How to post large pictures

[zad0030]

Just remember that the pictures will need to be displayed on computers that they have dial in internet service. High resolution pictures are great but just think about the person that wants to view a thread and there is a hugh picture file that needs to be downloaded over a 56K modem. It would take A LOT of time to download.

p.s. Not everyone has the ability to obtain broadband internet access.

Good point

[da.bell]

Just remember that the pictures will need to be displayed on computers that they have dial in internet service. High resolution pictures are great but just think about the person that wants to view a thread and there is a hugh picture file that needs to be downloaded over a 56K modem. It would take A LOT of time to download.

p.s. Not everyone has the ability to obtain broadband internet access.

[zad0030]

I bet you have noticed some people post some pretty big and nice looking pictures on the site.

But how can they do that if you can only post a 600x700 picture? Well, they use another website to host the images rather then uploading them to tigeowners.com.

Photobucket is a place where you can upload, store and display your photos in an electronic album.

-Moki

1) You need to register with photobucket.com. This is FREE and simple to do.

Now photobucket is not the only photo-hosting site, flickr.com, shutterfly.com, just to name a few, are also similiar.

2) Once you have created your photobucket.com account you can now upload your pictures to the site. Go to my album and there you will see 3 bars with browse next to them. When you click on browse a new window will open showing the contents of you computer, search for the picture you want and click open. It will show you the file name of the picture and ask you if you want to add a title on the line. Once you have selected the photos you want (it only lets you do 3 at a time unless you use the "bulk uploader") press upload. This will only take about a minute or two, depending on how many pictures you chose and the size of them.

3) Now your pictures are in the album and its time to insert them to your tigeowners post. *It is easiest if you have both tigeowners.com and photobucket.com open at the same time.* Below every picture, there are 4 bars. Click inside the IMG code bar, it should give you a little note that says "copied".

4) Paste the IMG code into the post you are writing. It will appear as [IMG]http..............[IMG]. When you post the message the image will appear.

But this sounds like alot of work, whats the advantage over just the normal tigeowners.com uploading?

This allows bigger, higher resolution pictures
Its easier then resizing pictures
You wont have a whole lot of resized pictures on your computer
This allows you to type above, below, and beside the pictures

One other thing I did, was make my album on photobucket.com PRIVATE. I did this by going to account options clicking on "edit my album settings" and switching it from PUBLIC to PRIVATE.

If you have any problems please write to me!