Adding images to posts

[bankedout]

Go to: photobucket.com/ and create an account, if you don't already have one there.

Upload an image or photo to the site.

Then you will see something like the image below:



When you are typing your message here, right click in the message you are typing and select "Paste"

The image will appear in your post where you pasted.

[bankedout]

To back track a little, for those of you who don't know how to share a chart with others.

When you are viewing a chart on your computer that you would like to share with others, look on your keyboard for a key called "Print Screen" It may be abbreviated like "PrtSc" or something like that. Push that key.

Now open up your wonderful free image viewing program Irfanview: www.irfanview.com/

Inside Irfanview go to Edit->Paste Now you should see the screen you were looking at when you pushed the Print Screen key on your keyboard.

Now left click your mouse on a corner of the chart and hold down the left mouse button while drawing a square around your chart. You can adjust the size of the square after you let go of the mouse button by "grabbing" one of the borders and dragging it (again with your left mouse button).

Once you have the square showing what you really were trying to capture, go to Edit->Crop selection in Irfanview.

Now you should see just your chart. Now go to File->Save As and name your file. I like to save my files as File Type PNG and I put them in the My Pictures folder of my computer.

Now, if you want to add a line or draw a circle or add some text to your chart, open up Microsoft Paint (which came for free with Windows) You can do quite a bit with that program. When you have Microsoft Paint open, go to File->Open... and find the image file you created in Irfanview. Do your modifications and then save your work when you are done. (File->Save)

Then you are ready to upload to Photobucket and have your chart display in the message you are typing to the members here. Those instructions are in the message before this.

[dg]

Good explanation, bankedout.

One nice thing about this arrangement is that since each member can literally save thousands of images each in photobucket (for free), the graphs we post here will not disappear after a couple of weeks due to image storage site limitations -- as was the case at msn.

Not only that, but here you control the image resolution (not msn).

[dg]

NOTE: after left mouse clicking the image number at photobucket, I needed to perform a Ctrl + C to store the address at my notepad. When I didn't do that, what I got with the paste command was my previous save.

[bankedout]

That is interesting. For me it automatically copies it on to my clipboard. Maybe you have a different web browser or something.

Someone could always right click and select Copy or do the Ctrl + C

[sd]

Thanks for the directions - see if I've got this:SD

I see the formula , but not the photo- I think the brackets are all there?

[sd]

It Works! I had to click on the small box just under the thumbnail to activate the phot0 and to be able to make the IMG selection- Thank you for the instructions-

[sd]

It appears only the last post in a thread has a reply button- If I want to reply to Post #1, other than copying and pasting that post in my response, How is that done. I see the Link to Post- but don't seem to be able to figure it out- Thanks, SD

[sd]

Clicked on the link to post button first on the UYG post -

[sd]

Didn't accomplish anything. What am I doing wrong?

[dg]

sd: (RE: replies 7 thru 9)

Don't know; but if you look at the heading of each reply, a reply number is given that could simply be referenced by your post as I have done here.