Just posted my pics using Microsoft Office Picture manager worked like a charm was able to resize all selected pics in a folder! It was very easy to use! I used one of the preset size options (small web) which is smaller than the 640x480 because at 640x480 the image was still too large to upload! Thank You!!! Now I have another Question how come the pics in my post appear as thumbnails and you have to click on them to see the larger size image?
Hi John,
I'm glad to hear it worked out and you are able to get pictures on the OTT
Now for your question, it's going to take a little more effort and need a third party host. The third party host most commonly used is the infamous Photobucket.
With all things we have to start with small steps and work our way up. In this case it's with the thumbnail images or acctually called an attachment. When you attach an image to your post it goes to the bottom as the paper clip implies, it's being attached.
By using the attach method it actually uploads the image to the host server of OTT and now you are limited to size of the images as per OTT's host restrictions.
As you can probably guess, OTT is going to be facing increased charges to run this forum. The more images that are being stored on the host's server the more it will cost. Hopefully our friends Vic and Mr. K are getting by on the advertisements we see all the time. If not we can expect sometime in the future to have a paying membership. That's the catch-22 for forum owners. You want a nice big forum with lots of members but sooner or later the band width use and server cost's catch up. As the forum grows so do the costs. Do they charge members or tolerate the flashy advertisements that are paying the bills. Or at least hopefully they are.
Damn, that was probably way overkill...sorry
Now, focusing back to your question "How to display bigger images on your post"
When you are making a post, look slightly below the attachment paper clip symbol and you will see the yellow square with the mountain. That one is for inserting an image in your post like wildefire. Now, if you click on that thing it's wanting a URL of the image. In other words it wants the web address of the image you want to insert.
Every picture loaded on a server host will be assinged it's own web address. It is this address that you would copy and paste into the "insert image" window.
This would be the method to use ONLY IF you see an image on the internet that you want other people to see. Say for instance the new tractor on Kubota's web site. Right click on the image, go down to Properties and click it. A window will pop up with the address of the image. Highlight it and copy it. GO back to OTT begin making your post and click on the Image Insert icon (yellow square with mountain) then paste the address in there.
This will place the address with tags in your post. What are tags? Tags are what is telling the browser to dial up another website, go to the address location and display the image where you told it to. If the addres is incomplete you will see this
. When you see that nasty thing it means the address is incomplete or the image was pulled from the host server and no longer there at all. It's a dead link.
With out the tags you will just see the image address as a link. Like this:
http://www.rc-trucks.org/tractor-implements.jpg
If the tags
are placed around a good address link then you see this:
Now let's talk about photobucket. They will offer several options and each option has it's own address, per say. One is the image will be displayed full size as is. If it's a BIG image then it will be displayed as a BIG image. The other is the image will be small but when clicked on it will go big. This is important to remember because if you upload an image of 2560 x 1920 it will be VERY HUGE. There are methods with in photobucket to edit the image to size or you can size them down before uploading to photobucket to begin with.
When using a link from photobucket you do not use the Insert Image Icon. The reason being is they already provide the tags around the address. Simply copy and paste the link from photobucket to the post you are making in the location you want the image to be. If you use the Insert Image Icon you will have a double set of the tags and the browser will just place the extra set next to the image like this:
[/IMG]
If that happens just deleate the extra set using post edit if you didn't catch it before you submitted your post.
One thing about image hosting is when your "free" account gets too big then they will lock up the images so they can not be viewed at all until you pay them a fee. That's something to beaware of.
I'm sorry if this response was way more than you were looking for. I tend to go to far sometimes with the details.
Please let me know if you have anymore questions.
Scott
