How To Host & Post Pictures For Free

Jan 2009
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Kirkland, WA
In order to curb all the questions of the most frequent pm I receive in the black hole I call an Inbox, here is the definitive easy to understand guide on how to host pictures for free and then post them on the website. I've added commentary...if you have any questions, feel free to post up. If it works for you, post up so others can see. If you find anything confusing, let me know and I'll correct the slideshow....now on with the tutorial:

Just follow the green arrows/boxes on the pictures and read the step instructions, it's super easy...

---- Step 1

Go to Photobucket, easy enough. If you don't have an account, then set one up for free. If you have one, proceed onward.

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---- Step 2

Type in the following info that corresponds to logging in, from top to bottom you will need your Username, Password, Click Remember Me if you want to save your login (optional), and then click the Login button and you're signed into your account.

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---- Step 3

The default is to upload one pic, meaning you copy a pic from your computer machine to the photobucket directory/album so it can be hosted. There is a feature that allows you to upload many images at once though. Just click the big green button, browse to the images on your computer, select them and click OK.

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---- Step 4

After your pic(s) are uploaded into your photobucket album, you should scroll down and see all your pics in there. In this example, you can see I have numerous pics in my album. This means they are stored in photobucket, ready for hosting.

If you look underneath each picture, there is several boxes (I believe the default is 3). Notice the "Img" box underneath each one of your photos. This is what you are concerned with for each picture... go to the next step.





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Jan 2009
1,318
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Kirkland, WA
---- Step 5

I have chosen the first pic to link on the forum (notice the blue highlighted text). If you click inside that Img text box, the entire selection should highlight up. At this point, you want to Copy this Link. You can do that by pressing Ctrl+C on your keyboard or right clicking with your mouse and choosing Copy.

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---- Step 6

Then go into the post that you want to show the picture in, and here you want to Paste that link of text you just copied out of photobucket from Step 4. You can press Ctrl+V on your keyboard to Paste, or right click and choose Paste.

As you can see in the pic, it shows that link of text in the spot you post your threads on. It is simply the direct link to the pic you are hosting on photobucket and has the appropiate IMG tags already in place good to go.

When you're all finished, click Submit to post your new thread or post.

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---- Step 7

And then you will see your pic...it is being hosted on photobucket for free and is being linked to from the forum.

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Lesson complete. Hope that helps.
 
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