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Hi Chip,

The best way is to attach the files to your post using the attachments function as shown in the image.  This way your files/images reside on our server and will remain here.  Please try to avoid using the post image button to post images that reside on another server somewhere because they eventually vanish when the other server goes away or the images are moved or deleted there.

You may attach up to five things to each post.  These can be any combination of allowed file types (PicoScope psdata files are one of these).  If it is a image file, then the image will appear in your post.  Please re-size images to 1024 x 768 or smaller before attaching them.  They are not re-sized by the system and a gigantic image is difficult to view.

If you choose to preview your post, any attachments will not be retained.  To make the attachments stick you much choose to post.  This is a security feature to prevent malicious files from being uploaded anonymously.

There are many ways to edit your image and add text and things as well as re-size.  I like IrfanView which can be downloaded here:

http://www.irfanview.com/

Tom and Mick, thank you so much for your help. This is all so new and the more I learn the less it seems like I know. Thanks again!!
Chip

www.imageresizer.com

Tom Roberts wrote on Apr 15^th, 2013 at 9:37am:



Please do not abuse this ability.  You can really make a confusing mess out of a thread when you delete or alter a post after someone has replied to it.  Fixing the image sizing is one thing but we discourage you from altering the content.  If you need to post a correction please add that in a separate post or edit the post while leaving the original text so everyone knows it's an edit.

if no one has replied to your post yet, then you can delete it or edit it at will.  But once someone has responded to you, then if you edit your original post the response won't make sense anymore. 

So, please respect the other members of the forums that took their time to respond to you by leaving your post intact.

It's important to be able to edit a post and we don't have much ability to adjust the time frame.  It's either 24 hours or none.  We don't want to have to remove this ability but we will if we need to to preserve the flow of the discussion threads.

So, please be careful with your edits.

LostNSpace wrote on Apr 28^th, 2013 at 9:53am:


If you right click on an attachment and select properties, you can see the URL.  You could use that I suppose to place an image inline with the text using the insert image button.  But you would still have to leave the attachment anyway because if you remove it, the attachment is no longer on the server which would kill your link.  You would then have double attachments (one file double appearances).

Like this:




To preserve the integrity of the forums, what you don't want to do is insert something that lives on another server somewhere.  There are a lot of posts in the archives where the OP has done that and now the posts have just red Xs where the images used to be because they were moved, deleted, or for some other reason the links are no longer valid.  These forums have been here nearly ten years now.  Stuff happens.

Here is one example that got fixed:

http://www.autonerdz.com/cgi/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1176649929/0#0

So if I resize my image prior to posting, will it also be affected by the forum?  Would I have to take anything else into account when resizing on my own?

I haven't posted anything in a while just tried to post a pico data file. It keeps telling me to add it again for security reason.