How to host pictures on AutopiaForums using the Members Gallery.

Guide to hosting pictures on AutopiaForums.com using the AutopiaForums member`s gallery.

You get your own gallery just for being a member of AutopiaForums. One of the first questions that is asked on the forum, by new members who may not have had previous experience on web-forums, is "How do I post a picture?"

There are several ways to post pictures on vBulletin web forums. One way is to use an off-site picture hosting website such as Photobucket.com. Some forums, such as AutopiaForums, provide a member`s photo gallery to make it easy.

Before posting a picture you will need to have it hosted it somewhere on the internet. In simple terms the picture needs to have a web-address (similar to a house address) so the forum knows where to find it at all times. You must upload your photo to the internet before you can post it into a thread.

First log into AutopiaForums. When you are logged in you will have direct access to the gallery.

Now access the gallery by clicking on the gallery tab on the bar across the upper third of AutopiaForums.

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When you click the gallery tab with your mouse a small menu, called a drop-down menu, will appear.
This menu will have three options.

Home- This will allow you to view different `albums` with in the gallery, such as the member`s galleries (where you can view pictures posted by forum members` as well as specifically themed albums.

Upload Photos- Selecting this will allow you to upload photos into the gallery.

My albums- This will allow you to create specific albums so you can keep the pictures you load organized and have greater control over them.

For this guide we are going to select the Upload Photos option.

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This will bring you to the Upload Photos screen. Here you can select the album you want to upload the pictures into as well as which pictures you to want to upload from your computer.

Click on the browse tab and select the pictures you want to upload from your computer.

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After you have selected the photo or photos, click on the Upload/Submit icon.

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A couple of moments later you will come to a screen in which the photos you have uploaded are display in a scrolling window across the top of the screen.

Now you are ready to post your uploaded photo into a thread on the forum. When using the gallery you have two choices:

Thumbnails- You can post your pictures as small thumbnail sized photos that enlarge when the members click on them.

Full-sized- You can post your pictures to a thread in a full-sized format as well.

To post the full-sized picture, high light the text in the bottom box by holding down the left mouse button and dragging the box across it. (Alternatively some browsers will automatically select the entire text by rapidly double or triple clicking.) This is your web-address. Right click the mouse to bring up an option box and click COPY.

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To post the picture into a post simply right click in the post and select paste. This will paste the picture (by using the web-address) into your post. Where ever you choose to post the picture in relation to the text is where the picture will appear in the post.

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Here is what the final picture looks like after selecting Submit Reply to create the post.

Is there a limit to the size of the pictures? When uploading it says "no file size limit." but when I tried to upload the full size image it wouldn`t work. When I resized to a "medium" image that is roughly 600X800 (I made sure not to go above 800 since that is what Mike Phillips said was the limit on the AutogeekOnline Forum) and it worked when I made the images smaller.

If there is a limit, I would like to know what it is, roughly, so I can upload the largest pictures available so the fine details can be seen by the rest of the forum. Thanks!

Yes, there is a size limit. I don`t remember the pixel size but it seems to me that when I resized my photos as long as I got the file size below 1MB they would submit. I looked at my photo album and I have pictures in sizes up to 2500X1875 submitted. But again the files size itself I had used paint and used it to size the file so it was less than 1MB. Here is a sample photo.

http://www.autopiaforums.com/gallery...m/Camaro_3.jpg

Once uploaded I used the medium link address box below the picture. Here is the information it shows for the photo: · Date: Sat September 29, 2012 · Views: 466
· Filesize: 70.4kb, 580.7kb · Dimensions: 2500 x 1875 ·

All the ones that I have taken with my new Cannon 7D that I have uploaded are in this file size:
Filesize: 44.2kb, 564.7kb Dimensions: 1000 x 667


I kind of understand that the smaller files are used so the pictures don`t over fill the page or make it wider than the forum itself. I notice the medium link sizes it to 750X562. I am not that knowledgeable when it comes to this digital stuff and hopefully this information helps you out.


Dean.

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Originally Posted by skibik

Yes, there is a size limit. I don`t remember the pixel size but it seems to me that when I resized my photos as long as I got the file size below 1MB they would submit. I looked at my photo album and I have pictures in sizes up to 2500X1875 submitted. But again the files size itself I had used paint and used it to size the file so it was less than 1MB. Here is a sample photo.

http://www.autopiaforums.com/gallery...m/Camaro_3.jpg

Once uploaded I used the medium link address box below the picture. Here is the information it shows for the photo: · Date: Sat September 29, 2012 · Views: 466
· Filesize: 70.4kb, 580.7kb · Dimensions: 2500 x 1875 ·

All the ones that I have taken with my new Cannon 7D that I have uploaded are in this file size:
Filesize: 44.2kb, 564.7kb Dimensions: 1000 x 667


I kind of understand that the smaller files are used so the pictures don`t over fill the page or make it wider than the forum itself. I notice the medium link sizes it to 750X562. I am not that knowledgeable when it comes to this digital stuff and hopefully this information helps you out.


Dean.

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Great answer :)

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Originally Posted by Todd Helme

Great answer :)

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Agreed! Thanks Dean!! :yourrock

How do you easily post a few pics? I put a few in to the Autopia gallery. I have to keep backing up to the gallery to copy and then go back to the post. Is there a easy way to open two windows at once?