HowTo: Post Pics/Reduce picture size - Page 4

wog boy · 03-22-2008, 06:13 AM

Not sure what's the go is but everytime I upload or attach a pic it only shows up as a thumbnail in my post, others Users I see have a full sized pic in their posts, am I doing something wrong?

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**fadertoo** · 03-22-2008, 06:32 AM

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Originally Posted by wog boy

Not sure what's the go is but everytime I upload or attach a pic it only shows up as a thumbnail in my post, others Users I see have a full sized pic in their posts, am I doing something wrong?

See what I mean

You're not doing anything wrong, exactly. When you post using the site posting feature, that's the way they appear. When we click the thumbnails they appear full-size.

Most of the full-size-in-the-post pics are hosted somewhere other than the forum - photobucket, for example. Then, the pics in the post are just linked from the hosting site. If the poster is a premium member, they may be linked from their own gallery.

Go back and re-read HEMEE's post #6 on the how-to. It's all in there. If, you have any questions after that, come back. It's easy once you've done it a time or two.

Niiiiiiice shine, BTW! You might want to put that in the Detailing forum.

**Rambit** · 03-22-2008, 06:38 AM

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Originally Posted by wog boy

Not sure what's the go is but everytime I upload or attach a pic it only shows up as a thumbnail in my post, others Users I see have a full sized pic in their posts, am I doing something wrong?

See what I mean

Use this method...

To post pics, here's what you need to do:

1. Go to Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket and register. It's a free image/video hosting site and not hard to understand.
2. Look for where it says "Upload Images or Video from your PC.
3. Navigate to where the image is on your computer and that's it.
4. Once the image is uploaded to Photobucket you'll see a thumbnail of it in your album.
5. Click in the bottom box, the one called "IMG Code". That will turn the text yellow and say "copied"
6. Go to the the "Reply to Thread" window here where we make posts and either right click and select "Paste" or using the keyboard, press CTRL+V. You'll see a string of characters appear. As long as it starts and ends with [IMG] you should have no problems. You can click on the "Preview Post" button to make sure it was successful.

Bernie