Quote:
Originally Posted by Vexx
How does one present a thumbnail of an image from the Albums in a thread?
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It'd be nice if there were an automatic way to do this... but for now I can at least think of a manual way.
The forum does generate thumbnails for all the images because you can see them when you go to the album page. So the thing to do would be to copy the URL of the thumbnail, and the URL of the link to the image, and compose your own code manually. It's a bit of a chore, but it should work...
1. Go to the Album list view in a second tab or window.
2. Find the image you want (from the list/thumbnail view), and right-click and choose the "Copy Image URL" (Chrome)/"Copy Image Location" (Firefox) option. (I'm sure other browsers have the same/equivalent.)
3. Paste that URL into your post and surround it by image tags (either manually or using the image button).
Code:
[img]http://forums.animesuki.com/images/as.albums/t/13/c918b100f62428a13c0be069a7441d72_13607.jpg?dl=1278962773[/img]
4. Back in your Album window, right-click on the image again and choose "Copy Link Address" (Chrome)/"Copy Link Location" (Firefox).
5. Surround the image you added above by url tags using the copied address. (Easy way to do this is to highlight the image you added above, and use the Link button.)
Code:
[url=http://forums.animesuki.com/album.php?albumid=60&pictureid=13607][img]http://forums.animesuki.com/images/as.albums/t/13/c918b100f62428a13c0be069a7441d72_13607.jpg?dl=1278962773[/img][/url]
Result is:
Like I said, that's not a fun or easy way, but it should work and the image is hosted here. It seems to me that it wouldn't be so hard to create some sort of way to automatically generate that code for easy copy/paste into a post... but we'll probably wait until the upgrade is done just in case anything has changed in the new vB.
In the meantime (and to the original poster), probably the easiest is still to use an image hosting service, which can automatically make thumbnails and provide you with copy/paste code that will work for our Forum. I'm not too up-to-speed on what the best ones are these days, but I see people using
http://imgur.com/ and
http://imageshack.us/ fairly often.