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Tutorial: Posting Images with Photobucket

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Tutorial: Posting Images with Photobucket
Posted by Bgrigg on Thursday, July 27, 2006 11:01 AM

Oct 21, 2009 - I let my Photobucket account lapse, and it's taken me too long to fix it up. Sorry folks!

Here is a revised tutorial on posting images with Photobucket. It is created on Windows Vista, so Mac users will need to adjust Windows specific commands to their own OS:

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. Photobucket 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. Hold down the "Ctrl" button to pick and choose your images and then select "Open" to begin the upload:



You'll get a notice that the images were uploaded, and the option to add titles and tags to the images. Don't worry, they can also be added later.



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. Use "Right Click - Copy" (note Firefox does not support this) or "Ctrl-C" to copy the image:



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 "Ctrl-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. NOTE as of the last forum software update, preview no longer works. You have to post the message and use the edit function after the message loads. Clunky, but it works.

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

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Posted by DrewH on Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:13 PM

Thanks Bgrigg, with out this, I never would have set one up. Thanks for the help. Maybe I'll post some more pics soon.

Drew

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Posted by ben1227 on Thursday, August 9, 2007 9:05 AM
cool...I've had photobucket and never knew how to use it till nowBow [bow]
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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Friday, August 10, 2007 9:09 AM

Photobucket does offer a free service, which is fine for the casual user.  But the $25.00/year membership gives you almost unlimited picture size & bandwidth, so if you do a lot of pics & posting, it's well worth the $$.

Regards,  Rick

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Posted by Bgrigg on Friday, August 10, 2007 9:24 AM
So true, Rick. One of the better values available on the 'Net!

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Posted by TheLastSuperman on Thursday, January 17, 2008 5:24 PM

Also, just so you guys and gals know... you can download a free graphics program called GIMP which is located here --> Click to Learn More

Then you can resize all your images and do some neat tricks w/ it. Comparable to Photoshop if you wanna go the cheap route.

Ohh and one more thing to mention, most forums and sites will let you click the image to enlarge or view in a seperate window which is typically fine unless your posting images that warp the forum space if the administrators did not code for size limitations so honestly you don't have to pay UNLESS you keep seeing the bandwidth notices which does happen if your posting in every forum under the sun.

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Posted by JMart on Friday, January 18, 2008 7:22 AM
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!

 

 

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Posted by Jeffrey on Saturday, February 2, 2008 10:07 AM
I don't know about the GIF animation deal; but, i found a tip using GIMP. It states: When you save an image to work on it again later, try using XCF, GIMP's native file format (use the extension .xcf). This preserves the layers and every aspect of your work-in-progress. Once a project is completed, you can save it as JPEG, PNG, GIF, etc....
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Posted by doc-hm3 on Monday, March 31, 2008 8:41 PM
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.

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Posted by Bgrigg on Monday, March 31, 2008 9:25 PM
Now you're making me blush! Blush [:I]

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Posted by Douglas1 on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:56 AM
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....?
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Posted by Bgrigg on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:14 PM

Message board will be too large. Photobucket has preset sizes for avatars, thumbnails, website and even larger. I would use the "Website" size. FSM forum software will resize for viewing, but should allow the 'real' size to open up when you click on them. 

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Posted by firesmacker on Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:48 PM

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)Big Smile [:D].

Regards,

Jeff 

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Posted by Bgrigg on Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:56 PM

Jeff,

I'll see what I can do about the Photoshop Tutorial update, but I can't help you with Vista! Sorry!!

The layout isn't all that different, you still want to grab the IMG code below the pic and paste that into the forum.

Cheers,

Bill

 

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Posted by firesmacker on Friday, April 18, 2008 7:10 PM

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 

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Posted by Bgrigg on Friday, April 18, 2008 8:21 PM

Vista is trying to break Firefox, it's just one of the reasons I'm resisting moving my computers off XP. In fact I'm trying to buy up a couple of extra licences before they stop selling XP all together.

 

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Posted by Old Guy on Monday, May 26, 2008 6:25 PM
Thanks for the tutorial as it is just what I was looking for.
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Posted by congo79 on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:43 AM
I have a question. Since i`m in two group builds, i made a slideshow in my photobucket album but i can`t make it pop in my signature. I`ve also tried to put the two badges side by side but that failed too. I`m obviously doing something wrong but i can`t find what exactly. Can anyone please help me?
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Posted by Bgrigg on Saturday, October 24, 2009 10:02 PM

Congo, it's rare that I get to the bottom of this thread, I only saw it now when I was "bumping" this thread up to the top of the list again.

Sorry but I can't help you with Sig slideshows, never did figure that out myself.

 

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Posted by galleyslave on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 8:33 PM

So, how do I use photobucket to post photos to the forum if I am using firefox? you say that "firefox does notsupport this" re: right click-copy or Ctrl-c?

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Posted by Bgrigg on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 7:46 AM

galleyslave

So, how do I use photobucket to post photos to the forum if I am using firefox? you say that "firefox does notsupport this" re: right click-copy or Ctrl-c?

Galleyslave, I used Firefox to create the tutorial. You are right that right click copy doesn't work, but Ctrl-C & Ctrl-V certainly does!

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Posted by galleyslave on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 7:03 PM

Thanks, Bgrigg, I'm a computer illiterate, and a rather simple person to boot, so even the simplest things can seem complex...I'll have a go at it!

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Posted by Bgrigg on Wednesday, February 3, 2010 9:37 PM

Good luck, and let me know how you make out!

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Posted by batai37 on Friday, February 26, 2010 10:38 PM

This method doesn't work for me. I paste the image link from photobucket, but when I preview the message here it just shows the link...not the photo. What am I doing wrong?

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Posted by Bgrigg on Friday, February 26, 2010 10:46 PM

Nothing, it's PREVIEW that's broken. Go ahead and post the image, you'll see!

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Posted by batai37 on Friday, February 26, 2010 10:58 PM

Just figured that out, thanks! Worked fine for my first pic post in autos.

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Posted by Bgrigg on Friday, February 26, 2010 11:58 PM

You're welcome, glad my little tute could help you out!

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