How to post a photo here

OK..I give up. Can somebody...David K. maybe...tell me in plain English how to make a photo from PhotoBucket or my desktop or? appear in this space?

The instructions I have seen so far SUCK!
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Originally posted by bonanza bucko OK..I give up. Can somebody...David K. maybe...tell me in plain English how to make a photo from PhotoBucket or my desktop or? appear in this space? The instructions I have seen so far SUCK! BB

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Originally posted by bonanza bucko OK..I give up. Can somebody...David K. maybe...tell me in plain English how to make a photo from PhotoBucket or my desktop or? appear in this space? The instructions I have seen so far SUCK! BB

This was in the BajaRae thread Pictures you replied to today...


How to post a photo on Nomad:

A review of three methods from an older thread... for the new Nomads or the PC challenged Nomads... Note: there are many methods, and I suggest you go to the older thread where 'everyone' provided their favorite... the following are MY prefered methods, and I want to keep it as easy as possible to help folks who are photo posting challenged.

A) ADDING A PHOTO THAT IS IN YOUR PC PICTURES FOLDER:

A photo that is in your computer file can be displayed on Nomad pages in certain forums where it is allowed...

The photo's file size must be BELOW 50 kbs to post here. Open your photo file ('My Pictures' or ?) find the photo you want to share and move your mouse arrow onto the photo thumbnail... a pop up will tell you how big it is in kbs or mbs (1000 kb=1 mb).

TO POST A PHOTO:

Simply click the button labled 'Browse' just below where you type a message, and your pc will pop up a window of your photo files... simply click on the photo you wish to post (if it is under 50 kbs). The post must have a subject or some text with the photo to post.

IF your photo is over 50 kbs, then here is one method to reduce the size, and make it a duplicate (so the original full size photo is preserved). I thank Neal Johns for showing me.

(If the photo you want to post is already on another web site, then you may 'hot link' it to Nomad, and the size doesn't matter... unless it isn't too big and distorts the screen. Hot linking will be described below.)

PHOTOS IN YOUR PC OVER 50 KB, click on each step:

If 'paint' isn't on your deck top, do this (click on):

a) Start

b) All Programs

c) Accesories
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1) Paint (start here if 'paint' is on your desk top)
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2) File

3) Open...

3a) then click on the photo to get reduced (double click).

4) Image

5) Stretch/Skew... then change the % down from 100 in both boxes in sketch to a lesser number.... (if over 700 kb try 25%, if 400 kb try 35%, if 120 kb try 70%, if 60 kb try 90%)

Continue to Click on:

6) OK

7) File

8) Save As

8a) now type in a new name for the reduced photo or add -r to it to indicate it is the 'reduced' one... this is a copy so you don't mess with the original.

9) Save

THAT'S IT!

Now, click on file and open again, move your mouse arrow over the reduced photo and see if it is between 25 and 50 kb.

When you move the mouse over the reduced photo in the files, the kb size will show and let you know if you didn't get it low enough, or too low! In either case, repeat the steps above... working with the original, large photo.

After you do a couple it gets pretty easy.

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B) HOT LINKING FROM ANOTHER WEBSITE:

If the photo you want to show on Nomad is already on another web site, and it is your photo or you have permission to use it, then get the url of the photo... and click on
which is right above where you type a message. A pop up will give you a place to paste the url of the photo.

To get the url (begins with http:// ), move your mouse over that photo and right click on it, then left click 'properties' in the new pop up. Copy the address/ url with your mouse to paste on Nomad in


Here is a hot link from my web site:




If you have your photos on a photo album web site, there may be a direct link option that will have the html tags ([img]) already included... see Photobucket.com instructions below...

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C) PHOTOBUCKET.COM

Photos can be copied onto your (free) photobucket.com album from your PC files... just pre select the size reduction setting as 15" screen or smaller... not 17" and not 1 mg. so the Nomad board doesn't get streched wide requiring awkward right scrolling to read messages.

To show any photos on Nomad, put your mouse on your photobucket photo, and a drop down menu will appear with these four choices and a url or 'code' next to each... for that photo:

Email & IM
Direct Link
HTML Code
IMG Code

Copy the last one (IMG Code), and paste that right on the Nomad page where you type a message... where ever you want the photo to appear in your thread.

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MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!

Photos on Nomad

I have given up too.

ALMOST! You need to click on the link for posting on message boards... it has [IMG] before and [/IMG] just after the url for the photo (with no spaces)...

Go to your album on photobucket, put your mouse (arrow) over the image you want, and then a drop down of links to that photo appears... the bottom one is the image code you want...






[Edited on 10-21-2010 by David K]

[Edited on 10-21-2010 by David K]

You have not copy and pasted your photo here.... what you have done is copy and pasted the "location" (or "URL") of your photo here. By just pasting a URL, the software will make it a link by default.

You have to tell the software this is an image to display by using the BB code - as noted to you.

You can reference the BB Code here in the FAQ:
http://forums.bajanomad.com/faq.php?page=misc#1

For an image, you use the [img ][ /img] BB Code (only with no spaces - as I did it this way so they'd be visible in this reply).

Thus to tell the software to display your image, you would past the code like this (minus the spaces):

[img ]http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr250/bonanzabucko/10-15-10sunrise.jpg[ /img]

It looks like this when you do so:



If your image is wider than about 700 pixels it's going to stretch the website beyond what is easy for some people to see and/or read the rest of the page, so you can always RESIZE your image as well in the BB Code. Your image is 1023 pixels wide by 682 pixels high. So, in order to make it 700 pixels by 467 pixels (keeping the height proportianate to the width still) you would enter the BB Code like this (without spaces):

[img=700x467 ]http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr250/bonanzabucko/10-15-10sunrise.jpg[ /img]

Which then looks like this:




Let me know if you have more questions or need further assistance.

Regards,
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Doug Means

Welcome to our limited iMac club.
I've tried to create a graphic that well help not sure how clear it will turn out....

I'm guessing it's the "?t=1287759557" behind the image's filename (10-15-10sunrise.jpg). Let's see if it works if I remove it using the same code otherwise as above via copy/paste:

FINALLY!!

[img]http://[/img]

GUYS:
I really appreciate your help...especially Russ's. It turns out that the problem I had was getting Photobucket to do what you said it should do. The obscurity there was the need to work with a thumbnail and not the image that I wanted to transfer.

Thanks a bunch! I'm dangerous now...I have photos of Baja to da max

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Originally posted by bonanza bucko GUYS: I really appreciate your help...especially Russ's. It turns out that the problem I had was getting Photobucket to do what you said it should do. The obscurity there was the need to work with a thumbnail and not the image that I wanted to transfer. Thanks a bunch! I'm dangerous now...I have photos of Baja to da max

Can't wait to see them!