This is how I do it but there are many other sites that can be used. I have a free account at http://photobucket.com/ for images. I usually resize the image to no bigger than 400 x 300 for forums before I upload to photobucket - you may be able to do this in photobucket now but I never have. After the image is uploaded look for "share this image", copy the "html code" and put this code into the orchid forum message you are creating. The image should show up when you click preview message. Photobucket has good help sections if you have problems http://photobucket.com/sitemap :) Here is a link that might be useful: Garden Web Adding Images Link

TheMasterGardener1 It's not that I don't know where or how. It's that there is no way around storing them on a third party website (like photobucket), before all the hoops and hassles of posting them which is my biggest issue. Grizzman, If your not suggesting using a third party website to store them, how can I go around doing so? I have at times posted links to the other forum where I can post pictures. But if you (or anyone) wants to actually view them, they need to register as a user in that forum before they can view attachments. I don't post links to them much because I think it's kind of hypocritical to ask others to jump through hoops (registering), when I'm not willing to do the same. Perhaps I'm a bit pampered when it comes to uploading online data/pictures. I have had the luxury of being able to do that in seconds from the start (in the first forum), and have no wish to go backwards. But besides going through the hassle, I just cant get past needing to have them stored on some other website, and in their database. That may be hard for most people to understand. But if it wasn't for that part, I may consider the other hassles. I don't do the occasional picture. I'm not willing to go to the hassle of registering/longing in, as well as take the time of uploading a picture to some third party website each time I wanted to post a single picture. I've got enough other accounts to keep track of for me to consider doing that (even if I could get past the fact they were stored on/in someones elses website/database). I would consider linking to pictures in my online database, but I need to get some money rolling in before I can get back to that. Bottom line, the only online database I trust is mine, and that's it. It's not my fault this forum's software is outdated. I don't feel I need to compromise my beliefs, or spend that much more time because of it. It's not that my pictures are valuable and I have a copyright on them. But the amount of pictures I take are huge. I even take pictures of every part I build a system with for use in describing how I built them. I plan to use them in the free "build your own hydroponic system plans." Photobucket and any other like websites don't provide their services/web-space for free. They make money from advertising. I'm not willing to let them make money from me using their site. Me generating viewers, and increasing their online popularity. Thus increasing their income, and me not getting anything in return.

Hi, I recently emailed tech support and this is the link they emailed me. I certainly found it very helpful! Good luck with your posting. :o) http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/test/gal080858233293.html

Check the user agreement. Forums usually have blather saying that for purposes of promotion and other in house stuff, they assert copyright to anything you post. That is, when you post to GardenWeb, GardenWeb can use your material for GardenWeb. They might also be able to take action against outside sites, etc., that lift whole discussions, and use the agreement not to have to have every contributor sign off on it. You yourself retain copyright for other purposes, such as if you want to send your picture/recipe/cat stories to a magazine or publish them in a book. I haven't looked in awhile, so I can't say for sure what it is here, but I think it's probably like that. If you poke around you should be able to find all the policies.