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Captain Arne Is PRO · Jun 23, 2006, 07:17 PM // 19:17

This thread was written by Captain Arne Is PRO in attempt to help the newer users learn about forum use. In this guide, hopefully you will learn, if you do not already know how to post images in threads.

*NOTE: THIS MAY SEEM LIKE A LOT OF WORK TO POST AN IMAGE, IT IS NOT! A LOT OF EXTRA INFORMATION IS ADDED IN THE CASE THAT SOMEBODY HAS ABSOLUTELY NO CLUE HOW TO USE BASIC SOFTWARE!

Table of Contents
1. How to get an image from Guild Wars onto your computer!
2. How to get an image from your computer to the Internet!
3. How to get an image from the Internet into your post!

1. Getting an image from Guild Wars onto your computer!

First, look at whatever image you wish to add to your post. If you wish to post the stats of an item, hover your cursor over the item. When you have your screen looking the way you want it to look, simply press the Print Screen button (see below diagram).

The image is now stored on your clipboard and also in your Guild Wars directory, most commonly c:/program files/Guild Wars/screenshots. The problem with uploading images directly from your Guild Wars directory is, the images are saved as .bmps. Bmps are a lot bigger in size (kb) and take a lot longer for people with slower connections to load.

To help those people out, open up a simple program like Microsoft Paint (MSPaint). Paste the image by pushing Ctrl + V. If you wish to crop a particular part of the image, use the crop tool to select that part and copy it again by pressing Ctrl + C. Open up another MSPaint window and paste the cropped version of the image there.

Now, you’re ready to save the image. To save space, we’re going to learn how to save as a .jpeg, using these simple diagrams.

Step 1:

Step 2:

VOILA! YOU NOW HAVE YOUR IMAGE SAVED ONTO YOUR COMPUTER!
2. Getting an image from your computer to the Internet!

To ‘upload’ an image from your computer to the Internet, simply find an uploading site, such as www.imageshack.us, click the browse button, find the image you wish to upload, and click ok.

You now have the picture uploaded, in a miniature form, it should look like this:

If you want to post the image in its entirety, follow these next two steps:

DONE! THE IMAGE IS NOW UPLOADED ONTO THE INTERNET!

3. Adding the image to your post

To add the image to your post, simply follow these instructions:

1. Click the button labelled “1”
2. Add the Address (URL) that you copied in part 2 to the field labelled “2”.
3. Click ok, button labelled “3”

CLICK SUBMIT NEW THREAD, AND YOU ARE DONE!

Any further questions may be PMed to me (Captain Arne is PRO). I will answer them as soon as I get the time to.

lyra_song · Jun 23, 2006, 07:27 PM // 19:27

Nice guide...shouldnt this be on the screenshot forum o.o

.-. My guildwars saves things as bmp, not gif. And gif is not always big, its just big because GW type images are not optimized to be used by the gif format.

Captain Arne Is PRO · Jun 23, 2006, 07:35 PM // 19:35

Misstype haha, all American copies of Guild Wars save as .bmp unless you edit it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Inde

Captain,

Yes! I did receive that. Sorry for the delayed response. It looks good, I read through it myself and liked what I saw. If you'd like to start if off, please post this in Nolani's and I'll give it a sticky and we'll also get it up in a more visible place as well.

Inde

bulletsmile · Jun 23, 2006, 09:54 PM // 21:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by Captain Arne Is PRO

hehe, lol i'm uploading this empty file

Captain Arne Is PRO · Jun 23, 2006, 11:47 PM // 23:47

Had to add some humor. Being new at things can be frustrating. :P

Trippy · Jun 25, 2006, 11:40 PM // 23:40

nice, but you should've said how to put the picture in thumbnail, cause noone needs a 1600x1200 picture on the forums here

Lasareth · Jun 26, 2006, 03:13 AM // 03:13

Also, some alternatives sites include photobucket.com, which doesn't have annoying popups. Free hosting and no popups

what is this world coming to.

Egon · Jun 26, 2006, 09:33 AM // 09:33

Is there any way to make Guildwars save pictures in different formats than BMP's?

Nice newbie guide btw, I hope many people will have learned something.

TheGuildWarsPenguin · Jun 26, 2006, 02:32 PM // 14:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lasareth

Also, some alternatives sites include photobucket.com, which doesn't have annoying popups. Free hosting and no popups

what is this world coming to.

I like photobucket but I rarely post any images so I always forget my username and password.

Hailfall · Jun 26, 2006, 09:38 PM // 21:38

Good thread.

Minor thing though.. on the Imageshack website there is a direct link to the image. Which is easier to use then finding the image link by going into properties.

Also you can just use the hotlink for forums (1) which is even easier because it posts the image already.

But other then that.. Good tutorial

Aurgorn Notnaw · Jun 27, 2006, 07:51 PM // 19:51

I've just used this to help me put together the starting of an auction. Really easy to follow! Thanks.

Zeena · Jul 02, 2006, 04:44 PM // 16:44

How's about the actual code for phpbb 2.0.21 boards?

How would somone go about linking their image manually? (eg; without advanced controls..)

Ristaron · Jul 08, 2006, 06:45 AM // 06:45

Photoshop? Flash? Pfft!
MSPaint FTW!

Captain Arne Is PRO · Sep 02, 2006, 08:02 PM // 20:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ristaron

Photoshop? Flash? Pfft!
MSPaint FTW!

HECK YES!

Jay Shrine · Nov 11, 2006, 11:22 PM // 23:22

lol that "lol,im uploading an empty file" thing made me chuckle for a while..dno why..just did

Sparhawk Quickfire · Apr 28, 2007, 04:25 PM // 16:25

Do all of these art things that people seem to buy have to be hand drawn???
becuase i'd love to get into this stuff, partly for the money but still.
And i am haorrible at drawing but i can do some wicked graphics work using photoshop
so i was wondering if you count that as artwork on this here forum?

chach out some of my work here, the best work is in the signature folder:

My Photobucket Gallery