Well, I couldn't sleep. And I know figuring out how to upload pictures isn't always the easiest. I'm a visual person, so I thought I would put this together and hopefully it will help someone out. (Plus I love seeing all the before & afters on MFP, so if it can help get more of those yay! )

The reason I posted in the Success area, is because I figured this is where most people are going to need help posting pictures.

Sorry for having to see one of my wedding pictures over and over again.

This is for using http://photobucket.com/.

You do have to make an account. But its free, and then you'll have a place store all your awesome pictures. :) They are also pretty good about not sending you any junk to your email. I've only gotten one thing from them in like 3 years.



If you click the "more options", this page will come up. Sorry if its hard to read. But you'll want to make the largest number to 550, this seems to a good size. It will still be big, but your picture won't get clipped off. (For example: This image was resized from 1024x680 to 550x360)







So, the reason I wanted to point out this whole %20 thing is because it can really irritate someone. lol When you have a picture or an album with a space in it, sometimes when you copy over the link, it will have a %20 where the space should be. If you don't fix this, your picture won't work!



Notice...no %20 in the link I have written in red.





Hope that helps with adding a picture to a TOPIC.

I also made one for adding pictures to a blog post.


The %20 problem is back! Only this time, you want to make sure you leave the link as is. Do not take out the %20 or the picture will not show up in your blog.





And LAST BUT NOT LEAST....HOW TO DO A TEST RUN BEFORE POSTING TO A TOPIC!

Send yourself a message! Go to MY HOME > MAIL > Compose Message

And send yourself a message with the picture code in it (the [ img ] *link* [ /img ] code)

If it shows up in your message correctly, then it will show up on your topic post correctly.

Hope this helps.

YAY YOUUUU!!!
How cool is THAT?!


You must have been SO BORED -- but wow, what a great job!!!
I am a visual person, too, and all this TEXT never helps me to figure things out.
I tell people to paint it instead of explaining it -- that makes me understand.
And if I say "... uhm, I'm not getting the picture ...", I MEAN IT!


Now YOU seem to understand that problem, and you got it fixed for now and forever!!! :-))))
I so love this post!



Keep going, you're doing awesome -- in many different ways!

BUMP!!

Yes, I was bored. And I figured this was a better way to occupy my time than late night snacking. I've tried explaining how to post a picture to some people before, and it is hard to do in text only.

Thank you! Hopefully this will mean an end to before and after photos where we can only see a tantalising sliver of the after!

Great tutorial - thanks for posting!

Bump.

Great work!

bump!

Thank you, I never would have figured that out!

Thank You.

ok i may sound a little silly, i followed all instructions, posted it to myself and it still dont work. not trying to post a pic but tryna figure this out.

Thank you....

You totally rock! I'm going to want to post a pic soon, so thanks for the info!!! I had tried a while back and just figured I wasn't smart enough... so I appreciate this!!!

I totally need this!!! I'm gonna try and figure this out later today! I still am fighting the pictures! Lol thank you so much!!!

THIS WAS AMAZINGLY HELPFUL!!!!! Thank you so much! :)

AWESOME!!! Thank you:)!!

bump

TY

Bump.....some day I too will be ready to post a "before" and an "after"!

bump...

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

BUMP

If you have firefox...I also wanted to point out another way to get the link for the pictures. (This is more for random stuff online lol).

Right click, and select "Copy Image Location". That will give you the link you need to post the picture.

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BUMP!

And THANK YOU!