Just got myself a scanner and am quite new to this forum. I would now like to contribute my pics, but need help. Thanks in advance

-- Kronik (leicashot@hotmail.com), January 26, 2002

Answers

Go to the link below and read everything there. I personally have not had great success so far... the photos don't come up when I follow the instructions. Another option is to simply post the link to where the photos are, which is easy and takes up less space on this site.

Good luck.

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-- Al Smith (smith58@msn.com), January 26, 2002.

The most critical step is getting them off your hard drive and posted on the web. Not too many "free picture hosting" sites are available these days. Many of the images you see here are from folks that have their own photography web sites, and they can post images with decent screen resolution and reliable URL's. I use photo.net's services for hosting images, but admit I haven't taken the considerable time needed to scan, upload, and post my better stuff. Photo/net's system doesn't allow you to post in a way where the image will just come up with the thread--only with a link.

-- Andrew Schank (aschank@flash.net), January 26, 2002.

Photo/net's system doesn't allow you to post in a way where the image will just come up with the thread--only with a link.

Actually, Andrew, you can put the HTML tag in so that the image comes up here, and not just the link. I thought Tony's tutorial covered that.

-- Richard (rvle@yahoo.com), January 27, 2002.

I think the simplest way is to view the html for a thread which has images posted in it and exerpt the images reference part in bras and kets (old QED terminology). This reads [img src "url"] (where the square brackets should be pointy). Just replace url with the url for your image on whatever website. The url must be in quotes. That's all.

-- rob (rob@robertappleby.com), January 27, 2002.

Sorry, that should have been [img src="URL"].

-- rob (rob@robertappleby.com), January 27, 2002.

If you're a Leica M user, try www.leica-gallery.net Free 30 megs of space for Leica M Users Group members & you can upload directly from your HD..:-)

-- Duncan (airborn@euromail.se), January 27, 2002.

Just to clarify: copy this line of HTML verbatim, inserting the address of your photo instead of my fake URL. Remember you want the address of the photo itself, not the page that contains the photo. In otherwords, when you put that URL in your browser, you see nothing but the photo, no caption, no text, just the photo.

<center><img src="http://URLofphoto"></center>

-- Richard (rvle@yahoo.com), January 27, 2002.

I've tried to do that with Photo.net,(have the images pop up automatically) and never had any luck. I was able to do it every time with "postmypic" when they offered the service, but they closed down their website.

-- Andrew Schank (aschank@flash.net), January 27, 2002.

Well, I'm not even far enough along to post an image anyplace. The best I've been able to do with this new Epson 2450 is to sometimes get an image on the screen. That's not even happening reliably. The "Epson Twain" control panel covers over with a gray rectangular area immediately after scanning. It may or may not eventually go away, but while it's there, the computer will not respond to anything I do. Any the gray area doesn't necessarily ever go away. It says nothing about this in the instructions.

Is anyone else using this scanner who could shed some light on the problem?

-- Bob Fleischman (RFXMAIL@prodigy.net), January 27, 2002.

-- Travis (teckyy@hotmail.com), April 03, 2002.

If your picture is hosted on Photo.net (a few of my inline photos are), bring up the photo.net database page containing your photo (of the size you want for your inline image) in your browser. Right-click on the image. Select "View Image" from the pop-up menu. The image alone will be displayed in your browser. Copy the URL from the location window for your inline image.

Joe

-- Joe Buechler (jbuechler@toad.net), April 03, 2002.