The step by step guide to adding Pictures

[jack]

Hi Everyone,

This is a step by step guide to adding pictures to the panga forum.

Firstly you will need to resize your pics to a size that is more ProBoards friendly.

Microsoft Resizer is a program that can be used for resizing your pics.
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
There are other programs out there that do the same function, so use one that you feel comfortable with.

Aim to get your pics to a MAX size of 600x480 dpi.
with m/soft resizer this is a right click on the photo and click small..

Please Resize your pictures and save as jpeg file so they upload fast and easily fit the forum.


a free picture working and resizing program
FastStone Photo Resizer is a free image converter and resizer intended to enable users (especially digital-camera owners) to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text, and watermarks to images in a quick-and-easy batch mode. The application supports major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, and PNG. Drag-and-drop mouse operation is well supported.

www.download.com/FastStone-Photo-Resizer/3000-2192_4-10349167.html?tag=lst-6-2


if you join photo bucket...... they auto resize

photobucket.com/.

just follow instruction how to add pictures to it,
this will give you an online photo album you can access any where to show friends your pictures

once joined you put it into favorites while your upload page is open
this will give you easy access when required

[jack]

Now that you have your pics resized it's time to upload them to an image hosting site. This is necessary because this forum can not upload pictures

In the examples below the screen captures have been taken from www.photobucket.com. Photobucket is simple to sign up to, easy to to use and best of all Free.

There are other image hosting sites out there, so once again find one you are comfortable using.

I won't go into the process of adding the pics to Photobucket because this information can be found on their site.

[jack]

Once you have uploaded your pictures scroll down the page to see photo's, they will look like this



Note the URL, TAG and IMG tags at the bottom of each pics. The IMG tag is the one of interest to us here.

[jack]

Once you have started a new topic or replied to another members topic you can now start adding pictures. Open your Photobucket account in a separate window and find the pic you wish to post.

Now left click in the IMG box to highlight the IMG tag blue. Then right click to bring down the copy/cut/paste drop down menu. Click on copy. The IMG tag is now copied to your clipboard and ready to be pasted into the forum post.

[jack]

Once you have typed a reply etc, locate where you would like to position the picture within the message.

Right click in the message area to bring down the copy/cut/paste dropdown options. Click on Paste.

The IMG tag should look something like this.



Note that the URL is between the IMG tags. The IMG tag commands must be between the"[ ]" square brackets characters. Also the end IMG tag has a "/" forward slash before the IMG command.

If the square brackets, IMG and /IMG tags are not correct the picture will not work and you will end up with the dreaded red X