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OK, How do I post a picture to a thread?

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I'm going to the AVN expo soon, and i'll be getting a digital camera around the new year.
I want to be the first to post a shot of body 10 on a thread...(and beat Crazy Jose to it)

I see instructions on posting pics to galleries and albums....How would I do it say...here?

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ok, lets try this.
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Oh, well that works...Nevermind.

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Posting Picture Link

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This might be of use to folks who don't know how. It assumes you are using Windows.

To post a picture link:

1) Make a temporary scratch text file containing the following:

[ url= ][ img ][ /img ][ /url ]

-- but without any spaces, and put in about a dozen or so such lines so you can do a bunch at once if you need to.

2) With the mouse cursor over the link you want to link to, right-click and select 'Copy shortcut' from the popup menu. Alternatlively, when you're looking at the page you want to link to, copy its URL from your browser's Address bar.

3) In the scratch file, paste the link text after the = sign, so it looks like this:

[ url=http://www.whatever URL of page.html ][ img ][ /img ][ /url ]

(But without any spaces.)

4) With the mouse cursor over the (thumbnail) image you want to post, right-click and select Properties.

5) Copy the content of the Address field (highlight it, right-click, and select Copy because the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-C does not work in that situation for reasons unknown) and paste it between the image tags:

[ url=http://www.whatever URL of page.html ][ img ]http://www.whatever URL of image.jpg[ /img ][ /ur l]

Sometimes the Address field of a thumbnail image is bigger than you can see all at once, so you have to drag as you highlight... As long as you get the the '.jpg' you have it all.

Post the end result. (Try Preview, first...)

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Post by Everhard »

A clearer example:

If you post clickable thumbnails in posts instead of the full size image, it speeds up the page display for those without a broadband connection and it means we don't have to use the horizontal scroll bar to read the text.
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Important: To carry out these instructions, you must access the Properties of the thumbnail image on the web server, in other words while you are browsing the actual web site. The same thumbnail image on your hard disk (or elsewhere) does not contain the required information.

First paste this into your post:

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[url=][img][/img][/url]
But without the word Code, which is just a label in this here post. Tip: Store the above line as a 'blank'; as a template in a text file on your hard disk so you can use it again and again.

With the thumbnail image displayed, right-click it and select Properties. On the properties popup, copy the text alongside the label Address (URL). In my example it reads http://www.dollalbum.com/albums/rebecca/aef.thumb.jpg. Paste it between the img tags:

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[url=][img]http://www.dollalbum.com/albums/rebecca/aef.thumb.jpg[/img][/url]
If you put that in your post, it displays the thumbnail image, but it is not yet a clickable link.
Note: Any line breaks in the above are artifacts of the post's formatting. Do not add any line breaks in the code.

To add the link, do one of the folowing, a or b, depending on whether your photo is on a normal web site or in the Doll Forum Album.

a. To add the link to a photo on a normal web site:

With the thumbnail image displayed, right-click and select Copy shortcut. (It doesn't show you the shortcut text, but it stores it temporarily.)

b. To add the link to a photo in the Doll Forum Album:

You must obtain the picture page address (URL) from the page's File Information. It is in a table below the main image. If it is not displayed, click the File Information icon (a white letter i on a blue sexagon -- I mean a six sided shape...) at upper left. (And wait for the page to redisplay...) The URL is listed in the table.

Because the URL line is itself a link (I expect it is just text but the browser recognises its form and turns it into a link), in MS IE 6, I find the easiest way is to right click it and select Copy shortcut from the menu.


In either case, paste it after the equals sign:

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[url=http://www.dollalbum.com/gallery/rebecca/aef][img]http://www.dollalbum.com/albums/rebecca/aef.thumb.jpg[/img][/url]
Paste it into your posting. When the browser reads it, instead of displaying the gobbledygook text, it recognizes it as code, interprets it, and displays this:
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Post by Everhard »

All part of the service :D . It took me a while to figure it out, though. But it is SO useful!

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Here's a different template:

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<a href=""><img src="" alt="[ Larger image ]"></img></a>
(Use your browser's Back button to return here.)
Paste the URL of the target page between the href quotes:

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<a href="http://www.dollalbum.com/gallery/caroline/acd"><img src="" alt="[ Larger image ]"></img></a>
(Use your browser's Back button to return here.)
...and the URL of the thumbnail image between the src quotes:

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<a href="http://www.dollalbum.com/gallery/caroline/acd"><img src="http://www.dollalbum.com/albums/caroline/acd.thumb.jpg" alt="[ Larger image ]"></img></a>
(Use your browser's Back button to return here.)
Untick the Disable HTML in this post check box and click Preview or Submit to see this:
<a href="http://www.dollalbum.com/gallery/caroline/acd"><img src="http://www.dollalbum.com/albums/caroline/acd.thumb.jpg" alt="[ Larger image ]"></img></a>
(Use your browser's Back button to return here.)

It complies better with web site usability guidelines and makes it easier for people with low-spec PCs. The downside is when you forget and you close the browser, expecting to return to the Doll Forum -- only to find that, well, you closed the browser...

UPDATE: Unfortunately this method means your photos cannot be viewed by visitors who are not logged in to the forum. I do not know why. (It is a bug, so I do not reccommend using it as a way of hiding your photos from casual visitors to the forum.)

