This is a quick guide to using Photobucket, if you already have a Photobucket account, know how to upload pictures to it and just need to find out how to show your image in a forum post please scroll down to Part 3.
Part 1: To Create an Account on Photobucket:
Go to:
http://photobucket.com/ Click the “Sign Me Up” button
The next screen will take you to your Photobucket Account, on top there will be a dialogue box that ask if you would like your default albums to be public or private. Photobucket recommend public, but the choice is yours. Public means anyone who has access to the web can stumble upon your album, keep this in mind when choosing and also later one when deciding what photos you want to upload there, you may add pics you would prefer to keep private!
After choosing Public or Private, click Save and you will now be in your default album and can start uploading pictures.
Part 2: Uploading to Photobucket.
Log into Photobucket
Click the large green “Upload Images and Videos” button
A box opens that allows you to search on your own computer’s hard drive for the images you have saved there and want to upload
Browse until you find the image you want to upload and double click it.
Photobucket will now upload your picture to your album
Once the upload is complete you are taken to a screen where you can add things like a title to the image, you can also add descriptions, none of this is necessary, but you may find it useful to give the images titles as later on when you have a lot of stuff in your album you may find the titles help you to find a particular more easily.
To view your album from this screen click on the “view album”, in your album you can see thumbnail pictures of each image you have uploaded.
Part 3: Showing you image in a forum post.
Once in your album, under the thumbnail of image you will see "IMG code", click in that box once with you mouse and the code inside the box will be highlighted with a blue highlight, RIGHT click your mouse
A pop-up menu opens – choose copy from the menu.
On the forum you wish to show your image, right click your mouse and this time choose “Paste” from the pop-up menu
The IMG Code you copied from Photobucket will now appear in your post.
Click "submit" and in the saved post your photo will appear.
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