How to post pictures tutorial?

LACamper · Jan 3, 2008

Spanky, being the computer guru that you are... why don't you post a tutorial (or dump it on someone else!) on how to post pictures of the appropriate size?

I know how I do it, but I'm sure there's a better way. I put the photo on my desktop, right click and pick email photo. When Outlook comes up it offers me a chance to reduce the size. I then drag the reduced size photo into a folder. Then I close Outlook and go through the upload routine from BS.com.

The rifle/pistol/shotgun thread has some massive photos on there!

rockmup · Jan 3, 2008

Don't take this wrong but are you on dial up ? Just trying to understand the issue.
I personally like the pics big. The bigger they are the more detail I can see.

LACamper · Jan 3, 2008

Cable lite. That's not the issue. I get tired of seeing post that say 'look at my new gun!' but with no pictures. People seem to have trouble posting. Photos that are so big I have to scroll 2 full screenwidths are a little annoying (alright! He got a cool buttstock!, oh, there's the rest...).
Like I said, its more about postings without photos.
Unless, of course, we want to pull the posting that don't have functional photos?

spanky · Jan 3, 2008

Good idea. I'll do that in a few. :cool:

CajunTim · Jan 3, 2008

I just realized that when I delete a photo from my photobucket account it deletes it from the forum.

spanky · Jan 3, 2008

CajunTim said:
I just realized that when I delete a photo from my photobucket account it deletes it from the forum.

Yep. Your image posting would be linked directly to that image on photobucket so when the image is gone the pointer in the forum has nowhere to go.

rockmup · Jan 3, 2008

LACamper said:
Cable lite. That's not the issue. I get tired of seeing post that say 'look at my new gun!' but with no pictures. People seem to have trouble posting. Photos that are so big I have to scroll 2 full screenwidths are a little annoying (alright! He got a cool buttstock!, oh, there's the rest...).
Like I said, its more about postings without photos.
Unless, of course, we want to pull the posting that don't have functional photos?

I get it.
So riddle me this batman, why can I see my pics in a thread but some can't ?

Spanky should be able to set a size limit for the site as well

jayd · Jan 3, 2008

I Posted this on page 10 of the riflle thread a few months ago

Go to this box

and type/paste in the "address" of your photo
Make sure you add .jpg to the end of the address
it will look something like this when you post it but will be an image
when posted if done correctly (there is a space at the jpg that's why it didn't load a pic in this example)

Here it is loaded correctly (I shot this @ WWII Museum 2002)

Also you must store your pic in a place that allows your pics to be linked (www.tinypic.com will allow this for free)
or you'll get the dreaded red X
and then we will make fun you you with
.gifs like this one

Good luck

spanky · Jan 3, 2008

jayd covered it.

If you need somewhere to host your photos, click on the "uploads" link at the top of the site.

http://upload.bayoushooter.com/

That page will, after you upload the pictures, generate the code necessary for you to post the image.

If you need to resize images, the most user friendly image resizer i've ever found is distributed by microsoft.

[url]http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe[/url]

Once installed, it allows you to be able to right click an image file that's stored on your computer and simply click "resize image" and choose the size you want.

spanky · Jan 3, 2008

I'll post all this in a step by step type post in a moment.

LACamper · Jan 3, 2008

Of course, if you don't want to pull the postings Spanky, you could let us pick the photos to take the place of those red X's...

spanky · Jan 3, 2008

http://www.bayoushooter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1693

spanky · Jan 3, 2008

LACamper said:
Of course, if you don't want to pull the postings Spanky, you could let us pick the photos to take the place of those red X's...

It doesn't really matter. Red X's are everywhere. You guys can delete them yourselves if you want or just leave them alone. It doesn't matter to me. :cool:

LACamper · Jan 4, 2008

Nice job Spanky.

jayd · Jan 4, 2008

LACamper said:
Nice job Spanky.

+1

LACamper · Jan 4, 2008

I was thinking more of deleting the ones from people that don't post any more and don't have photos.

spanky · Jan 20, 2008

LSP972 said:
Spanky, that link for PowerToys is for XP; won't run with Vista.

I know how frustrating it is to try and help folks who are clueless about computers; I feel the same way about some cops and their guns...

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Rats, good point. I don't know of a simple resize utility for vista quite yet.

spanky · Jan 20, 2008

Found a solution.

How to post pictures tutorial?

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