Displaying photos inline

[mklotz]

I prefer to have my photos in line with the associated text, rather than hanging at the end of the post as occurs in some of the other fora to which I post. This means resizing them and storing on PhotoBucket. My procedure for doing this may be of some benefit to others...

I have two, normally empty, files on my desktop - PICS and PICLETS. photos to be processed are dumped into PICS. I use FastStone to do the processing. Its defaults are set to look in PICS for inputs and dump processed files into PICLETS.

With one keypress and one (two if multiple photos) mouse click, the photo(s) are resized to 800 x 600, my watermark is added and the resulting forum-ready photo(s) is stored in PICLETS.

When I click the upload icon in PB, it automatically looks in PICLETS for input. Key Ctrl-A to select all of what's there and the resized photos begin uploading.

Once your photo displays, click on the URL= below the IMG title and key Ctrl-C and your scratchpad contains exactly what you need to insert (using Ctrl-V) into the text of your post to make the photo display.

Obviously, setting this up takes a little time but, if you regularly include photos in your post, the savings in time and frustration are well worth the effort.