Tutorial on using photos / avatars on TBN

[yooper1]

This thread is meant to help those who may have questions on how to:

- Attach files / photos to their posts / replies
- Use Photobucket to place photos in the body of text of your post
- Add or edit an avatar to your profile
- How to make / do a screen capture (or also called a Screen Shot) of what is on your screen


Also, if this is inappropriate or unwanted, a mod can delete it.

 

[yooper1]

ATTACHING a photo:

How to ATTACH a photo to / within your post.

Start a new topic or a reply.
Input any and all text you would want as normal.
(Your attachments will be displayed below all text)

Then:

STEP 1:
Click on the MANAGE ATTACHMENTS button in the ADDITIONAL OPTIONS window below the text window:

You will see a pop up window like this where you click BROWSE to find the photo you want to attach:

_______________________________________

STEP 2:
Double click the photo you want and it will get placed in the box to upload.
(You can see there is also an option to input a URL of a photo hosted on the web if you desire)

STEP 3:
Click UPLOAD

The next screen will confirm the attachment was uploaded:

Repeat steps 1,2 & 3 for all the photos (files) you want to attach.

Then

STEP 4:
Click on CLOSE THIS WINDOW on the bottom of the pop up:

You will then see that the attachment has been uploaded and shows below the text box:

And click SUBMIT NEW THREAD (or SUBMIT REPLY) and you will get your post with the attchments on the lower part of your post.

 

[yooper1]

How to use

Photobucket (Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket)

to host photos for posting on this forum

If you do not already have an account, click on JOIN NOW:

and follow the registration steps.

OK, now you are ready to start uploading photos.

The main page will look something like this:

STEP 1:

Uploading photos to Photobucket.

To upload a photo click on the blue UPLOAD IMAGES & VIDEOS button

Then search for your photo on your computer and either DOUBLE - CLICK the desired photo or single click it and choose OPEN in the folder window.
(Supported image file types are jpg, jpeg, gif, png, bmp [bmp will convert to jpg on upload])

It will then automatically load your photo onto the page at Photobucket.

It will show your progress similar to this:

Then when fully loaded your page will look like this:

and you need to click the blue SAVE button near the bottom of that page.

and now the main page shows your newly added photo

Repeat STEP 1 for each photo you want to upload.

STEP 2:

Getting the photo(s) to the page on this forum:

Open a new window and navigate to TractorByNet.

Start a new post or reply to a post:

Type in the relevant text in your post.

Move the cursor to where you want your photo to be placed.

Go back to you Photobucket window and

Place your cursor over the photo you want to post and you will see a small box appear below that photo showing the available links or urls to that image:

That will stay open ONLY if you move your cursor directly down to it.

Then click on the link or url you want to use and it will hi-lite that url..

ONLY a url between the

tags will work
This is always the bottom choice called IMG Code

Once clicked on, you need to RIGHT-CLICK on that hi-lited link and choose COPY:
(or press ctrl + C to copy)

Then go back to your open post / reply on the forum,
RIGHT-CLICK where you want the photo to show up, and choose PASTE. (or press ctrl + V to paste)

Now your post / reply should look similar to this:

repeat adding the relevant urls for the photos you want.

Finish all your normal text

and click preview ....to make sure everything looks right (if not..fix it) then click SUBMIT.

and walla!

you have photos in your post.

NOTE TO ALL:

Photobucket is FREE

Photobucket may have different colors to the pages backgrounds
(I have seen a lot of black pages lately. Not white like mine.)

Make sure your photos are clear and large enough to show detail,
but not too large as too make people's screen too wide and
make it necessary to scroll to the side.

The steps above are not the only way to do this
but it is the way I do it and it works.

I hope this helps some

 

[yooper1]

AVATARS

You can add / change avatar's by clicking the words "My Home" in the 2nd gray bar from the top of the page

Then in the left hand column, select "Edit Avatar"

Note: The maximum size of your custom image is 120 by 120 pixels or 19.5 KB (whichever is smaller).

You can also inout a URL of a photo hosted on the web

 

[yooper1]

Screen Captures / Screen Shots

How to make a Screen Shot (screen capture)

A screen shot can be done 2 ways.

1st:
Press the "Print Screen" button on your keyboard.
This takes a snapshot of what is on your screen at that moment. A snapshot of the complete screen.

Then open an image editor program such as Microsoft Paint (which is on all Windows machines),
or IrfanView - Official Homepage - one of the most popular viewers worldwide which is a FREE image editing program.

Once your image editor is open, find and choose the "Paste" option.
It will transfer your snapshot to the program and allow you to do whatever you desire
(within the capabilities of the program)

Here is a screenshot of my screen (with 2 windows open) with print screen:

2nd:
Press "Alt" AND "Print Screen" at the same time to take a snapshot of the forward most window on your screen.
(some people may have a couple of windows open and one or 2 may be smaller windows.)
Whichever window is on top, or the most forward window, will be singled out
and captured by pressing "Alt" and "Print Screen" together.

Then again, open an image editing program, find paste and it will paste the snapshot into the program.

Here is an example of that.

My screen has 2 windows open. The large normal one and a small one (irfanview).

