Adding pictures - Help

**lunch box** · 21st January 2006, 08:11 PM

Stop laughing and please tell me how I can add images to my post. I've tried and no pictures show when I preview.What am I doing wrong?

A mound is a terrible thing to waste

**SilverhawkUSA** · 21st January 2006, 09:53 PM

Not laughing, sometimes it takes me hours to get photos sized, uploaded to my website, correct url entered, and the photos arranged with the text the way I want them (then sometimes people still don't like them).

Too add photos.......

First the photos must ALREADY be in a website on the internet somewhere. Some use smugmug.com, yahoo or something similar. There are many free photo hosting sites if you do a search. ALSO the pictures should be reduced in size for internet. You don't need some huge file that takes forever to upload or download (PLEASE!).

When you write your message (not Quick Reply) you can click on the icon for insert picture. You will get something like this [img][/img}. The "closing" command must have a forward slash [/img}.

>(NOTE: YOU MUST USE ALL SQUARE BRACKETS [ ] but for the EXAMPLE I AM ENDING WITH A } or this message reads it as a command in the example.)<

Or if using Quick Reply, you can add the brackets yourself. Your photos web irl must go between the bracketed "img" commands (this is HTML language)

EXAMPLE: [img]http://www.smugmug.com/myphoto.jpg[/img}. Careful here, it must be EXACT! If for example you enter "myphoto.jpg" but your photo is really named "myphoto.JPG" it won't work. These simple errors can drive you crazy.

Some Commands are; bold [b} "type your text" [/b}, <u>Underline</u> [u] "type your text" [/u}, Italic [i]"type your text"[/i}, Quote [quote] "insert quote"[/quote}, etc.

Again, if using photos I recommend please reduce the size to no larger than about 480x360 or so.

Dave Early

Ever notice that "What the Heck!" is usually the right answer?

**lunch box** · 22nd January 2006, 09:19 AM

Thanking you! Many thanks for the reply but, my photos are on my computer! Please don't tell me I have to upload to some b.s. website.Pray tell there is a way to just post of me own computer!

"A mound is a terrible thing to waste"

**lunch box** · 22nd January 2006, 09:22 AM

Not trying to be a dick, just don't see the need for a middle man.

"A mound is a terrible thing to waste"

**SilverhawkUSA** · 22nd January 2006, 07:34 PM

Sorry, but unless your computer is connected to the internet full time with it's own IP address and you allow just about anyone to access it, you are in the same category as the rest of us.

David's website is not set up for us to upload and store photos directly on his server. That would take a lot of space and many additional headaches for a free "non-profit" site like his.

It's good and bad sometimes. Photo's can be interesting and add to the story, but if there are too many photos, especially large file sizes, it takes a long time to load on the slow dial up connections most of us use in Thailand. Regardless what Mr. Thaksin says, CM is far from being the "I.T. Hub of Thailand" yet!

Dave Early

Ever notice that "What the Heck!" is usually the right answer?

**Davidfl** · 23rd January 2006, 12:45 AM

Lunchbox]
Whatever you do, you need to upload the photos to a website, once. They can’t sit on your computer for everyone to look at.
Once you've got your pix uploaded you just need to insert a hyperlink & you're away.
It might seem a bit confusing the first time, but it aint that difficult once you’ve set it up & done it once or twice.
If you’ve got good pics, then you'll be a star on the GT Rider board & have lots of credibility. Brownie points will abound!

Davidfl
Keep The Power On

**SilverhawkUSA** · 23rd January 2006, 01:48 AM

I believe if you insert a hyperlink it will give you the link to view the photo but it will not display the photo in your message. At least that is what is happening when I try. eg; http://www.daearly.com/GT_Rider/laos/const1.JPG

Dave Early

Ever notice that "What the Heck!" is usually the right answer?

**Davidfl** · 23rd January 2006, 02:44 AM

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by SilverhawkUSA

I believe if you insert a hyperlink it will give you the link to view the photo but it will not display the photo in your message. At least that is what is happening when I try. eg; http://www.daearly.com/GT_Rider/laos/const1.JPG

Dave Early

Ever notice that "What the Heck!" is usually the right answer?
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Silverhawk / Lunch Box

Right, it's not just a hyperlink.
My understanding is you need to
1. Post the text.
2. Edit the post.
3. Go to the tool bar at the top & click on insert picture
4. Then paste in the hyperlink between the brackets & hey presto your photo pops up in the post.

At least that's how it works for me.

