Postiing thumbnails

[leesrt]

Can I post thumbnails of pics I have in photobucket. I want to share about 30 pics from a trip but that will take a lot of space if I img each one.

[Voni]

You certainly can. But as long as they are stored on Photobucket, they really don't take up much space here and look much better full size.

http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn335/Glaves/2011%20Project/th_P1090727.jpg (http://s320.photobucket.com/albums/nn335/Glaves/2011%20Project/?action=view&current=P1090727.jpg)

http://i320.photobucket.com/albums/nn335/Glaves/2011%20Project/P1090727.jpg

Voni
sMiling

[20774]

The upside of thumbnails might be that the initial forum screen loads faster and then I can choose which pictures I might want to see full-size.

[DarrylRi]

If you want to follow Voni's example, where a thumbnail is an active link to a full sized photo, click on the quote button under her post to see how she did that.

The basic idea is you get the URL for your thumbnail, say

http://www.example.com/some/path/thumb.jpg

You can generally get the URL for your images from the photo sharing site you're using. IMPORTANT: this won't work unless the URL you have ends in .JPG.

Once you have the thumbnail URL, surround that with [ img] and [/img] tags*:

[ img]http://www.example.com/some/path/thumb.jpg[/img]

That displays the thumbnail. But to get the thumbnail to link to to the regular photo, you need the URL of that photo. Let's say it's:

http://www.example.com/some/path/original.jpg

To link to that photo, you need to put it inside a [ url] tag* and surround the thumbnail [ img] tag to make it a live link:

[ url=http://www.example.com/some/path/original.jpg]
[ img]http://www.example.com/some/path/thumb.jpg[/img]
[/url]


*) there's no space allowed in the [ img] and [ url] tags. I've added them here so that the forum software won't try to turn these examples into images and links.

[Voni]

A cool thing about Photobucket is that they give you those options and you just copy/paste the link for what you want to show.

Voni
sMiling