Posting pictures made easy
 

I see this a bunch
"how do i post pictures to a forum"

well Im here to give you step by step instructions on how I do it to make your life easy!

first go sign up for drop box http://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTIzNjEzMzA5?src=global
(its free, no strings attached, you get 2gigs of space)

yes I get a referral when you signup but its well worth signing up (will save you tons of time and make you look 133t in front of your friends)

once you have dropbox installed, go to your "my documents" on your computer. There should be a folder called "dropbox"
under the drop box folder there is a "public" folder

Create a folder there, I named mine "Aquarium Build"
then i started dumping any pictures I do on my aquarium into this folder on my computer...

So now you are saying, how the heck does that get them to the web!! Well its simple, dropbox syncs that folder across your iphone, home computer, work computer, and their website. Since you put it in the public folder, you can now share!

so right click on any image you have in the folder and there should be an option called "Drop box" then under there should be a option called "Copy public location"

once you have done that, go create a post and click the "insert image" button on the post and press "ctrl-v" to paste the url you just copied from drop box!!

that simple

now all you gota do is dump all kinds of pictures into your public dropbox folder and you can have anyone on the web view them.

Best of all, YOU WILL NEVER LOSE THESE PICTURES unless you delete them. If your computer crashes, house floods, earthquake destroys canada, your pictures are safe! This is a real backup compared to $200 "backupdrives" costco sales which are not a real back since they have one drive, and they are next to your computer.

So as an IT pro i recommend storing resumes, class work, etc in your dropbox folder for safe keeping (not the public folder).

feel free to pm me if you have any questions!!


TO RESIZE IMAGES:
Go here and download this outstanding little program:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pictureresizer.html

Place it on your desktop.

Rename it:
PhotoResize800.exe

Then drag any picture or directory with pictures in it on top of the icon.

The program will do an excellent reduction to 800 wide by whatever is required to keep from distorting the image.

It won't effect the originals at all. It creates new reduced images with the same name and "-800" appended to the image names.

If that still leaves too large an image you can reduce the 800 by whatever.

Thanks, Milad! Sounds a lot easier then photobucket which keeps crapping out on me.

so did anyone else give this a try? comments? questions?

i tried it milad just puts the shortcut up not the pics i wanted on the post

I tried it and it took a few times to figure it out, above the message box is the font selector icons, second from the right is a yellow box click on it and put the dropbox link from your post in it.

you probably clicked the link icon instead of the image icon
the image icon is the yellow one that looks like it has a mountain on it.

Here is info on resizing the images really easily

Go here and download this outstanding little program:
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/pictureresizer.html

Place it on your desktop.

Rename it:
PhotoResize800.exe

Then drag any picture or directory with pictures in it on top of the icon.

The program will do an excellent reduction to 800 wide by whatever is required to keep from distorting the image.

It won't effect the originals at all. It creates new reduced images with the same name and "-800" appended to the image names.

If that still leaves too large an image you can reduce the 800 by whatever.

hmmm... so dropbox is basically online storage.
is it free?
and what is the capacity?

thanks.

its free and its 2gigs
works great combined with the picture resizer.

ttt

thanks Milad. How do I post image to my thread forum?

save the file to your public folder in dropbox
right click, on it and "copy public link"
go to your thread
click the icon for image (its yellow and has a mountain on it)
paste the link. that simple

Thanks. Will try it tonight.

How is this easier or better than photobucket? I have a dropbox account for my business and it's great but also expensive and not ideal for pic sharing.

2GB is nothing, my camera card is 16GB. Filling up 2GB will take no time at all and likely why you're pushing this in the first place, your account is full and trying to get more free storage with referrals.

Photobucket is free and it's unlimited storage even with the free account. It's also easier to share files.
1 - Select the image size you want
2 - Select the pics to upload
3 - Select all or the pics you want to share
4 - Select generate IMG codes
5 - Copy and paste

For dropbox you have to manually resize each pic and then when you want to share multiple pictures you have right click on each one and manually insert each pic one at a time into IMG codes. Then if you ever want more storage, which you will, it's expensive. Even the premium account at photobucket is only $20 per year (not month) and you don't even need that anymore.

Thank you. Got it working.

ttt

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/106560897/A...m/IMG_0335.JPG


http://https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1065...m/IMG_0334.JPG

Hopefully this works. Not the best pics but trying this out for now.

Can't seem to get this working.

You need to remove the fist http:// in your line (did that for you), and you might want to resize that to something like 800x600 or less :)

Thanks. Anybody know of a good re size tool for mac

It should have a built in picture editing tool.

iphoto will crop but won't re size as far as i know

Cant remember if I resized some on Photobucket or not but for my iMac, I email them to myself, as the email has 3 different sizes to send.

:lol: Not the best way but works. iPhoto is suppose to be one of the best there is. One would think it could resize pics but I have not found where yet, if it does.

I'm using seashore http://seashore.sourceforge.net/