How do I include a picture

[abuyck]

How do I put a picture into a posting?? I do not have a website to direct anyone to, so I would like yo put it right in my post...what are the size restrictions?

[All Nikon - Chris]

I would use Flickr.com, its free and you can upload your photo via that then after it is uploaded, right click on it and select "copy image location". Then go back to this forum and post using the link or the image button.

-Chris

[abuyck]

ok thanks, but I have seen some postings with the picture right in it...can I do that??

[jeffreyklassen]

Chris did just describe how to do it, but he assumed you used Firefox.

I will try and describe how to do it with IE (you should switch to FF).
I am also going to assume you don't have anything setup, just in-case others who read this don't.

1. First you need to find a place to host the photo. In this case we will use www.flickr.com. I am going to use Chris's Flickr account as an example because i don't have one Hope you don't mind.

UPDATE I just realized that not all flickr accounts allow you to direct link. You might need a paid account, I dont know. But this method will work with other free image hosting sites as well. So you just need to find a site that allows direct linking.

2. Upload your image to flickr or what ever site you pick.

3. Find the image you want to post on-line. Now in
IE:
-In IE right click the image and click "properties".
-Look for the address url
-It will look something like this (http://static.flickr.com/46/129756460_9e62f3c625.jpg?v=0)
-Copy the URL into your clipboard by selecting it all and pressing (Ctrl+C)

Firefox:
-Just right click the image and "copy image location"

4. Okay now come to the forums and start a new post.

5. Hit the photo button above the smileys to make this tag or just type it.

(img)(/img) Use square brackets not round ones like these

6. Now paste the URL that you copied in-between the tags. So it looks like this.

(img)http://static.flickr.com/46/129756460_9e62f3c625.jpg?v=0(/img)

7. Now some sites including flickr add some code on the end or the url that isn't compatible, so we need to remove it down to the .jpg. So the previous url should look like this one for it to work. I removed the "?v=0" so it ends with the .jpg

(img)http://static.flickr.com/46/129756460_9e62f3c625.jpg(/img)

Thats it the above code with square brackets not rounded ones will display the image right in the post.

Also note that large images will be automatically scaled to fit in the thread, clicking these images will show a larger version of the image. This is what I do so that you can click to see the details in my images.

[abuyck]

Thank you Jeffrey..I think I got it.....I appreciate your help

[rpnix]

I'm late in noticing this thread, but thought I'd add some detail to it.

I'm using a free flickr account, and have been linking to images there without problem.

Go to your flickr photos page, and pick the image you want to include. Click on the image to select it. Above the image are several icons, one of which is "All sizes". Click this icon. You'll get a page with links across the top, such as "Square", "Small", "Medium" and "Large". These also tell the size of each image. Click on your choice to include here. (I'll do small and medium as examples, below).

Below the picture are two text boxes. the first contains the full html needed to include the image in an html page, along with a link to your flickr page and attribution to flickr. This is the way flickr would like to see all images used from their site. The second text box contains just the url needed to get the picture, without any links or attribution. Copy this second text box.

When editing here, there are a number of tags listed above the message text box. In the second row, the fourth icon looks like a picture in a frame. Click this, and you'll get an img tag that will be recognized by the editor here. It will look something like:

(img)(/img)

(I changed the square brackets to parens to keep it from being processed.)

Between the tags, paste the url you copied from the flickr site, such as:

(img)http://static.flickr.com/61/255834937_1d21fe1417_m.jpg(/img)

This produces:



This was the "small" version of the image. If you wanted a larger picture in the message, on flickr, select "medium", and copy the link, then put it here:

(img)http://static.flickr.com/61/255834937_1d21fe1417.jpg(/img)

to get this:



Thus, a larger version of the same image. Remember that I used parens in my examples so that they wouldn't actually work, but in practice (and in reality, where the pictures are actually included above), use square brackets to create the tags.

I hope this was clear, and helps someone enjoy the AllNikons forum a bit more. I know I'll injoy your pictures more when I don't have to go hunt for them...