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OK... so a lot of people seem to not know how to post pictures in threads. So Madcap is here to rescue anyone who admits to computer illiteracy and those who are too proud to admit their computer illiteracy as well.
So... without further ado: How to post pictures on Bladeforums.
1. Sign up for a free image hosting service. What this does is allow you to upload pictures that you have saved on your computer to an online server, which essentially stores them on the internet and provides you with a URL- Uniform Resource Locator (AKA the address you type in the address bar to go someplace on the web, I.E. http://www.bladeforums.com that you can post on other sites using HTML or BB code. More on that later.
2. We're going to use Photobucket for our example, since it's the most commonly used free image hosting service in all of computer geekdom. It's quite easy to use. So, sign up for an account. When you go to their home page, in the upper left corner should be a link saying "Join Now!" Click it and fill out all the information. Once you have registered, you're ready to upload pictures!
3. So how do we upload pictures? Well, once you're logged into your new photobucket account, in the middle right of the page you should see about a third of your screen covered with "Add Pictures," and underneath that, you see a place where you can type labeled 'Picture' with a button next to it that says 'Browse.' Click the browse button. This will open the 'File Upload' window. This is the hardest part of the guide, because I can't explain to you how and where you store photos on your computer. The easiest thing to do is to create a new folder on your desktop, label it, say, knife pictures, and move all your bladeforums related stuff to that folder.
3A. (But I'm even more illiterate than that! How do I create a new folder on my desktop? Right click anywhere on the desktop screen. Scroll down to 'new' and the scroll over to 'folder.' Rename it as you please.)
3B. (Wait, you lost me. I don't even know how to save pictures I found on the internet! Or upload pictures from my digital camera to my computer! There are far too many cameras for me to tell you how to upload from all of them, the only thing I can say is READ THE FRICKING MANUAL, N00B. To save a picture you found on the internet, right click the picture, scroll to 'Save Image As,' which brings up the 'Save Image' menu. On the left side of that screen you should see 'Desktop.' Click that, which will show you all the folders you can save the image to on your desktop. Double click the Knife Pictures folder which you should have created two steps ago, name the picture you're saving, and save it. Easy.)
4. So once you have a picture to upload, and are back looking at your photobucket account, click the 'Browse' button we found earlier, click 'Desktop' again, and double click on that Knife Pictures folder we talked about earlier. Click on the name of the picture you want to upload, and then click 'Open.'
5. This should fill in that text box with the location of the picture you want to upload, i.e. D:\Desktop\Cool Wallpaper Shizzle\conan32pi.jpg for my very cool Conan O'Brien MSN Instant Messenger icon. D:\ is the drive location, in this case, my hard drive. You will also have a lettered drive for your CDROM/DVD/CDR/ etc. drive, one for your floppy drive, and possibly one or more for any other type of drive on your computer, i.e. ZIP drive, minidisk drive, etc, and any number of lettered drives for any networks your computer may be a part of and can access. 'Desktop' narrows down the location of the file to a specific part of the D drive. 'Cool Wallpaper Shizzle' narrows it to a specific folder, conan32pi is the file name of the file I want in that folder, and .jpg is the file type, in this case, a type of image file.
6. Click submit. This will upload your selected picture to the photobucket servers.
7. Now if you scroll down, you will see a thumbnail size picture of the picture you uploaded, along with three text boxes labeled URL, TAG, and IMG. You only need to worry about the one labeled URL. Select the ENTIRE URL in the box (Make sure you got the whole thing, they can get long), and hit Ctrl+C. That will copy what you selected, in this case the URL, into your computer's RAM cache (Basically it's short term memory). Go to the post reply function on bladeforums, where in the little cluster of buttons above the typing box you should see a small yellow button that looks sort of like two mountains with a sun over them on a yellow sky. It's to the right of all the font, size, bold, italic, underline, spacing, etc. controls. Click it. This will create a prompt that asks you for the URL of the image you would like to post.
8. Hit Ctrl+V. That will paste what you copied earlier (The URL of your picture from photobucket) into the IMG function on bladeforums' reply box. Hit okay.
9. In the reply box, it should look like this (Only without spaces before and after the URL, which I inserted so that the code instead of the picture would appear.)
![url]](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2F%5Burl%5Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fi20.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fb217%2Fnerevarsblade%2Fconan32pi.jpg%5B%2Furl%5D&hash=9a34e7aafd448a8a4b38485938fecb3c)
10. That's it. See, now was that all that hard!?!?
11. An aside for more advanced users... you can also alter what text is displayed when you insert a URL, like, if I wanted to say "You can go here..." instead of saying, "You can go to http://www.photobucket.com/blah blah blah..." and make a link saying 'here' that takes you to http://www.photobucket.com/blah blah blah.
In order to do this, click the hyperlink button on the submit reply function. Type in or copy the URL you want to link to. Submit it. It should produce something like this, though again without the inserted spaces.
[ URL="http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/nerevarsblade/conan32pi.jpg"]http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/nerevarsblade/conan32pi.jpg [/URL]
which looks like...
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/nerevarsblade/conan32pi.jpg
When you post it.
In order to change the display from "http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/nerevarsblade/conan32pi.jpg" to
"here," delete the second copy of the URL which occurs after the first set of brackets close- the URL which is not in quotation marks. That, is, the bolded part of this (Minus the spaces again)...
[U RL="http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/nerevarsblade/conan32pi.jpg"]http://i20.photo bucket.com/albums/b217/nerevarsblade/conan32pi.jpg[/U RL]
Replace that with the word 'here.' That way when you post, it will look like this.
