Posting pictures

Go to Forum tech support and read the sticky titled rv.net tutorials...

Let me make it a little bit easier for you. Here is a link that will walk you through the very complicated process.

Posting Pics

It is not complicated or hard at all once you do it.

You need to find a picture hosting site such as Imgur.com, or Tinypic.com, or Photobucket.com (all of these are free) and then upload your pictures to the site. I usually use Imgur.

Then you copy the URL of the particular picture from the hosting site and paste it into your post or into the picture posting box you find in the icon that looks like a yellow postcard.

Make sure you specify the width to be 640 or less.

Click "Post message" at the bottom of the page.

You can find a detailed description of the process in the 4th link from the top in this thread which is located in our Forum Help and Support the link for which is located in the dark blue bar at the top right of the page.

The only pictures that can be uploaded directly to our forums are the ones in your signature and profile.

Hope this helps you out a bit.:)
Barney

The basics are that you need to:

1. Upload a photo from your computer to a hosting site. There are several already mentioned that are free and don't require registering for an account.
   
   
2. Copy and paste the "BB code" into your forum post which looks like this,
   
   
   
   [IMG]http://www.imagehost.com/my-photo.jpg[/IMG]
   
   
   
   
3. If your photos dimensions exceed 640x480, than its recommended you add the following width=640 to reduce its display size,
   
   
   
   [IMG]http://www.imagehost.com/my-photo.jpg width=640[/IMG]
   
   
   

Try it yourself on this thread or to get help: Posting pictures within text messages.

You can also copy and paste the image URL directly from a photo on a commercial website like say, an RV vendor's site, into the image thingy here without having to have it on a photo hosting service.

Don't forget you can also control the size of the photo in a post. Nothing's worse than a series of full-size photos in a post that unnecessarily takes up nearly a full page... (and then some folks will quote the complete post and double post all the same photos again)

You can even copy and paste directly from someone's signature photo or photo in their message such as from the below post (without permission from forum member, hehe):


And you can make it tiny:

Since I've never been able to do upload successfully, I appreciate you starting this post. I've been following all the hints and I'm going to try again. Here is my test pic.

Yipee, it worked. I opened an IMGUR account based on what Barney said above. It was free and fast.

Okay "MyRedRacer". That's copyrighted material right there. Ain't it Purdy?

TucsonJim wrote:
Okay "MyRedRacer". That's copyrighted material right there. Ain't it Purdy?

Oh, okay then.... Yes, it's PURDY! :) Look so nice and shiny. ;) Maybe they're both brand spanking new?

The lovely background scenery and apparent nice weather looks dang nice too! It's 28C (82F) here today and I got a sunburn yesterday (ouch). Camping weather is definitely here, at least out west. I talked to a delivery driver out of Indiana yesterday at our dealer and he said he ran into some snow in Montana.

MFOX wrote:
I have been trying for a half hour to post picture and I can't get it from the file in my computer to the forum. What am I doing wrong? Thanks

I may have an easier solution for posting photos on the forums, as I know some have struggled to do so. I've designed a minimalistic webpage app that allows you to drag-n-drop a photo from your desktop/notebook, and it will auto upload to a popular photo hosting site, reduce the photo's size to 640 max width/height only if larger, and return a simple copy-n-paste RV.Net forum photo posting code. It also gives you a preview thumbnail of the photo, an optional URL link back to the original file, should you want to use it for other purposes. And a delete link option should you decide to permanently remove it from the host site. Works on both Windows and Mac. And apparently works with Apple mobile devices, which allows you to upload a photo directly from your gallery. Haven't tested with Android yet.

I've actually been using it myself to quickly upload and post photos on the forums, but have had limited time to clean up the code and webpage formatting. Here's an example which took about 15 secs:




Original photo 1712x2288 @664K. Forum re-sized photo shown above 479x640 @95.4K.