Davidfl
Keep The Power On

**Craypot** · 23rd January 2006, 12:37 PM

To insert the pic you need to add the IMG tags at the beginning and end of the URL for the photo eg IMG http://photo.com/photo.jpg /IMG with the IMG inside square brackets. I use photobucket to store the photos http://www.photobucket.com. That website provides the correct HTML text to use to insert the pics with. For this board use the IMG text. Other boards use the TAG text.

**lunch box** · 25th January 2006, 04:05 AM

Thank you very big for the help guys, I drink a cheers in your general direction!

"A mound is a terrible thing to waste"

**ozzyboy** · 25th January 2006, 08:09 PM

Hi, ozzyboy here, I have read and followed your instructions above for adding a photo in my bike for sale add. but after trying for a couple of hours, I can't seem to get it to work. I uploaded 2 photos to Yahoo website and have pasted the hyperlink between the [ing] [/ing] yet all I get is a small box with 'x' in it???
Maybe the Jim Beam was a bit too much last night.
Well if anybody has any idea why I've f***ed up maybe you can give me some advice..
Thanks
Pete

**SilverhawkUSA** · 26th January 2006, 07:52 AM

First of all, and maybe it is just a typo, but it must be img not [ing]. Next, the link must be exact including capitals, but if you did a copy/paste that should not be the problem. Yahoo is sometimes hard to work with and you may only be able to do a link to your photo album and not an individual photo.

You can "right click" on any of the photos on this board and then click on "Properties". It will give you the hyperlink and you can see what websites people are using for their photos and you know it works.

Dave Early

Ever notice that "What the Heck!" is usually the right answer?

**ozzyboy** · 27th January 2006, 01:37 AM

Thanks Dave, Ive just realised that the last time I tried to enter the picture, it worked, but I did not see it work at the time, only now as I was going to try some more.. so I've checked what I did and it seems I did the img small and I should have done it IMG, (and the ing was a typo,) so the comments about doing everything carefully is good for amateurs like me.
Thanks
Pete

**SilverhawkUSA** · 27th January 2006, 07:35 AM

Happy it worked, not much more than an amateur myself, just maybe I have more time to waste. Hate computers sometimes but they are addictive.

Dave Early

Ever notice that "What the Heck!" is usually the right answer?

**Davidfl** · 22nd November 2010, 07:06 PM

Photos size should be NO MORE than 800x600 pixels and max 500k file size.
These can easily be uploaded to our server from your computer when you add an image to a post;
- Posts in Forum and Blog, and to User Albums

Images that are linked from an external URL must be correctly-sized prior to using them on GT-Rider. Otherwise, it messes up the Post pages.

I personally use 600 pixels most of the time.

This is 800 pixels

This is 1,000 pixels wide

Resizing your photos before you upload them is a good idea.

**finnomick** · 4th October 2011, 08:13 PM

OK., so EXACTLY how do you reduce the size of a picture to be able to use it on this site ? Thank you.

**brucegsrider** · 5th October 2011, 08:43 AM

Hi Fin
On XP, download a powertoy called "rsize" from the microsoft website http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx

Once you install the program, a right click on the image file will give another option "resize". Very easy to do.

On a Mac, use the File, Export function, tell the dialog box where you want to store it and its Apples (-:

Cheers

**finnomick** · 5th October 2011, 07:14 PM

Thanks Bruce for your quick response and clear instructions. Very grateful. Mick

**finnomick** · 5th October 2011, 09:09 PM

Originally Posted by finnomick

Thanks Bruce for your quick response and clear instructions. Very grateful. Mick

...and it worked, thank you

**Jedi Biker** · 12th January 2012, 11:41 AM

Hello David,

Been having problems uploading new pictures. Initially for my first few posts I directly uploaded from the computer. All the files were less than 400 Kb. I couldn't upload any more pictures as there was no space for additional uploads. I didn't know how to remove the previous uploaded pictures. Furthermore I didn't know if I removed the previously loaded picture, would the pics disappear from my previous posts?

I then decided to try the URL method as suggested in this Thread in response to my For Sale ad here. I set up a photobucket account and uploaded the pictures and resized them to 320x240 to be safe. When clicking the SHARE tab, Photobucket provides the link codes for email & IM, websites & blogs, bulletin boards & forums. I used the link for the bulletin boards & forums. For example, link for one of my pictures is

I click on reply, click on the Insert Image button and click on From URL option and paste the above link for the picture. I click Insert Image and get Invalid File response. I have tried this a few times with the same result.

I even unchecked the Retrieve remote file and reference locally option and clicked Insert Image. Nothing happens

Please advise. Thank you.