Posting pictures or videos on the Forum

Step 1:

1.Go to www.photobucket.com.
2.Click on the Register button
3.Enter a Username and Password for yourself
4.Fill in details then click on I accept.Sign me up.

Step 2:

1.Go to your email and open the new mail from Photobucket.Follow the link to register yourself as a user
2.You can now upload pictures

Step3:

1.Click on the browse button once you are in your Album
2.Your PC directory will appear
3.Select the picture you want to upload
4.Then click the Upload button
5.The same procedure is followed for videos

Step4:

1.In order to get the picture from Photobucket to the Forum look under the picture of interest
2.There are 3 options of which 2 are of real interest to this application
3.IMG CODE allows you to insert a picture into the post like this



4.URL LINK allows you to place a link to a picture like this

i95.photobucket.com/albums/l159/chris33m...y/Tanganyikans/A.jpg

5.The same also goes for video clips
6.Copy the text from one of the boxes and paste it into the text box of your post
7.In some cases it will be neccessary to select/highlight the text and click on Img or Url and you should see these brackets if you have done it correctly

Text_Here.com



Some useful things to know when posting pictures and videos
-Try to convert all pictures to JPEGS as they provide great quality but use very small amounts of memory which allows Photobucket to upload them very fast
-To do this open the picture using Paint and Re-Save it as a JPEG (Look at the size of the file before and afterwards to see the difference[Right Click>Properties])
-When shhoting video clips avoid one long clip and instead shoot short clips in quick succesion which allows you to upload video files alot faster


If anyone has a better way of doing this or any suggestions/improvements please feel free to add to this document as it is there to guide users and help them.

ChrisM.

You can also use www.tinypic.com/ which you dont have to register for


See Tutorial below

Goto www.tinypic.com




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paste the img code which you've copied into your post

Whoops should have really resized them 1st, will fix when I get home

If it still doesnt work when you are posting your link or image to the forum under the box in the reply you must take the tick off "DISABLE BBCODE IN THIS POST"

I found this caused me great problems at the start. Dont know if it helps but it worked for me.