KCSteve
~ Elite 1000 Member ~
Every now and then the pictures on a thread 'go away'. This happens when the pictures are hosted elsewhere and something happens that makes the URL to where they were invalid. Could be the picture got deleted from that site, the site's URL changed, security changed... all sorts of things.
Pictures that are uploaded here to the forum don't go away (barring any forum problems) so it's better to upload them.
But the problem there is that they end up as a list of thumbnails at the end of the post and sometimes you really want them to be inside your post. This is especially true in Tutorials where you want to be able to say "see here where I did this" and have the picture and text together.
That's easy enough to do, you just use the IMG tag and the URL of where the picture is stored.
But how do you do that if the picture has been uploaded to the forum?
Here's how:
For a Reply 'go advanced', for a new thread you start in the full edit window. Look down a bit and hit that 'Manage Attachments' button. Use the window that pops up to add your image, either from your computer or from somewhere on the web. Let me go do that....
Ok, I've added a shot of my latest hobo nickel. Now if I 'Preview Post' I should see the URL for it on the forum...
Actually, what you see is at the bottom of the Preview it says 'Attached Images' and lists some links. Right click on the link(s) and you'll see the address for the image. It'll look like this:
Drag your mouse across that and you can copy it (like I just did).
Now go to where you want that image in your post and put that URL inside a pair of IMG tags and voila! There's your image!
Which, as you can see, shows up full-sized and right within the post where you want it to be.
There are ways you can go back and make the thumbnail set at the bottom go away but it's hardly worth doing that, IMHO.
Pictures that are uploaded here to the forum don't go away (barring any forum problems) so it's better to upload them.
But the problem there is that they end up as a list of thumbnails at the end of the post and sometimes you really want them to be inside your post. This is especially true in Tutorials where you want to be able to say "see here where I did this" and have the picture and text together.
That's easy enough to do, you just use the IMG tag and the URL of where the picture is stored.
But how do you do that if the picture has been uploaded to the forum?
Here's how:
For a Reply 'go advanced', for a new thread you start in the full edit window. Look down a bit and hit that 'Manage Attachments' button. Use the window that pops up to add your image, either from your computer or from somewhere on the web. Let me go do that....
Ok, I've added a shot of my latest hobo nickel. Now if I 'Preview Post' I should see the URL for it on the forum...
Actually, what you see is at the bottom of the Preview it says 'Attached Images' and lists some links. Right click on the link(s) and you'll see the address for the image. It'll look like this:
Code:
http://www.igraver.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=11455&d=1282668969
Drag your mouse across that and you can copy it (like I just did).
Now go to where you want that image in your post and put that URL inside a pair of IMG tags and voila! There's your image!
Which, as you can see, shows up full-sized and right within the post where you want it to be.
There are ways you can go back and make the thumbnail set at the bottom go away but it's hardly worth doing that, IMHO.