How to Upload Pictures

[I_is_Tinsy]

So a lot of people here don't know how to upload pictures to forum posts and stuff, so I decided that I will enlighten you all. Here's a picture How-To.

Step 1: Upload your picture to imgur (http://imgur.com/) Then, go to the top of the page, and click "images" next to your username, find your picture, and click it.

Step 2: A window will pop up, and copy this.

Step 3: Click this thing, above the text-box-thingy

Step 4: Paste that thing from earlier here

Click OK and you're done!

 

[XxDanclarke96xX]

I approve of the family guy link in your favourites....

 

[smeep]

\"Click this thing, above the text-box-thingy\"

Thats some heavy vocabulary there buddy.

Only kidding of course, now maybe we can get a larger number of people posting pictures with their ship files.

 

[I_is_Tinsy]

Lol I don\'t know what it\'s called, but hopefully people can tell what I mean from the picture.

 

[XxDanclarke96xX]

do you mean the \'add picture\' icon next to the \'add table\' button?

 

[I_is_Tinsy]

YES. That\'s what I mean, but I\'m gonna keep it how it is, because it\'s funny.

 

[TheKurt]

I don\'t use forums... ever.

So I found this extremely helpful.

Thank you

 

[Kiviar]

You missed the most important part; how to make a thumbnail so the 30 gigantic 1.3mb 1920x1200 screenshots you post in your thread don\'t both, explode everyone\'s browser and choke their connections. All it takes are two extra simple steps that will make everyone\'s life a little bit nicer.

Step 1
When you paste your imgur link in the Image info window, at the end of the URL just before the file extention place a lower-case s. This will give you a small square-cropped version of your image.

Example:

http://i.imgur.com/T8SZ2En.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/T8SZ2Ens.jpg

Step 2
Click on the \'Link\' tab at the top of the image properties window. In the URL field place the unmodified URL you received from imgur. Then hit \"Ok\".

That is it. There are a few other more involved ways of doing this, which give you better looking/cropped thumbnails, but this is all you really need.

Now you will get something nice and small like this.



and not this.

 

[Zyrr]

You see this post?



It\'s 6 months old.



No necrobumping, please.

 

[I_is_Tinsy]

Lol thanks I was wondering how people do that.

But I like the bigguns better :P

 

[ltmauve]

if you put an \'l\' before the png instead of a \'s\', you get this:

Perfectly sized for the fourms.

 

[FlyingDebris]

It should get a sticky.

 

[moontheman]

Please make this a stickie. I use google for my pics and would like more detailed instructions for additional pic services. Having to side-scroll to see oversized pics on a 4x3 monitor is a pain.

 

[NeonSturm]

Having to side-scroll to see oversized pics on a 4x3 monitor is a pain.


Should be solved with CSS: img{ width:500px; height:500px; maxWidth:500px; maxHeight:500px; and whatever else }

Or Javascript...

There will always be users too lazy for this, using other services or be just too not-english-speaking or new to know this (or to dumb to remember .