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You'll have to host your image somewhere. The most commonly used site is www.imageshack.us, so that is the one used for these instructions.

Hosting the image.

1. Go to www.imageshack.us.

2. Click on "Browse":


3. Locate the image on your computer and click "open":


4. Image size:

If you'd like the image to be automatically resized, check the "resize image?" button, choose 640x480 from the drop down menu, and then click "host it":



If you want the image left the original size, make sure that "resize image?" is not selected and click "host it":


5. Your image is now hosted:



Posting the Image.

1. ImageShack gives you several options, but you only need to be concerned with two.
Option 1 is useful for large images. This option will display a smaller version of your image in your post, and open the full sized version when clicked. To use this option, just copy the code given and paste it in your post and you're done.

Option 2 is the direct link to the image, using this will display the full sized image in your post. The steps below will work for the url of any image, not just the ones hosted at ImageShack:


2. Highlight the url, right click it and choose "copy":


3. There are couple methods of including it in your post.

Method 1: Click the image button:


Right click in the box, choose paste and then click "Ok". You're done.:


Method 2: Paste the url directly in the reply box, and then type in the image code around it. "[img]" before before the url and "[/img]" after it, and you're done:




Your image will look like this if you chose to post it as a thumbnail:


It will look like this if you chose to put the full size image in your post: