Mujitsu and Tairaku's Shakuhachi BBQ

There is no place on the forum itself to stage photos, so you have to either use your own ftp or you can use a third-party photo-sharing service.

You might look at flickr.com as a solution. I think all you need to get started is a Yahoo ID. First you upload pics to create an album. They have it figured out nicely. Just follow directions. Open your account . Upload your first photos**.  And voilá!

THEN click on one of your pictures in the album. It will give you a page showing primarily the picture you chose.

Now, here's the trick: mouse-over the picture and RIGHT-click. a menu will appear and you will choose
"copy image location".

Open up a plain text file and hit Control-V (Apple-V on a Mac) and you will get the TRUE web address of that particular picture. The url code should look something like this: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/35/72303 … 5a.jpg?v=0 (Save the text file for future reference.)

NOW you can paste that web address into your posting with the bracketed IMG tags on each side (one open, one closed) like:



You'll have an image in your post. You should see a Kunichika print of a Kabuki actor with a shakuhachi above.



Here you should see an old ivory figurine of a samurai with a shakuhachi on his back. (these were old eBay images).

**(Before you start make sure your picture size is small enough to load easily. Web pages display pics at only 72 pixels-per-inch (ppi). So if you have a 300 hi-resolution pic it'll still come out at 72ppi but it will be proportionately MUCH bigger. And if you use some code to constrain the 300ppi pic to a small display area it will just load very slowly and sluggishly. So run the pic through some image-editing software like iPhoto or Photoshop. Get the resolution down to 72. If you don't know how to do this, another solution is to set your camera on a low-resolution option like 640x480 (sometimes called the Web option) or 1MP. These big ultra megapixel cameras 4MP, 6MP, 10MP are great for prints but create files entirely too big for web display.)

(NOTE: a forum member emailed me earlier in the week and asked me the ins-and-outs of putting images on the forum, so this was my response email. )

Last edited by Chris Moran (2007-12-14 20:35:49)