how to post images

[mikeford]

hullo!
I have a question about some wiring/switching I am trying to figure out.
Is there a tutorial on how to put schematics in your posts?
Thanks

[italianguy63]

LOL....

I draw them in Microsoft Visio.  Export them to .PDF

Use a tool to convert the .PDF to a .JPG

Save the file on Photobucket.. then link the picture to the post.

That's what I do anyway.

MC

[armdnrdy]

Dropbox is easy to use as well.

Once converted to JPEG, click on your dropbox icon, double click public folder, left click on whatever image you want to post, right click on "copy public image", go to DIYstomboxes thread, left click on insert image icon in DIYstompboxes thread, rightclick in the middle of [img][img] that appears, right click and paste your image.

When you're finished with your post, click on "post" and the picture will be added in your post.

Easy! 

[blackieNYC]

I figured this out (despite the helpful advice) only a week ago.  The [img] thingy wants a URL link to your public photo site.  I thought that since there was a [url] thing that that was where all URLs go.
This should make them appear in-text rather than a link.   Someone please correct me if I still have this wrong. A lifetime of of experience has led me to a place of complete confidence in my self-doubt.
I followed the instructions to use the DIYstomp photo gallery, which is vast.  It works (generic login diyuser and password is...  Forgot) but my photos got dumped into a folder of a guy named "dan".  (Cheers to you dan.  Thanks for the bytes)

[kingswayguitar]

password = j201

[duck_arse]

can I just take this opportunity to say

"GAH! DROPBOX! I hate it."

it takes forever to runn all the scripts their pages use, and I'm always sitting waiting for the wheel to stop turning. and then I have to reload the page.

I use imageshack, cause that was the first name someone else mentioned when I asked the same q as op.

[deadastronaut]

^ ahhhhhh patience.....deep breath......i quite enjoy the spinny thing..

[armdnrdy]

If the images are resized to a lower resolution, the spinny thing doesn't last very long.

[PRR]

> I thought that since there was a {url} thing that that was where all URLs go.

URLs can be used (displayed) different ways.

The forum-software bare-URL thingie is mis-named.

What it really gives you is a LINK.

(Also: while "URL" means "uniform", the URL tag mis-mangles an FTP link, you have to use another tag called FTP. And another one for email.)

In plain HTML, an in-line image is IMG and the URL. In this forum software that is the IMG tag.

Note that this must go to the IMAGE. Not some page framing the image.

Some of the image-host sites make it hard to determine the bare URL of your image (because that hurts their ad-views).

There's also links for FLASH (the syntax is distressing); and recently one for YouTube (tho other forums auto-detect YouTube links).

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> "GAH! DROPBOX! I hate it."

Me too.

I have used tinypic.com and imgur.com. Both can be used anonymously for free. Both will explicitly give you the link in various syntaxes (bare, layout, forum-board). Neither is ad-ridden. To manage images, you want an Account. This can be free. The gimmick is that you only get so many images, then they hit you up for a Paying Account to get more space. Also Imgur recently stopped uploading properly with IE8 (downloads fine).