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Lostby7 17 years, 1 month ago.
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This questions seems to come up pretty often….
So… Here’s the long and the short of it….
Two major steps….
1. Post the picture on the internet somewhere.
Usually the best place to post a picture is actually on geocaching.com.- A. Go to one of your existing logs on geocaching.com and click on “[upload an image for this log]” at the bottom of your log.
B. Click the “Browse” button and find the image on your computer.
C. Provide a caption (I think the site requires it).
D. Click the “Upload” button. Your image will then appear on the screen.
E. Click your image, and it will open up in a new browser window. From there, you can copy the image location or “url”. The image location will look something like this: http://img.geocaching.com/cache/log/92315f3b-80dd-467e-a2bc-5dbb20d50489.jpg
F. Highlight the ENTIRE image location, then pressC. 2. Link to that picture in the forums.
- A. Type in your message here in the wi-geocaching forums. At the location in the text where you want your image to appear, simply limk to that image using the full image location from above. Simply type
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B. Here’s what that link shoud look like:
C. It is important that there are no spaces between the
tags and the actual image location, or it won’t work.
If you still need some help, feel free to e-mail me at: wga2 dash admin at wi dash geocaching dot com.
Feel free to practice here, even linking to the above image.
If you do it right… here’s what it should look like:
Another good place to upload pictures is your profile page. Go here and scroll down to “Your Photo” and click on the “change/edit” link.
From this page you can upload as many photos as you want, and it keeps all your uploaded pictures together in a little “gallery”.
Remember that no matter where you upload your pictures on GC.com, they will be converted to JPEG format, and if they’re over a certain file size, they will be automatically shrink down, sometimes not for the better. Generally, if I resize my photos to 800×600 and change the JPEG compression to 60% (which usually brings the file size under 100k), GC.com’s photo resizing engine leaves them alone.
There is another option I use all the time, though I probably would only use this option for unimportant images. you can host the file on imageshack (there is also other sites like this) and they will make a bunch of different types of links for you , you just copy the
link they created for you and paste it in your message.
@passingwind wrote:
Did you really have to post that picture of me hanging out in the WGA server room? ❓ That part of WGA headquarters is supposed to be off-limits… obviously someone did not confiscate your digital camera when you took the tour.
@jeremy wrote:
@passingwind wrote:
Did you really have to post that picture of me hanging out in the WGA server room? ❓ That part of WGA headquarters is supposed to be off-limits… obviously someone did not confiscate your digital camera when you took the tour.
Really?! I thought it might be the server farm at the Lilypad 😆 .
@Team Honeybunnies wrote:
@jeremy wrote:
@passingwind wrote:
Did you really have to post that picture of me hanging out in the WGA server room? ❓ That part of WGA headquarters is supposed to be off-limits… obviously someone did not confiscate your digital camera when you took the tour.
Really?! I thought it might be the server farm at the Lilypad 😆 .
No, I don’t see any hamster wheels turning in the picture….no duct tape either; clearly the pic was not taken at GC.
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