How to post images using a web based image hosting site.

This tutorial is created to help with posting pictures to the FSM Forum. I use Photobucket (www.photobucket.com), but Imageshack and others will be similar in use. Photoshop is free, and only requires registering before you can begin.





Obviously you first need an image to upload, this tutorial presumes that you have already have a picture saved onto your computer's hard drive. I have a folder called Photobucket which stores the images I want uploaded on my desktop. Once you've saved the image you want posted, you have to login to your Photobucket account.



You DO remember your password, don't you?


Once logged in you need to start adding images to your account. You can have different folders within your account, or just keep everything in the default folder. Begin by browsing for an image. You can also browse for multiple images, if that's what you want. Note that you still have to browse for each image individually. This option merely uploads the images to Photobucket all at once.



Locate the image you have on your computer.



You can add a title to the image which helps in organizing your folders, and then push the "Upload" button.


You will get an "Upload Successful" screen when completed.



So now you have successfully uploaded an image to Photobucket. Congratulations!! Now we'll work on getting that image into the forum. Within Photobucket, find the image you want uploaded, you want to select the IMG tag which is at the bottom. Photobucket assumes you want that copied.





Now go to the forum where you want the image and paste it into the message screen. You can either right click and choose paste, or use "Control" & "V" to paste the image. You should see something like this.



When you've completed your post, you can preview it and once satisfied post the message and image to the forums for all to enjoy.

And that's it. It's a pretty simple process.

cool...I've had photobucket and never knew how to use it till now

So true, Rick. One of the better values available on the 'Net!

Thanks for the link, someone also gave me the heads up about this free (open source) program... do you know if it can make GIF files? Meaning, not SAVE AS GIF but actually take different pics/frames and compress into a GIF File? I was searching last night for a free/opensource GIF animator, could not find any that look reputable... thanks for posting!

PLEASE STICKY THIS ! i Am living proof that it works. And confuser illiterate as I am after several years of trying to post pictures this man has performed a miracle by teaching us our abc's of picture posting. KUDOS to Bgrigg, Thanks buddy.

I'm trying to post pics in Armor and couldnt get it right and then found your toot, I followed it and did the way explained and get the same result, what am I doing wrong? I've resized my photos 3 times on photo bucket, right now they're in message board format....?

Bill,

I have noticed that photobucket now has a different layout from your tutorial from a couple of years ago. I am having as really hard time posting images and can really seem to only post links. I'm also on a new comp that runs Windows Vista which is driving me bat-fartingly insane (seriously, who in the hell decided this operating system was better than XP?) I don't mean to impose on you but, if you can work it into your schedule, a new/updated tutorial may be a big help to some folks(me).

Regards,

Jeff 

Thanks for the reply Bill. I think from now on I'll just use my laptop when I want to post pics. I've never had any problems doing it from there. It has good old XP. I use Firefox, and Vista and Firefox don't seem to get along on certain things.

Regards,

Jeff 

Thanks for the tutorial as it is just what I was looking for.