Inserting pictures into posts

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Inserting pictures into posts

#1 Post by Oliver » Sun Oct 12, 2014 6:47 am

There are two ways of making pictures visible inside one post.
1. If possible please use this method: You can upload a picture to an external image hosting service (Photobucket, Flickr, Dropbox etc) and then include the link to the picture inside the post. Copy paste the complete link (including the beginning http://) and then surround the link with the [img]and[/img] tags. This is the preferred method. You have a lot of storage space available, because the forum itself does not have to host the pictures. Image size is also not limited and you can include as many images per post as you want. These external servers are also large and fast and can handle much data more efficiently.

2. You can upload pictures to the forum. Below the edit box there is the option to upload attachments. Select the picture that you want to upload ("choose file") and then upload it. you can also add a caption to each image. There is a limit to 5 pictures per post, each picture can not be larger than 512KB and can not be larger than 1024x1024. Larger images take much loading time and can not be displayed properly inside the available space. If these size requirement are not met, then it will not upload. There is also a maximum storage space allocated to each user. These restrictions are necessary, otherwise there is not enough server space available. I might have to adjust these values, however. This is not the most flexible method if you want to present many pictures. It is really important, that you do not upload pictures which you did not make yourself (copyright issue). To manage your files, you have to visit the User Control Panel (UCP) on the top right corner.

Oliver.
Last edited by Oliver on Wed Oct 15, 2014 6:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Inserting pictures into posts

#2 Post by The QCC » Sun Oct 12, 2014 4:59 pm

Mr Kim:
A small correction to the in line image size. Currently as configured, the new forum has a maximum image size of 1000 pixels in both dimensions.

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