[Danboy]

I recieved a new scanner for Christmas. I have learned how to scan a picture and save it in my computer. I would like to learn how to put the picture in a message board. Someone said I would have to put the picture in a web site then use the url to put it in the message board. Is there someplace that I could learn how to do this. Thanks

Danboy

[buck52]

If you want to display it here at TSG you can do it right from your computer...in the reply window click the browse button...locate the file on your hard drive and upload it to the TSG server then click submit otherwise you need to upload it to some other space on the web befoe you can display it here or anywhere on the web...

buck

[Danboy]

I think that is where I am getting confused. I do not understand upload to some other web site. Could you give me some ideas about " other web sites " and how to do it.

Danboy

[buck52]

other "web site " being any server on the net...

If it's on your computer click reply to this post then type any little note...then down near the bottm click browse then find the file on your drive and click it to highlite it then submit...

got to run out for about 4 hours...rather being dragged... if you still need help I'll be sure to be on later...post back to this thread...

buck

[Danboy]

I tried 2 or 3 times and it kept telling me that the file extension was wrong. The extension ends with PSD

Thanks

[flyeater]

Ok you need to save the file as a either a
jpg
bmp
png
The jpg (j peg) is the most widely accepted.

[starchild]

If you want to put the picture on a message board that's NOT like this one (that allows you to add a picture directly) you have to upload it to a server (website)first. And, most of the free servers don't let you link from them to other places now.

That gets kind of complicated, because if you find a server that allows this (some internet service providers give you so much website space along with the internet connection, like Earthlink, which I have- and they allow it. It's wait I use my Earthlink space for) usually you have to upload it using ftp, which is something that took me a long time to learn to do.

Once you have the picture a good size (I use Paint Shop Pro to resize) and uploaded to the server- that allows you to link it to a message board, you then have to set it up using html coding.

I can remember when I first learned how to do all of this, it took a long time and many tries before I caught on to each step.

You can set up a free Angelfire website, by going to

http://www.angelfire.lycos.com/

if you want to practice uploading pictures and coding to get them to show on a page. If you set up a website there, people here will help you learn to upload pictures and set up pages, step by step. I will if I see it. I can remember how long it took me to learn this, and it's really simple once you understand it!

Last I knew you can't link a picture that you've uploaded from Angelfire, though someone recently told me you can again (LOL)

It's a way to practice and learn, though. And Angelfire also allows ftp, so you can practice this, later. (I don't like all the ads they now have, and now putting them on the bottom of the pages. But, they are easy to learn websites/uploading, etc on)

There are several steps involved in posting pictures on discussion boards (other than this one, and ones that have an actual space to upload them right from your computer), after you have scanned the picture. Also, resizing them, when I first got my scanner (Christmas 3 years ago) the pictures were coming out so HUGE I couldn't do much with them. I started setting the resolution at 74 which helped.

So, you scan a picture. Resize it (if needed) so it's not huge. Upload it to a server that allows linking (or Angelfire to practice on) and learn the coding which is img src=" address of the picture,which is the server it's on, and name.jpg" (in quotation marks) with brackets on either side of it < and > If I put them on it here it will try and read it and won't show the coding.

jpg and gif are the two most comon file extensions for graphics.

If you have Yahoo mail set up, you can open the compose box, and check on the bottom to allow html tags, try setting it up in the box, and click PREVIEW to see if it works (you never have to actually send it anywhere). I used to use this all the time to practice and try and figure out why my html coding wasn't working.

You can find clip art or a picture of some kind online (to practice with, not to put on your website, permanently) put "free clip art" in google search.... find a picture, right click on it, left click PROPERTIES, copy what it says for ADDRESS, and use that with the coding. To practice it. On a discussion board or in Yahoo mail (with allow html tags checked)

img src="http://www.1clipart.com/clipart/Holiday/Christmas/40-903098872.gif"

In brackets

<img src="http://www.1clipart.com/clipart/Holiday/Christmas/40-903098872.gif">

(I posted this and apparently you can't link something here without uploading it HERE first. But, what I wrote here in brackets is just how you set up an image- once you have it uploaded somewhere. I just grabbed that off a clip art site to show how it's done. If you copy that and paste it in Yahoo mail compose box, check the bottom "allow html tags" and click preview it will come up as a picture.)

I remember how confusing it seemed and how I'd go round in circles trying to figure it out. And that was before I got a scanner.

~ Carrie

[buck52]

starchild...

html is turned off...

you need to use the vB tags

like this...

