How to post pictures so they show up directly in the post

[Borec Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Borec]

Hi,
Could be a silly question, but how can I post pictures so that they load up straight away when viewing a thread. At the moment I am putting links to pictures that I have uploaded to a website that I have, so people need to click on the link in the thread to see the picture. I would like for the pictures to load up without users needing to click on the link.
Thank you
Borec

[r4ndll Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close r4ndll]

http://www.pradopoint.com/showthread...-POST-PICTURES!

If you already have the URL:

• create a post,
• click "Go Advanced" button
• Click the "Insert Image" button (tree picture)
• Choose "From URL" option
• enter link
• Click OK

[Rainman Advanced Member Find all posts View Profile Close Rainman]

I just load up photos to photobucket and once loaded you have a number of options for creating links etc. If you just copy and paste the URL option straight into your post the photo should be visible in the text. You may have to reduce the size of your photo before uploading otherwise it may be oversize.

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Click on the insert image icon


Then paste the image URL into this dialogue box

[r4ndll Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close r4ndll]

Jeez. I almos beat AMTS to a post... and then he goes and uses pictures. Show off

[Guest Close Guest]

Jeez. I almos beat AMTS to a post... and then he goes and uses pictures. Show off

[Borec Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Borec]

Ok thanks guys, lets see if this works, no it does not.. file too large (was 600kB). Or it is not about size in kB but rather in pixels and needs to be max 800x600
What is the size limit, if anybody knows, before I start trial and error.
Cheers
Borec

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800 pixels max on the long edge.

[AJ120 Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close AJ120]

This is what I do using http://postimage.org/

Just go to Post image, and browse your computer for your picture, select the family safe option and select size to 800x600, after the first time my computer remembers this and don't need to do it again.

After you have uploaded your image you will get a number of URL's to choose from, if you select "thumbnails for forums (1)" and copy and paste the URL into the thread you get a thumbnail like this, people can click on that for the full size image.



Or you can select "hotlinks for forums (1)" and paste the URL in to the thread and you get this


20mb image hosting

When you do that you get a bit of text under the picture (text varies), you can just delete that text from the URL to get this




Cheers Andrew

[120D4D Avid PP Poster! Find all posts View Profile Close 120D4D]

What an excuse to show off the same action shot three times Andrew!

[SimpleSi Member Find all posts View Profile Close SimpleSi]

Been wanting to ask this for a while.
AJ120, the 2nd and 3rd thumbnails take me to the post image home page: http://postimg.org/ i.e. no pictures. I've just created an account, but still the same.

[AJ120 Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close AJ120]

The second and third pictures aren't thumbnails, they are the full size (resized) picture, they are not meant to be a link.

I have never created an account for postimage, you don't need an account to do what I do, maybe I should though, it might be better.

Cheers Andrew

[AJ120 Out of control poster! Find all posts View Profile Close AJ120]

What an excuse to show off the same action shot three times Andrew!

Well I need all the excuses I can get, there are hardly any actions of my rig on the forum

That was on the Gunbarrel Highway for anyone interested

Cheers Andrew