hahahaha...newbie question...

Post by **callyspoy** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:38 pm

come on guys...and gals...how do you get a pic up of your car??!!!

Post by **callyspoy** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:49 pm

did it work yet...

Post by **alex_holden** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:02 pm

You need to shrink the image down to a sensible size (probably less than 250 pixels wide), upload it to some web space or a photo gallery (http://www.fotopic.net/ for example), copy the address of the image, and paste it between [img] and [/img ] in the signature box on your profile page.

Post by **callyspoy** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:08 pm

thank you moggy legend alex!

Post by **alex_holden** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:36 pm

callyspoy wrote:thank you moggy legend alex!

That just refers to my having posted more than a thousand messages to the board

I think you're trying to use an image that's hosted on a server which doesn't allow you to place images from it on other web sites (rather annoyingly, considering the large number of Myspace users who put images from my web server on their profile pages without permission

).

Post by **callyspoy** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:51 pm

okay, now im just blinking confused! i've been reading all the other people's problems with getting pictures on here, and it makes me chuckle that i am not alone! you would think at 21 i would be mildly computer literate, but alas, i am officially being a muppet!

Post by **callyspoy** » Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:53 pm

hahahahah! he's only gone and cracked it! woohoo is in order...and ultimate relief!

Post by **moggyminor16** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:09 pm

i bet after doing all that has been said i still dont get it right who knows lets see if no pic then i ned help big time

Post by **moggyminor16** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:15 pm

i recon i have put the wrong address in the sig box
http://images.fotopic.net/ypdk6i.jpg

can some one help please step by step on how to do it
please please please please me too silly

Post by **bigginger** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:29 pm

Works for me

Try cutting and pasting this -

with the 2 *s deleted. It's very big for a sig pic too

Post by **moggyminor16** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:30 pm

do i need to put the star bits in as well after img]* or not

Post by **moggyminor16** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:33 pm

how is this then if it work good but please dont ask me to make it smaller as that will totaly lose me

Post by **Onne** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:34 pm

no, leave them out Chris

Post by **moggyminor16** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:35 pm

well onne it still dont work can some one do it for me ha ha ha ha ha onne heres looking at you

Post by **callyspoy** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:54 pm

okay, ive gone a fair way into getting pics, i.e-ive got a couple on here...but...how do you make them bigger?? you cant really see my car, which kinda defeats the object me thinks...

Post by **moggyminor16** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:56 pm

come on i just finding out how to do it ha ha ha ha

Post by **bigginger** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:03 pm

They appear at whatever size you saved them to the server. You'd need to save them bigger

For my money, yours are just right, and show your cars fine. I must admit I tend to block the bigger ones because they (along with those dreadful Flash abominations which I block too) annoy the hell out of me

Post by **alex_holden** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 11:03 pm

callyspoy wrote:okay, ive gone a fair way into getting pics, i.e-ive got a couple on here...but...how do you make them bigger?? you cant really see my car, which kinda defeats the object me thinks...

What's the address of your gallery?

With Fotopic when you copy the URL of the large image (not the thumbnail, which is what you've done), the output width is encoded in the address. Change that number and Voila... It automagically gets resized for you.

For example moggyminor16's full size image address is images3.fotopic.net/?iid=ypdk6i&outx=800&quality=70 which comes out as:

If you change that to images3.fotopic.net/?iid=ypdk6i&outx=250&quality=70 it gets shrunk to: