(DIR) Return Create A Forum - Home --------------------------------------------------------- Minimbah-Bundagry (HTM) https://minimbahbundagry.createaforum.com --------------------------------------------------------- ***************************************************** (DIR) Return to: How to get the most out of your forum ***************************************************** #Post#: 10-------------------------------------------------- How to put photos in your post By: Ray Bell Date: February 20, 2021, 7:28 am --------------------------------------------------------- This is something many people feel is daunting about forums without image storage capacity, but it's really not that hard... Assuming you are working from a regular-size image file, a photo taken with your camera or phone, here's what you do step by step: First, you have to forget that this is difficult. It's simply not. You do need to get your head around the fact that you are putting a photo onto another site altogether and then using what's known as 'image codes' to put that image into your post. For image hosting I use Postimage.org, they've been stable and free for a long time and have simple step-by-step procedures. So you go to Postimage.org (I think you have to register) and then create a gallery - though that's not totally necessary as your pics will otherwise go into a 'default' gallery automatically. Then you click on 'Upload' and get this window: [img width=575 height=400] (HTM) https://i.postimg.cc/9FxMS2KX/0221postimageselection.jpg[/img] (HTM) https://postimages.org/ I've shown this with a resizing to 600 x 400 pixels, which saves you the trouble of reducing your image. You go from there to select your image from your files on your computer and it uploads it, with this screen showing: (HTM) https://i.postimg.cc/zDF3CKkg/0221postimageuploading.jpg (HTM) https://postimages.org/ Then it goes to this screen, from which you click on the icon at the end of the line marked 'Hotlink for forums': (HTM) https://i.postimg.cc/HnzxT1L2/0221postimagehotlinkforforum.jpg (HTM) https://postimages.org/ The word 'copied' appears and then you're ready to paste it into your post. Go to where you want the picture to appear in your post, right click and then left click on 'Paste': [img width=483 height=400] (HTM) https://i.postimg.cc/HsWnBnSP/0221postimagepastecode.jpg[/img] (HTM) https://postimages.org/ The result comes out like this: [img width=622 height=400] (HTM) https://i.postimg.cc/t4YTGfG3/0221postimagestringinpost.jpg[/img] (HTM) https://postimages.org/ And to show how this has worked with a picture of my own using the resize option (which I normally don't do as I resize and crop all my own pics before posting - but I'm keeping this simple): [img width=533 height=400] (HTM) https://i.postimg.cc/sfYGTt31/P1010342.jpg[/img] (HTM) https://postimages.org/ This is the string which produces the photo in your post, but I've deleted a letter in it so it doesn't work: [img width=533 height=400] (HTM) https://i.postimg.cc/sfYGTt31/P1010342.jpg[/mg] (HTM) https://postimages.org/ *****************************************************