[Janice]

Inserting an image is a very simple task. The code to change the appearance of your posts is called BBCode. The forum will not accept HTML as a language to alter the appearance of your posts.

To insert an image into your post all you need to so is use the [img] [/img] tags.

You will open the tag with [img] then you will enter the URL of the image you wish to link, then we will close the tag with [/img] The image MUST be hosted for it to appear, it will not appear if you link from something on your desktop. So it will look something like this:

[img]www.myphotos.com/my_image.jpg[/img]

There should no spaces within the tag.

If you use the Specktra.Net Forum gallery to upload your photos, it automagically gives you the entire code to insert into your post for your image to appear inline.

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A step by step breakdown orginally posted by zap2it

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Originally Posted by 'Nessa

If you are wanting to post a pic that you have saved in the Specktra Gallery it is very simple. Just go to that pic and where it says BB image code just copy and paste that whole code into any message.
If you want to put a pic from another site just make sure it ends in jpg, jpeg, gif etc... Otherwise the picture may not show up. Now you can do 2 things. 1 put this code [img] at the start of the pic link and this code [/img] at the end or 2 you can click on the little pic of the mountains right under where you can changed the font, size and color for your message. You just click on that mountain icon and paste the pic URL into the little window that pops up. If you are replying to a message you will need to click Go Adavanced to see all the choices. Go Advanced is down next to the submit button when you are replying to a message.

To copy Highlight what you would like to copy and press Cltrl & C at the same time
To paste click where want the info put and press Cltrl & V at the same time

To get the corrrect URL for the image it is usually best to right click on the picture, click on view image and that will bring up the image in it's own screen and that will show the proper URL for the image.
The only time you don't need to do this if you are using a site like Specktra where they display a code for you.

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A photo tutorial

Here's a step by step on it using the Specktra.net Gallery

First go to the gallery link in the upper navbar and then click upload:



Then click browse, and select your file to upload:



Then click on where in the album you want to upload it, if it's a FOTD then you want to upload it to "Member Albums":



Then click on upload at the bottom of the page, once it has uploaded it automagically spits out the BBcode, copy and paste this into your message to make the image appear inline:



Please let me know if you need further assistance.

Please feel free to use this thread as a "testing ground" to make sure you understand how to post images.