[Skip]

THE INSTRUCTIONS HAVE BEEN UPDATED. The process is now much easier.

To include an image in yours posts, you must first post the image in the galleries then use the new links that appear to the left when you write your post (Upload Photos & Add Photo to Post).

The procedure is this:
1. You must first upload the photo to your gallery.
2. Then you can Add Photo to your post by clicking on the link - to the left of your forum posting box.
3. Select from the drop down list the image you want to post (you'll be presented with a thumbnail to make sure it's the one you want).
4. Highlight & copy (ctrl-c) then paste (ctrl-v) (or just Drag) the URL to the image.

That's it, your image should appear in the post.

NOTE: We now have an image posting FAQ!

[SlackerScrog]

Thanks, thats good to hear.
I'll give it a try this afternoon.

peace

[BushyOldGrower]

I am way to dumb to figure that out. BOG

Didn't like the cut and paste? or maybe I used the wrong URL? Photo? Thumb? Manual entry with thumb URL in the end.
https://www.icmag.com/forums/showthre...=3321#post3321

[JLP]

Testing 1..2..3...



OK,yeah Jim is right,you have to manualy type the URL into the IMG tag.I tried to copy or paste or whatever and it didn't work.

You can now post an image though,that's the main thing.


Big hand for Skip


JLP

[BushyOldGrower]

Bogglegum really fuks ya up in the morning but I am trying again... BOG

[BushyOldGrower]

My gallery allowed unlimited size pics and an unlimited amount of disk space so I went right to work but most are 200-400 kb.

When can we get posting big pics? BOG

I got in trouble over this once before at OG when I complained that reducing the 150 kb limit was not a good idea. They took my advice and now its over 1 mb.

[Skip]

Hi BOG, sorry about the limits, but while they might be a slight inconvenience for those with beautiful large images to display, they make a big difference to the performance of the site for everyone!

We all have to make sacrifices for the common good, and this is one of those things.

At first this site was setup by default to allow images to be mixed right in with the database of text. That is incredibly bad for a large site as this will soon become, so I stopped that. We have the image galleries instead, with a 250K filesize limit & 5MB total for registered members. Moderators have no limits at present.

But when images appear in threads we must restrict the size even more because how long it takes for a thread to load is dependent not only on the amount of text but far more upon the size of images included in the text. Any delays, especially for those with slow dialup affects everyone on the site as the server must keep those connections open longer until the download of the thread is complete.

Besides the load problem on the server, if you include large images in your posts it ruins the formatting of the page unless you have high resolution monitors in excess of 1024 to show the image & thread without having to scroll from side to side. Few people have that kind of resolution.

I realize this is a bit technical, but once you master the photo posting (cut and paste should be familiar to everyone using a computer), it should be a breeze.

[Skip]

Actually BOG, OG does not allow images over 100K in posts. Evidently they resize them upon upload because if you check the size of images in the posts you'll see they're not as big as what you uploaded.

I can probably program that too, but that is a LOT of custom programming and would have to wait until I can program a whole new process for uploading.

Since you need to resize your originals anyway, you might as well make 'em under 100K cause anything larger is pretty much lost on the Net or causes the problems mentioned above.

Testing, could get to work at other post. BOG NYCD


PS, You do have to type it in manual. For some reason the copy and paste won't work. Thanks for getting us able to post pictures.