Is it as simple as putting [ img ] before the URL and [ /img ] after? Thanks! :D

The only way I have been able to post a picture is to save in photobucket.com, copy the url and paste in the IMG field. Hope that helps!

Photos and images can only be posted by uploading them to a server somewhere on the internet then using the URL that points to the photo in conjunction with the IMG tag in your post.

Suggested places for putting your posts include: http://photobucket.com/ and http://imageshack.us/

Detailed tutorials for using PhotoBucket can be found here.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for ImageShack are answered here.

Once you've uploaded your photo, use the URL that you receive in conjunction with the IMG tag. You may use the IMG button while editing your post or enter the tags manually.

I didn't know how to do it,thanks a lot for posting that :P

Just testing

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I love your sig. I think it's awesome. If I could steal it I would. :justkidding:
But I think it's really cool!

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NICE TEST!!!! :etrain: :etrain: :etrain:

Please refer to Mcornelio's post above dated July 3rd!

I tried fixing it for you but I don't know why your image doesn't show. Maybe your image wasn't uploaded properly to imageshack? If you right-click on it, the image properties show 0 KB. :unsure:

Sorry - I just want to test my avatar (I'm new to all of this stuff). bwtw

BWTW, I like your avatar! :thumbsup:

As a dial-up user (yes, we're still around), let me say how much I appreciate those of you who keep your image file sizes to a minimum (avatars, signature, etc.). It's quite easy to use image editing software to decrease the file size without loosing much or any quality. This will save bandwidth, server storage space, and time for those of use still stuck in the slow lane.

Most avatars can look quite good at 2K, yet I see some which are much, much larger. The entire file has to download, but then the browser compresses the image down to a size to fit in a small box.

Hey great pic Pilatesmom. Your eyes are breathtaking!

I appreciate your comments, but I too have not mastered the ability to "shrink" pictures, and they often come out larger than my actual screen size.

Any help on that would be greatly appreciated.

Sk8888

About resizing pictures ... You might want to resize a picture for one or both of these reasons: to make the pic physically smaller on the screen, and/or to make the file smaller so that it takes up less storage space, less bandwidth, and loads faster on web pages (particularly for dial-up users). Reducing the size of the picture will make the file smaller, and using compression on .jpg files will make the file smaller still!

First, you need a photo editing program. Having an older computer, I don't know if this is commonly bundled with new computers. I would think the software you get with a digital camera would include photo editing software. The software I use came bundled with a scanner. The instructions below are what I do using iPhoto Express, though I believe you can accomplish the same thing in a similar way with other editing programs.

CHANGING THE SIZE OF THE PICTURE (number of pixels wide and high):
This is what I do using iPhoto Express: Open the picture in the program. Choose Photo / Resize. This opens the Resize dialogue box. Somewhere in there it tells you the current size of the photo, in pixels. There is a place to indicate a new size, either in pixels or inches; I always use pixels because it is more direct (the result when specifying inches depends on another setting -- pixels per inch -- too complicated). Then click OK. Save the newly resized image with a new file name so you still have the original image in the old file.

Also, in this dialogue box there is a setting for pixels per inch -- I usually ignore this. It has absolutely nothing to do with the size of the image on the screen or the printed page, though it can help you calculate image size for printing if you set it equal to the pixels per inch that your printer will use.

DETERMINING FILE COMPRESSION:
This refers to data compression and does not affect the size of the picture you see, only the size of the file. There is a tradeoff between compression and image quality, but very often you can dramatically reduce the file size with very little, even unnoticeable, loss in image quality. I'm usually dealing with .jpg files which, I believe, can be compressed using any photo editing program. Here's what I do using iPhoto Express...

Compression is selected when saving the file, so you would click File / Save, choose JPG as the file type, then click the Options button (you must choose file type before clicking Options or you won't see the correct options). This displays a dialogue box where you can choose a setting from 0 to 100, 0 being greatest compression (lowest picture quality) and 100 being least compression (highest picture quality). It doesn't seem that this number is a percentage, because choosing 80 will dramatically reduce the file size, and the reduction in quality is often unnoticeable. After choosing the compression number, provide a name for the file if needed, then click Save. I think that in order to see the result of the compression you have to close the file then re-open it.

Example: I took a picture with a 3 mega-pixel camera set at highest resolution (2048 x 1536) and least compression (Fine). The picture when displayed full size is much, much bigger than the computer screen, and the file uploaded to the computer is 1150K. After resizing the picture to 640 x 480 pixels and saving with least compression (100), it fits nicely on the screen, and the file is 244K. If this smaller picture is saved with compression setting at 80, the file is only 55K. And, it looks really good!

It's easier doing it than reading about it-- give it a try! Don't forget to save using a new file name so as to preserve the original file.

Peace.