Thread: Pics???

Posted: Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:48 pm Post subject: photo bucket tricks and tips

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I love Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket it's easy and it's free and very simple to use.
Follow the link to set up your account.

There are some things that you will wanna do after you register. The first thing you will wanna chance is the
size the photo being uploaded. P/B does this for you and here is how you set this option. When you are at the
my albums page you should see some boxes, the box on the right side of the screen will have 3 boxes in it that
say browse, ABOVE the browse boxes you should see max image (options) size click on that and it should take you
to a box with a list of differant sizes where you can change the size of your pictures being uploaded.
DON'T WORRY this will not effect the pictures on your computer 1 lil bit, they will remain the same size they
were before you uploaded them.The pics will only be changed on the P/B server Click on the circle that says
640X480 and hit save at the bottom of the page. now your size is set to about 99% of the forums in the world.

the second thing you will wanna do is make some albums. This is done in the box on the left side of the page.
Under your name you will see 2 boxes a little 1 on top and a lager 1 below that, that says albums, at the bottom
of this larger box you will see add a new album. you will pick a name for your new album and type it in thes box.
Repete this process til you have the desired amount of albums for your needs.

My albums are named

boats
fish
jackw/fish
katie
katiew/fish
fishtanks
misc
scenery

but you can name whatever what you like.

Now you have your account set up, your size is correct and you can upload directly to the album of your choice.
To do this open the album of your choice, click on browse, find your pic and dbl click on it. the box should
disappear and and you should see the file name next to the browse box, you should also see the option to name or
add a tag to this file in P/B, name the file, repete as many time as you need to!and hit upload.

Now it's time to post a pic. MINIMIZE P/B, but dont close it. Dbl click on notepad and it will pop right open. Now
reopen P/B. You should see all your pics and under each 1 you will see 4 file names, the 1 at the bottom is the
IMG code and this is the code you want. Left on the IMG code and it will turn blue, now right click on it, and select
copy. Now click on N/P and it should jump on top of every thing else open. paste the IMG code on to N/P, click on
P/B and it will jump to the top, pick another pic and repete this process.

TRUST ME THIS IS EASIER THAN GOING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN P/B AND THE FORUM

Once all the pics are on the N/P you can add a despription of each and even write out you post message.
Now copy everything on N/P and maxumize P/B and go to BGT and post just like you normally would, except that you are
gonna paste what you have copied off N/P in the big box. Hit submit and your done.

Thanks for the info. Now I will get my 11 yr old son to read this and have him set it up for me!!!