Next question, why can't I or how do I post picture from "My pictures"?

Sorry, I'm a bit challenged when it comes to computers.

I usually post on the HGTV or HomeTalkEntertainment boards and I'm used to their formats.

When downloading a pic from the internet, you save it to your computer then upload it to your image hosting site (Photobucket, in your case). After the pic is on your computer, login to your Photobucket account, then click on "Upload Images and Videos" and you can select the photo(s) you want to store/share on Photobucket. Hope that helps!

Once a photo is uploaded into Photobucket you'll probably also want to resize it. That's under the edit feature. I use the preset settings and normally go with Large.
In order for your pictures to show up here, copy the html code into your message box. It will look like a bunch of words but when you preview your message the picture will appear if you did it right.

If you are doing this in order to post the photo here, you can link directly from the site:

Overstock sink and faucet:

I'll provide instructions if you want - I don't want to confuse the conversation.

yes graywings--instructions please.

in regards to photobucket...so I save pictures like I normally would, where it goes to "My pictures" and then from there I upload it photobucket...I'll try playing around with a picture I already have saved and see if I can load it to photobucket.

You can't just paste a picture from your computer to this site because this site doesn't "host" pictures. In order to see a photo online, it has to be "hosted" somewhere like photobucket -- think of it like an internet holding pen for photos. Some sites do their own hosting (maybe HGTV does this) and that is why you're able to put the picture directly onHGTV without the "holding pen" middleman. But most forums and message boards simply don't have that capacity.

Don't think of it as "sending" your pictures to photobucket -- think of it as asking photobucket to "go get" your pictures. You can do the "bulk upload" at photobucket and "pick" multiple photos to upload. Then when they are uploaded into an "album" (consider setting up different albums for kitchen, pets, vacation, etc.) you can hover over the photo and it will give you two options of code to copy into your post on the message board. One of those two always works (I'm not a techie, so I don;t know the details of why one works in some places and the other in others).

Post photo directly from another website:
Go to the website, put your cursor on the photo and RIGHT click and a box will pop up.
LEFT click on VIEW IMAGE INFO
A box will appear with the line LOCATION: followed by that photo's location on the web starting with HTTP and ending with JPG.
Copy and paste the location into your post at GardenWeb.
Type in front of it "img src=" It will look like this:
img src=http and so on, ending with jpg
Then add carets at the beginning and end.
Preview the message and if you don't see the photo, something has gone wrong.

It is complicated to explain, easy to do. It's easier if you print this out and follow the instructions.

Thank you ALL for this post!!
Graywings, please do give us instructions on how to post from another site.
I would like to share pictures, but mostly I have no skills :^(
Again my thanks,
J

While we're on the subject ... would someone please give instructions for resizing pics so they're not so big they stretch the text in a thread and force the rest of us to scroll to read.

TIA!!!

lets see if this works...

{{!gwi}}

thanks graywings!!! Your directions worked perfectly...

natal, I just learned how to resize photos from a kitchen post done recently. After the majority of the code right after the
jpg"

You insert Height=400 (or 200 or 600 depending on the size you want.)

Then the rest of the code should read something like this (the Height=400 would be right in front of this next bit):

border="0" alt="Photobucket">

Hope this is making sense!

Doonie, I don't use Photobucket, but I thank you for providing the info for those who do!

Natal, what hosting site do you use? It is especially easy on Tinypic.com.

I've been using Smugmug for the past five years.

I'm not familiar with it, but it seems to be aimed at professional photographers, who generally don't want their photos downsized. You should have a photo program of some sort on your computer that could downsize pics for you.

Slight correction to what I mentioned above. Photobucket has a preset resizing feature if you load photos there. If you have the photo selected, hold your mouse over the top of the picture & options will appear above. It's the third one in "resize". If you're looking at a bunch of photos in your the album you'll need to go under the edit feature.

Graywings, not sure if that comment was directed at me. I have iPhoto on the computer. After using Picturetrail's free service for a few years then having to pay for more storage space I opted to switch to Smugmug.

Here is a link that might be useful: free Smugmug trial

Thanks, graywings! That's so much easier than downloading to my computer and uploading to Photobucket.

Laurie

just trying one of my photo loaded to photobucket

oh it worked!!! This is one of my latest craigslist finds--full head & footboard for daughter...$75.

[IMG]http://i55.tinypic.com/263yhpv.jpg[/IMG]

Where you have [IMG]...[/IMG]
you should have <img src="...">

Thanks graywings & suero! And thanks to always for posting the question; I'd been wondering about this. :)