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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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| Quote: | 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!
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Photobucket is easy, bring up
the pic, below it will be some boxes, one of them will be marked [img], left click on the box, the text will turn blue, then right click on the text
and select copy, then go to where you want to post the pic, right click and select paste. that's all there is to it
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and from my desktop ????? wd it be the same ? cause it never works for me and I have no idea what I am doing wrong.
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David K
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| Quote: | 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!
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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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(I bumped up a post in the Q & A forum if you want to see the other two methods I use...)
[Edited on 10-21-2010 by David K]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaBlanca
and from my desktop ????? wd it be the same ? cause it never works for me and I have no idea what I am doing wrong. |
The pic has to be "hosted" somewhere like Photobucket, I'm not a where of any way to do it from your desktop. Also, the file name of the pic must end
in .jpeg or .gif.
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David K
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaBlanca
and from my desktop ????? wd it be the same ? cause it never works for me and I have no idea what I am doing wrong. |
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!
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bonanza bucko
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I think I should have said that I use an iMac....none of the instructions above worked ....so far...on my i Mac.
What to do?
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David K
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I don't know Mac, as I barely can work a PC!
Is there any way you can open a Photobucket.com account? Once you do, you upload photos (pre sizing them to under 800 pixels or 15" screen or
Large)... Then you simply copy the photo's url and paste them on a Nomad post.
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Photos on Nomad
I have given up too.
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DK, you are making it much too complicated....about half way through your reply I would have given up....and I know how to post a picture....
bonanza bucko or anyone else, u2u me and I will walk you through it....dt
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bonanza bucko
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http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr250/bonanzabucko/10-15-...
For David K....this is what happens when I copy and paste my Photobucket photo here....not good.
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David K
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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]
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David K
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However, as we on 15" monitors can see, the photo is too big and stretches the Nomad thread wide. Next time, pre-select a reduced uploading size, 15"
or Large are the top two biggest without page disruption. You click 'more options' for this resizing... right next to where you click to upload from
your computer.
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bonanza bucko
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David..thanks..but doing that produces the link code here and not the picture...I want the picture to show up here as you were able to get it to show.
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bonanza bucko
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Vandenberg:
Thanks...but that's for a PC...I use an iMAC..a totally different animal.
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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.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by bonanza bucko
I think I should have said that I use an iMac....none of the instructions above worked ....so far...on my i Mac.
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Welcome to our limited iMac club.
I've tried to create a graphic that well help not sure how clear it will turn out....
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[img]http://http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr250/bonanzabucko/10-15-10sunrise.jpg?t=1287758938[/img]
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bonanza bucko
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[img][IMG]http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr250/bonanzabucko/10-15-10sunrise.jpg?t=1287759557[/IMG][/img]
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bonanza bucko
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For Russ:
I guess I'm a big dummy because following your super graphic and instructions I get the URLs above and not a picture.
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