Post by Maine Sail on Jun 29, 2009 13:34:55 GMT -5
Using photos in your posts can add greatly to the success of a thread and to the bottom line answer.
Using photos here is not difficult once you are set up and ready to go. there are two basic ways to add a photo to a post.
Adding Photos To Posts
How To
Preface:
Picasa3 - I suggest downloading and installing Picasa3. This free software is one of, if not the best, photo organization and minor photo manipulation programs in existence. It is also the absolute easiest to use. Once you download it it will automatically scan your computer for photos and import them into Picasa. Please be aware that it DOES NOT duplicate your stored photos but rather references them at their stored location for use in Picasa3. This technique saves your valuable hard drive space by not duplicating photos. If you do not already use this program you will love it!
It is NOT necessary to have Picasa3 in order to use Picasa Web Albums. I only suggest it because for anyone with a digital camera, it is simply the easiest photo software on the planet. I'm a published photographer who owns and has spent big bucks on Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, and many other pro-grade programs, but who also chooses to use Picasa3 for 90% of my web photo publishing. heck I have even sold Picasa3 edited photos publications like Sail Magazine.
If you have photos already hosted on a site skip to the words in burgundy for instructions on how to add them to your post.
Uploading to Picasa Web Albums
#1 Go here: Picasa Web Albums or Click on "Web Album"
#2 If you don't already have a free Google account create one.
#3 Once you are into the Picasa web albums page click the "Upload" button.
#4 A box will pop up and you'll want to click "Create a New Album"
#5 Another box will pop up and ask you to name your new album. For illustrative purposes we'll call it "CS Yachts Forum Pics". Click "Continue"
#6 A page will pop up with five "Browse" buttons. Click "Browse" and then locate the folder and then the specific picture within the folder that you want to upload. When you find the picture click "Open" and it will insert the picture into the upload box.
#7 Once you have found and selected the picture or pictures you want to upload click "Start Upload". Depending upon your connection speed and file size this could take a little bit of time.
#8 Once your photos are uploaded it will take you directly to this new "CS Yachts Forum Pics" album. Simply click once on the photo you want to post and make it bigger. Follow directions bellow from here.
Note: You can also use many, many other photo hosting sites such as SmugMug, PhotoBucket, Snapfish or possibly others but you'll need to figure those out how to access or copy the image location on your own. As much as I'd like to I just can't post directions for every possible photo hosting site on the net.
Linking Your Photos Into A Post With;
This is the big secret to hot-linking just about ANY photo hosted anywhere on the web to your post. Please read this part carefully!
#1 Once your image in Web Albums is upload and has been made larger move & hoover your mouse pointer over the photo and execute a "right click" and then select "Copy Image Location" from the drop down menu.
Please note that I use Mozilla Firefox as my browser and other browsers may not have or show the "Copy Image Location" feature (this feature is a very, very useful tool!). If you do not use Mozilla Firefox I highly recommend it!
If you still use Internet Explorer
you'll need to execute a "right click"and then select "Properties" from the drop down menu. A new box will pop up and you'll see "Address (URL):" manually highlight only the web address, copy it, and paste it as directed above in between the IMG tags. The image address goes between these:
[ img ]your image address[ /img ]
#2 Back on the CS Yachts forums, and in your post box, select this
icon. When the IMG tags appear paste your image address between the two IMG tag boxes. "right click" on your mouse and select "Paste". You can also press "CTRL V" and paste it that way.
Here's how it will look:
Using photos here is not difficult once you are set up and ready to go. there are two basic ways to add a photo to a post.
Adding Photos To Posts
How To
Preface:
Picasa3 - I suggest downloading and installing Picasa3. This free software is one of, if not the best, photo organization and minor photo manipulation programs in existence. It is also the absolute easiest to use. Once you download it it will automatically scan your computer for photos and import them into Picasa. Please be aware that it DOES NOT duplicate your stored photos but rather references them at their stored location for use in Picasa3. This technique saves your valuable hard drive space by not duplicating photos. If you do not already use this program you will love it!
It is NOT necessary to have Picasa3 in order to use Picasa Web Albums. I only suggest it because for anyone with a digital camera, it is simply the easiest photo software on the planet. I'm a published photographer who owns and has spent big bucks on Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, and many other pro-grade programs, but who also chooses to use Picasa3 for 90% of my web photo publishing. heck I have even sold Picasa3 edited photos publications like Sail Magazine.
If you have photos already hosted on a site skip to the words in burgundy for instructions on how to add them to your post.
Uploading to Picasa Web Albums
#1 Go here: Picasa Web Albums or Click on "Web Album"
#2 If you don't already have a free Google account create one.
#3 Once you are into the Picasa web albums page click the "Upload" button.
#4 A box will pop up and you'll want to click "Create a New Album"
#5 Another box will pop up and ask you to name your new album. For illustrative purposes we'll call it "CS Yachts Forum Pics". Click "Continue"
#6 A page will pop up with five "Browse" buttons. Click "Browse" and then locate the folder and then the specific picture within the folder that you want to upload. When you find the picture click "Open" and it will insert the picture into the upload box.
#7 Once you have found and selected the picture or pictures you want to upload click "Start Upload". Depending upon your connection speed and file size this could take a little bit of time.
#8 Once your photos are uploaded it will take you directly to this new "CS Yachts Forum Pics" album. Simply click once on the photo you want to post and make it bigger. Follow directions bellow from here.
Note: You can also use many, many other photo hosting sites such as SmugMug, PhotoBucket, Snapfish or possibly others but you'll need to figure those out how to access or copy the image location on your own. As much as I'd like to I just can't post directions for every possible photo hosting site on the net.
Linking Your Photos Into A Post With;
This is the big secret to hot-linking just about ANY photo hosted anywhere on the web to your post. Please read this part carefully!
#1 Once your image in Web Albums is upload and has been made larger move & hoover your mouse pointer over the photo and execute a "right click" and then select "Copy Image Location" from the drop down menu.
Please note that I use Mozilla Firefox as my browser and other browsers may not have or show the "Copy Image Location" feature (this feature is a very, very useful tool!). If you do not use Mozilla Firefox I highly recommend it!
If you still use Internet Explorer
you'll need to execute a "right click"and then select "Properties" from the drop down menu. A new box will pop up and you'll see "Address (URL):" manually highlight only the web address, copy it, and paste it as directed above in between the IMG tags. The image address goes between these:[ img ]your image address[ /img ]
#2 Back on the CS Yachts forums, and in your post box, select this
icon. When the IMG tags appear paste your image address between the two IMG tag boxes. "right click" on your mouse and select "Paste". You can also press "CTRL V" and paste it that way. Here's how it will look: