Using Pixentral to Post an Image on Forum

[Diana]

To post an image to this forum:
1. Go to www.pixentral.com

2. Put your cursor in the blank provided for the upload (where it says your image)

3. Click on the Browse button

4. When the "Choose File" box pops up, navigate to where your photo is stored, click on your photo file, then at the bottom of the box, click the Open button

5. It will come back to Pixentral with the path to your photo shown in the blank

6. Now on the Pixentral screen, click on the Send button

7. Once your photo is loaded (you'll see it on the Pixentral screen) scroll down to the bottom of the photo where you'll see two lines of text, one that says HTML and one that says Forum

8. You need to copy all of the text in the box after "Forum"

9. An easy way to select it is to triple click on the text OR drag your mouse all the way from the first character to the last character of the text

10. Once it is selected, press Ctrl-C to copy it

11. Then go to your message on the forum here and paste your link by pressing Ctrl-V

12. You can preview it before you submit it by clicking the "Preview Post" button at the bottom of the message window

13. If it looks okay, be sure to then press the Submit Reply button to send it

Hope this is understandable and works for you.

Diana

[cats4jan]

Diana - thanks for posting this. It's information well worth repeating.

The only thing I'd add was something about resizing the photo - to save upload time and to make it easily viewed.

[Diana]

Good point, Janice. I usually make images I post on Pixentral no larger than 800 px on the longest side.

Diana

[kimi_boo]

How wonderful Diana, now we just have to take turns bumping it up.

[JulieM]

Great idea, Diana! I've saved the link to this thread to my desktop for easy copy/paste when someone asks for instructions.

[Rusty]

and, just to add illustration to those excellent instructions;
the first two are how to use Save For Web to resize your image:





And, this is what it looks like on Pixentral:

[Chuck S.]

Originally Posted by Diana

Good point, Janice. I usually make images I post on Pixentral no larger than 800 px on the longest side.

Diana

It's not really necessary to constrain your Pixentral image to 800 pixels on a side; the thumbnail that appears in your post will be much smaller than that in any event. There may be times, however, when you want to post a larger image in order to allow other forum participants to try editing the photo.

On the other hand, in deference to those who are still using dial-up, the 800 px image limit is good for helping to reduce download time.

[Diana]

[quote=Rusty;326361]and, just to add illustration to those excellent instructions;
[quote]

Thanks, Rusty. I thought about using examples posted at Pixentral in my tutorials, but the images at Pixentral don't remain out there very long. Of course, the thumbnails would still stay in the thread.

Diana

[dales]

What is the advantage of using Pixentral over the 'Save to Web' in PSE? Hope this isn't a stupid ? Thanks

[Diana]

Hi Dales,

There are no stupid questions on this forum.

The Save option in PSE is "Save for Web" and only saves it to your hard drive in a format optimized for posting on a web page, it doesn't actually put it out there on the web. After you use Save or Save for Web, you would still need to upload it to a web page for others to view the image. Hope this helps.

Diana