how to post photo on forum

[magicpic]

how do I post a photo on the forum? thanks janis

[DavidTO]

how do I post a photo on the forum? thanks janis


There's a link in my signature to a tutorial on posting pictures. There's also a link to our tutorials page up in the navbar at the top of dgrin.

[Phyxius]

how do I post a photo on the forum? thanks janis
I actually already posted this in the other thread (the one with focus questions on the tennis shot) so I'm just pasting it here again...


Step 1:
Get the address of the picture, which since you already know how to do (it's what you linked above) I won't go indepth, but since you have a smugmug the easiest way is to click on the share in forums link. That takes you to a screen that looks like this:
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j51/phyxiusfoto/stuff/how2img2.jpg
Most people use medium (highlighted here) or large files.
Highlight the one you want, right click (if using windows) and choose "copy".

Step 2
Come back to the forum message screen and click on the icon that looks like a drawing of a mountain with a sun above it, shown here highlighted in red:
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j51/phyxiusfoto/stuff/how2img1.jpg

Clicking that button makes a little window pop up like this one:
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j51/phyxiusfoto/stuff/how2img3.jpg

Step 3
Since when you copied the link at your smugmug account you also got the http://in (http://in/) the beginning you can just hit backspace to delete it. Now you hit ctrl+v or right click (if you're using windows) and choose "paste". Now you should see something like this:
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j51/phyxiusfoto/stuff/how2img4.jpg

When you hit "OK" you'll see the image now appears in your message box here on the forum:
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j51/phyxiusfoto/stuff/how2img5.jpg

Or you can also write out the BBCode yourself which simply means placing "tags" before and after the address of the image.
http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j51/phyxiusfoto/stuff/how2img6.jpg

Then, to make sure you did everything correctly hit the "Preview Post" button to make sure all of the tags are complete (when hitting "Preview Post" the images will appear).


**Edit...oops...must make note to read other posts...I didn't see David's post, his 'tutes are great and it goes into a more detail than mine. :):