Post by matt on Jan 18, 2019 10:02:50 GMT
Here's a quick guide to posting photo's to the forum using PostImages.org to host the images.
1. Go to PostImages.org. You can create an account here if you want, which means that you can access your images later, and organise images into albums etc, but you don't need to create an account if you don't want to.
2. You'll see the image posting option below. I would recommend resizing your image to 640x480, which you can select from the drop down list, as this stops images from taking over the whole page (and more!) when viewing forum posts. Once you have selected your resize option, you can either drag images into the web page or select them from a file browser after clicking the Choose images button.
3. Once the image(s) have uploaded you will be redirected to a page with the uploads. Click the Share button, which will display a list of links for the image. The link you want is the "Direct" link, so click the button to the right of that link to copy this text directly to your clipboard, so that it can be pasted afterwards:
4. Now you can create your forum post. Note that if you are replying to an existing thread, then you will get a more fully featured editor if you click the Reply button instead of using the "Quick reply" box underneath the post.
Write your post and, when you want to insert an image, click the Image button in the toolbar above the post editor. This will open a small window where you can paste the link text that you coped in step 3:
Note that you do not really need to provide any alternative text, but you can if you want (browsers that cannot display the image will show it, but otherwise you won't see it).
Good luck, and if you have any questions please post them to this thread!
1. Go to PostImages.org. You can create an account here if you want, which means that you can access your images later, and organise images into albums etc, but you don't need to create an account if you don't want to.
2. You'll see the image posting option below. I would recommend resizing your image to 640x480, which you can select from the drop down list, as this stops images from taking over the whole page (and more!) when viewing forum posts. Once you have selected your resize option, you can either drag images into the web page or select them from a file browser after clicking the Choose images button.
3. Once the image(s) have uploaded you will be redirected to a page with the uploads. Click the Share button, which will display a list of links for the image. The link you want is the "Direct" link, so click the button to the right of that link to copy this text directly to your clipboard, so that it can be pasted afterwards:
4. Now you can create your forum post. Note that if you are replying to an existing thread, then you will get a more fully featured editor if you click the Reply button instead of using the "Quick reply" box underneath the post.
Write your post and, when you want to insert an image, click the Image button in the toolbar above the post editor. This will open a small window where you can paste the link text that you coped in step 3:
Note that you do not really need to provide any alternative text, but you can if you want (browsers that cannot display the image will show it, but otherwise you won't see it).
Good luck, and if you have any questions please post them to this thread!