- Jan 08 7:59 pm
#3322
HOW TO POST A PHOTO
BEFORE YOUR START
Sorry, you can't upload your photos to this website. No member bird photos are stored here and all member photos are hosted else ware and 'shared' to these forums.
In order to share a photo, you will have to first upload it to a photo hosting service such as flickr.com, photobucket.com, imgur.com. Many members on this website use Flickr.
Follow the instructions at the photo hosting service on how to create an account and upload photos.
POSTING A PHOTO
Once your photo is uploaded to a photo hosting provider, you can now share it and add it to your forum posting. In order to have the image appear in the posting, you will need the exact URL for the image rather then the page it lives on.
eg. http://www.somewhere.com/.../.../bird.jpg
Many hosting providers have instructions on how to share a photo. What we need is the direct URL to the image by itself, and not the image inside a web page.
Sometimes, you can browse to the page with the image on it then "right-click" and select "view image". This should give you only the image and the exact URL for the image in your web browser address bar.
COPY that exact URL.
Example (photo has been uploaded to Flickr.com):
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/3510 ... 1b.jpg?v=0
Now, take off the "?v=0" part. This is a parameter that only Flickr needs and we don't need them. "?" means hook, and we don't need the question mark and everything else past that point.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/3510 ... 27891b.jpg
Now, paste the URL into your forum posting, select it, and then hit the Img button in the posting toolbar.
Code looks like this
{img}http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/3510 ... b.jpg{/img}
(NOTE: the brackets have been changed from [ to be { to illustrate.)
Here is the result:

Photo Credit to Tony Markle
Good luck posting images.
EDIT: Apr 8, 2012 - Cleaned out all test postings on this thread. Improved "How to" instructions
BEFORE YOUR START
Sorry, you can't upload your photos to this website. No member bird photos are stored here and all member photos are hosted else ware and 'shared' to these forums.
In order to share a photo, you will have to first upload it to a photo hosting service such as flickr.com, photobucket.com, imgur.com. Many members on this website use Flickr.
Follow the instructions at the photo hosting service on how to create an account and upload photos.
POSTING A PHOTO
Once your photo is uploaded to a photo hosting provider, you can now share it and add it to your forum posting. In order to have the image appear in the posting, you will need the exact URL for the image rather then the page it lives on.
eg. http://www.somewhere.com/.../.../bird.jpg
Many hosting providers have instructions on how to share a photo. What we need is the direct URL to the image by itself, and not the image inside a web page.
Sometimes, you can browse to the page with the image on it then "right-click" and select "view image". This should give you only the image and the exact URL for the image in your web browser address bar.
COPY that exact URL.
Example (photo has been uploaded to Flickr.com):
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/3510 ... 1b.jpg?v=0
Now, take off the "?v=0" part. This is a parameter that only Flickr needs and we don't need them. "?" means hook, and we don't need the question mark and everything else past that point.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/3510 ... 27891b.jpg
Now, paste the URL into your forum posting, select it, and then hit the Img button in the posting toolbar.
Code looks like this
{img}http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/3510 ... b.jpg{/img}
(NOTE: the brackets have been changed from [ to be { to illustrate.)
Here is the result:

Photo Credit to Tony Markle
Good luck posting images.
EDIT: Apr 8, 2012 - Cleaned out all test postings on this thread. Improved "How to" instructions
Last edited by BirdingBC on Jan 17 12:06 am, edited 1 time in total.
Kevin Slagboom
Victoria, BC
Victoria, BC