I get just the small one as a snapshot with "Alt" AND "Print Screen":

I hope this helps with screen shots

also called screen captures

 

[yooper1]

I did this on the fly and there may be typos and other errors.

Feel free to let me know if you find any

 

[jlsmith]

Thanks yooper1 this realy helps a lot.

 

[blueriver]

Way to complicated ... simply click the paper clip and insert your photo ... First and formost edit your photo to the proper size.

 

[Willl]

Pretty simple.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/1812025-post7.html

 

[yooper1]

Way to complicated ... simply click the paper clip and insert your photo ... First and formost edit your photo to the proper size.

I may be half blind but I do not see any paper clip to click on.

None in a NEW POST window

None in the reply window

 

[yooper1]

Pretty simple.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/1812025-post7.html

Why of course it is!

how could I not have known I could learn how to attach photos in a thread titled

Power Beyond Kit in 755 JD

that was a year old??

Clear as mud


Silly me

Sorry I did not know that

 

[Willl]

What's with the 'tude ?

 

[blueriver]

I may be half blind but I do not see any paper clip to click on.

None in a NEW POST window

None in the reply window

When I use the "post reply" or the "quote" ... not the quick reply its right next to the smilie on the top bar ...

When I click the paper clip it opens the window to manage attactchments ...

 

[blueriver]

Yooper ... I think its because your using "Firefox"

The paper clip is even on mine when I post a new thread ... actually as I am responding to you now its right here ...

You just can't see it and if I knew how to paste the page like your doing I would ...

 

[nickel plate]

yooper1, Good job and a much needed thread in this section. Can you add/cover how to re-size a photo before posting? On other photo forums that I belong to it is mandatory only to post photos of 640x480 pixels or smaller. I understand that TBN to my knowledge has no rule to this effect so until that ever happens, perhaps address it as "a courtesy" to those viewers who for one reason or another can only access the internet on a very slow dial-up connection?

 

[JD755]

yooper1, Good job and a much needed thread in this section. Can you add/cover how to re-size a photo before posting? On other photo forums that I belong to it is mandatory only to post photos of 640x480 pixels or smaller. I understand that TBN to my knowledge has no rule to this effect so until that ever happens, perhaps address it as "a courtesy" to those viewers who for one reason or another can only access the internet on a very slow dial-up connection?

There are various programs, some free, some for purchase, that are good for resizing a photo. One thing to know though, is that just reducing a picture's visual size may not also reduce the file size much. Every time I post a picture I decide how large the picture needs to be so it can be useful for its intended purpose, then I reduce the size to that smaller pixel count. I then use file compression to reduce the file size, and preview it on screen to be sure that did not change its usefulness. On most pictures you can not tell the difference before and after reasonable compression when viewing on a PC screen, but it can make a large difference in the file size.

I won't recommend any particular photo editing program. There are too many out there each with their own proponents. My point here is to simply make sure you check your file size before submitting it to see that you really did reduce it. I try to take into account those with slower connection speeds with each picture, and apologize for the larger ones but sometimes they just need to be that way. Things like scanned text for example need to be large to be useful. Of course even those larger ones have been run through compression to reduce their file size from the original.

 

[teg]

Yooper ... I think its because your using "Firefox"

The paper clip is even on mine when I post a new thread ... actually as I am responding to you now its right here ...

You just can't see it and if I knew how to paste the page like your doing I would ...

You talking about this one???

 

[yooper1]

Yooper ... I think its because your using "Firefox"

The paper clip is even on mine when I post a new thread ... actually as I am responding to you now its right here ...

You just can't see it and if I knew how to paste the page like your doing I would ...

Well, there ya are.

I guess it shows that the way I showed is not the only / best way to do it.

Just "a" way to do it

Thanks for pointing out that a paper clip actually does exsist so I know I am not going crazy.

 

[yooper1]

yooper1, Good job and a much needed thread in this section. Can you add/cover how to re-size a photo before posting?

Well, without trying to cover so many programs out there I will show how you can edit / resize a photo once it has been placed on the Photobucket site.

When you are viewing the page on PhotoBucket that has the desired photo you want to resize, click on the EDIT link above that photo:

and you will get this page:

where you see the choices in the upper tool bar.

You can either click on the RESIZE icon or use the SLIDER to the right hand side.

When you click the RESIZE icon you will get this page:

where you can either enter the desired size (height & width) in the appropriate boxes

or

You can use the SLIDER off to the right to make adjustments.

Then once you have resized it, (whichever way you chose) you need to click the BLUE REPLACE ORIGINAL button on the bottom of that screen

And the newly sized photo may take "awhile" to show it is resized if you already posted it somewhere on the web.

It is just a matter of time to allow the new size to catch up with the posted url.
(If you did not post it before resizing, you will have no problem)

 

[yooper1]

Resizing using MS Paint:

A quick note about resizing with MSPaint.

When viewing photo choose IMAGE and then select RESIZE / SKEW

and you will see this pop up where you can input the percentage you want to resize the photo by

and then just click FILE and scroll down to SAVE (or SAVE AS if you want to rename it)