Right, here's my little tutorial on uploading and posting your pictures on the internet

You need to set up an account with an uploading site - sponsored uploader to this site is
www.photobucket.com . Easy to join and also free, you just need to register with a
user name as password (much like you do with forums such as this one)

Right, onto saving pics to your hard drive...

First you need to save each image to your computer (easy way is to hover the mouse over each
pic, then right click and select save as, making sure tho that the FILETYPE is .jpeg or .jpg
(look at the 2nd pic, the filetype is the box highlighted in blue. You can select what you want from there, but jpeg/jpg is the preferred filetype);



Then, save it to a folder in your hard-drive (for example I am saving it to a folder I created called
MY PICTURES), and give it a name;



Next you need to upload your pics to the uploader. Once in your photo album, the first box
lets you select the file from your HDD you want to upload. Click the BROWSE button and select
the folder your pic is in, and the pic that you want to upload;



Double click the pic you want to upload, and hit SUBMIT on the Photobucket page. Wait a few seconds and the screen will refresh and your pic should have been uploaded!

Ok, so now your pic is uploaded, how do you get it into your post/thread on PassionFord BB?

You are given three URL's to select from (my demo pic here only shows two). The one you want is
the IMG headed one (already complete with [IMG] tags, shown highlighted in blue);



To highlight it, left click it once and it becomes blue, then right click in the same place, and select
COPY (keyboard shortcut = CTRL + C )

Now, in the reply box (or new thread box) on this or another BB, right click again and select
PASTE (keyboard shortcut = CTRL + V) You should get the URL complete with code tags as shown;



Then just click the SUBMIT button on PF and as if by magic, displayed pic!

Any probs just give a shout out on here, no doubt someone will help you

RE-SIZING PICS TO CONINCIDE WITH PF's SIZE RESTRICTION

We now have a size restriction here on PF that means pictures will not show larger than 640x480 pixels. If your original pictures are larger than that, they will be automatically shrunk to the 640x480 size by coding Pet has put into the BB. But, as you might have noticed above, this can make pics seem fuzzy and unclear. There is a solution tho! If you can resize your pics before uploading them, then they will appear "true" in the post page, and hopefully, not fuzzy or unclear

This next little guide is only for peeps who are on Windows XP, as I haven't found a tool for non-XP users yet.

First off, you need to download this (direct link, just click SAVE) http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...ertoySetup.exe

Save it to your desktop (or somewhere easy to find, like MY DOCUTMENTS) and when it's downloaded, double click the SETUP.EXE. This will install the plug in to your system. Just floow the prompts and don't change any file paths.

Once installed, you don't need to do anything! It's a plug in, which means it is now part of your OS. To use it, all you need to do is right click on a picture you have saved to your harddrive. You will see a new entry in te drop menu (highlighted in blue in my example pic)



This new plug in lets you choose a size, for either three preset sizes, or also a custom size of your choosing, to resize your pics. You can batch convert (highlight all you want to convert, then right click one of them, choose size and they will all resize) and you can choose to replace the original with the new resized version, or create a new resized pic, and keep the original untouched.

When you click the RESIZE PICTURES you get this window;



Clicking the ADVANCED tab opens up a few more controls, including the custom sizer and the option to overwrite original pics. As standard, it is configured NOT to overwrite your originals, which is probably best...

As you can see, the first choice is for SMALL which is 640x480, so click this and hit OK. In a second you will have a resized version in that same folder, with the same filename, just with (SMALL) in the file name.

And thats it! Easy as that. It also wroks in reverse - if your picture is smaller than 640x480 and you resize it anyway, it actually enlarges the picture

SHOWING SIGNATURES ON YOUR POSTS

Done in the same way as above, instead of pasting the image URL in a post reply, you need to
go to PROFILE (top right of every PF page). Next you need to scroll down till you see the white
window box marked SIGNATURE. Then jsut paste in the image URL of the pic you want displayed.
**Remember though - your signature pic needs to be no bigger that 500 (w) x 150 (H)
(pixels), and no bigger than 25,000 bytes in file size**

 

Will have a go.


Mods this would be good as a sticky for people like me who are not sure how to post pics!


Dave.

 

Nice one Matt!
Have made it a sticky so as everyone can see it if they get stuck

 

Ta Spadgerooo

 

 

Nice one and cheers for my siggy!

 

No worries Cliff.... Thank Billabong and C+B since I ripped off his/they're design tho

 

hope this works!!!!!!!!!
http://photobucket.com/albums/0803/c...t/2e018193.jpg

 

WHOOOOO :banana
After nearly 3 months ive managed to post my first pic of my car

Cheers matt

Quick question though how do i make the image a bit smaller,will that make the pic quality a bit better???

