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How To Post Photos

The Basics

  1. Start with photos on your PC that clearly illustrate the features and marks that will support the text of your post.
  2. Adjust the images to an appropriate size for posting
    (490 pixels wide at 72 dpi is recomended. no larger than 640 pixels wide at 72 dpi).
  3. Copy your photos to a public Internet server (ISP storage or Image hosting site) which permits third party sites to display images.
  4. In your Silver Salon Forum post use the Internet server address (URL) for your photos including the Silver Salon Forum img code tags. When typing your post it would look something like:
[img]http://www.internetserver.com/directory/myphoto.jpg[/img]

The Basics Expanded

1. Tips/suggestions on photographing silver

Tips to photographing can be found in several SSF threads (no particular order):
2. Image editing and sizing

Whether you intend to use your ISP provided storage or an Image Hosting site, you need to edit and size your images for proper posting:

There are many different image editing programs. You may use one that came with your PC and/or with your digital camera/scanner, or you can download one of the many free image editing software programs or use an online image editing site. Here are four forum members recommend:
Use the image editing software to do the following:
  • Trim the image of any unnecessary background, white space, or borders, so you are left with just the part you want to show.
  • If a feature such as a hallmark is hard to see, then try to enlarging the image pixel width.
  • Not all image file formats will display in all browsers. All the browsers we are familiar with, will properly display jpeg, jpg & gif files.
  • Use the information (properties, image size) tab or sub-tab in the Image editing software to determine the size and DPI of your picture.
    The recommend size of 490 pixels wide at 72 dpi is preferred for posts.
    Please make sure your images don't exceed a maximum size of 640 pixels wide at 72 dpi.

3. Copy your photos to a public Internet server
To use images/photos in your SSF post the images/photos must be stored on a public Internet server host for viewing by anyone at anytime. (Photos/images on your PC are NOT viewable by anyone at anytime. Images/photos on your PC must be moved to a public Internet server.)

If you already know how to put images on the Internet you should be aware of the third party displaying issue that could result in your images not appearing in your SSF post. See the box under Image Hosting Sites for further information.

If you are new to posting images on the Internet (which is different than emailing images) then the best way to include images in your SSF post really depends on your personal goals.

First timers with only a few images to post usually find using one of the Image Hosting sites easiest.

On the other hand, if you are going to be doing many SSF posts with many images/photos then you will find using the space provided (usually free) by your ISP best.

Image Hosting sites:

First timers will find using one of the Image Hosting sites the quickest and easiest way to add images/photos to their SSF post. Most of these sites will automatically move your images/photos from your PC to their host.
Important: Not all Image Hosting sites are alike. Some do not permit third parties to display your images thereby preventing the images/photos from appearing in the Silver Salon Forums post. Geocities is an example of a site that causes problems. Also many of the sites limit how many images or for how long the images will remain on their host for free.

Many SSF members recommend using: ISP image hosting:

Most ISP's basic service plans include online storage that can be used for a personal web page and image/photo hosting. Since you are paying for it why not use it? Also it usually is significantly better and will store many more images than one of the free image hosting sites.

Some ISP's provide you with automatic image/photo uploading from your PC to their Host. Others require that you use an FTP program to upload your images/photos from your PC to your ISP storage space. FTP = File Transfer Program. FTP is used to transfer your images/photos from your PC to your ISP Internet server space. Members recommend using the following "free"/"free to try" FTP programs:
4. Silver Salon Forum img code tags

To add an image/photo in your post, just encase the URL address of the image/photo as shown in the following example (the SSF code tags are in red). Note: HTML is not permitted.

[img]http://www.internetserver.com/directory/myphoto.jpg[/img]

In the above example, the SSF [img] [/img] tags automatically make the graphic visible in your SSF posted message. Note: the "http://" part of the URL is REQUIRED. Between the opening [img] tag and the closing [/img] tag there can be no spaces anywhere. After the closing [/img] add a carriage return.


One last note:

If you make a mistake - don't worry because you can edit your post and make any needed corrections just by clicking on the edit post icon edit post icon.


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