Pic Post ?

[Fritz13]

Hi, Newbie who for the life of him can't find an attachment for the pic.  It is not under additional options.  Help not helping.    

[kitnut617]

Hi,

There is no attachment button Fritz13, you have to paste them in from a third party photo site like PhotoBucket or something

[Fritz13]

Just tried pasting from my own files and it failed.  This is going to be a pain for someone who isn't conversant with all the tech.

[NARSES2]

Firstly welcome ritz.

Pictures have to be posted from a on line hosting site for space reasons, so you can't post from your own pc I'm afraid.

The instructions for Photobucket are here. http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,32096.0.html Other picture hosting sites will be similar

Hope this helps

Chris

[Fritz13]

It is working, but randomly.  Getting Direct to copy does not do anything that I can see.  I just keep clicking on the pic a score or so of times until it drags over.  Frustrating.

[Old Wombat]

Hi, Fritz13! Welcome aboard the good ship HMUSANZCN(etc)S Insanity!

On Photobucket;

When you put the cursor over the desired picture a little cog-in-a-box appears in the top right corner;
move your mouse over this & a drop-down list appears - select "Links";
in the "Links" box which appears, click on the "Direct" link (it blinks yellow & shows "copied");
go to your post & paste (or "CTRL"-"V") the link;
highlight the link &, at the top of the post-reply screen, above the smilies, there is a little icon that looks like a picture (bottom row, 2nd from left);
click on that & you'll see (img) & (/img) appear [in square brackets] at each end of the url.
The picture is now directly linked to your post.

I usually do this with 2 tabs open, one for "What If...", the other for Photobucket. It's easier & speeds up the process.



Guy

[Weaver]

Hi Fritz

You can't post or copy pics directly to the website. You have to put them on a third-party picture hosting site like Photobucket, Picassa, Image Shack etc... then copy and paste the URL codes they give you into your postings.

For instance, this image is hosted by Image Shack:






They gave me this code next to the image on their website, and I put it in my post above:

Code Select Expand

[IMG]http://imageshack.us/a/img853/2686/3azt.jpg[/IMG]


It sounds like a pain at first, but it's actually really convenient having somewhere on-line to keep some images, particularly if you post to multiple websites.

[Fritz13]

Think I got it now.  An icon in the bottom right of the photobucket image will produce a copy to drag over. 
This tutorial should go in the help section.

[NARSES2]

You've done it Fritz 

[kerick]

Welcome aboard!
Are you working on a project lately? Or are you afflicted with multi project syndrome like the rest of us?
Something for everyone around here, I'm sure you will enjoy it.

[Fritz13]

Every now and then I knock out some builds, prime them, and then have to move on to other stuff.  Right now I'm on a painting spree of those prepped kits.  I recently finished the Japanese Natter, the jet engined Me-109, and I have the jet engined FW P.1, and a French captured Me 109 on deck for painting.  I have basically all the 'normal" craft I want, and so it's now alot of captures and Luft '46 types, with well over 100 unbuilt kits that I  have to make display space for.  Anybody wants to look at it all, I have a site HAASWERKS.com, or I post new projects on my art page, facebook : ART of Friedrich Haas.  One of my skills is as artist/illustrator.  I should put more effort into finishing my kits, but then I'd absolutely never get enough of them done.  I do enough that they can model for a painting.  After I finished the CSA vs USA in WW1 models, I used them to set up this painting, that I now have to finish with a bunch of others.