Hi Martina - the trick is that the photo needs to be uploaded into an online photo album or web page somewhere. Flickr, Webshots, etc will allow you to create albums for free. These online albums have the code for inserting a picture. For example, in Webshots, I would click on the picture I wanted to post, and then it would give me a field titled 'post in your blog or website'. By copying the field into the message, the photo appears. The field has web page code starts with " Other people use other online albums - once you chose which one you will use, we can help. What you can't do is cut and paste into the posting, or insert the picture file. It has to be accessable via the web. Hope this helps - if you search GW, there are other posts on how to do this ...diana Here is a link that might be useful: Anise Swallowtail, newly emerged, resting on Dean Conklin

OK, folks, sorry for all the pics, I should probably be doing this in the test section. Anyway, I believe this would be the best way to post a forum pic: a clickable thumbnail. Below is step by step instructions on how to make one: 1. Log into your Photobucket account Select the image that you would like to generate HTML for by checking the radio box below the thumbnail image (ex.: th_2qn12pz.jpg). 3. Click on the 'Generate HTML and IMG code' button at the bottom of your album. 4. Copy the "HTML clickable thumbnail for ebay, Livejournal,Myspace, etc." code 5 paste the code to your Forum message and it will come out like below: ...now click the above thumbnail for the large picture. (Iknow for you folks who have been around here for awhile, you have probably seen and anwered this question a thousand times. My appologies! Hope this helps you bumblers like myself who are just trying to learn this stuff...

Sorry, I had this posted in two places! and forgot to check back here! OOPS! I hadn't thought about the size of the file!! And I know all about the size limits, due to the sigs that we post on this particular forum!! Just didn't put two and two together on that one!! Now I feel stupid!! DUHHH!!! MC: I do agree with you about having to listen to music that I don't like on sites and forums.I tend to not go back either. But this particular forum/BB is a private one for a few of us that play the same online game. In THIS case it would not have been inappropriate. And I would have had it on it's own thread, not on the actual forum page. Thank you all for your input..... I ended up just posting a link to a Commercial site that had the song there. Karen

Posting images to the forum: The simplest current method seems to be on the Photobucket website. Unless you know about image URLs and the HTML and tags, try and use the various Web image storing site explanations. Image posting etiquette: Images that are larger that 100kb (right-click your image and select "properties" to find size info) will make other forum members impatient waiting for the full image to appear on their computer--especially if they have a dial-up connection to the Internet, as this is somewhat slow. If you know how to re-size your image to make it smaller before posting it, please do so. Since most posted images are of general interest to the forum, occasional hot-linking of photos, even largish ones, is OK. This forum has a photo gallery section--consider using it to post larger photos and then refer to that image in your text message in the regular forum. There is a set of image posting instructions in the forum Gallery section.