This question comes up a lot, so I'll add some more information. The first point to understand (implicit in Sandy's post above but not stated explicitly): Before you can add a picture to your posting, the picture must already be available on the Internet. For this purpose, you can start by posting your photo on a (free) "photo sharing" site such as
photobucket.com or
flickr.com or maybe in web space provided by your ISP or in some other website you have access to.
Once the picture is available on the Internet, and you know its URL, you can include it in a posting by inserting a snippet of code as described by Sandy above. This "hot links" the picture so it looks like part of your posting even though, technically, it still resides on the website where you posted it (e.g., photo sharing site), and it doesn't use any storage or 'bandwidth' from our site. For more information on this process, particularly regarding displayed size of pictures, see Linda's post at
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A couple of warnings about this process:
- The process depends on the [img] tag which is part of the board's BBCode system. Therefore, BBCode needs to be enabled in your posting. The easiest way to ensure this is by setting "Always allow BBCode" to "Yes" in your board profile. There's also a checkbox for enabling or disabling BBCode in the windows for posting individual messages.
- Not all photo sharing sites are usable for this purpose. For example, one of our users tried using the "Kodak Gallery" site but found that it didn't work because that site doesn't allow its pictures to be "hot linked" from other sites such as ours.
Remember that the procedure discussed in this thread is for pictures to be displayed in the body of a post--not for "avatars" which are the very small pictures that can be displayed beneath your name alongside your posts. If you need help creating or posting an avatar, see the thread at
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