How to Post Pictures in the Gallery The first and most important thing you need to do is either host the pic up on a website or find it on a website somewhere. If you can find the picture online simply right click and do copy link location. Say I found the pic in my sig online, I just right click and do copy link location and now I have this:
http://www.ironmaiden.com/discography/discography_IMG/liveafterdeath.jpg
The above is great for larger pictures, or if you have it in a gallery and you wish people to see the other pictures. But if you wanted the picture shown directly on the forums, simply put after the link location. Make sure there aren't any spaces between the and the link location. Do this and you will end up with:
If you want it's possible to host a picture up and then have a link when you click on the picture. This is were things start to get a little tricky. This is done by first, copy the link location of the larger picture and then write
*REMEMBER* The picture has to be hosted somewhere online as far as I know. It cannot be located on your hard drive or anywhere else on your computer.
Some picture hosting sites:
<*>Photobucket
<*>Free Picture Hosting
<*>Image Shack
<*>FreeImgHosting
<*>Any site that lets you build a site for free...Geocities, Free Webs, Etc.
<*>Many more probably.
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