Posting pictures

You need to load them up to Photobucket, or some other hosting site. Photobucket is farely user friendly, and getting an account is about as easy as it was to sign up here.

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.

Too bad we can't just go from our files diretly to FSM to post.  My lazyness sometimes keeps me from posting pictures due to the hosting pictures part.

Once you upload the pics to photobucket, you can simply copy and paste the IMG code to the message field.

Thanks guys I got myself a photobucket account now.