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[Leman]

I'm going to start a new album on photobucket showing WIPs of the Dux Britonnium figures I bought yesterday at Phalanx. The Late Roman figures are particularly impressive. I am using a mixture of Saxons, Norse and LR Saxon militia for the hairy chaps from Germany and Denmark. First up will be units of British warriors, using three based to a penny.

[Techno]

Look forward to seeing them DP.
Cheers - Phil.

[Leman]

Well you'll have to go to photobucket. I have just spent another fruitless 45 minutes trying to get an image on the forum and I just don't get how it works. I press this - nothing. I press that - nothing. I press this and that - nothing. I press that and this - nothing. I tear out hair and turn the air blue!!! Incidentally I'm on photobucket as dour puritan so it should be easy to find (but then again!).

[Leman]

Yet another post I've had to scrap because it wouldn't go. And no-one on this forum seems to be able to explain this photo posting thing in words from before 1990. If you want to help me post photos from photobucket please assume I am a two year old with no notion of anything whatsoever to do with computers. Incidentally I use a Mac Notebook, it's supposed to be easier than Windows. Now after 75 fruitless minutes I'm off to tea.

[OldenBUA]

Yet another post I've had to scrap because it wouldn't go. And no-one on this forum seems to be able to explain this photo posting thing in words from before 1990. If you want to help me post photos from photobucket please assume I am a two year old with no notion of anything whatsoever to do with computers. Incidentally I use a Mac Notebook, it's supposed to be easier than Windows. Now after 75 fruitless minutes I'm off to tea.

Just did a test in another thread, and it worked! Here's what I did:

Go to your photobucket library, and click on the image you want to put in a post. It should open up in a bigger view.
On the right hand side should be a 'Links to share this photo' box. Click on the entry after where it says IMG. It should show 'copied' for an instance.
Now's the tricky bit, as I don't know if this is the same on a Mac. In Windows, you could do one of the following:
Go to your post, and either hold the shift key and press the Insert key. OR open a menu with the right mouse button, and choose paste.
The idea is to paste the text that you copied into your post. If you know how to copy/paste text, this will work exactly the same.

Note that there is no need to use the 'Insert image' button on the forum. What you copied will work as an image right away, and already has the img tags.

Hope that helps, and if not, just give a shout.

[Leon]

I'm not sure if it's different on a Mac, and I'm sure the copy/paste keyboard links would be different as well.  What OldenBUA says should still work though.  

There are two methods you can use, so have a look at both and see which one works for you.

Method 1
 
- When you're in Photobucket, click on 'Library', and then click on the folder you want to open up.  In my example, this would be 'Forum Stuff'.  The pictures should all appear in a grid, and underneath each one is a group of small boxes, each one with a load of text in it.  These are all for different uses, one for emailing, one for websites, etc.  

- The code you need is the bottom of these, labelled IMG, and highlighted in red in my picture.  You can click on the piece of text in the 'IMG' box, which should highlight the text.  

- From here, you will need to copy the text, then come over to the Forum and paste your text, and all done.



Method 2

This one takes slightly longer when posting lots of pics.

- Click on your 'Library', and then the folder you want to look in.  

- Go to the photo you want to share, and click on it.  You should now have a bigger image on the screen.

- To the right hand side, there are a series of boxes again, each one with a load of code in it.  This time around, you need to simply click in the IMG box (highlighted in red in the pic below), and this will automatically copy the text for you.  As OldenBUA says above, 'Copied' should briefly flash up inside the box.

- Come back to the Forum, and paste the text.  There is no need for any IMG tags, as they are already included in the text you have copied.  




The only bit which is different for you is how you copy and paste on a Mac.  On PC's with Windows, the copy shortcut is 'Ctrl' + 'C', and then to paste is 'Ctrl' and 'V'.  For Macs, it would appear to be the same thing, but substituting 'Ctrl' for the Apple or 'Command' key, to the left of your space bar.  There's some more info here on copy and paste:  http://www.wikihow.com/Copy-and-Paste-on-a-Mac

Let me know how you get on with it.

[Techno]

Re method 1

I had to go and change my settings on photobucket after they 'improved' it.
The little white boxes underneath the images had disappeared until I changed 'something'.
Think it was 'checking' something like 'easy image' that did the trick.

Cheers - Phil.

[Leman]

2nd go at method 1:

EDIT: Link edited slightly.

[Leman]

A whole load of bumpf appeared between the two brackets, so I posted and the above is the result.

[fred.]

Hurrah!

I'm glad you've managed to post a picture - because that looks really intriguing , several 10mm figs on a 2p, then on a warbases irregular movement tray, do tell more?

[Leon]

You almost had it there DP, just a bit of extra code had worked it's way into the post, and skewed the image link.  I've checked again, and you can ignore the IMG brackets I've mentioned in Method 1, it looks like they've come over as part of the code already.  So just copy and paste the info in either of the red boxes shown in the images above, and you should be good to go.

The end result should be something like this, but without the spaces in the brackets:

[ URL=http://s1124.photobucket.com/user/PendrakenMiniatures/media/Forum%20Stuff/PostingPics2_zps664bdffd.jpg.html ][ IMG ]http://i1124.photobucket.com/albums/l575/PendrakenMiniatures/Forum%20Stuff/PostingPics2_zps664bdffd.jpg[/img ][ /URL ]

[Leman]

Bloody hell! It worked. Ok, the above is my first WIP of two groups of RB warriors, 6 pennies to each group with three figures to each penny. First undercoat is Vallejo white primer. The wash is Miniature Paints black primer. One group is in shieldwall with the pennies touching; the other is in mass formation using a Warbases Dux Britanniarum base, which differentiates the two formations very clearly. I will continue these posts in the photo section of the forum. Thanks to Leon, Techno and all other forum members who helped bring me into the C21st.

[Leon]

Bloody hell! It worked.

Yep, pretty much!  Just copy and paste that bit of code onto the Forum and you should be fine.  You don't need to click the IMG brackets anymore, they're already included.

[Techno]

Huzzah....You did it !!
Well done that man.
Cheers - Phil.

[Leman]

Not sure I did actually. Had a word with a computer whizz mate of mine and he says it's because I treat computers like cars, i.e. I know how to make it go from A to B but I don't know, or indeed care, how it works. Unfortunately computer systems are changing so rapidly these days that people like me (i.e. the majority) have no chance of coping by learning which keys to press by rote. Not sure I agree with his analysis otherwise what's the bloody use of a computer in the hands of a non-computer nerd. It might also be that I use a Mac notebook with it's built in mouse where you move your fingers in various ways to achieve the desired effect and I'm moving them all wrong. I do know I could do it a year ago but it no longer seems possible on a Mac and that's thanks to Photobucket.