Flickr

Flickr is a photograph publishing website that allows users to upload galleries of pictures that can be shared around the Web.

There is a very important rule to bear in mind though.

The problem

The Flickr guidlines state that any picture must link back to Flickr, so how do you do that.

Posting Flickr pictures on the Forum

I have tried to make this as simple as possible, but given the fact that there are certain "geeky" things that have to be done it will inevitably be tricky to do the first few times, but once you get the hang of it you will wonder what all the fuss was about. One of the biggest problems is that Flickr do not give BB (Bulletin board) code out for their pictures. (Photobucket do) and the HTML links that they do give do not work on this forum (You can use simple HTML command on here) So unfortunately you have to roll your own.

I will also suggest you use Notepad to store things temporarily, (Start->All programs->Accessories->Notepad)

So here we go... here come the science bit.... concentrate... ;)

Go to the page on Flickr where your picture is (in my case is was here) http://www.flickr.com/photos/dickie-d/2428554983/

Then copy the "URL" from the browser's address bar and store/paste is somewhere (like in notepad) to keep for future reference

You should now have stored

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dickie-d/2428554983/ 

Now click on the all sizes link and find the size of the picture you would like to use Now scroll to the bottom of the Flickr page and there should be an box that says -2. Grab the photo's URL: Then a text with the photo's URL in it... again copy this and paste it into notepad again

You should now have something like this in notepad

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dickie-d/2428554983/
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2371/2428554983_1d127cfd7c.jpg

The first of these is the "backlink" to your Flickr page to comply with the guidelines. The second if the address of the actual picture that you wish to use.

Now... to make this into a FH/forum picture link do the following

first you need to make insert the picture... this is done by wrapping the image address in image tags like this.

[img]
http://address-to-my-image
[/img]

(remember the backslash '/' on the last tag is VERY important.. it closes the tag

So from Notepad, copy the picture link (the second one) and paste into the post then put the image tags around it like this

[img]
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2371/2428554983_1d127cfd7c.jpg
[/img]

If you left it like this then the picture would be displayed, but there would be no backlink. To link back to the original picture you now need to wrap the WHOLE lot in a link tag... this works like this

[url=http://link-goes-here]
What you want to turn into link
[/url]

For our example you need to wrap the image address including the image tags in url tags like this

[url]
[img]
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2371/2428554983_1d127cfd7c.jpg
[/img]
[/url]

So now copy the link (the first line from Notepad) and paste it into the first url tag with an = (like this)

[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/dickie-d/2428554983/]
[img]
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2371/2428554983_1d127cfd7c.jpg
[/img]
[/url]

The upshot of all this is, to create a linked image use the following code

[url=http://address-of-backlink]
[img]
http://address-of-picture.jpg
[/img]
[/url]

And that's it