How to add images to your post
Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 5:34 pm
Hi everyone,
On the new forum here, the mechanism for adding images is different that the previous version. Since we haven't got a "how-to", I thought I'd add that now with some screen-shots to show how to do it.
Step 1: When you reply to a post or start a new topic, look down below the "Preview" and "Submit" buttons for the "Upload Attachment" button, circled here:
Step 2: Click the "Browse" button to locate the file on your computer. Select the file and click "Open". After this, the path will show in the text box to the left of the "Browse" button. Make sure you click "Add the file" or the image will not be added.
Step 3: For the cleanest display in your post, click on the button "Place inline". The code will be automatically inserted into your post and you can type before or after the image. This image shows the "Place Inline" button and the code for the image in the post:
Repeat these steps for each image.
NOTE: The forum will resize images to 800 pixels when you upload. This will reduce the dimensions of larger images as well as the file size. However, if your camera takes really large images, (such as 4320 x 3240 14MB), these images will need to be reduced on you computer before you can upload them. Most people will already have a program that can do this, such as "Microsoft Office Picture Manager", "Picasa", or software that came with the camera. In addition, there are free utilities on the web that can do this such as "Infanview" http://www.irfanview.com/ which many have used with ease and success.
Feel free to post questions here and/or experiment with uploading pictures in this post.
On the new forum here, the mechanism for adding images is different that the previous version. Since we haven't got a "how-to", I thought I'd add that now with some screen-shots to show how to do it.
Step 1: When you reply to a post or start a new topic, look down below the "Preview" and "Submit" buttons for the "Upload Attachment" button, circled here:
- pic_attachment_new.jpg (178.02 KiB) Viewed 40550 times
- pic_attachment_new2.jpg (57.89 KiB) Viewed 40550 times
- pic_attachment_new3.jpg (136.07 KiB) Viewed 40550 times
NOTE: The forum will resize images to 800 pixels when you upload. This will reduce the dimensions of larger images as well as the file size. However, if your camera takes really large images, (such as 4320 x 3240 14MB), these images will need to be reduced on you computer before you can upload them. Most people will already have a program that can do this, such as "Microsoft Office Picture Manager", "Picasa", or software that came with the camera. In addition, there are free utilities on the web that can do this such as "Infanview" http://www.irfanview.com/ which many have used with ease and success.
Feel free to post questions here and/or experiment with uploading pictures in this post.
thanks for the idea though.
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