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Joachim,

Sir, I use (cable) RoadRunner for my Internet Service Provider. Also, I use Internet Express.
I use Photobucket as a free picture host. Primarily.
It is handy and nice. Downside for it, is the 250KB picture size limitation.

http://photobucket.com/sitemap.php



After you upload a picture, click the box beneath it (where it says Img) when it is highlighted, copy it, and just paste it into a forum post.

I also use ImageShack. It can use Thumbnails in a forum post.
I always use the option that i have highlighted in green for this.
Tumbnails for forums (1)
Highlight it, copy it, and paste it directly into a forum post:





I also use this free file host. Max file size 3MB:

http://freefilehosting.net/

After upload, highlght the URL portion shown here, copy and paste to a forum post. It will not show the picture direct here,
but will link to the host site which stores the picture.

http://freefilehosting.net/bin/?id=pdz2kajb

http://freefilehosting.net/bin/?id=pdz2kKvQ

I have possession of some 1940 RAF maps that one of the English BoBII developers shared with me. He told me not to share them without permission.
For you, an exception is in order.
WARNING! this picture below is very large. With cable it took me 40 seconds to load the picture.
If, sir, you are using telephone line connection, it will take a few minutes.
Another detailed map section of Dover:

http://freefilehosting.net/bin/?id=pdz2kazb

As you can see, each free picture host has it's advantages, and dis-advantages.

In all cases with these 3 free pictutre hosts, there is no need to type in any text in the forum page you are editing.
Just copy the host's link, and paste it directly into the forum page you are editing.

Joachim, we try to help everyone here equally,
but for men of your generation and experience,
we will bend over backwards,
jump through fire hoops,
and swallow swords to please you!

A few useful points to know: you need a utility which will convert the .bmp files created by screen capture into .jpg, to get them small enough to meet the photobucket filesize requirement. As jpg is a format with varying amounts of compression, which throws away image detail, you want a utility where you can control the amount of compression (I prefer 92%) - not like the built in windows tools such as Paint, which always compresses jpegs to some fixed value around 80%, which is quite ugly. A good freeware utility is irfanview, from www.irfanview.com.

I haven't used imageshack so I don't know how the interface works there. With Photobucket, you just click on the "Browse" icon in the page Stickman shows above, and it opens a typical windows file selection window on your machine; you navigate to the file you want to upload, highlight it, and click "open", and the file is selected and appears in the "Image" text window to the left of the "Browse" button. Hit "Submit", and it's uploaded.

I also put all my pictures to upload to ImageShack, etc. in my
My Documents \ My Pictuires folder. Just easy to find them for me.

Thanks friends for the quick support.
I will have to digest and then work on this subject.
Offhand it seems that one has to store the pix in a holding file and retreive it from there to see the screen shot displayed in the post.
The other way is to show the URL to go to and view it.
Joachim, Obergefreiter und Flugzeugfuerer

When you try to post the picture, are you using the [ img ] tag delimiters (without the space characters)? As long as your picture is hosted somewhere on a server, and that host allows hotlinking, you should be able to enclose the url of the image within the tag delimiters thus:

[ img ]image_url[ /img ]

(with no spaces in the delimiters).

Apologies if you knew that and your problem is with some other part of the process.

Thanks and please no apologies needed, every one so polite on this forum.
Have not yet worked through all the advice.
Main question on my mind is:
Which method will let me see a sreenshot on the post as a picture right away before submitting as I see other screenshots posted.
Joachim, Obergefreiter und Flugzeugfuerer.

Joachim..



Photobucket.
File (picture) size is limited to 250 kilobytes, though.
If you upload a picture to Photobucket that is larger than that, then Photobucket will resize it to 250KB.

Uploading to Photobucket went fine.
Hosting from Photobucket I have a few problems.
After selecting the image it says to click on "Generate HTML and IMD code.
Now hilite the code, I see all for HTML except the last one, and using anyone will then paste the code into the post.
The next Photobucket instructions of "Descriptive Text and for Udate Info are not seen.
I still dont get to see the Image in the post.
Any suggestions?
Joachim.

There are several equivalent ways to get a forum post to point to a screenshot. The bottom line is you must have the correct text string in your "message body", and I can't type that so it will show, because the forum will try to interpret the text as a command... maybe I can capture it as an image and post that ...



Ha! There, as long as your link in your message-edit screen looks like that (the word "IMG" can also be "Img") it will work. You can get there by left-clicking the word "Img" in the PhotoBucket screen just below the image thumbnail, then moving the pointer into the text field just to the right, then right-click and copy the highlighted text, and paste directly into your post's text-edit box. That's what I did for the text imaged above, and it gives the "IMG" in caps.

But you can also pick up a picture anywhere on the web, including in your PhotoBucket album, by viewing the image, then right-clicking on the image and hitting "Copy Image Location". To display an image you've caught that way, just click on the "Img" button above the text-edit box, and "Img" will appear in square brackets in your edit box. Right-click and paste the URL for the image, then you must click the "Img" button again, to get the closing "/Img" in square brackets. The "Img" button shows an asterisk "Img*" to remind you to click it again.

Thanks again friends for all your help.
The problem was not the text string but not removing the checkmarks below and so preventing a pix to appear.
All you friends have domonstrated that you can teach an old (xyz) pilot some new tricks.
For proof I am posting the 21 year old Luftwaffe pilot when he was still better looking in 1944.
Joachim, Obergefreiter und Flugzeugfuerer.

This is the girl Joachim met while in Luftwaffe pilot school in 1944.
After dating for 4 weeks then separated by WW2 he found her again in 1946 and now married for 60 years with 1 daughter,
1 grandson and 1 great granddaughter.
(Who says you have to know each ohter before committing to marriage)
Joachim, Obergefreiter und Flugzeugfuerer.

A happy ending all round

great story...

I have been married to my wonderful and lovely wife for 42 years. So I love the story as well.

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Does anybody know how to copy IMG codes of multiple pictures at once to clipboard on Photobucket?

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