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Post by Fargo »

Cyclops, you competitive son of a gun :P :wink: ...

Post those pics soon! ^__^

Oh, and Everhard, thanks for that useful info! :wink:
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Post by Everhard »

The new Doll Album Photo Gallery has a trick up its sleeve that you need to watch out for.

To obtain the address (URL) of the target page, do not copy the content of your browser's Address bar (when you are at the page). Also do not select Copy shortcut from the right-click menu on the thumbnail image.

The reason is that the new album's sort facility contributes to the URL that the browser uses. Other users with a different sort order (date instead of title, for example) see a different photo (or a 'file not found' page) when they click your link.

Instead, you must obtain the picture page address (URL) from the page's File Information. It is in a table below the main image. If it is not displayed, click the File Information icon (a white letter i on a blue sexagon -- I mean a six sided shape...) at upper left. (And wait for the page to redisplay...) The URL is listed in the table.

Because the URL line is itself a link (I expect it is just text but the browser recognises its form and turns it into a link), in MS IE 6, I find the easiest way is to right click it and select Copy shortcut from the menu.

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<a href="http://www.dollalbum.com/dollgallery/displayimage.php?pos=-513"><img src="http://www.dollalbum.com/dollgallery/albums/userpics/10009/thumb_2005-12-17_02.jpg" alt="[ Larger image ]"></img></a>
(Use your browser's Back button to return here.)
<a href="http://www.dollalbum.com/dollgallery/di ... -513"><img src="http://www.dollalbum.com/dollgallery/al ... -17_02.jpg" alt="[ Larger image ]"></img></a>
(Use your browser's Back button to return here.)

Or to display the picture page in a new browser instance/window:

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[url=http://www.dollalbum.com/dollgallery/displayimage.php?pos=-513][img]http://www.dollalbum.com/dollgallery/albums/userpics/10009/thumb_2005-12-17_02.jpg[/img][/url]
And as a [url=http://www.dollalbum.com/dollgallery/displayimage.php?pos=-513][color=blue][u]text link[/u][/color][/url].
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And as a text link.

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Post by Ishtaria »

Thanks Everhard!

That's an excellent description of how to obtain an image's URL. :D

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Damn, this is really a nightmare! First, I get the red x's in Ev's post. I click on his pic, then return here, and I see the pics. In SOME of the threads. I've allowed Norton both Dollalbum and dollgallery full permission. There has GOT to be an easier way! I've spent two hours now trying just to work the security settings!

Now, Ev's pics are gone, but the Coverdoll cover pic is visible :roll:

I'm getting cranky. I better go have something to eat :lol:

Then I'll give it another go.

The instructions are excellent, thorough, and much appreciated. Now if I can only get them to WORK! D'oh!

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Post by Inkling »

Yes - hat's off to Everhard!

About Red x: AOL? Firewall? Did you try to right-click, then in popup menu, choose Show Picture?
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Inkling wrote:Yes - hat's off to Everhard!

About Red x: AOL? Firewall? Did you try to right-click, then in popup menu, choose Show Picture?
Hi Ink, Merry Impending Christmas!

Yeah, I tried right-clicking too, no dice :cry:

I suspect that it must be Internet Explorer, I'll give that a try. Norton has been given all the permissions possible, but there is always some other "Options" place to look. One thing I noted was that after clicking a red x, I go to the album picture, then when I return it displays properly :?

Weirdness :lol:

By the way, in Lily's new thread, can you see the picture in the first post? It is unclickable, but some have said they can see it okay. (I just used the [img] command.) I can't get it to display for me no matter what I try...

Thanks for the sugestion. No AOL (yuck!) :lol: I wonder if the syupid ICQ or Google thing are messing with the displays... Hm. I'm checking them next...

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Internet Explorer:
Tools>Internet Options...
Privacy page
In Web Sites section, click Edit button
(this is how you <i>enable cookies</i>)
In top text box, type dollalbum.com
Click Allow button
Text drops down to lower text box
Click OK button
Click next OK button

To Reload image from server (without going to another web page and back again as you described):
At the same time you left-click Refresh button above Address bar, hold down either the Ctrl or Alt key on the keyboard (I forget which).
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Post by Everhard »

More about the order of photos in the new album: Bear in mind that it is a browser setting, not an album setting. So when I reorder the photos in an album, which I can do in anybody's album, all I am changing is my view. The next person to see it likely sees a different order.

Fear not! I recently discovered how to get everyone to see the same order, at least when they go through a link you provide. Assuming you are using Windows, in the ordering block at upper right (TITLE + -     FILE NAME + -     DATE + -     POSITION + - ) right click the link to reorder it correctly (FILENAME + in PBS's new Lilly album, TITLE + in my albums) and select Copy Shortcut from the pop up menu. Voila:

Lilly's new body 6 and sleeping face:
http://www.dollalbum.com/dollgallery/th ... =1&sort=na
(Presumably the trailing 'na' stands for name ascending.)

My new body 8 doll:
http://www.dollalbum.com/dollgallery/th ... =1&sort=ta
(Presumably the trailing 'ta' stands for title ascending.)

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