Posting Pics in forums....

Mogath ::DD:: · Post by **Mogath ::DD::** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 8:57 am

I was wondering how to do this... I see where the img tab is however i do not know how to add a pic to the forums.. Just wondering if i could get some imput from ppl much more seasoned then I.

P. Fricebottle · Post by **P. Fricebottle** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 9:49 am

An easy way to do it is to use Imageshack to host your pictures. A lot of times, if you just try and hotlink your pictures from some random site the links will break and you're image won't show up. Once you have your picture hosted on Imageshack, it'll give you a few links to it with a few words next to each explaining what they are for. I usually copy the fourth one and to paste it in between the [img]and[/img] to post the picture.

Post by **Mr. O'Dearly** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 2:08 pm

ive found that photobucket works better for me... unless of course, imageshack's made some improvements since the last time ive used it.

P. Fricebottle · Post by **P. Fricebottle** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 2:28 pm

Three Free Image Hosters Online

Imageshack
Photobucket
xs.to

Thsoe are the ones I'd suggest.

Kromix · Post by **Kromix** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 3:10 pm

and the tags are used as so

[img]the link goes here.jpg[/img]

P. Fricebottle · Post by **P. Fricebottle** » Fri Nov 03, 2006 4:53 pm

Oh yeah! I knew I forgot to mention something. Its called Irfanview, just click that link and download it. In case you didn't know, when you take a screenshot in NWN, the screenshot is saved as a TGA file. Xs.to and Imageshack do not host files of that type. Using Irfanview, you can change the file type from TGA to JPG (or any other host-able file type) so you can host it. I'm unsure about Photobucket considering you need to be a member to use it, and I've never used it. Also I see broken links that I find Photobucket's title in them.

Imageshack and xs.to can host files of the following type....

*JPG
*JPEG
*PNG
*GIF
*BMP
*TIF
*TIFF
*SWF (Imageshack only)

You'll probably find that Imageshack is considerably slow (used to not be like that), I used to use it a lot but now I try to stay with xs.to. When using xs.to, however, you need to remember to...

*Tick the Agree to xs.to policy box
*The file name of the image may only have letters and numbers (no spaces, etc.)
*Xs.to allows all the files Imageshack does except SWF.