If you're going to be a "Forum Person" on ANY forum, help yourself by learning how to work with picture on the Internet
Below are some articles on working with pictures on the Internet, if you can teach yourself and master these first three picture related tasks you can share pictures on any forum.
It's not that hard folks... If I can do it... you can do it... I work with pictures each and every single day and speaking from experience, it's a really nice "Skill Set" to possess to be able to correctly share pictures on the Internet.
For the most part, sharing pictures on the Internet means sharing pictures on discussion forums and the majority of all the best or top notch discussion forums use vBulletin software for their forum. So once you teach yourself how to work with pictures on a forum like AutogeekOnline.net you will then have the skills to work with pictures on just about any discussion forum your hang out on.
It's not that hard... but there are some good Netiquette practices to follow,
Step 1 - Crop out the fluff
This means cropping or cutting out all the non-important portions of the picture. Here's an example.
First is the original picture, 
In this shot, I've cropped out the fluff but still left a portion of the skyline and a little space in the front, back and bottom of the picture to frame it up. 
Both these photos started out around 2350 by 1560 pixels. Using the Easy Thumbnails software, after I cropped out the fluff of the original photo I resized both photos to 800 pixels wide for use in this article.
Note: In order to do the cropping step you need some type of photo software that offers the ability to crop photos. PhotoShop and PhotoShop Elements both offer this feature. A free photo software that offers this is called Gimp, I've never used it but I know it can be downloaded for free and I'm sure there are other software programs that offer this ability. I do offer a way to do it online which isn't going to be as fast as having the software on your computer but at least it's an option. See the link for online cropping below.
Step 2 - Resize to about 800 pixels wide
800 pixels wide will fit on the majority of computer screens for the widest spectrum of your readers. Some people like to go larger but my personal thoughts on this topic is 800 pixels is optimum as it's plenty big to see what you're trying to share and no one should have to
horizontal scroll to see the picture.
In most cases, if I have to horizontal scroll to see someone's pictures I won't see them because I'll simply click away.
If you can't resize your pictures before sharing them on the forum you're going to loose some readers because it's real annoying to have to horizontal scroll to see the entire picture and the thing is you never see the entire picture because as you scroll to one side of the screen to see the missing portions of the picture, on the other side the picture is scrolling out of view... thus you never see the "entire" picture, just portion of it. So I click away.
Step 3 - Upload to the gallery
I have an article on how to do this.
Step 4 - Insert your picture into your message using the [IMG] tags
Again, I have an article on how to do this.
So if you're going to be active on
ANY forum and want to share pictures with you're friends,
just take some time to teach yourself how to resize, upload and insert. It works the same on just about any forum.
How to resize your photos before uploading to a photo gallery -
Using Easy Thumbnails How to upload a photo into your Autogeek Photo Gallery How to insert an image from your photo gallery into your message
Below are some other picture related articles that are helpful but you don't have to read them to get a picture into your message. Note the one on Photobucket... everyone is always recommending Photobucket and Flickr, etc. If you use one of these hosting accounts keep in mind that you only get a certain amount of space and after you use up all the FREE SPACE you either have to,
- Upgrade to a Pro Account
- Start DELETING photos to make room for new photos
If you delete photos because you don't want to pay for a
paid account, then EVERYWHERE you shared the pictures you delete will turn into red x's or some type of graphic that states the photo no longer exists.
If you upload your photos to the Autogeek Gallery using the 3 how-to articles I posted links to above, then as long as Max continues to pay our hosting provider, (which will be forever), then you're pictures will always show up.
I get tired of seeing missing pictures because people delete pictures on their hosting account with no regard to the effect it has elsewhere on the Internet.
How-To capture swirls, scratches, etchings and other surface defects with your camera How-to work with pictures on discussion forums How to crop out the fluff and resize your pictures! - Using FREE online software! Photobucket and Missing Pictures Handiest little picture viewer tool I've been using for years now... 
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