There is nothing quite like sharing your rubber stamping projects with fellow stampers. Whether this is work in progress, a finished project or something you'd like some advice on, posting a photograph is the easiest way to show other stampers what you are working on.
Using the forums to share your work is simple! Assuming that you have the digital photograph on your computer then there are two ways that you can post your work in the forum, either as an attachment which shows up as a thumbnail, or by embedding the image into the forum post.
Important: Images posted in the forum are subject to the User Agreement.
Using the forums to share your work is simple! Assuming that you have the digital photograph on your computer then there are two ways that you can post your work in the forum, either as an attachment which shows up as a thumbnail, or by embedding the image into the forum post.
Important: Images posted in the forum are subject to the User Agreement.
Before You Start
Before you start, edit and resize your photograph on your computer. This saves having to worry about doing this later. As a rough guide, try to keep photos less than 500 pixels wide / long as this is a good, manageable size. If you want to keep a larger photograph for other use, then save the smaller copy under a different name to preserve the larger image.To Attach an Image
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When an image or photograph is attached to a forum post it shows as a thumbnail (a small image) and readers can click on this to see the full size image.
Either start a new discussion in the forum or press 'Reply'. Look down towards the bottom of the screen (this can be seen marked in red in the illustration), under the main text area there is a section to attach images. Click the 'Browse' button to find the photograph that you want to upload, then click 'Upload'. The photograph will then be uploaded onto the forum post.
Note: Although you can upload photos of up to 3 megabytes, it is better to keep the images smaller as this makes the page quicker to load.
Either start a new discussion in the forum or press 'Reply'. Look down towards the bottom of the screen (this can be seen marked in red in the illustration), under the main text area there is a section to attach images. Click the 'Browse' button to find the photograph that you want to upload, then click 'Upload'. The photograph will then be uploaded onto the forum post.
Note: Although you can upload photos of up to 3 megabytes, it is better to keep the images smaller as this makes the page quicker to load.
How to Embed Images
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The other way to post images is to embed them into the forum via a photo hosting service such as Flickr, PhotoBucket or ShutterFly. The photograph is embedded into the forum post using the code that the software hosting service provides. This is simple and straightforward to do.
Start a new discussion or press 'Reply'. Add any text that you want in the text box. Under the text box you will see two options - Design and HTML. Click the HTMLbutton and this will show the code behind the page. This is shown in red in the illustration.
Go to the photo hosting site and copy the HTML code for the image. This will start <a href="http:.... and will end </a>. Copy this code and post it into the text box on the HTML page.
Start a new discussion or press 'Reply'. Add any text that you want in the text box. Under the text box you will see two options - Design and HTML. Click the HTMLbutton and this will show the code behind the page. This is shown in red in the illustration.
Go to the photo hosting site and copy the HTML code for the image. This will start <a href="http:.... and will end </a>. Copy this code and post it into the text box on the HTML page.
