posting images from a pc, not a fileshare site

[Richard B]

Humble apologies - can someone remind me how to do this please - ie placing a picture into a post that is stored on my pc, without having it stored somewhere like photobucket or imageshack etc. I am being lazy, but i've had a long day.........

Thanks in advance,

yawn, , must-stay-awake-to-make-further-posts, yawn again - time for coffee!

[andywoolloo]

i found this that Mats said in another post? is this how without a photobucket, like direct to PC site?

As to showing pictures, you can use the "upload attachment" below the box where you type the content of your post.

[worton[pl]]

It's called hotlinking .

you have to have a direct link to particular image and just tag it as image on another forum.

this is a direct link to for example picture of mircrosynodontis: http://www.planetcatfish.com/images/ful ... p(1)/2.jpg

to have it you just open this image, click right button of mouse, choose properties and then copy a link.
However a site admin may block hotlinking.

Regards.

[Jools]

Hit reply to this post, below the area where you type you will see a tab that says "Upload attachment". I reckon you can figure out the rest?

Jools

[Richard B]

Er - it says the image is too big How do i make them smaller (4.33 Mb at the moment)????

Still i think i've got it sussed, as far as posting goes, cheers

[MatsP]

Reducing the size can be done in any reasonable photo editing software. If you haven't got one, google for "IrfanView" - it's a really simple photo editor - it hasn't got a lot of features, but it does the basic stuff like resizing (you can even resize ALL images in a directory as a batch), simple colour changes (make it brighter/darker/more or less contrast, gamma adjustment and colour balancing).

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Mats

[Richard B]

Reducing the size can be done in any reasonable photo editing software. If you haven't got one, google for "IrfanView" - it's a really simple photo editor - it hasn't got a lot of features, but it does the basic stuff like resizing (you can even resize ALL images in a directory as a batch), simple colour changes (make it brighter/darker/more or less contrast, gamma adjustment and colour balancing).

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Mats

tremendous! thanks Mats - if only it could make rubbish photos half-decent i'd be truly sorted!!!

[OldMan]

If you have the MS Office software, it includes a picture editor that works great when you select "resize". You can even open a picture with Paint and resize it by going to "Image" "Attributes" and using the size that it displays. Only use these tools with a copy of your picture or you will mess up your original and reduce its sharpness. Once you are working with a copy, you can do anything you want and if it messes up, go make another copy to play with and delete the ruined one.

[MatsP]

tremendous! thanks Mats - if only it could make rubbish photos half-decent i'd be truly sorted!!!

With some practice, you can probably learn to make them better - of course, it can't do magice like you see in some TV/Film scenes where some geek is sitting in front of the TV display, and zoom into a car number plate and they can read the manufacturer of the license plate when you could just barely see that there was a car in the first place - you need a SERIOUS bit of kit to manage that.

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Mats