All About Posting Photos ~ PLEASE READ!!

[Australian Rat Forum]

Please dont post photos bigger than 640 x 480 as photos bigger than that tend to stretch the screen and make it hard for people to read what is posted.

For those of you using photobucket to store your photos so you can link to them and post them, here are some good tips.

When you join photobucket you photo size is automatically set at ( 1024 x 768 )

But you can actually make it so that all the photos you load up to photobucket are a good size for forums which they suggest as being 640 x 480

When you go to upload your photos to your ablum you will see above the first upload slot it says max image size: 1024 x 768 (options)

If you click on that (options) bit and then you can sellect either message board ( 640 x 480 )

Then you just click save

Then when you load up photos they will automatically be saved at the right size.

Message board ( 640 x 480 ) size looks like this -






As you can see that size is good.

[Kim]

To post a photo on the board you need to first get it hosted somewhere like photobucket, or get a friend who already has photobucket to host them for you.


[ img ] URL [ / img ]

Then you use the above code without spaces and you put the url link in where it says url.

This is already done for you on Photobucket so all you hav eto do is actually click the link with your photo on photobucket and then paste it here on the forum where you want the photo to show up.

You will then end up with a picture, but please make sure the photos or pics width is not greater than 650 as we dont want the screen streatching for miles because the pic is too big.

If you do post a pic that is too big, you will be asked to resize it or if you dont know how let an admin know and one of us will resize it for you and email it back to you so you can put the smaller version on instead.

If you have photos at another address on the internet that doesnt include the code. You can just click the button above the rat smilies that looks like a picture. Its between the world and the envelope. It will put the code around any link you paste.

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Extra information for any that use Photobucket!

You can have your account with Photobucket hidden, so that no-one looking at that site can see your pics.

If you delete the pic out of your Photobucket account or move it to a different folder on Photobucket, then the pic will also be removed from any Forums that you have that pic posted in too.