POSTING PICTURES

[beanie baby]

INSTRUCTIONS FOR POSTING PICTURES IN YOUR POSTS.

Make sure you register in our gallery. At: http://www.truckstopusa.com/gallery/index.php

You will not be able to upload pictures until we active your account. You can let Foxfire or myself know that you need it activated if we don’t get to it right away.

Upload your picture:
1. Login
2. Click on the “upload file” in red on the upper right part of the page
3. In the “files to upload” space click on browse and look for where you have
Saved your picture on your computer.
4. Click on Open (you can do up to 5 uploads at one time)
5. Click on “Continue”
6. “files uploaded successfully” click “Continue”
7. “album” - click on the arrow to select which album you want to put it in
8. “file title” - always put a title to your pictures
9. “Successfully Placed” - click “Continue”
10. Click on “Last Uploads” on the top right in red
11. Find your picture click on it
12. Right mouse click on the picture
13. Go to “properties”
14. Copy the whole line that says location
15. Then paste it in your post
16. Highlight the link you posted and then click on the "Img" button

[lonewolf]

i just tried to upload my photo and keep getting this error


PHP running on your server does not support the GD image library, check with your webhost if ImageMagick is installed

did i break it? :yikes:

[BigChicken]

Selected user does not exist! Is what I keep getting when I try to log in. I finally was going to upload my pic in the member gallery.

[Foxfire]

Lisa, did you register in the gallery? You have to do that first and then let me know so I can go "turn on" your name so you can post.

[BigChicken]

DUH, UM, no I didn't. I'll have to wait til I get home, I'm playing at work again as usual.

[BigChicken]

Finally got the photo in but didn't put my name. Can I still do that? DUH again.

[Foxfire]

I can do it Lisa. No problem.

[McGee]

:wow: ...I'm sorry ...but I seem to be having a few issues with trying to do this....yes I read the directions...I'm female...we do that....BUT I still seem to be having problems....I figured out how to get em off my camera and onto the puter...I just can't seem to get it from there to here... :wow: :ninja: ....HELP!!!!

[Bryan]

Check your Pm :cheers:

[SUNSHINE]

OK photo posting gurus.

I can put a pic in the gallery but
how do you put a pic in your profile
in the signiture box

there is no last uploads in red.

[Uturn2001]

OK photo posting gurus.

I can put a pic in the gallery but
how do you put a pic in your profile
in the signiture box

there is no last uploads in red.

Surround the url of the pic you want to use with in the signatue line of your profile.

[SUNSHINE]

ok how do you take a pic out of the gallery and put it in your
profile. in the signiture block.

I follow the directions in the posting pictures
but it aint working and I'm getting frustrated.

[EagleAce]

I've been trying to add a signature but it won't save it??

[accremonious]

I found that I can not use Internet Explorer because the filters are too tight. Now that I use Mozilla firefox I can post lots of images if they are not "protected" by thier own software. Today I could not get aany thing off the Speedo swimsuit images for my post in the Cdn forums. I think those are image protected and copyrighted!

[Sandman]

INSTRUCTIONS FOR POSTING PICTURES IN YOUR POSTS.

Make sure you register in our gallery. At: http://www.truckstopusa.com/gallery/index.php

(full directions in top post)

Will the new forum software (coming soon) have an attachment capability for registered (or site supporting?) users??

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If you're looking for additional info on posting images, have a look at this:

Here's a quick-n-dirty primer for attaching images to a post:

1) You need an online accessable place to host your images (TUSA provides a Gallery for that if you care to use it). Photobucket was suggested and is a decent place to use, as far as I know (I don't use them myself, but I know several folks who do and have had good experiences). You might also check to see if your own ISP allows you "web space". Many do, many others do not.

2) If you do have web space through your ISP (or a site that will allow you an FTP account), you will need an FTP Client, which is a "File Transfer Protocol" program; basically just a program that allows you to connect to your web space and upload files. An example of an FTP client (program) would be Cute_FTP or WS_FTP <Google is your friend>.

3) Once you have your images/files uploaded, copy/paste/type the link to the image or file inside your forum post. Highlight the link (left-click and drag until the entire link is highlighted), click one of the buttons on top of the posting area, labeled "Img" or "URL". Those buttons will automatically add the proper code tags around your image or file so it will appear in the post. That's it really...

Here's an example of a posted image:

http://www.smsp.org/sandman/images/il2ss/sandmans_pony_sm.jpg

Here's the code used to display that image:

http://www.smsp.org/sandman/images/il2ss/sandmans_pony_sm.jpg

Notice the "img" tags in square brackets on either end of the file link? That's a web/forum-safe coding called "BBCode", which is sort of like HTML code, but safe to use in that it doesn't allow hackers to alter the code and inject their own code as raw HTML can.

There's a lot more that can be done with forum posts and image or file links... You can make a small image 'clickable' so that it opens a larger image in a new window/tab. I'll use the example above with it's full-sized image opening in a new window/tab (depending on your browser) when you click the image:

http://www.smsp.org/sandman/images/il2ss/sandmans_pony_sm.jpg (http://www.smsp.org/sandman/images/il2ss/sandmans_pony.jpg)

The code for that clickable image is like this (it's actually all one line, but the display width may force it to multiple lines) :


http://www.smsp.org/sandman/images/il2ss/sandmans_pony_sm.jpg (http://www.smsp.org/sandman/images/il2ss/sandmans_pony.jpg)


The line starts with the URL tag and the link to the full-sized image. Then the image tags and the small image (thumbnail) URL, then finally closed with the closing URL tag so the small image becomes a link to the big one.

Hope this helped!

Images from a flight-sim game I spend way too much time messing around with. ;)