AND they still only charge me $20 PER YEAR! Yep, I'm a photo posting fool.
The directions might seem complicated at first but once use to the process will only take you a couple of seconds per photo. Oh yeah, and it goes without saying you can do videos the exact same way.
www.photobucket.com
It's free, unless you go over their monthly allowance but we won't even worry about that right now. The nice thing about Photobucke is they "resize" the photo for you so if there are size requirements on the website you want to post your images on, you don't have to resize the photos first.
First step, go to Photobucket and register. This gives you a blank album AND in that album you can create sub-albums. This is an important step to stay organized. I've been using this site over 5 years and I wasn't organized at first and it was tough keeping everything straight and finding photos after awhile, so learn from my mistake. For example, lets just say you have two cars, a Ford and a Chevy. Create a separate sub-album for each car, or like I do, each event I attend. OR lets say you want to do a tech piece on rebuilding a trans, lable an album with "Trans Rebuild" and put all the photos in there for easy access and reference later.
Once you've titled your sub-album, click on it so this exact sub-album is the one the photos are going to upload to this time.
Now your ready to upload a few photos. See the green box right in the middle with the words Upload Images & Video? click on that, it gives you access to your picture folders on your hard drive. Double click on the folder of photos you want to open. There are a number of ways to upload a number of photos at the same time. I'll explain one for those of you that might not know. Left mouse click on one photo. See how the photo name is highlighted AND it copied down into the file name area? That one photo is the one that will be uploaded to Photobucket BUT if you want to do multipal ones from the same folder then with your left hand fingers hold down the CTRL and ALT keys and continue to left mouse click each of the photos. See how they are all highlighted? All these photos will be uploaded at the same time.
After you've chosen a number of photos that you want to upload to this specific album then hit the open tab. You can watch it upload each photo. Once completed, all those photos that you choose will be in your Photobucket album.
Now you are ready to post some photos on this site. But before we start that I want to make sure your photos are going to post in a message board size. While still in Photobucket look right below the green upload images and video box and see the words "more options" in green. Click on that. It will give you options in the size that your photos will post. You want to make sure you chose "large (640 x 480)" as your image size. This will give you a nice large photo without being too big where you have to scroll back and forth to view it. You only have to do this step ONCE and the size will always stay this size unless you change it.
Now open up your sub-album. See the 4 lines of text underneath each photo? You are going to COPY the last one labled "IMG Code". If you left click on it right at the very begining, it copies it without having to right click an draw your mouse across. If you do have to drag your mouse to copy it make sure you copy the whole image tag. If you leave off even one character, it won't work.
Now come over to the post you're making here on Ford Barn. Start your thread, type in your text then hit ENTER so you're on the next line, then right click and hit paste. The whole image tag will appear. Now hit enter twice so you are two lines below the photo and either type more text or copy and paste another image. You can post a number of images and all the text you want. Hitting "enter" twice allows for some white space between each photo.
Most of the sites I'm familiar with allow 20 images per post BUT you can always reply to your own thread and make another post with more images. Smilies count for an image.
Under no circumstances should you ever delete any of the photos you have in Photobucket, if you have posted those photos somewhere on the internet. If you move or delete an image this breaks the link to the photo on the website you pasted the img tags to and everyone will then see a big fat red x.
Using Photobucket is free to use AND does not cost the site you're posting the photos to any additional costs for extra bandwidth usage. Kinda like something for free. If you go way over the allotted bandwidth they then want you to pay. I went a couple of years before I started paying, so don't even worry about that now. I have over 21,000 photos on just one of my accounts there with 2,172,515 files viewed AND they still only charge me $20 PER YEAR! Yep, I'm a photo posting fool.
The directions might seem complicated at first but once use to the process will only take you a couple of seconds per photo. Oh yeah, and it goes without saying you can do videos the exact same way.