My new car

[BWG707]

I've never posted pics so I hope this works.

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/500/thumbs/DSCF1799.JPG

[BWG707]

I guess I need to work on resizing pics.

[LegacyGT]

Here you go:


Photography and Working with Pictures on the Internet

If you're going to be a "Forum Person" on ANY forum, help yourself by learning how to work with picture on the Internet (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/off-topic/40083-if-you-re-going-forum-person-any-forum-help-yourself-learning-how-work-picture-internet.html)


How to resize your photos before uploading to a photo gallery (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/tips-techniques-how-articles-interacting-discussion-forums/35250-how-resize-your-photos-before-uploading-photo-gallery.html) - Using Easy Thumbnails

Handiest little picture viewer tool I've been using for years now... (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/tips-techniques-how-articles-interacting-discussion-forums/26202-handiest-little-picture-viewer-tool-i-ve-been-using-years-now.html)

How to upload a photo into your Autogeek Photo Gallery (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/how-do-different-types-things-ag-discussion-forum/21295-how-upload-photo-into-your-autogeek-photo-gallery.html)

How to insert an image from your photo gallery into your message (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/how-articles-discussion-forums/21313-how-insert-image-your-photo-gallery-into-your-message.html)

How-To capture swirls, scratches, etchings and other surface defects with your camera (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/tips-techniques-how-articles-interacting-discussion-forums/26917-how-capture-swirls-scratches-etchings-other-surface-defects-your-camera.html)

How-to work with pictures on discussion forums (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/how-articles-discussion-forums/21320-how-work-pictures-discussion-forums.html)

How to crop out the fluff and resize your pictures! - Using FREE online software! (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/tips-techniques-how-articles-interacting-discussion-forums/23918-how-crop-out-fluff-resize-your-pictures-using-free-online-software.html)

Photobucket and Missing Pictures (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/off-topic/23699-photobucket-missing-pictures.html)

[Mike Phillips]

Welcome to Autogeek Online!

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You're close... you "inserted" the "Thumbnail".

Go back to your gallery and click on the Thumbnail once and then right click on the picture and get the URL Address.

It's all explained and shown with screen shots in this article,


How to insert an image from your photo gallery into your message (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/how-articles-discussion-forums/21313-how-insert-image-your-photo-gallery-into-your-message.html)

From the forum homepage, first verify that you're logged-in. In your User CP box it should say,

Welcome back your username

Next, click on the text link Upload Photos

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/765/insertimage001.jpg


The next screen will look like this, click on the text link that reads My Photos

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/765/insertimage002.jpg


In this next screen you'll see what are called "Thumbnails" of your full size images. Click on the Thumbnail of the photo you want to insert, in this example we'll click on the front view of Nate Trueman's 1966 Batmobile recreation.

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/765/insertimage003.jpg


Clicking on the Thumbnail will pull up a larger size image of the Thumbnail.

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/765/batmobile.jpg


Now that you have the full size image pulled up inside the Photo Gallery, you need to get what's called the URL Address.

URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator and the URL Address is the path to where your picture is located on the Internet so that a web browser can recognize and display it using what are called Image Tags.

There's usually a couple of different ways to get the URL Address for a photo. Different browsers will give you different options. In this example I'm using Internet Explorer but you can apply the same principals when using browsers like Firefox etc.

I'm going to show you how I do it, feel free to explore other ways within the Photo Gallery software to snag the URL Address.

The way I do it is to right click on top of the picture. This will pull up a dialog or information box about the picture. Inside this box you'll see this,

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/765/insertimage009.jpg

Note: You need the complete URL Address or you will end up with a Red X. The entire URL address is going to start with http and end with .jpg

So take your cursor and highlight the entire URL Address and then right click on top of the highlighted text and when it brings up another dialog box, select copy.

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/765/insertimage007.jpg



Now go to the message where you want to insert your picture.

To insert your image you want to click on the little tiny "Picture Icon" right above the message box where there are text formatting options.

The one that looks like this -----> http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/images/editor/insertimage.gif <------
It will pull up a dialog window that looks like the image in the picture below.

You want to paste the URL Address into the dialog window and then click on OK

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/765/insertimage008.jpg


Important: If you fidget with your mouse it's real easy to un-highlight the http:// code and then when you paste the URL Address into the dialog box you'll end up with the code http:// twice and it will look like this


http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/765/insertimage010.jpg


Having the http:// twice in the code will cause a Red X to show up instead of your picture.


If you did everything correctly, your picture should show up like this,

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/500/BatmobileFinished11.jpg


It's really not that complicated after you figure out how to do it the first time, kind of like riding a bike.

Hope this helps...

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