You may have seen the controversy lately about embedding images. The site rules are, 640x480 resolution, no more than 100kb. The alternative is to upload your images as attachments, but this means you only get 6 images per post, and they all end up clumped together at the bottom of the post. Not ideal if you want to tell a story with words and pictures.
What to do? Thumbnails! Embed little pictures, that you can click on to get the full-sized ones. Just like this:
Used to be you had to have, for example, an account with Imageshack or others to host the images for you, and you'd have to use image editing software to produce the thumbnails. This is no longer necessary -- use the KB personal gallery and it's all taken care for you.
Let me show you how.That's it. With a bit of luck, when you submit (or preview) your thread, it should have wee thumbnails to click on. If nothing displays, check the code is exactly how it is written, and make sure you've pasted the correct image locations.
- First of all, let's get your photo into your KB photo gallery. Where's that? Go to Quick Links up the top of the page, then underneath Site Stuff is Gallery. Once in the gallery, click on My Photos, then Upload Photos. You can do up to four at once -- the process is fairly self-explanatory.
- So we have our photo in the gallery. Go back to My Photos and click on the photo you want. Now we have a choice. We can either embed the tiny traditional sized thumbnail, or we can embed a larger 640x480 sized thumbnail. For the smaller one, find the small image in the left-hand list, right-click, and choose `Copy Image Location' or similar. If you want to use the larger thumbnail, do the same thing except with the large picture in the middle of the screen
- This is the geeky bit. Go back to your post, write exactly the following where you want the image (except paste in the thumbnail's address that we got in the last step where appropriate):
- Now, we need the location of the full-sized image. In your photo gallery, click on the centre image so it opens up in a new window. This is the full-sized image. Now, like before, right-click and choose `Copy Image Location'.
- Go back to your post, and select the full `img' code, complete with brackets. At the top of the page, there's a little icon called `insert link'. It looks like an icon of the earth with a piece of chain (see image). Click on it, and paste in the location of the full-sized image.
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