READ FIRST: How to post/upload photos and embed wide images

There are three ways of posting photos in your threads:

1. Link to an off-site image (embed the photo URL)
2. Attach images directly* (use the attachment feature when posting in advanced mode)
3. Post images in the user gallery (upload your photos to the user gallery, and then embed the photo URL)

To embed photo URLs in your posts, wrap the URL with image tags ([img]http://www.site.com/image.jpg[/img]). If images are very wide, please see below for an alternative set of tags you can use.
You can also use the appropriate photo button in the WYSIWYG editor and enter the URL in the prompt.

*Note that attached images will automatically be placed in your posts- they do not need to be embedded using the above method.

----- Update -----

I know that many of you like posting wide photos, especially panoramas, but embedding these directly was previously very inconvenient becuase it would stretch the width of the post table by several screen lengths, making it hard to read any replies. The only alternative was to post a direct link to the image, but that would open up another browser window and make a mess on your screen.

That problem will no longer be an issue, however, with the latest addition to PentaxForums.com: the ThickBox 3 image resizing effect. If you want to post a photo wider than 800 pixels, simply wrap [imgwide] tags around it instead of the conventional [img] tags. For those of you using the WYSIWYG editor, that would mean clicking the button instead of the button. Please note that these buttons look slightly different if you're using the Classic or Simple layouts.

Wrapping an image URL with [imgwide] tags will automatically resize in and make it clickable. When clicked, the full-size image will appear on your screen using a JavaScript effect. When finished viewing the image, you can quickly close the JS window.

Here's a demonstration of how the effect works:

[imgwide]http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/953/butterflyjb6.jpg[/imgwide]

Click on the image to view it in a larger size

vs.


[img]http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/953/butterflyjb6.jpg[/img]



Users of 1024x768 (or below) screens will find this especially useful. Enjoy!

Thanks for reading! If you guys have any additional questions, feel free to ask

[spanglecat]

Thanks, Adam, that is the sort of reply I wanted. Will give it a try.
Ann

[channeler]

Hi Pornflake,

Yes, I would greatly appreciate an idiot's guide to doing this.

Paul

[Peter Zack]

Like Paul I'd like a guide to doing this as well. Looks good and should save limited resources.

Also Mo, I notice some here create a thread in Post Your Photos and between the pictures they can add a caption, number, EXIF data etc. How is this done?

[channeler]

Hi Peter, Pornflake has now done the tutorial but it is at the moment on Page 4 and disappearing into the ether. It is here:

TUTORIAL: Posting images from flickr .. step by step

Perhaps Adam/Mo can make it a sticky or move it somewhere so it won't get lost.

Paul

[FLASH]

For whatever reason, I do not seem to be able to post my photos in this forum. I follow instructions, but am making a mistake somewhere along the line. Would appreciate your help with this.

FLASH

[J.Scott]

Originally Posted by FLASH

For whatever reason, I do not seem to be able to post my photos in this forum. I follow instructions, but am making a mistake somewhere along the line. Would appreciate your help with this.

FLASH

I can gladly assist you - if you want.

By which method are you trying to post your pictures; 1) uploading directly from your computer to the forum thread; 2) linking your pictures from a different website, or; 3) linking to the User Gallery here on the Pentax Forum.com site?

[ramshot]

Mo, you mentioned resizing photos before posting them. What size is acceptable to post? I would like to post some photos but am not sure what size to use. Thanks for your help.

Jeff

[weatherwise2]

My flikr account is full so I was trying to upload pictures from the picasa web page for some of my public sets. I copied the linkage they suggested and then pasted using the image icon on generating a message. This had worked on flickr but not on picasa.
Is there anyway to get pictures from my harddrive without using in intermediate hosting site?

[Papou]

Okay what am i doing wrong??...Tried to upload a single pic in one of the various forums here and couldnt ??..
Can i upload directly from my PC to and particular discussion session or do i need to upload to the "MY Photos section " first??"...
Secondly whats the maximum size allowable file..
have uploaded Pics in the past and thought i did so directly from my PC??...
Cheers

[rjburgos]

i hav successfully posted a thread with my photos in it then when i want to post a new thread with attachements from my computer it says that a error on page......how is that....help me with this problem

[Buddha Jones]

You're a good man Charlie Brown.

[jmc7104]

First trial post. See if this works.



Seeing as to how it appearently did then I will explain the photo. This is a photo of
the Mississippi River below roller dam when river temperature was 34 degrees and air
temerature was 9 below zero. jim

[Tbear]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1191/...1e42b12f_o.jpg

[Tbear]

[alohadave]

OILU - Openforum Image Link Utility

This little web page will deconstruct the first Flickr link in the download screen and parse it into UBB code with the correct links.