HOW TO POST IMAGES AND CREATE LINKS IN FORUMS ETC...

You can use these techniques to post images and links in Forums, Bmails, Comments Boxes, even your PROFILE PAGE.

You can copy any image, even the small thumbnails on various pages by using the same technique of Right-Clicking an image…

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A NOTE FOR MAC USERS…

Mac users (generally) only have a single button mouse. You can use the following technique to access URL addresses neccessary for these techniques:

1. Hold down the CTRL key and then click on the image.
2. The drop down menu will now appear.
3. Click on COPY IMAGE ADDRESS
4. Follow rest of the process as described below…

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TO POST AN IMAGE: (Part 1)

1. Locate the image you wish to post. It is best if your image has either the Clear GIF option turned off or is listed as “available for sale”.

2. Select the BUY/PREVIEW option.

3. Select the type of image you want, eg… Greeting Card, Laminated Print… etc. I usually pick the “Laminated Print” option with a white border because it looks nice and will also display your name in the Border Area.

4. Right-Click on the selected image and you will get a drop-down menu, choose PROPERTIES.

5. The “Properties Dialogue Box” will appear, now use your mouse to SELECT (highlight) the html (“Address / URL”) of the image. This is the bit that looks like:

http/ blah blah blah.jpg

If you can’t find it, it is the bit that ends with .JPG

6. Right-Click and select COPY from the drop-down menu.

7. Goto the forum or Bmail or wherever you want to post the image.

8. Right-Click in the Comments Box and select PASTE from the drop-down menu.

9. Put a ! at the start and the end of the pasted html. It will look like this but WITHOUT the spaces between the ! and the html. I have to put the spaces in here so I can show you what it looks like:

! http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/border:whitewithdetail/product:laminated-print/size:large/view:preview/500307-6-the-boxer-1.jpg !

When you take out the spaces it will look like this:

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TO POST AN IMAGE: (Part 2 – the BEST and EASIEST way!)

You can also select a thumbnail as the image you want to post.

The advantages with this technique are:

1. You can specify the size that you want the image displayed as.
2. You don’t have to mess around trying to remove the clear GIF option from your work, or making your work “Available for Sale” just so you can select the image from the BUY/PREVIEW pages.

Follow the process described above in Part 1 Step 4, but this time Right-Click on a thumbnail image selected from your VIEW ALL ART or BROWSE ART pages.

The URL has embedded in it a size-specifier. In the following example the specifier says size:small

http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/cropped/size:small/view:main/500307-6-the-boxer-1.jpg

The thumbnail looks like this:

You can use the following size specifiers:

1. xsmall
2. small
3. medium
4. large
5. xlarge

A xsmall image:

A small image:

A medium image:

A large image:

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TO CREATE A TEXT LINK:

1. Goto the page with the image you want.

2. SELECT and COPY the Address/URL from the Address Bar in your browser.

3. Goto the forum, Bmail or wherever you want to post the link.

4. Put some text in inverted commas, like this: “THE BOXER”

5. Then add a : (that’s a colon) then right-click PASTE the copied Address/URL.

It will look like this, but (say it with me, children)... WITHOUT the space between the 2nd inverted comma ( ” ) and the colon ( : )...

“THE BOXER” : http://www.redbubble.com/people/byron/art/500307-6-the-boxer-1

The result will look like this:

THE BOXER

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TO CREATE A GRAPHIC LINK:

1. Follow the process to POST AN IMAGE

2. Then follow the process to CREATE A TEXT LINK

3. Join the two bits of html with a : (a colon), it will look like this, but (you know it…)WITHOUT the spaces:

! http://images-3.redbubble.net/img/art/border:whitewithdetail/product:laminated-print/size:large/view:preview/500307-6-the-boxer-1.jpg ! : http://www.redbubble.com/people/byron/art/500307-6-the-boxer-1

The result looks like this:

You can now click on the image and it will take you to the page where that image is displayed.

Magic, huh?

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