Originally Posted by
Normy!
You can post pictures using the "Manage Attachments" button at the bottom of the screen that comes up when you go to post a reply.
The picture needs to be 117kb maximum- use Photoshop to bring it down to 1000 pixels wide and then save it on your hard drive as a jpeg that fits the maximum. When you click on the "Manage Attachments", use the "Browse" button to find your picture and then click. Upload, close the manage attachments, and post your reply.
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PS: Picture of my study area....
You can post
a picture as an attachment as you describe. The file limits depend on the file type.
gif - 19.5 KB and 620 x 280
jpe - 20.5 KB and 640 x 480
jpeg - 29.3 KB and 640 x 480
jpg - 117.2 KB (no dimension limits)
pdf - 4.77 MB
png - 19.5 KB and 620 x 280
For the best results, in my opinion, use the jpg format, and limit the image to 640 x 480.
An easy way to resize an image on your hard drive is to use the website
www.resizr.com. You upload your picture to the website, and choose a format and size.
Using the "Manage Attachments" utility described will put the picture at the end of your post, and put it in a lined box labeled
Attached Images. In order to make it appear somewhere else in the post, you can use the [attach][/attach] tags. Once you determine the ID number of the attachment, simply place those tags, with the Attachment ID number between, wherever in the post you want the picture to appear.
I just took Normy's study area to Resizr.com, chose 640 x 480 jpg medium quality, and then uploaded it here as an attachment. I rightclicked the resulting link, looked at properties, and saw that the attachment ID is 588. So, if I type [attach]588[/attach] right here, the new image will appear:
Normy's Study Area - 640 x 480 - Med.jpg
But, again, that only gets one image in a post. Unless . . . I'm wondering if I can use other attachments by using their numbers . . . hmmm . . . a little experiment is in order.
Attachment 586
Nope, it only inserts a hyperlink to the attachment.
The other way to insert
an image, and the only way to insert imag
es (plural), is with the IMG tags -- but those pictures must be, as I stated above, publicly accessible with a URL, and end with a proper image extension.
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