I have seen a large number of posts with red X's or pleas on how do I attach a photo to my post. as it is very hard to explain this process in words alone I have made the following post here to aid you in attaching pictures to posts and placing them in your KitMaker gallery , I hope that this explains the process clearly.

In order to display pictures in your posts you first need to upload them to your gallery, the gallery is provided by the KitMaker network when you register an account on one of the KitMaker sites.



At the top of every page you will see a tab called Photos, select this tab to be taken to the KitMaker gallery area.



You now need to login into the gallery, select login.



Using the same user and password details that you use to sign into your KitMaker site of choice.



First select "MY PHOTOS" to view any pictures you have already uploaded. Then select "UPLOAD PHOTOS" to add pictures to your gallery. An important note about the material you are submitting to your gallery, the images should not exceed 800X600 pixels.




After selecting upload photos you will be presented with this page, select browse and seek out the picture or pictures you wish to upload to the gallery. Then scroll down to the bottom of that page, making sure your site name is in the relevant square, you can also speed the upload process up by ticking “click here to bypass approval process and upload all files in directory”. Then select “upload/submit”



You should now be looking a page laid out as above, select the picture that you wish to attach to a post.



This will open the selected image up to its display size.



You need to then right click on the selected image, this will open a menu at the bottom of which is properties.



This will open a new window titled “Element Properties” (Element properties is specific to FireFox browser users, Internet Explorer and other browsers use differant terms) the area of this page you will be interested in is “Location”, holding down the right button of your mouse drag the curser on the screen over the location, making sure to highlight the full address as it may not be fully displayed in the window.



Right click within the highlighted area, then from the drop down menu that appears select “Copy” this will copy the address of the image to your computers clip board.



Now go to the forum post you wish to start or answer, and that needs to include the image from your gallery. Either start your new thread or select reply from the various locations on the page in question.



You are now presented with the area where you post your article or reply, at the desired point that you wish to include your image select "[lmg]" from the selection below the text area. This will place a command line in your post in the text desired area of the screen.



You then highlight the area indicated in the above picture, holding down the right button of your mouse drag the curser on the screen over the indicated portion “highlighting it”



You now right click in the highlighted area, and from the drop down menu select “Paste”, this will paste the information you placed on your clipboard earlier in to that highlighted area.

You now finish your post as normal by selecting “Ready to Reply Yes”, your selected image or images will now be displayed in the thread or reply.

Darren,

Outstanding! Jim ought to field-promote you two ranks!

Darren,
Nice step by step.

Hopefully it will become a sticky.

Done..

what in tarnation is a sticky?

A sticky is a post that stays at the top of the forum it is in.

thankyou sooooooooooo much.

Thankyou this was very helpful Just followed as instructed and works fine.
It all seems very daunting when if like me computers just confuse, but just take your time .
and do it in stages ,slowly slowly catchy monkey. it did take me a few trys but got there.

Your welcome.

i should have read this before i posted lol.

Darryl

Darren, I thank you very much for the time and effort to compile the info for pic's problems. Copied the 10 pages into my pic bible and will attempt this afternoon. Hopefully I'll get results and be able to really join in with the rest of the modeling family. Thanks again.

Darren,

Excellent DIY!

The only item I can think to add is that for images already on the web, users can right click the image on a web page to get its properties and therefore its "address" as you have described to add in their reply. Same method, just not adding it to their Kitmaker image gallery. Of course, the "link" will get broken if something happens to the souce webpage.

Bob I am glad it helped you. Jeff I had not considered that but I am going to add how to remove images from the gallery here as a few people have asked.

Darren, thanks for answering this Question, I am going to give it a try. Like some others here, I have yet to move on into the Electronics/Computer age. Keep On Modelin, milvehfan

Thank U very much.

thnx for the pictures on how to do so ive been trying to figure it out since i joined up about 5 months ago

Hi I am still having truoble seeing pix on here ,I get a message saying Gallery in repair or the like .Is this the case?

Much thanks for the pictorial tutorial. I had no idea how to use the KitMaker Gallery until I read this

thanks mate worked like a charm

fyi for mac (safari)

right click on picture and select "copy image address"

then type your text and click "img" and past the address in between the [img} box's



and away you go

Thank you for the very clear directions, but I have been getting this one particularly annoying error message every bleeping time I try to upload. It pretends to work for a few minutes, then stops and displays "The category you chose for this photo can't contain photos." What category are they talking about?!? I am on another photo FAQ forum here and someone told me to limit my image size to under 3 MB, which I did. What is the problem here??

Robby the pictures you upload here due to the limited space you get should not exceed about 200 kb, at 3 mb you will only get 3 and a bit pictures uploaded. are you trying to place pictures into your own gallery when you get this message?

Yes I am trying to upload them into my member gallery. Should I be going elsewhere?

If you are signed in and it is your own gallery space I can only advise you contact Jim S ref the issue you are suffering. I suspect your pictures are just to large and the gallery is rejecting them.

this is a test

For those of you struggling to find 'properties' in the pop-up menu, like I just did: in newer versions of Firefox select 'copy image location' in the menu - does the same thing.