Pictures in PPRuNe?

[FlyPilot]

Just spent a frustrating hour failing to get a scanned photo into a post here on PPRuNe

Any one spill the beans please?

[DEFPOTEC]

You can’t upload photos onto pprune. You have to upload them onto you home page or somewhere like that. Then you can add them to you posts with image tags. The FAQ tells you how to do that.

[mutt]

Just to add, you cant add photos to Jetblast.

Mutt

[FlyPilot]

Thanks chaps, but I,m none the wiser. I cant see anything in FAQs about image tags, and none of my help systems know what one is.

I thought I'd seen a step by step guide in one of the forums the other day but darned if I can find it now.

In hope.

[spannersatcx]

To add a graphic within your message, just encase the URL of the graphic image as shown in the following example (image no longer available as website was closed down!)
http://www.smartgroups.com/picvault/452346.jpg/Emirat1a.jpg [ img ]http://www.smartgroups.com/picvault/452346.jpg/Emirat1a.jpg[ /img ]
In the example above, the UBBCode™ automatically makes the graphic visible in your message. Note: the "http://" part of the URL is REQUIRED for the [img] code. Also note: some UBB forums may disable the [img] tag support to prevent objectionable images from being viewed.


[This message has been edited by spannersatcx (edited 20 May 2001).]

[FlyPilot]

Thanks spanner.

"..just encase the URL of the graphics..."!!!

All I wanted was how to put a scanned photo into a post. Never mind.
Guess I'll just stick to plain text. http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/frown.gif

[Speechless Two]

FlyPilot -

Helidrvr, the moderator of the Rotorheads forum has in the past offered to host pictures from PPRuNers on his web site. You would have to email the file to him. He then uploads the pictures to his site and you can then reference them in your posts. Helidrvr's email address is [email protected]. I'm sure he'll be willing to help.

If you click on "Edit" in spannersatcx's post above you'll see exactly how he got that picture into this thread.

[This message has been edited by Speechless Two (edited 08 March 2001).]

[Checkboard]

I first posted this explaination a while ago on the Boroscope thread on the Engineer's forum, but will repeat it here.

When you save your images on your harddrive, after scanning or importing them, use a grahics program like Photoshop or similar to save them in either JPEG format, for economy of size, or GIF format to retain true image quality.

JPEG compression economizes on the way picture information is stored, and identifies and discards extra information not essential to the display of the photo. JPEG photos are automatically decompressed when they are opened.

Keep the image file size as small as is reasonable: save it in 2 bits per pixel for B&W, 4 bits per pixel (which gives 16 colors, good enough for most applications) or 8 bits per pixel. (gives 256 colors - good for anything on the screen, and if you use anymore than that the guys at PPRuNe get annoyed at the size of the image uploaded.) Using the "Advanced" section on the "Save As..." portion of your graphics program should allow you to determine the bits per pixel & format you require.

Now you need to upload the file to a server. If you have a personal page, you can use that, however I use a free page available from The globe.com (http://www.theglobe.com/). Just click on the "Build a homepage" bit, under "Services" at the top right, and then follow the directions.

Once the file is uploaded to a server, you can now print it on this BB by using the UBB code:

the URL (address) of your image

Other UBB codes (http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/ubbcode.html) are shown on the faq (http://www.pprune.org/ubb/NonCGI/faq.html)

If you see an image elsewhere on the web that you want to repeat here then it is even easier, as the image is already supported on a server somewhere.

Right click on that image and select "View image" so that the image loads on a separate page. Copy the image URL (address) from the location bar at the top of your browser - i.e. left click on it once, until it is highlighted in reverse video, then use CTRL-C to copy the address of the image.

Now use the [url].../[/url] UBB tag as above, but paste in the image address inbetween the tags.

[dingducky]

http://www.lectronix.com.au/~flieg/Airbag.jpg

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