Posting Tips

[Hawk]

When posting your work in this forum, please make sure the file size is reasonable. Also make sure the width and height is reasonable. If I find the image to be too big, I will ask you to resize it.

Thanks

[Cable]

Define reasonable.
As in not exceeding the boundaries of the internet window?  That kinda reasonable?  Or not too big for the sake of bandwidth reasonable?

[Hawk]

I would say the width of the image should not go beyond 612 pixels.

[spacer]

i'm assuming its fine to post a small thumbnail that links to a bigger image?

[Hawk]

Yeah that works as well.

[Joshwah]

I should have read this before i post ^_^

[Jaycee]

since this comes up a lot...

Picture Hosting and Remote Linking


you can't link to a picture hosted on Geocities, Tripod, or a lot of other free website hosts. they block the link. so...

you need to find a free picture or file host, such as Ripway or Digikitten who will let you host your pictures (or in the case of Ripway, any other type of file) and then link to it using the [img] tags here.

on Geocities there is a way round this: you can change the file name on you .gif picture file to read .txt and then link to it as normal in [img] tags and this should work. i haven't tested it for Tripod or any others, but your best bet is to just get a free file host account.


Also, if someone does simply post a link to a file they host on Geocities or Tripod, and you click the link to get the 'You can't do that, naughty naughty' type thing from Tripod for example, simply add a question mark (?) to the end of the url and it should then work. problem solved.


hope that helps some people.

[Biscuit_]

helpful note.  If you guys can't find somewhere else to host pictures to put up on the site, you can start up a yahoo group and post the drawings into the photos section.  Once its up you can just bring up the full size version of the pic and right-click>properties to find the url to put in the link.  that should work.

[Caspian]

www.photobucket.com

[DangerMonki]

Here's a potentially silly question. How do you set up a thumbnail image? I don't think anything I have is outrageously huge, but it'd be nice to know for future reference and all.

[kXn]

Use a Graphic Editor app., reduce the size, save as, upload to your webhost, copy the thumb url, click on the Img button in the reply page, paste, click again on the Img button...

Example:


Now if you want that thumbnail to link to a bigger size image, write [u_r_l=Your big image URL], click on the Img button, paste the thumbnail URL, click again on the Img button...[/u_r_l] All this without the "_" of course...

Example:


Hope that helps and covers up your question...

[DangerMonki]

Ah, I figured it'd be something super easy like that. Thanks!

[kXn]

Yer welcome!

[MFok]

Just a question, how do you downsize your pictures? All my sketches are way too big to link, even on the upload picture sites

[DougofTheAbaci]

Just a question, how do you downsize your pictures? All my sketches are way too big to link, even on the upload picture sites

You do it in Photoshop or something like that. If you do it in Photoshop you should also tell it to save for web when you save the image. It indexes the colour and makes the file size infinitely smaller.

Then upload to Flickr or something.