How to Post Pictures on Lateral-g
 

Following is a pic posting tutorial that I found on the web.

The first thing you’ll need to do is set up an account with one of the many photo hosting companies to “hotlink” pictures to your post. Some image hosting sites do not allow hotlinks to their site. Here are a few that do:

http://www.photobucket.com
http://www.imageshack.com
http://www.cardomain.com
http://www.webshots.com
http://www.fototime.com


Once you have the images hosted, all you do is open the picture up in your browser, right click on the picture, select properties, then copy/paste the URL link into your post. That will provide a link to the image.

If you want to post the actual picture rather than just a link into the post, you will need to surround the URL link (wrap) with the [IMG] [/IMG] tags. Example:

[IMG]insert the url to your pic here[/IMG]


Be sure to reduce the size of your pictures before you upload them to your image host. The larger the dimensions of the image, the larger the file size will be in general. An image taken on my camera at 2080x1020 is almost a full megabyte in size (~1,000 kilobytes). If you resize the image to 800x600, it can drop it down to around 100 kilobytes or less; roughly a 10th of the original size. Not only does this make the image small enough where people viewing the image won’t have to scroll the window sideways to view the entire picture, but it also conserves space on your hosting site allowing for more pictures to be uploaded before reaching your limit.

Here is a popular program I use to reduce image sizes, there are others but I like this one and it’s free:
http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm
Programs like Adobe Photoshop can do the same if you like and already have.

thats perfect bill, i was trying to figure out the easiest way to explain it with making a 46 step "how-to"..... looks like that will work perfect for anybody trying to figure it out.:thumbsup:

Awesome, thanks Bill. :thumbsup:

Very Helpful Info. Thanks!

Bill:

Which program off the links would you recommend when someone is using a Mac??

Thanks,

Ty

Ty, Mac is greek to me. Try to send Steve Chryssos a pm. IIRC, he's a big Mac fan.

you can use any of those links when using a mac. All you are doing with those links is hosting images online. Macs work just like PC when it comes to internet.

thanks for the post. kudos

I am really glad you shared to us this information. :cheers:

I have been putting my pics in posts as attachments (small pics to click on). How do you have the larger pics go onto the post so you don't have to click on them. thanks

you need to upload and host them on photobucket or one of the other sites listed in the first post. Then just copy/past the address into the img link above your text (the one that looks like a postcard) and it'll show up as a full sized pic.

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/300...aint002.th.jpg

test

one more
 

OK thanks for that help, now another puter illiterate question. How do I get the size marking off my photo as obove. I used Image shack

Thanks
Roy

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/300...ompaint002.jpg

you right click on the blue direct link symbol on the imageshack page; a box comes up, scroll down and click on "copy link location". Then make your post and click on the yellow image box above and paste the copied link into it, the forum software does the rest. You don't do it as an attachment anymore.

Testing

argh
 

Only way I got it to work was to save the picture and then use the attachment option. Regular photo linking isn't working from the host you're using.

Thanks Jodi
 

got it, thank you

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/918/41...95761085_b.jpg

has this process improved any lately? Do I still need to use a host like Photobucket?
Can someone update the process here?

You don't need a host, we host them automatically if you use the "manage attachments" button.

Scroll down to the button when making a post, pic below.

Click button

Click "choose file"

Click on picture you want to post in your computer or phone

Click upload

The pic will post automatically in your post.

Thnaks. Tried that a coupel times, getting an invalid file message.
Not sure why, I do it the seme way from multiple other sites with no issues.

I'm guessing your pics are too big. I just bumped the limits. Do you know what size pics you're trying to use?

1.2 MB
I tried again in the test area but it would not load, nor would one that was 957KB

Can you email me the pic?

camcojb at gmail.com