 

testing!!

 

Got registered up at photobucket, then what?

Cannot get off the page, how do i veiw my album,pictures etc.......


Dave.

 

What page are you looking at Dave?

Colse the Photobucket window, then reopen it and it should have in the top right corner a box with GOTO ALBUM and a blank bit for you to fill in... Enter your user name in there (whatever it was you registered with) and click the GO!!! button...

Then you should get another page and in the top corner of that is the LOGIN box, so enter your password and click login...

The next page should give you the option to upload your photo's off your harddrive (like I posted up there).. The reason you can't see your photo's/albums now is cos you haven't any!

Do what I have posted here in this post, then follow the steps in my first post and you should be fine mate... Any more troubles, give us a shout


Fucking picserver has gone down, so all the pics I posted in the forst post ain't being displayed (any anyone's siggy I gave them the URL for ain't being shown either)

 

Thats the bit i could not figure out!!

How to log in etc....


Will try!


Thanks Matt!


Dave.

 

Ptting my user name in the box and coming back that there is no page!


Dave.

 

Hmmm... Now I am stumped.... deffo the name you used when you registered, not got any extra spaces in it or different capitols on different places?

You should have an email from photobucket confirming your account details, password and username too, so check it

 

Will do!


Dave.

 

Have checked the account and it has registered, but when i put my name in the box and press go,no page!


Dave.

 

Bizzarre! What was the user name you registered with? So I can have a look?

 

Any joy Dave?

 

no...it said my account wasn't registered.

I got my mail from them, done it and it said that it was activated!

will try to re-activate it!


Dave.

 

Once the email has come thru then all should be fine

 

Just tried.

Go to log in......put name,password etc....pops up account was't activated!

Click on the link it gave me and it said it WAS activated.

Tried to put my album name in, no-page!

Tried to re-register and it won't let me use the same e-mail address as i have registered up already!

NOW WHAT!


dAVE.

 

Tried deleting all cookies and doing it again?

If not I would mail the guy in charge, think I have his email somewhere....

 

I have deleted all MY cookies.

Was having trouble with the rsoc staying logged in etc....Clint suggested deleting my cookies..did and it's still the same.

Had noticed that in photo bucket you NEED cookies!

How do i get then back! LOL!

Thanks Matt


Dave.

 

Not sure you do need cookies with photovucket, but sometimes it is worth a try....

if you jsut type in www.photobucket.com, and then type your user name in the white box at the top, what page do you then get?

What user name did you use BTW, so I can see what is happening myself? Might help me help you more.... Don't be worried you are giving out account info, as your username will be in every URL of every pic you upload and link to anyway, as are everyone elses who uses photobucket... It's you password that is sensitive....

 

Matt, i'm typing in..davecos then all i'm getting is no page!


Dave.

 

Yup, I am getting that oo... THIS PAGE CANNOT BE FOUND or summat.... You need to get on to the admin dude and see if he can sort it out mate.... In the mean time sign up to picserver

 

Matt, i have logged onto picserver, going to try a post!


Dave.

 

See if this works


Dave.

 

Top man Dave! You got it now!!!

Here - if you want to get hold of the guy that runs Photobucket to sort out your account then email him on : admin@photobucket.com .... Think his name is Andy (???)

 

Thanks Matt, you have been very patient!

I think i will stick to this one! Didn't seem too hard to do,with your step by step guide of course

How do i make a siggy etc.. and make them smaller....

thanks,


Dave.

 

Yeeehaaa! pictures!!


Just got to get used to doing it!


Dave.

 

No worries Dave Glad I could help out

Siggy, well gimme a couple more pics of your Saff, and some idea of what sort of text you want on it (ie: spec, info, power, times etc) and I'll sort you one out

 

That's very good of you!

Will get some pics done over the weekend,have only got my pic phone though , so quality isn't too good.

What shall i do with the pics, mail them straight to you.

Text could be my name then Stage 3, T34, BHP....???.

That's it really, pictures would be fine though if it's too much to do!

thanks


Dave.

 

Dave - take some pics, think of what you want text wise, then, rather than mail me direct, use your new found uploader skills and PM me... Practise is all good

Soon have you posting pics non-stop won't we! Oh Christ what have I started lol...

Next, we is gonna teach you resizing and all that editing jazz, lol

 

 

Dave.

 

Just to help folks.. if you use the reply button instead of the quick reply box..

Pressing ALT + P will cylce the image tags for you.

IE:
first press will produce [img]
second will produce [/img]

 

Interesting Stu, I did not know that, so ta!

 

If I've only got a cameraphone on vodaphone can I post pics?