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There are two ways of displaying a photo/scan:

1. An existing photo that is already on the internet:

a. Find the image on the web site.
b. Right click on the image and choose 'Properties'.
c. With MS Internet Explorer, copy the 'Address (URL)'. (Ctrl+C)
Other web surfers like OPERA, just right click on the photo and get 'Copy Image Address'.
d. Now go to your post and click on the Img box, PASTE your Image address (Crtl+V) and click on the Img* box again.

The line should now look like this:



2. If your image is not yet on a web site:

Upload your photo to the internet, using a photo hosting website, such as the free Photobucket. (http://www.photobucket.com).

a. Log into photobucket

b. Select the UPLOAD button



c. The UPLOAD page now appears. Best to use the BROWSE FILES option



d. Select the file or files to upload.

Note that holding control down while you select allows multiple file selection.
Click on OPEN when you have done selecting - files should now upload.



e. Click on VIEW LIBRARY



Your Uploads should now be visible.

f. Hover the mouse pointer on the one you want to paste to the SAAF FORUM

A Gearwheel shape appears in the top right corner.

Move your mouse to the "gearwheel".

Click on Get Links.



g. Click on the URL that appears at the bottom of the DIRECT LINKS box.

This has an IMG code. A yellow box should now appear saying COPIED.
Sometimes it doesn't - but still copies the URL.
Paste into SAAF FORUM page. NO need to tag it with the usual [img]Your%20URL[/img] tags.

But please, do not make the uploaded photo too large, 800 x 600 is a good size (72 dpi)

Thanks to Eugene for updating the instructions.

Hi Dean

Thanx for the easy easy site, and also the easy registration process.

Much appreciated
Leon

Yes,thanx a million I just joined and it was very easy and fast

Kind Regards
Jesse Ekkerd

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Dean

That's a nice clear explanation

I have seen some posts here with thumbnails (click for full size image).
How is that done?

that answers my question thanks a mil

An old question, but still relevant.

You first need to specify the URL to the main large photo & then set the IMG thumbnail location. So in essence you have to have uploaded two files ie the large image & a thumbnail image.


Cheers

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Brent Best

Maybe someone could make an account on Photobucket for all the members of the SAAF forum to use.

Public accounts are great - until username & password get out into the wild and start being used by child pornographers.

How do you add copyright to photos?

You don't need to do anything, if you created the photo in your own capacity - not as a photographer working for a newspaer etc - then you automatically own the copyright until you sell it, give it away or in any other way renounce it - such as declaring your photo to be in the public domain.

I imagine he meant a watermark... For which there are automatic programs, some upload sites have a built-in function, and most image-editing software can be used with varying degrees of effort to achieve such an effect.

For any admins,
This link leads to a site that tells you how to let forum members upload pics directly to the forum
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=109101

But this form runs on phpBB, not VBulletin.

Photobucket has "changed" everything, none for the better IMHO. Time for a new set of graphics, Dean.

Thanks to Eugene, graphocs and instructions have been updated.