For those of you wondering how to post a picture on a Forum I thought I'd provide some step by step instructions.

First of all, you need to understand that in order to post a picture the picture needs to come from an internet website not from your computer hard drive.

Looking above where you begin typing a discussion you'll notice an index that contains a line of icons. You want to click on the picture icon which is the 9th from last on the idex bar. It's a square icon. If you hold your curser over the icon it will say "Insert Image."

Once you click on the picture icon it will open a box that says "Enter URL:"  The box kind of gives you a headstart by putting in the http://. This lets you know they are looking for a webaddress to the picture you wish to illustrate.

Any time you've ever seen a photo from a website it contains a webaddress. Here's how you get the address to any picture found on the internet:

- Find the picture you wish to post on the forum. As an example you could go to your Facebook page and open up a photo you had in one of your albums.

- Right click on the photo and an option box will pop up.

- Choose the last option which should say "Properties"

- This will bring up a different box. In the middle of the box it should say "Address (URL)". 

- Highlight and copy the entire address. It should start off with the "http://" like you seen when you first clicked on the picture icon on the forum discussion page. Here's an example taken from a photo on my Facebook page - http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/197395_163312673722061_100001299895342_310367_2882107_n.jpg

- Now go back to the forum to the area you were writing and click back on the picture icon.

- Highlight over the "http://" since you already copied that portion of the address and paste (Control V) the address of your photo.

-Click on the submit button.

Your picture should now be on the forum thread. You can resize the folder by clicking on the corner of the picture and dragging the photo to the appropriate size. 

Some people don't have a website or even Facebook so they actually can't acquire a picture to post on the forum because they can't generate a webaddress from the photo. In this case, many people chose to open a free PhotoBucket account where they can simply upload many pictures from their PC to a web based folder on PhotoBucket. This will allow you to not only save photos to an online folder in case you PC crashes but also allow you to use the Photo's URL address to post photos on other site like FORUMS.

This may seem like a lot of information but once you do it once you'll most likely remeber the steps forever and find out it's a simple and quick procedure. In the event you still have difficulties feel free to conact me for further help and support.