Smaug, here are some tips on including a picture in your forum message.
First, you have to make sure the picture's file size is less than 128 KB. If it is larger, see
One Way of Compressing an Image File below.
Then, while you are composing your message, click on "
Additional Options...", just under the panel that you type in. You should then see some new stuff, including a box labeled "
Attach:". To the right of this is a button labeled "Browse..." Click this, and a window should appear that will allow you to locate your picture file on your PC. When you find it, click on the file listing and click on the "Open" button. Then you can post your message as usual.
Things like this are complicated to describe, so let me know if I've confused the hell out of you, or if it still doesn't work.
Good luck!
One Way of Compressing an Image FileIf your picture is bigger than 128 kB, you need to make a compressed version on your computer first. One way of doing this on many computers running Windows is as follows. (This takes a while to describe, but only a few seconds to do.)
- Get a directory listing that shows your picture, in Windows Explorer/My Documents, etc
- Right click the file
- Select "Send To"
- Select "Mail Recipient"
- A little window should pop up, offering to resize your picture
- With "Make all my pictures smaller" selected, click OK
- If all goes well, a new email message should appear, with a resized version of your photo attached
- Don't send this message anywhere, but right click on the attachment and select "Save As..."
- Save the file somewhere you can remember (not in the folder it came from or it will overwrite the original)
- Finally, attach this resized photo file to a message, as described above
