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 Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:11 pm
「v i s u a l ▪ s u b f o r u m」 ﹙information﹚Many people believe that a picture subforum is a place where you can post anime photos, and that's all. It couldn't be farther from the truth! Half of the fun in looking at a picture is the ability to comment on it and to talk about it! Where the internet is composed of probably 85% image and 15% sound, there is a lot out there to share. Create your own thread and post what you'd wish: share your creativity with the entire community!﹙some rules﹚✲Realize that some photographs take up a lot of space when loading. Hence, DON'T STRETCH THE PAGE! if you stretch the page, a moderator will remove the IMG display and leave only the core URL. It's not pretty. It'll also unfortunately have to stay like that until you make the image smaller with photobucket or with an imaging editing program.✲Don't repeat threads. This should be easy since there are so many things that you can do with a picture subforum.✲A poll is not required for every topic in subforums, however they can be a good way to pose a question to the world. It earns us gold so... *nudge nudge*✲Pictures aren't required in every thread if they are ART LEARNING based. Visual examples are encouraged, but not required.✲General Guild and Gaia etiquette is a must. See the Guild Rules. Shops and freebee threads are permitted, but make sure they follow guild rules.﹙help﹚Here are some thread ideas to get you started...Pictures you've drawn ◆ Share your deviantart.com account! ◆ Art Arena submission? ◆ Favorite plushie of yours? ◆ Scans of a super rare TGC card you own? ◆ Indepth discussion about a picture? ◆ Bloopers? ◆ Shounen-ai/Shojo-ai ◆ Webcomics? ◆ Show us your anime photo folder on your computer ◆ Screenshots ◆ Favorite convention moments ◆ Super special awesome dancing .gif of madness ◆ Kakeshi collection? ◆ Images of your bento ◆ so much more!Essentially, this is the picture and discussion forum. It doesn't matter what you share with us--but we want to SEE IT!!
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:11 pm
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Your comprehensive guide __________✗What's bandwith? Think of a website like a shelf. Bandwith is the amount of space on the shelf. The more bandwith you steal, the less space the person has to work with. It also slows down the other person's website because of all of the off-site ''traffic.'' Going with the previous metaphor, it's like people are staring at your stuff on their shelf and not their stuff. __________✗What is Direct Linking? It's when you right click on an image, and then find the URL for that image by hitting "properties," or, when you isolate that image on a single page and then take the URL in your address bar. Next, you take that URL and you put it between [IMaGe] brackets so that you can post the image in a forum without having to download it to your computer.__________✗Why shouldn't I? When you Direct Link something, you steal bandwidth. You wouldn't like it if someone did it to you, would you?__________✗What do you suggest? The best way to not steal bandwidth is to save the image to your computer, and to then upload it using your own methods. Of course, this destroys the link back to the website, so if that image is copyrighted at all, and if you claim its yours by not saying where you got it, it's considered plagiarism. As roleplayers, we kind of understand that it's not your graphic, but other people don't. If you have an opportunity to do so, say where you got the image. This is an especially good idea if you got it from somewhere on Deviantart.com or another similar community.__________✗Where do I do that? There are several websites that you can upload your photos on. You can try the following: Photobucket.com, Tinypic.com, Imageshack.com, and Photodump.com. There are others out there...Some of the above require a free membership, and others do not.
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Strawberry Pocky Parade Vice Captain
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Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 2:12 pm
p o s t i n g i m a g e s
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Your comprehensive guide There two different ways that you can host and then post your images.++++#1++Direct Linking++++#2++Hosting your Own__________✗ How to Acquire a URL for Direct Linking: ◎ Right click on the image that you want. At the drop window that opens, scroll down until you see an option entitled "Properties" or "Image Properties." ◎ Click it, and in the next window that opens, look for a URL. ◎ Copy and paste the http/URL code using keyboard shortcut CTRL + C ◎ When on gaia, use keyboard shortcut CTRL + V to paste the URL between [IMaGe] brackets for posting here on gaia.__________✗ How to save a picture to your computer: ◎ Right click on the image you want. ◎ Click "Save Image As" ◎ Designate a destination folder on your computer, IE: The desktop.__________✗ How to host your own photograph: ◎ Visit Photobucket.com ◎ Sign up for a free account if needed ◎ Sign in ◎ Browse your computer for a file to upload to photobucket ◎ hit "Upload" ◎ Scroll over the picture and select the code following "IMG Code" ◎ Copy it to clipboard if necessary by using keyboard shortcut CTRL + C ◎ Use keyboard shortcut to CTRL + V to paste the code into a gaia post
your post should look like this:
[img]http://www.the_url_for_the_picture_here.com/[/img]
it should not look like this (without [IMG] brackets):
http://www.the_url_for_the_picture_here.com/
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Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 10:30 am
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Your comprehensive guide __________ ✔ Put the picture you want on the scanning glass__________ ✔ Hook up the USB [Or Wireless connection if offered] from your scanner/printer/copier to your computer__________ ✔ Open up your preferred photo editing program. __________ ✔ Go to File and select your scanner as where to import from.__________ ✔ Follow on screen instructions to import your picture into the program. Edit if desired, and save to your computer.﹙ V I S T A ﹚I recommend using Windows Photo Gallery as your main program to import. It's easy, and you can preview what you're doing, make adjustments, and scan it right to your Pictures Folder. Here is how to find it! __________ ⇒ Go to the Start Menu and open your All Program's List. Select "Windows Photo Gallery"__________ ⇒ Click on the File Icon and select "Import from Camera or Scanner" from the drop down menu.__________ ⇒ Select your scanner in the box that pops up by selecting it and hitting "Import" __________ ⇒ Choose your scanning settings and hit Preview. Crop the size on screen in order to save time later. Next, hit Scan.__________ ⇒ You will be prompted to "Tag" your picture. This is how you name it. It will be saved in its own folder inside of the "Pictures" folder, located under your User Name in your Documents Section.﹙ W I N D O W S 7 ﹚Or if you don't have Windows 7 or Vista but have the paint program on your computer, you may follow the steps below to upload using Paint. __________ ⇒ Put your picture on the scanner glass__________ ⇒ Attach the USB cable to your computer and make sure your scanner is on __________ ⇒ Open the Start menu and locate Paint Program in your Programs menu __________ ⇒ Click on the "Blue Ribbon" (AKA, Dropdown File Menu) and select "From Camera or Scanner" __________ ⇒ Follow the on-screen instructions __________ ⇒ Make necesary edits and save your file as JPEG, JPG, GIFF, or PNG file. ﹙ O T H E R ﹚If you have Windows XP or Linux or another OS you may not have Windows Photo Gallery, Paint, or other Windows based programs. In these cases you can use other programs like Adobe Imaging Programs (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Elements, etc.), one that came with your computer, or one that you may download off of the internet. For those without Vista, or Paint you may follow the basic instructions at the beginning of the post.
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