How do you post pictures

Hello,

You need to have an account on a photo sharing site like photobucket,then you just add the image link to your post and it will appear in your post

1. Set up an account with a place like Photobucket. There’s other services but this is the one a lot of FSM folks use. I recommend that you have an account dedicated for your models, separate from your personal photos, but there’s no requirement for it.
   
2. Upload your pictures to your account/album. The FSM site doesn’t provide any photo storage, so if you delete your image, your post will have a hole like this:
   
3. (This works best if you open 2 windows: 1 in FSM and 1 in Photobucket, et al) Go to the Photobucket window and highlight and copy the “Direct Link” address. Go to the FSM widow containing your unfinished post. Go to the menu bar above your post, the icon that looks like a film strip (you remember film? But I digress…), the 2nd tier of the message control bar, the TWELFTH icon. It says ‘Insert Media’… CLICK IT. Paste the Direct Link address into the appropriate space. Then hit insert.
4. Wait for the FSM site to show the photo, etc. etc.

A photobucket site gives three or four different links/urls. I found the "direct" link works best.  When you click on the little box giving the links, PB automatically copies the link to your clipboard.  Click on the little icon that looks like a strip of film.  In the link window there, hit Ctrl-V to paste the link into the window.   Then enter a number into the vertical size (horizontal size is okay- enter something like 500 or 600 into vertical).  Then click the INSERT button.

Question seems to come up quite often. I wrote a how-to blog post earlier in the year, complete with screencaps  of the process.

http://doogsmodels.com/2011/01/27/how-to-post-your-photos/

Hope this helps you out!

Doogs, we need to try and get that locked onto a thread somewhere. On the old site we used to be able to lock certain threads so they stayed at the top. That seems to have vanished now. But might be worth contacting admin to see what can be done about this one. As you say, it keeps coming up.

What Bish said.  Every new guy in this forum suffers the same grief.

Hey, Aaron!!  Isn't there some way to have a permanent post to guide new folks in this never-ending challenge?

I'm certain you can make this happen!

And THEN we need to make it STICKY so that even the process isn’t obvious to the meanest intelligence, finding it is!

That was it, a sticky, couldn't think of the name, thanks Tom. This used to happen often on the old forum, not sure how, if it was admin of the thread originater. But it don't happen now, and there are a few useful threads that used to be stickys and fallen by the way side.