Attaching images to forum posts: Is there something I am missing?

[almorin]

What am I doing wrong?
I made several attempts at attaching an image of my FIRST FC $30.00 payment rec'd Dec 2012 I had an image of my paypal payment on my computers desktop.  The image was a 60KB JPG (503px X 479px).  I did however finally was able to follow FC instructions to go online and get and image code for forums and was able to post the image in that manner but for future reference I was in hope of finding out .... HOW TO ATTACH PICTURES and OTHER IMAGES ... via the browse attach feature ...  Any suggestions or ideas of what I am doing wrong?

[newgrandpa]

There is a size limit in the browse and attach feature. Believe it is rather small. For example, I take a videocam picture of my FC check and I have to edit out the background to make it fit. Don't believe you are doing anything wrong.

[swogden]

Not sure about "attaching images", but agree that the size is small.

But this is what I do to create a screenshot of my POP and post that to the forum thread for getting the $1.00 bonus.

One of the reasons that I use PAYPAL. It's easy to load the details of the deposit onto the screen and take a screenshot of the deposit.

You need to get that screenshot, suitably cropped, in your PC so you can create a jpeg picture of it and load the jpeg picture into TinyPics, and then have Tinypics create a URL (for forums) that you can enter that into the FC forum thread.


1. Once you get a picture of your check or deposit on the screen of your PC, click on the PrintScreen button.
2. Load up your Paint software and click Edit, then paste, to bring the screenshot into the Paint software.
You can "crop" the loaded screenshot to show just what needs to be shown. Use the erasure to remove anything you don't want to show (like the transaction ID or your email address or other sensitive info you don't want the world to see)
3. Use the File: Save As option to save your modified screenshot to your Shared Pictures library. I use the jpeg extension. Name it something that makes sense to you so you can find it easily. (ie FusionCashPOPmmddyr.jpeg)
4. Load up the FC Forum, Contest and Promotions, and bring up the thread about loading up your payment. Click on the reply link so you will have the page handy when you get the URL from Tinypic.

5. Load up the Tinypic.com website. (or any other image making site that gives you URLs)

(I do this on Firefox since I've had problems reading the URLs in IE.)

Click Browse and locate the jpeg picture you just created in your Shared Picture library. Click "open" to bring the picture onto the Tinypic website.

Use "Image"; and "default" for your size.

Click on Upload NOW! on the Tinypic website. Complete the capcha.

6 You will get several sets of URL. Use the one for Forums.

I have found it easiest to click on the forum URL and use the right click on my mouse to copy it then move the cursor over to the FC forum reply window, click on the reply window and then right click the mouse and paste the URL into the reply window.

(I tried writing the URL down and entering it manually, but I usually had typo's. Copy/paste works best for me.)

7. Add your comments in the reply window (usually before the URL) and then click Preview to make sure everything worked the way you wanted it to. If it looks good, click Post. If it doesn't, try again.

Took me a while to get the routine down, but now it's old hat -- and I have found the process to be useful in posting POP's for other sites. The more you do it, the easier it becomes.
 

[dsawan]

use paint program to resize the image

[kingreyam24]

I always use paint to resize my screenshot picture since it's always too big.

[TOMAS7]

There is nothing that you are doing wrong FC needs to make the space available larger and there does need to be a way to post these without having to go to so many sites and taking so many steps. It is actually pretty antiquated and I understand the need for security but there has to be a better way to achieve that.

[swogden]

There is nothing that you are doing wrong FC needs to make the space available larger and there does need to be a way to post these without having to go to so many sites and taking so many steps. It is actually pretty antiquated and I understand the need for security but there has to be a better way to achieve that.

That's right. I actually downloaded a free application and use that to take a quick screenshot, which I then save to my Image folder, and then I just attach it with a message in the correct Forum section. I don't follow FC's instructions and the result is the same haha.

What's the name of the free application?  (should be able to google the name and figure out how to use it)
I'm all for making life easier and smoother.

[mikens08]

Well now i have learned something I didn't know thanks everyone

[almorin]

Thanks for all the replies to my post.  elisajoy, you are just amazing!  I love what you have done with your signature file!  Thanks for all the willingness to help.   

[skippymcnapper]

What am I doing wrong?
I made several attempts at attaching an image of my FIRST FC $30.00 payment rec'd Dec 2012 I had an image of my paypal payment on my computers desktop.  The image was a 60KB JPG (503px X 479px).  I did however finally was able to follow FC instructions to go online and get and image code for forums and was able to post the image in that manner but for future reference I was in hope of finding out .... HOW TO ATTACH PICTURES and OTHER IMAGES ... via the browse attach feature ...  Any suggestions or ideas of what I am doing wrong?

That size is below the maximum attachment size so you should be okay. Just hit "Additional Options" below the write post box and then select Browse. Look through your computer files until you find the right image hit attach then select Preview to make sure the image is there

[dsawan]

i use paint too to resize or a third party util. try 500 w and length.