Posting A Photo

[joe_elway]

Please only post your own work.  Do not post the work that is someone else's.  It's OK to link to someone else's work that you find interesting.  Just make sure you give them credit for their work.

Photo Posting Guidelines

• Hosting: You should host your photos either on your website or on a sharing site such as Photobucket or Flickr.  This is a necessary step in normal photo sharing.  Make sure that you can directly link to your photos.  I've listed Photobucket and Flickr because they provide that service.
• How To Share: You should embed a photo into your post.  Don't just link to it.  And don't use a thumbnail that opens another window.  You'll get much more feedback from people if you embed your photo directly into your post.  Isn't that why we're all here?
• Size: Your photos should be no more than 800 pixels long on the longest side and no more than 200KB in size.  Please don't post more than 2 photos in a thread.  This is recommended because there are still some who are stuck on dialup Internet access   If you are posting lots of photos (and still complying with size regulations) then please place a warning in the post title to warn people with slow Internet access.

How to post an embedded photo?

• Upload your photo onto your personal website or onto your sharing site.
• Get the URL to your photo.  Sharing sites such as Flickr or Photobucket will provide this to you.  You can test this URL by pasting it into your browser to open the picture.  Only the picture should load in your browser.
• Create a new post in the relevant section on the forum.  Title it appropriately.  If you have any associated text then a good tip is to place the text first and the photos last.  More people will read the text if you do this.
• Place the cursor where you want to embed the photo.  Click on the "Insert Image" button.  This will create two tags: [img ]http://and[/img ].
• Paste the photo URL inbetween the [img ]http://and[/img ] tags.  It should look something like [img ]www.mygreatsite.eu/mygallery/myphoto.jpg[/img ]

[joe_elway]

I've just written a guide on how to create a forum friendly image so as to comply with The Photo Rooms guidelines.  You'll find that we use the same guides as most photography forums to as to make the site quick to load and accessible to those who don't have access to fast Internet links.

I'm a Windows freak so it's been written using Windows.  I also use Photoshop CS2.  You'll probably find that it's not very different in Photoshop Elements or CS3.  There are lots of other tools out there, some being free, e.g. http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDetail.htm.  I'm not even going to attempt to instruct anyone on all the available options.  The instructions in this guide should be a good starting point to understand the concepts.

You can find the guide here: http://www.thephotorooms.com/forum/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=item10.  You can also browse to it in the Downloads section of the site under "Tutorials".