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Dudeman
Trad climber
Hansen, Idaho
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 5, 2007 - 05:15pm PT
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Okay so how do I post some pics on S.T.?
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mack
Trad climber
vermont
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I opened a photobucket account. Move your pics to photobucket then pick the img code to put into the body of your message. It didn't take me too long to figure it out and I'm not very savy about things like that.
Mack
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scuffy b
climber
The deck above the 5
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Dudeman,
the most important bit of information is that your photo must
already exist on a website which is available to the public.
You can't post a photo which is sitting in your computer.
Most people who post here open an account with photobucket or imageshack.
If you post a reply to a thread, below the window where you would
be typing you will see the word "help."
If you click on that, it will open a window with instructions.
If you want to practice but don't yet have your photo housed on
a website, you can go to another photo which has already been posted and see if you can post it again yourself.
Somebody will post really specific nuts and bolts momentarily if
they aren't doing that while I am typing this.
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JOEY.F
Social climber
sebastopol
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See Mighty Hikers post from 16 oct 2006.
Thats how I learned.
Joe.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Here's an updated version - it seems to work, and has been sent to several, including dudeman. I'm sure there are better and even simpler ways, so feel free to edit. Please remember that these instructions are for techno-idiots such as myself, and so are in plain English rather than geek-speak.
It took me some effort to figure out how to post photos. And I had a lot of help, especially from Crimpie. But if I can do it, so can anyone.
1. Have photos on your hard drive, either from digital photos or scans.
2. Make sure they're reasonable e-size, not more than one or two hundred kilobytes. (To find out, right click on the image. One of the options will be "properties" - left click on that, and you'll learn the size.) A photo of more than that size takes forever for people with dial-up to download, plus ends up wider/higher than a standard screen and so impossible to look at. Many photos from digital cameras are 800 KB or larger, so must be downsized.
3. Go to Photo Bucket (www.photobucket.com), and create an account. A basic account is free, and all you should need. You'll need a user ID and password - don't forget to record them somewhere, for later.
4. Once you have a Photo Bucket account, sign in.
5. A page will appear, including stuff about “current album” and so on. It gives you three choices – “home”, “my album” and “find stuff”. Make sure you’re in “my album” – click on it. Once in my album, the words “upload to: ", followed by your user name, appear, with four icons (bars) below. Click on the “Images from my PC” button. Underneath there are three blank boxes, with the word “Browse” beside. Click on browse. You can then choose an image from your hard drive. (If there are several images, click on "add more", and keep adding.)
NOTE: Photo Bucket regularly gets changed and updated, but the basics seem to stay the same.
6. Once you've selected the image(s), click on "Upload". Photo Bucket then essentially takes the photo(s) from your hard drive and puts them in its memory.
7. In a few seconds, the photos (thumbnails) will pop up at the bottom of the page (try scrolling), together with icons to move, edit, delete or share. Ignore those. Click on the tiny box beside a photo's title (e.g. "DSC00081.jpg"), in effect choosing it. Then right click on the bottom of the four boxes below the thumbnail, the one that says “IMG code”, and copy it.
8. You now have a reference to the photo, in the right size. A "tag".
9. All you need to do now is start a thread, or post a reply to an existing thread. Type whatever message you want. Then put the cursor in the place you want the photo to be. Right click, then click on "paste". That sticks the tag in the place where it'll be in the message. Not the photo itself, just the tag - a reference for the ST server. If you're posting several photos, you have to go back and forth, transferring one "tag" at a time.
10. When you post the message, and it's added to the thread, the photo(s) magically appears - the ST server knows where to look, on the Photo Bucket server, and puts it/them in.
All the photos that you upload to Photo Bucket sit there, so even if your computer is turned off, they're there for people to look at. For practical purposes a photo on ST is in the public domain - if nothing else, Ouch may add a bear to it.
Ain't that fun? There are other places you can do these things, but I'm told PB is simplest.
Now get on with the posting, already! More climbing related posts always welcome.
I ♥ ST
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
St. Looney
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Dudeman - you realize that we now expect to see some cool photos within the hour. Can't wait!
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The
Mountain climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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Oct 12, 2007 - 02:21pm PT
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Can we have the complicated techno-geek instructions now pleeze!
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The
Mountain climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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Oct 12, 2007 - 02:43pm PT
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How's that?
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The
Mountain climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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Oct 12, 2007 - 02:44pm PT
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oops? toooo big. How do I fix that?
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The
Mountain climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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Oct 12, 2007 - 02:51pm PT
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How about this instead??
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