Here
Thank you, checks and money orders should be made out to Samuel Keane-Rudolph, and mailed to Morey 420, 404 Huff. St., Winona, MN 55987.
So... without further ado: How to post pictures on Bladeforums.
1. Sign up for a free image hosting service. What this does is allow you to upload pictures that you have saved on your computer to an online server, which essentially stores them on the internet and provides you with a URL- Uniform Resource Locator (AKA the address you type in the address bar to go someplace on the web, I.E. http://www.bladeforums.com that you can post on other sites using HTML or BB code. More on that later.
2. We're going to use Photobucket for our example, since it's the most commonly used free image hosting service in all of computer geekdom. It's quite easy to use. So, sign up for an account. When you go to their home page, in the upper left corner should be a link saying "Join Now!" Click it and fill out all the information. Once you have registered, you're ready to upload pictures!
3. So how do we upload pictures? Well, once you're logged into your new photobucket account, in the middle right of the page you should see about a third of your screen covered with "Add Pictures," and underneath that, you see a place where you can type labeled 'Picture' with a button next to it that says 'Browse.' Click the browse button. This will open the 'File Upload' window. This is the hardest part of the guide, because I can't explain to you how and where you store photos on your computer. The easiest thing to do is to create a new folder on your desktop, label it, say, knife pictures, and move all your bladeforums related stuff to that folder.
3A. (But I'm even more illiterate than that! How do I create a new folder on my desktop? Right click anywhere on the desktop screen. Scroll down to 'new' and the scroll over to 'folder.' Rename it as you please.)
3B. (Wait, you lost me. I don't even know how to save pictures I found on the internet! Or upload pictures from my digital camera to my computer! There are far too many cameras for me to tell you how to upload from all of them, the only thing I can say is READ THE FRICKING MANUAL, N00B. To save a picture you found on the internet, right click the picture, scroll to 'Save Image As,' which brings up the 'Save Image' menu. On the left side of that screen you should see 'Desktop.' Click that, which will show you all the folders you can save the image to on your desktop. Double click the Knife Pictures folder which you should have created two steps ago, name the picture you're saving, and save it. Easy.)
4. So once you have a picture to upload, and are back looking at your photobucket account, click the 'Browse' button we found earlier, click 'Desktop' again, and double click on that Knife Pictures folder we talked about earlier. Click on the name of the picture you want to upload, and then click 'Open.'
5. This should fill in that text box with the location of the picture you want to upload, i.e. D:\Desktop\Cool Wallpaper Shizzle\conan32pi.jpg for my very cool Conan O'Brien MSN Instant Messenger icon. D:\ is the drive location, in this case, my hard drive. You will also have a lettered drive for your CDROM/DVD/CDR/ etc. drive, one for your floppy drive, and possibly one or more for any other type of drive on your computer, i.e. ZIP drive, minidisk drive, etc, and any number of lettered drives for any networks your computer may be a part of and can access. 'Desktop' narrows down the location of the file to a specific part of the D drive. 'Cool Wallpaper Shizzle' narrows it to a specific folder, conan32pi is the file name of the file I want in that folder, and .jpg is the file type, in this case, a type of image file.
6. Click submit. This will upload your selected picture to the photobucket servers.
7. Now if you scroll down, you will see a thumbnail size picture of the picture you uploaded, along with three text boxes labeled URL, TAG, and IMG. You only need to worry about the one labeled URL. Select the ENTIRE URL in the box (Make sure you got the whole thing, they can get long), and hit Ctrl+C. That will copy what you selected, in this case the URL, into your computer's RAM cache (Basically it's short term memory). Go to the post reply function on bladeforums, where in the little cluster of buttons above the typing box you should see a small yellow button that looks sort of like two mountains with a sun over them on a yellow sky. It's to the right of all the font, size, bold, italic, underline, spacing, etc. controls. Click it. This will create a prompt that asks you for the URL of the image you would like to post.
8. Hit Ctrl+V. That will paste what you copied earlier (The URL of your picture from photobucket) into the IMG function on bladeforums' reply box. Hit okay.
9. In the reply box, it should look like this (Only without spaces before and after the URL, which I inserted so that the code instead of the picture would appear.)
10. That's it. See, now was that all that hard!?!?
11. An aside for more advanced users... you can also alter what text is displayed when you insert a URL, like, if I wanted to say "You can go here..." instead of saying, "You can go to http://www.photobucket.com/blah blah blah..." and make a link saying 'here' that takes you to http://www.photobucket.com/blah blah blah.
In order to do this, click the hyperlink button on the submit reply function. Type in or copy the URL you want to link to. Submit it. It should produce something like this, though again without the inserted spaces.
[ URL="http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/nerevarsblade/conan32pi.jpg"]http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/nerevarsblade/conan32pi.jpg [/URL]
which looks like...
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/nerevarsblade/conan32pi.jpg
When you post it.
In order to change the display from "http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/nerevarsblade/conan32pi.jpg" to
"here," delete the second copy of the URL which occurs after the first set of brackets close- the URL which is not in quotation marks. That, is, the bolded part of this (Minus the spaces again)...
[U RL="http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b217/nerevarsblade/conan32pi.jpg"]http://i20.photo bucket.com/albums/b217/nerevarsblade/conan32pi.jpg[/U RL]
Replace that with the word 'here.' That way when you post, it will look like this.
Here
Thank you, checks and money orders should be made out to Samuel Keane-Rudolph, and mailed to Morey 420, 404 Huff. St., Winona, MN 55987.
