Posted by Bill Holtan on 8/31/2009, 10:48 am
Board Administrator

First - Photos can only be posted to an internet site if they already exist on another internet site. If you already have your own web page, you simply upload the scanned image to your site and follow the directions I will give below. If you do not have a web page there are certain sites that will host the images for you. Here is the procedure. I use photobucket.com, so I will use that as reference but there are a number of sites that will work. So you have your image in your computer picture files or on a disc. You pull up the image and open the photobucket site. You then follow the browse and upload directions at photobucket to upload the photo from your computer file to a file in photobucket. When you move your cursor onto the photo in photobucket, right click your mouse. A drop down menu will appear. At the bottom is the word properties. Left click properties and a window will open showing the photobucket internet address of the image, the URL. The code will start with http and end with jpg. So you have something that starts with http and says something along the lines of photobucket.com2345.....jpg Click on the code to highlight it and then hit control c on your keyboard. You have now copied that code into your computer. Now go to the Coverdog Message Board site where you already have a new post up and you want to add the photo. Look at the menu line right below the box you type into, and you will see a button called Image. If you click on that button a narrow window will open at the top of the page. In that window http will already be highlighted. Now type control v on your keyboard and the photobucket web address/URL of the photo will pop into the window. Click OK and the image code will be added to the text of your post. Now when you post the message including the photo the bulletin board program will actually include a small window linking Coverdog to the host site of the photo and the image magically appears here at The Coverdog message Board. One other very important thing to consider is the file size of the image. A large image at high PPI will use lots of memory and take a long time to upload. Re-sizing your image in your computer to anything from 2x3 - 5x7 inches and selecting a PPI (pixels per inch) size of 72 will make for a relatively small file that is fast to upload and still has adequate detail for web uses.