Tips on Posting Images/Photos to a Thread

[nyrfherdr]

On the request of a fellow enthusiast, I'm creating a thread for Tips on posting images to ENWorld Threads.

I am only a rudimentary web/thread guy, so please contribute by adding your own tips and ideas.


Some things to consider when posting:
1. Morrus has kindly created an ART GALLERY as part of ENWorld. Use it if you can't host your own pages on the Web.*
2. Avoid uploading any files to a Thread, unless you must. They take up a ton of space and are bandwidth hogs.
3. Put your images on a Web Page.**
4. Link to your images via your web page. (There is a nice little button on the toolbar when creating a Post to do this)
5. Save even more bandwidth by linking using Thumbnails. Thumbnails require you to have both your full image and the Thumbnail hosted on your web page.

* There is a Sticky Thread on the Art Gallery for reference.
** There are some free web page services around. I'll defer to others on who is good and who isn't. I manage a private page so I'm a little luckier than some.

Please offer your suggestions and tips for those who would like to show off their cool artwork, maps, photos of miniatures, photos of gaming tables, etc.

 

[pogre]

Here's a post from Mitch of Terrainosaur that I stole from the Hirst Arts message board. Seems like a good way to post pics without shelling out cash for a website:


Quote:

Posting on Voidgamers
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Many people post pictures of their Castlemolds creations on Voidgamers.com, whether it's because they don't have their own webpage, they use a free site where they can't link directly to the pics, or it's a HADD contest entry. Here's some info on how to post links to Voidgamers pics on this board.

1. You can link to a specific picture of yours on Voids. Just click the LINK button to the left and enter the picture page's URL. People can click on it and see the page. You may want to include the tag "newwindow". For example:

link=http://www.voidgamers.com/channel/HirstArts/b.100.r.3585.html/warlock6.jpg newwindow

2. You can also show the picture here on this board by clicking on the IMAGE button to the left and entering the picture's URL from Voidgamers. You can get that URL by finding your picture on Voidgamers and clicking where it says "Image Only (Good for auctions)". For example:

3. The way to refer people to all of your pics on Voidgamers is to refer them to your BIO page, which is the Voids address followed by "/bio/YOURUSERNAME". Again click the LINK button to the left and enter your BIO page. (This usually takes a while to download.) For example:

www.voidgamers.com/bio/TODD_GOSS

4. To direct people to lots of your pics, just type the channel's URL and add "?author_name=YOURUSERNAME". For example:

http://www.voidgamers.com/channel/b...=HIGHLAND_PIPER

Hopefully this will be a method that will work for you so we can see your work

 

[pogre]

I have attached the "code" I use to make thumbnails in a small text file.

 

[The Madhatter]

Thank you guys! I'll start working on it.