Meaty's Guide To Posting Pictures In The Forum

15 Sep 2005

So you want to post a picture in your reply but don't know how to do it. dunno

Welcome to Meaty's guide to picture posting. wave

The picture needs to be saved to your hard drive (your 'My Pictures' folder would be a good place) and then hosted on an online server so the SH system can access them. There are several sites that provide this service and they are free on registration (it's ok, they don't spam you). Below are some easy to follow instructions for two such sites.

register and activate (follow the instructions, you only need to do this once)
Add the homepage to your favourites for quick access
select browse (next to picture and find your image)
submit and then scroll to your album below
copy the img link (click it and copy <ctrl c>)
return to SH and paste it <ctl v> into your thread reply at the position you want it displayed
preview it to check it's ok :thumbup:

register and activate (follow the instructions, you only need to do this once)
Add the homepage to your favourites for quick access
click browse and select your pic
click host it
copy the hotlink for forums link (click it and copy the highlighted text <ctl c>)
return to SH and paste it <ctl v> into your thread reply at the point you want it to appear
preview it to check it's ok :thumbup:
Finally
add 'Thank you Meaty, you are a genius worship

' to the bottom of your first picture post
Avatar's
For those of you having trouble with you avatar (the little picture on the left, under your name) you need to make sure it's within the SH avatar specifications, i.e. it must be no more than 102x102 pixels and no bigger than 20kb file size. So how do you do this? Well, from your profile setup page you can either choose a library avatar or use you own. This can be resized using the following page
http://www.swingingheaven.co.uk/personal/jql/
Don't ask me how to use it as i use Photoshop for mine, but i believe it's quite simple.
If you wish to check the spec of a picture you want to use, find it on your hard drive with Windows Explorer and move your cursor over the file for it's details (dimensions, file type and file size)

15 Sep 2005

Meat you may have an ugly avatar but your quite helpful when you want to be.
Cheers for the info

15 Sep 2005

awww meaty are they calling u ugly m8 :therethere:
and i could have told u all that had you asked

15 Sep 2005

Quote by naughtynymphos1
awww meaty are they calling u ugly m8 :therethere:
and i could have told u all that had you asked

just cos your a 'double bagger' is no reason to be jealous of my stunning good looks smackbottom

15 Sep 2005

Testing 1,2,3,

15 Sep 2005

Quote by meat2pleaseu
awww meaty are they calling u ugly m8 :therethere:
and i could have told u all that had you asked

just cos your a 'double bagger' is no reason to be jealous of my stunning good looks smackbottom

oi i was sticking up fpr ya

15 Sep 2005

Meaty, what about the pictures that are already hosted on the web? Do we have to put them into photobucket too?
<--------- loves being annoying.

15 Sep 2005

Hurray for Tanis! biggrin

Meaty's thread explained it far better than my PMs did!
glad to see you got there in the end.
so can we now expect to see a wealth of pics from you?

15 Sep 2005

Opps sorry
Thank you Meaty you are a genius worship

:worship: :worship:

15 Sep 2005

yep, the system works on a certain format so you will see
youpicturename&loction
in your posts text body, just right click & save as, then follow the instructions.
if you want to use a picture from another thread, use the quote feature and copy the body, then write your reply as normal and paste it in

15 Sep 2005

For all those pretty pictures you may find on the net but you don't have time to save them and upload them to photobucket... you can link directly to them.
For Internet Explorer users:
Find the picture.
Right click on the image and go to properties.
You will see the Address (URL) of the image.
Highlight the address and copy it.
Go back to your post and paste in the address you've just copied.
Highlight this address and press the Img button.
For Netscape/Firefox users:
Find the pretty picture and right click it.
Choose the 'copy image location'
Paste it into your post
Highlight it and click the Img button.
You will notice that the image address will have two tags around them.
an then the address of the image and then a these are the key to linking to the image.

Sorry Meaty, you beat me to it.

15 Sep 2005

sometimes it pays to come first :giggle:

15 Sep 2005

Ignore daft ignorant suggestion which was here. redface

15 Sep 2005

Quote by Kniphofia
If the pix are on your computer, rather than hosting them somewhere you can just email them to yourself ( or whatever) then open them in your Inbox and click on Properties as above.

That shouldn't work Kniphofia. Only you would be able to see the pictures because you are logged into the site. You'll notice that the link to the image is a very long one that will no doubt involve a cookie being installed. If you want to give everybody your cookie to your email address so they can eventually hack into your mailbox... :cry:
Not a wise thing to do and I wouldn't recomend it in the slightest.

22 Oct 2005

quick bump for all you newbies

22 Oct 2005

How do I get my gif pictures to move when I have uploaded them.
I have done the above and the ones that moved before I copied them don't move anymore after following the instructions.........what am I doing wrong???
expert advice needed thanks

22 Oct 2005

do they play in mediaplayer?

22 Oct 2005

yes they play in media player!

22 Oct 2005

does it display the picture but it doesn't animate?

22 Oct 2005

The pictures display and animate in windows media player but not on the forums when I transfer them from imageshack!
thanks for helping

22 Oct 2005

Meaty where can i get a simple free download to enable me to animate my photos..? :confused2:

22 Oct 2005

not sure, i've got everything i need cos of work. if you can get the dreamweaver suite, fireworks is excellent. but its not free, legally

23 Oct 2005

Just been tinkering about resizing a picture that was a bit large and therefore made the whole page of that thread difficult to follow.
So, if you want to put a large picture on the page, but not have it spilling over the sides, follow M2PU's advice on adding a picture into your comment and add this to the end of the address "width="200pt"> before you close the brackets. ( one of these " >" or one of these " ] " )
You'll end up with something like this if you use 200pt:
Of course you can make it a bit bigger by changing 200pt to 300pt and you get this :
If you haven't followed that explaination. Press the quote button in the corner and look at the code you'll see... copy that and substitute the address of your picture for the one used here...

3 Nov 2005

quick bump wave

3 Nov 2005

Most of this has been double dutch to me. But, Postie, I think you might have solved one of my problems with pictures.
I'll try it.
Mollie

3 Nov 2005

very useful - thanks guys - should this not be a sticky?

3 Nov 2005

Quote by shad
Meaty where can i get a simple free download to enable me to animate my photos..? :confused2:

Microsoft GIF animator......................
It is very old now, and no longer available free from Microsoft, cos they have bundled it with other products, but if you do a google for it you'll find sites where you can still (legally download it).
Limited cos you will need to take multiple photos and join them all together but it does work, and you can adjust the timing of your animations
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< H's avatar pic was created using it
M

3 Nov 2005

err, think you've cracked it T&D :eeek:

3 Nov 2005

We're a bit embarrased now!
Your advice to us was how to post pictures in Forums, that is useful but not what we wanted unfortunately.
I want to be able to update our ad (which has no picture) by clicking on modify and then adding a pic (the one which now everyone can see anyway!) - but when I copy the photobucket link into the browse section of modify ad, it simply tells me "invalid file extension, this is not a .jpg file"
Please can you help - I'm on the verge of launching the computer out of the window.
Sorry if I have offended anyone with the naughty pic!
Regards
Tom x