How to post pictures?

[Tasurinchi]

Dear admins

I have a noobie question. How do I embed images directly in a post? I've seen many members doing this but I could not figure out how to do it.

Even when the images are smaller than 50kb, Ctrl+C won't work

Thanks a lot in advance for your help.

Best Regards

Tasurinchi

[Marin85]

You need first to upload your image elsewhere (like imageshack or picasa or similar) and then include a link to it in your post. Most such websites have various types of links that allow you to post from thumbnail to full screen (embedded in your forum post).

[Tasurinchi]

Thanks!

P.S.: Does the preview work when I insert a link from a page like Flickr/Picassa/Imageshack

[yak]

If you just insert a link (like "http://...") then all you will get will be a clickable link (no thumbnail).

To get a thumbnail you have to insert a special piece of so called BBCode. BBCode is a standard limited formatting language used in forum posts. You don't have to know much about it as for example the http://imageshack.us service will give you this piece of code - they call it "Thumbnail for forums (1)".

So shortly, all you need to do is to go to http://imageshack.us, upload your picture and copy-paste the "Thumbnail for forums (1)" code into your post.