OK guys so here it is. If you are still confused I can make a tutorial video covering the same aspects.
What you will need.
A laptop, Chromebook, note book style laptop or a desktop that runs a full blown browser
not a mobile one. As I eluded to in the other thread phones and tablets are far more cut down and locked down than a real computer. As such? if you want to do anything but look and post words on the net you will need a laptop or PC. Thankfully a cheap laptop costs pennies today and is more than worth it.
OK. So the next thing you need to do is open your browser and head over to Imgur.com. There are other hosting services like IBB and so on, but they are all spam fest and ad loaded. So I would not trust them with your images. The first thing you need to bear in mind is that you WILL WANT TO USE AN ADBLOCK on your browser. Trust me on this. It will drive you insane within minutes if you do not and you will lose a lot of personal data. As such the image resize in Imgur does not work. This is deliberate. However, here is how you get around that.
In Windows you get an app called photos. Right click on the image you want to upload. Open with Photos. It should open with it automatically but it depends on the image type (so JPG, PNG etc). It will look like this.
Click the three dots up toward the top right. These.
Then click on "Resize Image". This will help you not to drive everyone crazy with honking great images.
I use a maximum of 1300 for wide aspect photos and 700 for tall ones. You only need to add one dimension, as it automatically adjusts the other. Once you are done doing that above, press the SAVE button and save the image onto your computer. Just be sure to remember where it is
Go to Imgur.com and create an account. This will be easy, and will require a genuine email addy, a few clicks and a confirmation email to prove your email is not fake. Do that and then you will see this, with your account name on when you log in.
It will be top right in your browser (so Chrome, Edge etc). Click on it. That will take you here.
Click on IMAGES there. You will then be directed to your uploaded images. Then click on new post, as per the pic below.
That will open this window.
Click where I state, on "Choose photo or video". This will open your PC. Go to where you saved the smaller image. For me it is in a folder I made to do this guide.
Double click it. This will then happen.
Ignore what it says on screen and do this again. Firstly go here.
And then.
And then when you are back in your images folder click the image itself. You will note the stem pic I made is now there, top left.
Click on that image. That will open this window.
Click the copy BBCode button as I show. Then, come back to your post on the forum (use multiple tabs) and either right click in the post window and "Paste" or, just press CTRL and V on your keyboard. Like this.
And that is it. When you then hit post? it will do this.