PHP Code:

[img]http://www.1clipart.com/clipart/Holiday/Christmas/40-903098872.gif[/img] 


produces this



buck

[Danboy]

Went to the Anglefire site and opened a webshell. tried to upload the picture and waited and waited and finally it said there was an error while trying to upload. Reading flyeaters message, can I just go back and change the PSD to jpg? I am sorry for my ignorance but I thought using a scanner was as easy as scan the picture to put in my computer and then hit a button and put it anywhere I wanted. I am finding out I was wrong. Thanks too all for your help. Maybe I should have asked for Scanners For Dummys for Christmas

Danboy

[warmheart52]

Danboy don’t get discouraged there is a lot of words and things they say I don’t understand either. But I would like to try to help you in layman terms
I will try to help you as much as I can.
You and e-mail me at
mmkuykendall@suscom.net

[LONGHAIR]

This may be of some use to you too............

http://www.scantips.com

[Danboy]

Thanks Longhair, I will start reading that in the morning. Looks like it was wrote just for a scanner beginner like me. LOL

Danboy

[LONGHAIR]

It is very useful to everyone. A lot of reading though.

[Danboy]

Just one more quick question before bed. Why has the only picture that I have scanned so far has PSD at the end of the name. Why isn't there just one ending like jpg for all pictures?

Danboy

[starchild]

Yes, when you have the picture open and click SAVE AS, if it's in a picture editing program like Paint Shop Pro (you can get a trial download of this) you can scroll down the bottom of the save box and click on JPG (or JPEG) to save it. In fact I now open Paint Shop Pro and IMPORT- and have my scanner open from there so the pictures are saved in PSP to start with. When I first got the scanner it would save them in it's own program and I couldn't find them.

You can make an IMAGE directory in Angelfire, to upload pictures to, but you don't have to, at this point, just getting them uploaded is a start. If you had a big website and wanted to keep the pictures all in one place you could have an IMAGES directory. Even IMAGES2, etc.

Once you get one uploaded, the name will show in the box (or list- they seem to have changed it at some point, I have several Angelfire websites and some are different) but, you can find the name of the picture you uploaded, highlight it (or check the box) and then VIEW FILE. (there is also a line for DIRECTORIES, and when I started I was always clicking the wrong one, so I suggest to people now just start with the files till they get used to it/ Forget about the line that says DIRECTORIES for now).

If you have the name of the picture you uploaded highlighed or checked (depends on what it shows) and VIEW FILE, the picture will open. This is still in the Angelfire webshell- which is where you build the pages.

When the picture is open, up in the address bar it will say the "address" of the picture. This is what you copy, and use in the <img src="address of picture"> (because the html is turned off I can write this and it will show) it will be something like "http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/username/picture.jpg" (whatever the name of your site is)

You use it in quotation marks like that in the img coding. You can write it down and type it in, but highlight and copy it makes sure you get it right. Than you paste it in the coding, with the qutation marks on each end, and the bracets around it all.

Thus, if you wanted to upload a picture and post it on a discussion board (different than this one we're on, which has space to put up pictures directly- and using a different coding than html) that is what you'd do.

If you don't have a Yahoo email, you could set one up, just to use to practice on. I now have an html editor (Coffee Cup) where I can put html and click PREVIEW and see it, but how I discribed Yahoo compose box, with "allow html tags" checked and clicking preview works. I used to use this all the time, to try and get a background color to show up or see if a picture would post, or if I had it right.
Okay, I just tested a picture I have uploaded to an Angelfire site and it posted on a discussion board (a server.com one) using the html coding. I don't know about the vb tags, some boards use. I don't post enough pictures on boards to be an expert on it.

At one time Angelfire stopped letting people link from their sites and if anyone tried they only got the Angelfire logo. Maybe they now let you do it for a short time?

On a board where html coding is allowed, if you have a picture uploaded to your Angelfire site, you can use the coding to post it.
<img src="http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/username/picturename.jpg">

With html it does't matter if some of it breaks and goes to another line, long as it's directly in the next line (not a big space)

If you were putting it on a webpage, that's the same idea, but you have to set up a new blank page (another lesson (LOL) That is another option for showing people pictures (you seem to be a fast learner!) uploading pictures, putting them on a webpage, and putting the link TO the webpage on the discussion board, or sending it to whoever you want to see the page of pictures.
I went through so much when I learned all this, I still remember how confusing it was, and how easy it is once you get the hang of it and see how it works. I kept telling myself "I can do this- I can do this".

~ Carrie