How to Post Thumbnails vs. Images?

I see many posts with attached thumbnails. Is there an easy way to do this, vs. posting full images themselves? I know I could hack up a quick bit of HTML to show a thumbnail image which when clicked would lead to the main image, but I am guessing, based on the consistent format I see in posts here with thumbnails, that Mac Forums provides some consistent and easier way to do this.

If you know how to post thumbnails in a post instead of the main image, could you share the secret? Thanks!

when you click to reply (not quick reply)or create a new post scroll down some and click the "Manage Attachments" button and go from there.

Ahhh, OK, like this?



I'll post it and see how it works out. Here goes...

It worked, great! Thanks Mattlike!

Well, I am still feeling a little "thumbnail challenged". I can now post thumbnails of images, but all of the posts I have seen that use this have standard "frame" called "Attached Thumbnails" around them. As you can see from my post above, this isn't happening when I post a thumbnail. How do you get this frame? I have checked all the options in the attachments area of the full reply form, but can't see anything obvious... sorry for being so thick!

Testing, testing...

Hmmmm...not sure. How did you do it the frist time? I attached an image from a URL and it showed it as a thumbnail in the brackets. Then I uploaded from my desktop and it worked the same way.

When replying to a thread, if you click on the Go Advanced button you get a lot more options, including the one that mattlike mentioned (which I'd not noticed before - so thanks for that).

Anyway click on the paperclip as circled in my attached image. This brings up a window with info relating to max size and file type etc. (Also shown in my attachment) Click on Browse to find the image you want to share with us and then click on upload.

I've never done it but I guess you can add more than one attachment at a time - when you're done, close the window to add the image to the thread.

OK, trying again...

Got it - it seems to work. I had never seen the Manage Attachments button that mattlike mentioned to start with - I thought he was just referring to the paperclip icon. To get my initial post with a frameless thumbnail attached, I simply did a Reply, then clicked the paperclip icon and uploaded my file. That was it. I did not ever use the Manage Thumbnails button down below. In retrospect, I think I may like my first blundered method better than the second!

And by the way, the picture is definitely NOT political commentary; I saw this on the web today somewhere and thought it was pretty humorous, even if I don't agree with its substance!

BUT, this is a Mac forum, not a political forum, so PLEASE, please, don't flame me on this one.

Thanks everyone for the explanations on thumbnail image loading!

I really like how you posted that image in Post #3 mac57. I don't like the border, personally.

This is a useful thread, thanks all.

Did it work??

My current ride.

WooHooT

oops..it was the right way up in Preview!

Victoria looks a little drier than Tassie......

Doing another test...

Hmmm...I never used the paper clip before and when I did just now it says it attached the file but nothing is there. Whatever.

is there ubb code to use an image as a link. or to use a thumbnail that's not hosted here to link to a larger version of the image also not hosted here (say, on my flickr page?

like this ?

For flickr just go to the picture page, click All sizes, then thumbnail. There should be a bit of code near the bottom for you to paste in, it will link to the photo page.

If you are posting from something other than flickr you will need to have 2 sizes, your thumbnail and full sized image. Then you can do something like this...

remember to not include spaces.

To do what cristm did just use the Attach file feature

eric said:

is there ubb code to use an image as a link. or to use a thumbnail that's not hosted here to link to a larger version of the image also not hosted here (say, on my flickr page?

Click to expand...

There is a workaround. You just put in the image tag your thumbnail and that image tag becomes a link to the bigger image. In order for members to understand the thumbnail is a link, you could write below the thumbnail Click me for full-size image or something similar.

For example you would get this:


Click me

What you have is this (spaces added to prevent from the tags to try to work): [ U R L = " URL of bigger image here " ][ I M G ] URL of thumbnail here [ / I M G ] [ / U R L ]
[ I ] Click me [ / I ]

DOH!!! Ben beats me to it!!!