Vannin' Home Forums General Discussion Computer Help HOW TO: Attach Images to a Thread

I'll try to do a simplified walk through on how to attach images to your posts. Hope you guys find something helpful.

Some images will be too large to attach, so I'll start out with a quick lesson on resizing. It doesn't matter which photo editing program you use, they should all have a very similar resizing option to change the size of your images. Simply resize them by 50% and try re-attaching them to your post. If they are still too big, resize them again until they are small enough to attach. The program I'm using below is a great beginner photo editing program and it's free. It's called "paint.net" and can be found here:

https://www.getpaint.net/download.html

Select resize as seen below, then make sure to save your new resized photo/image.






Once your image has been resized, you are ready to attach it to your thread. There are two methods you can use. I will explain each below.


#1 - ATTACHING IMAGE TO THREAD DIRECTLY

When you are making a new post, select "USE FULL EDITOR" which will take you to a thread reply screen which has way more options for you to chose from.

*NOTE* Full Editor Mode is automatic when you Start a new thread, but you will have to select it when you reply to a thread



Once you are in the FULL EDITOR, you can scroll down just a little and you will find the "ATTACHMENT MANAGER" under the Post Options section. It will be right under all the emojis.



From there, you simply click the "SELECT A FILE TO ATTACH" button, and pick which picture you would like to attach. Don't forget to click the "DONE" button when you're all done.




#2 - ATTACH IMAGE TO THREAD VIA AN EMBEDED LINK FROM PHOTO HOSTING SITE

If you have images uploaded to a photo hosting website like FLIKR, you can link them into your thread by selecting the "SHARE" arrow at the bottom right of your screen.



Then you select the "BB CODE" section to share, and copy & paste the web address that links to your image. Simply past it into your thread where you want the image and you're done. SIDE NOTE* When using FLIKR to share your images, they automatically add extra mess (info) to the end of your link. If you want only the image displayed, you will have to remove the second line of the link as shown below.






BONUS TIP - LINKING TO EXISTING IMAGES ON THE INTERNET

If you want to link to an existing image on the internet, you can right click the image and select "COPY IMAGE ADDRESS". Then in the FULL EDITOR you can select the "INSERT IMAGE LINK" button above the thread body, and past the image link address into the new pop-up box.





Hope these tips help out guys. If anyone has any questions, or anything to add, please feel free to chime in.

Think I will try again soon.

Nice Tutorial Kursed. Thanks!

It's OK Jim, right behind you, don't hit the brakes!!

I lost all the pictures anyway. It's the Miracle of Modern Technology!

Sure thing guys. If you need any help, feel free to ask.

Whatever happened to point & click ? I remember the Good Ol' Days when all you had to worry about was not letting the fire go out and you had to watch out for T. Rex.

Great tutorial Kursed.
I used to use photobucket until they started charging. I use Flckr now and it's pretty simple.

Same here. I just had to pay them $7 the other week because now they won't even let you access all your photos unless you pay. So I did the $7 account, downloaded every photo I had on their site, deleted every photo I had from their site, told them to take a flying leap off the shallow end, and canceled my account forever.

That’s exactly what I am going to do

When they sent out a message that they were going to charge I also downloaded all my pic's and deleted their copy. NEVER WENT BACK !

Yep, me too.
They sure messed up a lot of good forums with their nonsense.
So many blank pictures on the web now.

Flickr is headed in the same direction. 1,000 photo limit right now, or upgrade to a "pro plan" for $$/month

How annoying.
Good thing I only have 5 pictures on there.

Still can't figure out the pic posting using photobucket. On a New Topic, Use Full Editor doesn't show on my screen. It only shows if there is already a topic started and I would want to reply. Also the Select BB Code with the arrow is nowhere on my screen.

I too tried the recently described method with Full Editor to post photos from my files in my computer. It was a great write-up and I was hopeful until I received the same message and results as Meanmachine.

I dunno......

When you start a New Thread it is already in Full Editor mode ...

Thanks Freske, think I have it figured out now, that Full Editor not showing was messing me up.

I've updated the first post in this thread to reflect the difference. Sorry I didn't catch that before now.

Gonna give it another try today!

Great tutorial. Seems like allot to do just to post a photo etc. 😎. When I get some time I will try it. Thanks again for the tutorial. 👍

Got to be an easier way.