How to post images in your threads

[MediaHound]

To post a photo, you must get the url (web-accessible path, something like http://www.bananas.org/images/editor/insertimage.gif) to the image on your computer's clipboard. To do that, right click the photo you wish to post, select 'properties' - then in the box that appears, you will see the url (location) of the image. Double click that link to select all, or drag your mouse across it to highlight it, then copy that link to your clipboard with a Ctrl+C or another right click and select 'copy'. Come back here and type out your post, then click the little icon that looks like a mountain range with a sunset. It looks like this Thats the tool to help post images. It will prompt you for the address of the image, it's already copied to your clipboard. So Ctrl+V to paste it in there (or right click and select 'paste') and presto, your image is ready to post. Preview your entire post to make sure it formatted everything properly before you click submit.

Another way is to paste the URL to the image and surround it with [ img ] (means open image) and [ /img ] (means close image), like this:

[img]http://www.path-to-your-image.com/image.php?image.gif[/img]

The sunset image tool basically streamlines this same process with the [ img ] [ / img ] tags.


Hope this helps!

[MediaHound]

If you want to test it out, try and copy this code and paste it in a post to see what happens.

[img]http://www.bananas.org/images/bananas.org_logo.gif[/img]

Should show up like this:

Another example:

[img]http://www.bananas.org/gallery/watermark.php?file=8[/img]

Should show up like this:

[MediaHound]

To upload images, click here

[Bananavilla]

Can we resize the images in the code?






Apparently not

[MediaHound]

Mike,
Unfortunately, you can't specify image dimensions when posting pictures.
The images will only show up in their native dimensions.
HOWEVER, the good news is that our photo gallery will do some resizing for you. The site will A) create a thumbnail of your image, B) resize it so it shows on the screen without overlapping when people view the gallery, and C) save it in its regular size, the way it was uploaded.

I saved your picture to my hard drive, then uploaded it to your gallery. Here's what we have now:

[Bananavilla]

Thanks for the reply. I was hoping that we could do it in code since I don't always upload all pics to my gallery. For other purposes - ebay etc., it is nice to not have the bananas.org watermark.
Mike

[MediaHound]

Another way to easily post images
if you have Mozilla, Sea Monkey, or any other flavor of Netscape / Firefox -

If you are on a webpage that has the picture - such as your gallery here,
drag your cursor over the image(s) to select it(them) then right click and select "copy" (or hold the control key and hit c to copy) to your clipboard.

Then come back here to the posting page and put your cursor in the post message box and hit ctrl+V to paste whatever is on your clipboard into the message.
Viola.
This is probably the easiest and fastest way to post images.

I have not yet tested this method with the Internet Explorer browser, it may even work with that (if not now) by the time you read this.

[MediaHound]

New feature to make it even easier to post images!
To post a photo from your gallery, visit the page with the photo, and underneath it, you will see a box like this:


Place your cursor in this box, right click and select "copy"
now you have the code perfectly formatted to post in your thread
Just visit the posting page where you want to post your message,
place your cursor in the wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) editor (the window where you type your message), and either click Edit -> paste
or hold the Ctrl key while mashing the letter V (Ctrl+V) to paste your image code.
Now click the preview button.
You should see your image appear in the preview. Now, if you are happy, click to post your message, or click to keep editing and previewing before you post everything the way you like it.

[MediaHound]

I've just modified this to now also include a link to the photo as it appears in the gallery. So all your images that you post using this method will take people who click on the image to the gallery, where they can view more photos of yours, or they can click the keyword for the photo to see even more photos of the same type of plant.

Check it out,

bam
click that photo of AnnaJW's Kru

under the photo on the page that appears is some code, like in this image

(thats what you copy to paste into your posts in the forum)

AND under that is an area showing this:

Keywords: Kru
Click it and find more photos of "Kru".
So now when people see your images on the forums, when they click them, they have the ability to dig even deeper into the site to find even more related photos. Or they can do one of many other options for research once they land in the gallery.
I think this "Keywords: Kru" feature may be overlooked, or that it's just not used as often by so many folks. When your on a photo, try digging into the keywords that are displayed. Have fun with it!

Hope you enjoy the new changes!