How to Share Pictures at AW
I'm not the only one who struggles with things technical, so I'm glad to share what little I've mastered. (I've had a couple requests.)
Copy and Paste this for future reference, if it makes sense to you.
1) Find an image you like on the internet (and get permission to use it if it's not in the public domain) or use an image of your own.
2) Save it to your computer. On the web, right-clicking your mouse on the image should pop up a menu, one of the choices being "Save Image As..." or something close. Save it in a place you can find it. For pictures you don't want to keep indefinitely, just use to make a joke or a point, you can create a "C:\TempCrap" directory and delete everything in there once a week or so without having to check what's in it.
3) Go to ImageShack [that’s imageshack.us, NOT imageshack.com] and click the "Choose" button there. A window will pop up in which you can navigate/browse your own hard drive. Click that and find the place where you stored your image. Select your image, then click OKAY or OPEN or whatever your operating system tells you when you're on the right track.
The image's location on your hard drive will now be shown in the text box to the left of that "Choose" button.
4) Click the "Host it!" button at ImageShack. Your computer will upload the image to their server. It's free and you do not need to register. If it's a small image, go to step 5. If it's a large image, skip ahead to step 6.
5) a) If it's a small image you'll be brought to a page with a bunch of code on it. Select the code on the line that reads "Direct link to image" and copy it to your computer's clipboard using CTRL-C.
b) In your AW message, type this:
Replace "PASTECODEHERE" with the code you copied in the last step. Use CTRL-V, which pastes the content on your computer clipboard.
c) You're done.
6) a) If it's a large image you'll be brought to a page with a bunch of code on it, and a small thumbnail version of your image. Select the code on the line that reads "Thumbnail for forums (1)" and copy it to your clipboard using CTRL-C.
b) In your AW message, paste the code you just copied into your message using CTRL-V. Like this:
c) When you post, you'll see a thumbnail image in your message that people can click on to see a larger version if they want. The little black bar at the bottom shows how big the full-sized version is. People with slow connections won't have to download the big image unless they want to.
I don't usually post thumbnails, although I should, since it saves AW's bandwidth. I prefer resizing my image for use on AW first, so I have two copies, a full-sized original and a scaled-down (and sometimes cropped) one I'll post here.
If these instructions made sense to you, why not post some innocuous image in this thread for practice?
Maryn, who will now post a thumbnail
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