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How to post a picture to a forum using an image hosting service

by Michael Shipley

TinyPic.com

First, go to Tinypic.com. Below is a screenshot of the TinyPic home page. I added the yellow ovals to highlight the important parts.

 

Choose

If the picture you want to post is on your computer, click    to select the picture from your computer. Skip to here.

 

Host from URL

If you want to post a picture from a web site, then you can either click on then paste the picture URL into the URL text box or you can "right-click-save" the pic to your computer then it from your computer.

If you want to just enter the pic url then click then enter the pic url.

To get the picture URL, assuming your using Internet Explorer, right-click on the picture then left click on .

Select the URL

Select URL animation - select-url.wmv

Select the url of the picture with your mouse then type ctrl-c on the keyboard to copy it to the clipboard.

Click on the URL text box on the TinyPic page then type ctrl-v.

Note that some web sites don't allow their pics to be "hot-linked" like this so this may not work. The only sure way is to upload a pic from your computer to TinyPic.

Host It

Next, click on . This will transfer the picture to the TinyPic server and take you to the next screen. On this screen there will be 3 choices at the bottom of the page:

Url: If you just want to show a link to the picture, copy and paste the Url text to the forum.

Tag: If your posting a picture to a board that uses straight html like <img...> , copy and past the html Tag text to the forum.

Img: If your posting to a bbcode enabled board that uses [img] tags , then copy and paste the Img text to the forum.

 

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