Post by CTW Admin Larry G (GuglioLS) on Jan 17, 2008 22:59:39 GMT -5
When posting pictures use the THUMBNAIL method - Your pictures MUST be Thumbnails (small little pictures that you click on to make it bigger) Here's how -
Open a Photobucket dot com account - A free one. Or for 25 bucks a year you get video and a whole bunch of storage space.
First - go to photobucket.com/ you must register, upload your photos, once you get to that point read the below detailed info on how to get the photos in your post as a click-able thumbnail.
Basically
They (Photobucket) have an HTML code generator to post pictures for message boards. It's real easy, just copy & paste. Once you get the hang of it - it's not magic or rocket science. It took me some time but I taught myself how to do it.
After the pictures are uploaded (and you are logged into photo bucket) click on the little box under the picture to "select" it, then push the "Generate HTML and Image code" button located in the lower right of the photobucket web page) - when the page refreshes, click in the area with the text in the box "IMG click-able thumbnails for message boards - recommended" the code will automatically be copied to your clipboard, then go back to your forum post and right mouse Click in the text box, then paste it into the text of your post - and it will work.
>>>>>>>>It is best to use a 640x460 picture size<<<<<<<<<
Help with resizing Photos
Ok so first thing is to re-size your photos to make them around 50 to 100 kb size. This will help the dial up members. I use a Windows Picture Re-sizer that is free to download. Here is the link to it.
Windows Picture Resizer for XP
After downloading, it works like this.
When I open or preview a picture in my computer, right mouse click on the photo and one of the options will be to "resize" the photo. I usually use "small" or "medium" setting and large only for more detailed ones.
Or do a search if you don't have XP for the computer system you have.
When you re-size a picture, it makes a copy of the original photo so it is not lost. I keep the resized pictures in a separate folder under Photobucket photos, and individual folders for each project.
OK, once you have a folder of resized pictures, you can log on to your photobucket account and also log onto Chinese Tractor World and go to the thread you want. So now you have 2 web browsers open at the same time.
Minimize or reduce the Chinese Tractor World browser and go to the Photobucket web browser. As an example, I have made sub albums in the Photobucket account for each project too. Make one for "Boxblade" (or whatever) and click on it so you are in that sub account. Then upload those pictures to that. There is also a "Bulk Uploader" feature you can use to upload many photos at the same time.
Once the photos are upload, they will all appear as thumbnails on your screen. Below each photo is a square box with the name of the photo and also 4 types of formats, but disregard those.
What you want to do is check that box by the photo name by clicking on the box. You can check more than one photo at a time if you want. It will highlight the photo(s) and puts a red border around it.
After checking the box(s) of the photos you want to post into the thread, scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page. There is an option to select/unselect all and also 3 rectangles below that.
You want to click on the one that says "Generate HTML and IMG code".
Click on it and another screen pops up with 5 more rectangles.
You want the 3rd rectangle down that says "IMG clickable thumbnails for message boards - recommended".
Highlight all that is in the box and Right mouseclick on it to copy it.
Then open up the TBN browser and "paste" the information into the reply of your post with another right mouse click.
When you "Pre-view" your reply, you should see a clickable thumbnail in it along with your written post. You can check to see if the thumbnail photos appear and you can click on them to see if they expand.
If good, post it.
Sounds harder then it really is, but like anything else, once you get used to it it's not bad at all.
Ask any question and we will be more than happy to help,
CTW-
Open a Photobucket dot com account - A free one. Or for 25 bucks a year you get video and a whole bunch of storage space.
First - go to photobucket.com/ you must register, upload your photos, once you get to that point read the below detailed info on how to get the photos in your post as a click-able thumbnail.
Basically
They (Photobucket) have an HTML code generator to post pictures for message boards. It's real easy, just copy & paste. Once you get the hang of it - it's not magic or rocket science. It took me some time but I taught myself how to do it.
After the pictures are uploaded (and you are logged into photo bucket) click on the little box under the picture to "select" it, then push the "Generate HTML and Image code" button located in the lower right of the photobucket web page) - when the page refreshes, click in the area with the text in the box "IMG click-able thumbnails for message boards - recommended" the code will automatically be copied to your clipboard, then go back to your forum post and right mouse Click in the text box, then paste it into the text of your post - and it will work.
>>>>>>>>It is best to use a 640x460 picture size<<<<<<<<<
Help with resizing Photos
Ok so first thing is to re-size your photos to make them around 50 to 100 kb size. This will help the dial up members. I use a Windows Picture Re-sizer that is free to download. Here is the link to it.
Windows Picture Resizer for XP
After downloading, it works like this.
When I open or preview a picture in my computer, right mouse click on the photo and one of the options will be to "resize" the photo. I usually use "small" or "medium" setting and large only for more detailed ones.
Or do a search if you don't have XP for the computer system you have.
When you re-size a picture, it makes a copy of the original photo so it is not lost. I keep the resized pictures in a separate folder under Photobucket photos, and individual folders for each project.
OK, once you have a folder of resized pictures, you can log on to your photobucket account and also log onto Chinese Tractor World and go to the thread you want. So now you have 2 web browsers open at the same time.
Minimize or reduce the Chinese Tractor World browser and go to the Photobucket web browser. As an example, I have made sub albums in the Photobucket account for each project too. Make one for "Boxblade" (or whatever) and click on it so you are in that sub account. Then upload those pictures to that. There is also a "Bulk Uploader" feature you can use to upload many photos at the same time.
Once the photos are upload, they will all appear as thumbnails on your screen. Below each photo is a square box with the name of the photo and also 4 types of formats, but disregard those.
What you want to do is check that box by the photo name by clicking on the box. You can check more than one photo at a time if you want. It will highlight the photo(s) and puts a red border around it.
After checking the box(s) of the photos you want to post into the thread, scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page. There is an option to select/unselect all and also 3 rectangles below that.
You want to click on the one that says "Generate HTML and IMG code".
Click on it and another screen pops up with 5 more rectangles.
You want the 3rd rectangle down that says "IMG clickable thumbnails for message boards - recommended".
Highlight all that is in the box and Right mouseclick on it to copy it.
Then open up the TBN browser and "paste" the information into the reply of your post with another right mouse click.
When you "Pre-view" your reply, you should see a clickable thumbnail in it along with your written post. You can check to see if the thumbnail photos appear and you can click on them to see if they expand.
If good, post it.
Sounds harder then it really is, but like anything else, once you get used to it it's not bad at all.
Ask any question and we will be more than happy to help,
CTW-
