barthel Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 I hate to sound dense, but could someone point me in the direction of instructions of how to post pics along with my posts? Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
govols74n Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 (edited) you have to put the url with your message for online pics....for personal pics or whatnot you need to ensure that they are the proper size try the search feature for "Picture resizing" any way, click browse....find the pic you want and then you have to basically shrink the pic so that it doesn't take so much time to download....then click atatch I think it needs 2 be under 100kb. Here's 88's resizing writeup... Check it out, people. Every time someone posts an attachment to a reply or post, it gets uploaded to Mr. Jim's rented server and stored there until the time comes for cleanup and eventual archiving/deletion, which can take a while. He has to pay mucho $$ out of his own pocket for that storage space. When 10 people a day post an attachment of 500K because they didn't take the time to resize their picture, Jim gets to pay for it, and the storage fees aren't cheap. That's an average of 5 megabytes more per day of huge pics that don't need to be that big. That's a LOT. Nobody really needs to be able to see the threads on your bolts and the bird poop on your hood up close, mmk? RESIZE YOUR PICTURES BEFORE POSTING THEM AS ATTACHMENTS. That includes avatar pics. Avatars are pre-set at 160x120. Uploading anything bigger than that ends up looking grainy because the forum software resizes the pic to fit the 160x120 standard size. Resize your pic before you upload a new avatar pic instead of simply uploading a full size pic and letting the forum software resize it for viewing. The base picture is STILL huge in many cases, and Mr.Jim is footing the bill for everybody that's doing it. An acceptable upper-limit size for pictures posted for internet viewing is about 800x600. Smaller is just as good, 640x480 is entirely viewable and looks just fine. Acceptable filesize is 100K or so for attached pictures. Bigger than 150-200K is just way too much. Even if Jim does allow you to post bigger ones. 1024x768 and up is TOO MUCH and is a total waste of server space, bandwidth, and Jim's money. I've seen pics even bigger than 1024x768 posted on here for no reason other than that the person posting it didn't resize it before posting. We need to keep it real here, people. If you need help resizing pics, let me know. One very very easy way to do so is by opening MSPaint, then opening your picture and using the "Reduce/Enlarge" option to reduce the overall size of the picture, then save it. You don't have to use an expensive photoeditor program. MSPaint comes with almost every version of Windows in use today. Personally, I use ACDSee's bundled photoediting program called PhotoCanvas. It comes with the ACDSee PowerPack which is downloadable as a free trial from the ACDSee website. Edited February 19, 2007 by govols74n Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barthel Posted February 19, 2007 Author Share Posted February 19, 2007 URL meaning they have to be somewhere else on the net, or is there a way to just post them in the body of the message? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NismoSkyZ Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 The best way to get pictures on here is to upload them to a site such as imageshack.us. This site has an option where you can select the site to resize the picture automatically. After it is hosted, copy the the website. When you want to post the picture here, press add reply, then click the IMG button at the top of the add reply page. Paste the website in the box that pops up. This way, you can post pics in the body of your message, and you do not have to use up any of the site's space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezzy Posted February 19, 2007 Share Posted February 19, 2007 If you dont have webspace, either use imageshack as per NSZ, or www.photobucket.com -- you can get a free account to upload pics to, I use photobucket, and it's pretty easy to use. Then to post the image, you can use the IMG button which will prompt you for the address, or in quick reply all you need to do is place the url in the image tags like such: [img]http://www.canadianpathy.com/images/welcomeimage.jpg[/img] which will give you the image as such: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Dank Posted February 20, 2007 Share Posted February 20, 2007 Oooooh, CanadianPathy.com...what happa to muddynissan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedPath88 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Welcome to the forums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NismoSkyZ Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Pezzy leaks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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