Rob Beckers
16th April 2008, 08:10
The past days a few people have asked how they can post pictures, so this seems a good time to give the details. Never fear! Posting pictures is about as easy as it gets. If you can heat water in a microwave, you too can post pictures! :D
Just start your new post as usual, by replying to a message or by starting a new thread. In the post editor you'll see a number of icons at the top; to change font, underline, indent ... and ... to add attachments such as pictures. The icon we need shows a little paperclip, click it with your mouse, as I'm doing right now.
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That opens up a new window, with the Attachment Manager. You can still continue typing your post and go back-and-forth between the attachment manager and editor. Back to the attachment manager; hit the "Browse" button that is staring you in the face, this opens a file browser, and navigate on your PC to the picture you want to include with your message. Once you found and selected the picture, click the "Open" button in the file browser to close it (yeah, I know, the irony). This gets you back to the attachment manager, where clicking the "Upload" button is next. This will transfer the image from your computer to the forum. Don't worry about the size of your picture, if needed the forum software will automagically resize it. All the 'click here - then there' may sound complicated, but it is much faster and more straight forward to actually do this than it took you to read the last paragraph. The image I just uploaded has a warehouse on it, with (if you look real close) a wind turbine sticking out over it.
At this point the attachment manager shows a list with the uploaded file. If you want to include more pictures you can keep clicking "Browse" and "Upload", up to a maximum of 10 attachments per message. I'll upload a second picture, so give me a second ... done! That last picture has Logan sitting on top of his Scirocco wind turbine. Now that I have all my pictures for this post, I scroll down to the end of the attachment manager window and hit "Close this window".
Now, at this point the work is basically done. You can post your message, and the attachments will show up at the end of it, below all the text. If you want to get fancy you can actually move the pictures around within your message. This is done by clicking that little paperclip icon again, to open a list of your uploaded pictures, and clicking the one you want to show where the cursor is. Let's see if I can move Logan's picture to right here:
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Got it! Clicking the file name in the paper clip icon's drop-down list automatically inserted "attach" tags in the text. That's what tells the forum software to show the image right there.
I'll leave the first uploaded picture alone, so that should still show up at the bottom of this message.
The last subject I would like to touch on is if you want to edit an already existing post, something you write earlier, and add pictures or files to it. That works just the same way as described above. Just click the "Edit" button to edit your message, now, this is important, click "Go Advanced" to get the full fledged editor that has the paper clip icon. From there it's back to the beginning of this story.
That's it. This took me half an hour to write, it'll take you about 2 minutes to actually do it!
-RoB-
Just start your new post as usual, by replying to a message or by starting a new thread. In the post editor you'll see a number of icons at the top; to change font, underline, indent ... and ... to add attachments such as pictures. The icon we need shows a little paperclip, click it with your mouse, as I'm doing right now.
534
That opens up a new window, with the Attachment Manager. You can still continue typing your post and go back-and-forth between the attachment manager and editor. Back to the attachment manager; hit the "Browse" button that is staring you in the face, this opens a file browser, and navigate on your PC to the picture you want to include with your message. Once you found and selected the picture, click the "Open" button in the file browser to close it (yeah, I know, the irony). This gets you back to the attachment manager, where clicking the "Upload" button is next. This will transfer the image from your computer to the forum. Don't worry about the size of your picture, if needed the forum software will automagically resize it. All the 'click here - then there' may sound complicated, but it is much faster and more straight forward to actually do this than it took you to read the last paragraph. The image I just uploaded has a warehouse on it, with (if you look real close) a wind turbine sticking out over it.
At this point the attachment manager shows a list with the uploaded file. If you want to include more pictures you can keep clicking "Browse" and "Upload", up to a maximum of 10 attachments per message. I'll upload a second picture, so give me a second ... done! That last picture has Logan sitting on top of his Scirocco wind turbine. Now that I have all my pictures for this post, I scroll down to the end of the attachment manager window and hit "Close this window".
Now, at this point the work is basically done. You can post your message, and the attachments will show up at the end of it, below all the text. If you want to get fancy you can actually move the pictures around within your message. This is done by clicking that little paperclip icon again, to open a list of your uploaded pictures, and clicking the one you want to show where the cursor is. Let's see if I can move Logan's picture to right here:
455
Got it! Clicking the file name in the paper clip icon's drop-down list automatically inserted "attach" tags in the text. That's what tells the forum software to show the image right there.
I'll leave the first uploaded picture alone, so that should still show up at the bottom of this message.
The last subject I would like to touch on is if you want to edit an already existing post, something you write earlier, and add pictures or files to it. That works just the same way as described above. Just click the "Edit" button to edit your message, now, this is important, click "Go Advanced" to get the full fledged editor that has the paper clip icon. From there it's back to the beginning of this story.
That's it. This took me half an hour to write, it'll take you about 2 minutes to actually do it!
-RoB-