-You simply upload a picture from your computer to their website.
-They will give you several lines of code. Copy the line of code that
references Forums or Message Boards.
-Paste that line of code into your posting on the forum.
There are quite a few free image hosting sites (they store your picture and when someone opens something that contains the line of code to your picture, the picture is displayed).
If you search for 'free image hosting' you'll have a lot of choices. We've listed 3 of the most popular ones below.
Registering for an image hosting account VS not registering:
There is a definite advantage to having an account, you can keep track of all your pictures, they're not just floating around in cyberspace where you'll have very hard time finding them again if you need to!!
You must register to use photobucket but you get 50mb of storage.
You can edit and resize your pictures.
It's like having a catalog, you can name pics and organize them in folders.
Registration is not required at imageshack but photos will be deleted after one year if they are not accessed.
By registering you don't have to worry about photos being deleted and they have unlimited storage!
There is no registration at tinypic, it is an extremely simple site.
You upload a picture and it just gives you the code.
There are many more out there!
