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avatar for damijin damijin 1505 posts
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A lot of people have had trouble with this because the forum uses very non-standard shorthand. This will likely be changed in the future, but in the meantime, the current way to embed an image within your post is to put exclamation marks before AND after the URL of the image that you want to post.

Example:

!http://www.theworldtakes.com/mike/domoavatar.jpg! will become

Feel free to use this thread to test image posting if you’re not sure that you’ve got it figured out.

Note: the forum will not resize images, and will create a scroll bar for images that are too wide for the posting area. This is OK, but it looks a little bit ugly, so try to resize any huge images and post a link to the high res versions. This is especially helpful for people on slower connections.

 
avatar for arcaneCoder arcaneCoder 1326 posts
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Additionally, you can use the standard html image tag. Its harder than using exclamation points, but you can use it in case you do need to resize the image.



The code:
<img src='http://www.theworldtakes.com/mike/domoavatar.jpg' width='20' height='20'/>

will become:


 
avatar for damijin damijin 1505 posts
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Arcane is teaching me many tips for the forum that I should know how to use a lot better than I do :D

 
avatar for greg greg 3085 posts
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The fact that this topic even exists (and that it’s as helpful as it is) demonstrates just how much we need to tweak this thing…

 
avatar for OCD3 OCD3 41 posts
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greg is right, kongregate is a great site, but needs ALLOT of tweaking. and the fact that everytime i post i get an error massage, and have to back out of it.

 
avatar for truendymion truendymion 183 posts
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Grrr still doesn’t work for me! This is the image I was trying to embed http://bp2.blogger.com/nUrR2iUDtpo/RjQJaEOEvXI/AAAAAAAAAR4/xPmJ3nUP-Ck/s1600-h/odscreenie_cropped.bmp

 
avatar for arcaneCoder arcaneCoder 1326 posts
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Grrr still doesn’t work for me! This is the image I was trying to embed



bmps are not suited well for the web. Convert it to a better format.

 
avatar for IndieFlashArcade IndieFlashAr... 433 posts
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OCD3: Yeah that happens to me when I’m on a PC, but when on a Mac it works fine. Definitely a bug, though :)

 
avatar for damijin damijin 1505 posts
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I’m actually trying to get to the bottom of that bug right now.

 
avatar for cjgodman cjgodman 1140 posts
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I have a question: If I save an image to my computer, how can I resize it? It is a large image, and I want it to be my avvy, but I put it on paint and I only need 1/3 of the picture space, I dont want it to be:

blank
blank
blank
blank
picture

I want it to be:

picture.

Can anyone help?

 
avatar for ktnault16 ktnault16 114 posts
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#dmijin is awesome!#

 
avatar for Smileys_Sniper Smileys_Sniper 144 posts
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  • This is Extremely Helpful Thankx
 
avatar for Conquerer95 Conquerer95 415 posts
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woot I got it! thank you damijin! gives manly hug

 
avatar for Shadow02468 Shadow02468 560 posts
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Yay! I can do it! :)

 
avatar for dude33369 dude33369 453 posts
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Originally posted by UnitedRebellion:

What happened to all the other 16 pages from this thread?

probably deleted it lol to free some server space

 
avatar for lifelikechicago lifelikechicago 25 posts
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Mmk it worked. Yay.

 
avatar for xRawr xRawr 105 posts
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it worked :D

 
avatar for Arnovw Arnovw 1 post
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nice

 
avatar for aldrin aldrin 2025 posts
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whoa, what happened?

 
avatar for Angrymobsters44 Angrymobsters44 1 post
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hey this may sound like a noob but what program do some of you use to make art on your computer. I want one that makes really cool pictures with a watercolor look.

 
avatar for hugh475869 hugh475869 22 posts
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avatar for hugh475869 hugh475869 22 posts
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C:\Documents and Settings\Hugh\My Documents\My Pictures\al.l.PNG

 
avatar for hello5666 hello5666 568 posts
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avatar for SourPunch SourPunch 108 posts
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avatar for NoteyMan NoteyMan 3106 posts
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k then…..

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