Once your picture has been uploaded to photobucket (or whatever hosting site you choose), find its web address by right clicking on the image and copying the image location. Some sites may even provide the address in a text box below the photo for your convenience. Let's say, as an example, that the address of the picture you want to post is http://somepicturesite.com/yourpicture.jpg To embed the picture into a post, use the command img src="http://somepicturesite.com/yourpicture.jpg"> You could also include a width attribute for large pictures. Using this reduce the size of an oversized picture for better viewing. The entire command, including the width attribute would looks something like img src="http://somepicturesite.com/yourpicture.jpg" width=400> Note that I had to use special characters to get the commands above to show up here without turning into pictures, but you can use them as shown (with the correct image location, of course).

I assume your pics are stored somewhere on your computer.....right? From there, go to photobucket.com ( I believe you need to register)....imageshack.us ( no registration needed, just upload from the main page)........you need a free photo hosting service, personally I use imageshack, but anyways. From there, you should see somewhere that says to upload/browse/host photos on your computer, find them, upload them, and paste the html tag in your posts here.......the tag should read at the start a href then a website name.....the code will start with pointy brackets.....I cant write it here, because it will automatically insert a pic. After you have pasted it here in Gardenweb, you will not see the pic until you click the preview message button at the bottom of the page. Now the only thing I cant answer you about is whether a mac stores picture files as something other than the ones recognized on a windows pc (jpg, gif, tiff....etc) If that is the case, someone else will chime in that possibly uses a mac....lol. Hope it works for you, try it here. Tracy Here is the code for this pic, yours will look something like this too, I have removed the that the code should begin with. a href="http://imageshack.us">

I have noticed ALOT of members posting pictures from PhotoBucket & then when you click on the thumbnail to enlarge the picture, the picture comes up with a link on the top right to the rest of the pictures in the photo album. How is this avoided????? Dont look! If you dont want too...:) Everyone...you do realize that gives EVERYONE access to every picture in the album and the ability to copy it. I just worry especially if there a family pictures that one may want to keep private... I asked all my family members if it is okay to post their pictures...:) I am a new gardener and am very proud of my accomplishments :) If they want to steal it..I am honored...I might change my mind in a few years we will see..:) Good subject you brought up..:)

There are some occasions where it would be nice, or even necessary, to post a photo along with your post to the GardenWeb forum. Examples would be: Is this what a mealy bug looks like? What are these brown circles on the leaves of my phalaenopsis? There are a few ways of inserting images in to your posts. The first one would be to post a message on the Gallery section of the website and then post to the regular forum and refer readers to the Gallery. To post in the Gallery, scroll to the bottom and start with a descriptive Subject and some text in the Message. Then click on "Preview Message". There you will have the ability to edit your original text and be able to upload a photo to the GardenWeb server. You will see "Image file to upload" along with a "browse" button. Click the button and find the image you would like to insert in to your post (from your harddrive) and when ready, click on the "Submit Message" button. The second option is to insert an image that is hosted on another server. Some internet providers will allow you a small amount of space just for having an account with them. Contact their customer support to find out if they offer it. There are also many free image hosting services to choose from and can be found by going to your favorite search engine and searching for 'free image hosting'. A couple of the more popular ones are: PhotoBucket, WebShots, and Epson PhotoCenter. The next step is to use a little web programming trick to include a 'link' to that photo you have on another server. It's very simple so don't get thrown by the 'programming' word. First find out the exact web address to your image. This can usually be found by right-clicking on the image and selecting Properties. You should see something that looks like " Once you have found the location, copy-and-paste it into your post by modifying this little piece of code and pasting it into your post: (when you are doing this you have to remove all the spaces so that it is one line....) In between the quotation marks is where you'll put the location you got from viewing the image properties, and you will need to remove the space that is between the If you use PhotoBucket as your image host, they've made it real simple to get the link to your image. When you view your photos there is a field below it called 'tag.' This is the link you will put in as above. If you use WebShots as your image host, make sure your album is marked as Public or it will not be viewable from their servers. Then follow the right-click method above. A few things to consider before inserting an image: Do not link to large images. Limit the image's filesize to 60 kilobytes. Anything larger than that makes it very slow for the members who dial up to connect to the internet. Always check that the image loads. Copy and paste the location and put it into your browser. If it loads, then it will show in your post. If you want to be extra sure, try a test by posting to the test forum (link located at the bottom of the main page) Determine if this is the correct forum for your photo. If you want to show off that new flower that just bloomed, it would be more appropriate to post that in the Gallery instead. Submitted by Ken Schweigert