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How to post photos

Postby baltobernie » Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:47 am

We love to see pictures of your car!

In order to post them, first upload them to a "photo sharing site". Some sites are free, others have a fee. The free site I use is Photobucket. Here is how to post photos on FiatSpider.com using Photobucket:

Join Photobucket http://photobucket.com/, create an account, username, etc. When uploading photos to an album to be used on FiatSpider.com, pictures should be a maximum of 640 x 480 pixels. Otherwise, a portion of the photo will be cropped when it appears in the forum.

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When you wish to include photos in a New Message or Reply, begin that message, then open Photobucket and navigate to the album and photo you want to post. Hover your mouse over the IMG code, then copy the context of that box into your message where you want the photo to appear.

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The context of the photo will look like this:

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Leave a blank line or two between message text and photos, and between photos. If you have a lot a photos to post in the same message, consider reducing them further to Thumbnails, so your viewers won't have to scroll endlessly down to read your message.

Let's see those cars! :mrgreen:

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Re: How to post photos

Postby rlux4 » Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:08 pm

Thank you Bernie. You did a much better job than my feeble attempts. I see I have to expand my list of geniuses.
I wonder if there's a way to keep this where it can be found quickly?
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Re: How to post photos

Postby ga.spyder » Sun Mar 15, 2009 12:21 pm

This should have its own place on this site,I just went through everything trying to find it.Required reading for everyone!Thanks,Bernie.
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Re: How to post photos

Postby baltobernie » Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:21 pm

bump

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Re: How to post photos

Postby baltobernie » Thu Jun 18, 2009 8:41 am

bump

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Re: How to post photos

Postby majicwrench » Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:33 pm

Following the instuctions above did not work for me. Likely my own fault, but...
I had to click on the "URL" box before pasting my picture into tht post. Hope that makes sense.
Bump,

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Re: How to post photos

Postby baltobernie » Thu Jul 15, 2010 8:28 am

Bump. Some of the screen shots have changed within Photobucket, but the principal is the same

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Re: How to post photos

Postby Italchic » Thu Sep 01, 2011 1:44 pm

OK, I just opened an account with Flicker. So how do I get my photos from Flicker on to the forum?

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Re: How to post photos

Postby 124JOE » Fri Sep 02, 2011 10:10 am

Italchic wrote:OK, I just opened an account with Flicker. So how do I get my photos from Flicker on to the forum?

upload some pics there and
find the img code
and copy get back in on the posting board and paste.joe
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Re: How to post photos

Postby jfranks » Sat Feb 25, 2012 4:10 pm

Can this be done from Snapfish? Can't seem to find an IMG code there....

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Re: How to post photos

Postby steve8462 » Mon Aug 06, 2012 11:36 am

i click on "direct link" instead of "img" when in Photobucket and have had no problems.

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Re: How to post photos

Postby RRoller123 » Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:52 pm

This is a procedure that I have been developing for a little while on how to post pictures here in the Forum. Hope it is useful, and comments are always welcome.

HOW TO POST PICTURES IN FIATSPIDER.COM

Well that picture-posting thing sure is confusing. Took me forever to figure it out. Here is what I do:

First, you must post your pictures on photobucket.com or one of the similar competing websites. You can't post pics directly from your computer. So set up a free account there first. The instructions here reference photobucket.com.

Then in your FS.com post, look for the "Img" box at the top of the post, #9 from the left in the row of command icons.

Put the cursor where you want the pic to appear in the post (leave a few spaces after text is a good idea) and click the "Img" button/icon above.

Then go to the photobucket.com site (or competitor) and find your pic. Hover the cursor over the pic and a drop down menu will appear. Then click the "Direct Link" or similar button. In Photobucket, it will respond with a "copied" indication.

Go back to your FS.com post and make sure the cursor is EXACTLY in between the 2 Img boxes: [img](cursor%20in%20here)[/img] then right click and hit "paste" and the web link for the pic will show up in between the 2 img boxes. DON'T hit the IMG button a second time. MOVE your cursor out of the IMG info you just created before you hit enter.

Now when you post the post, the pic will be there!

Remember that if you delete the photobucket "master" pic, it will no longer appear in the posting here on FS.com

Also: there is a size limit to the pictures that can be displayed here, I think it is 750 pixels in width, someone correct me if I am wrong. So you may need to resize (typically downsize) the pics so that they fit properly and all of the pic is displayed and not cropped. What I do is really simple: I email the original picture to myself within AOL. AOL will automatically prompt you to see if you want the picture "optimized". Say "yes" and send this new pic to yourself. I then save it with a "small" addendum to the picture name and put this optimized picture up on photobucket. It works every single time like a charm.
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Re: How to post photos

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Re: How to post photos

Postby weekend warrior » Sat Sep 14, 2013 8:49 am

If this forum was tapatalk enabled the guidelines would be,
1. Load the tapatalk app onto your phone
2. Log in
3. Select thread
4. Type text as per usual
5. Touch camera icon, you will get the choice of loading existing photos or taking a new one
6. You get 3 choices of size
7. Done
Easy!!!!

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Re: How to post photos

Postby SpiderCake » Wed Oct 23, 2013 12:20 pm

I've tried the BB code to resize the display size of the image including [img=100x50] and [img width="100" height="50"] and <img src="http://sourcelink" height=100 width=200> with no luck. Is there a feature that I can turn on for this? I have a good bit of pics on my hosting that are all full res and would like to avoid having to creating multiple sizes to post.

Thanks!

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