HOW TO POST PICTURES ON THE FORUM

[RRoller123]

This is a procedure that I have been developing for a little while on how to post pictures here in the Forum. Hope it is useful, and comments are always welcome.

HOW TO POST PICTURES IN FIATSPIDER.COM

Well that picture-posting thing sure is confusing. Took me forever to figure it out. Here is what I do:

First, you must post your pictures on photobucket.com or one of the similar competing websites. You can't post pics directly from your computer. So set up a free account there first. The instructions here reference photobucket.com.

Then in your FS.com post, look for the "Img" box at the top of the post, #9 from the left in the row of command icons.

Put the cursor where you want the pic to appear in the post (leave a few spaces after text is a good idea) and click the "Img" button/icon above.

Then go to the photobucket.com site (or competitor) and find your pic. Hover the cursor over the pic and a drop down menu will appear. Then click the "Direct Link" or similar button. In Photobucket, it will respond with a "copied" indication.

Go back to your FS.com post and make sure the cursor is EXACTLY in between the 2 Img boxes: [img](cursor%20in%20here)[/img] then right click and hit "paste" and the web link for the pic will show up in between the 2 img boxes. DON'T hit the IMG button a second time. MOVE your cursor out of the IMG info you just created before you hit enter.

Now when you post the post, the pic will be there!

Remember that if you delete the photobucket "master" pic, it will no longer appear in the posting here on FS.com

Also: there is a size limit to the pictures that can be displayed here, I think it is 750 pixels in width, someone correct me if I am wrong. So you may need to resize (typically downsize) the pics so that they fit properly and all of the pic is displayed and not cropped. What I do is really simple: I email the original picture to myself within AOL. AOL will automatically prompt you to see if you want the picture "optimized". Say "yes" and send this new pic to yourself. I then save it with a "small" addendum to the picture name and put this optimized picture up on photobucket. It works every single time like a charm.

[RRoller123]

http://www.fiatspider.com/f08/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=21014

This should do it. Just a test to make sure the link works.

Pete

[Danno]

definitely worthy of it's own thread. Comes up a lot! (also, here's another vote for Photobucket)

[Spider2g]

<a href="http://s1306.beta.photobucket.com/user/ ... e.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1306.photobucket.com/albums/s56 ... a3a8fe.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo image_zps30a3a8fe.jpg"/></a>

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[hobonamy]

Thanks...

[lucas83]

whats a good size to use on photo buckect i keep guessing and it keeps cutting my photos?

[76was124]

whats a good size to use on photo buckect i keep guessing and it keeps cutting my photos?

I am not positive, but I think it's 640x480.

Also, something not immediately obvious to me was that if pictures are posted too large, you can still tap or click & hold on the picture and you can open it in a new windows full size.

[RRoller123]

720 maximum pixel width

[76was124]

720 maximum pixel width

Hi Pete,

So then to keep the proper aspect ratio we would want it to be 720x480, correct?

[RRoller123]

Not sure about that, but I edit in windows, and click the by "pixel" option, which maintains the aspect ratio, whatever it might be. As long as you keep the aspect ratio fixed, the 720 max width should keep the right side from being cut off.

Pete

[RMadden]

Not sure about that, but I edit in windows, and click the by "pixel" option, which maintains the aspect ratio, whatever it might be. As long as you keep the aspect ratio fixed, the 720 max width should keep the right side from being cut off.

Pete

To add onto this and get a bit more technical, it all comes down to the aspect ratio of your photo. Most of my photos on photobucket are sent by my phone, which compresses them to 640x480 and that has an aspect ratio of 4:3 (divide both terms by greatest common factor -- [640/160 = 4] : [480/160 = 3] = 4:3) We know this forum has a maximum width of 720 pixels, so to find the new maximum height of my photo—while preserving the aspect ratio—I would need to do the following calculation:

original height / original width x new width = new height
480 / 640 x 720 = 540

I hope that helps clear some things up, or perhaps I've only succeeded at inducing some blank stares and glazed over eyes

[RRoller123]

Hi Ryan, thanks for the input but I am not sure how to roll that into the instruction without possibly making it more confusing than it already is.