Picture to signature

**edmont** · November 06, 2006, 06:05 AM

Sorry for the ignorant question: I spent 2 hours trying to get historical picture(from my pictures) to my signature to no avail.A sound advice would be greatly approciated .Thanks

**Spiff** · November 06, 2006, 06:24 AM

Things like this are always simple when you know how.

First you need to get your image from your computer to the internet by hosting it somewhere.

Popular choices are:

ImageShack
PhotoBucket

Once the image is uploaded you will be given a URL address - for example "www.somewebsite/images/mypicture.jpg"

Now you simple have to copy and paste this address to your signatue in the edit signature screen. This wont actually show the picture however, since the forum treats the address as a link to a new window by default you will have to tell it the address is actually an image file to display. To do this, the address to your image must be 'wrapped' in the image tags. You can do this by highlighting your address in the edit signature box and then clicking the image (

) button, or manually entering the tags yourself.

So

www.somewebsite/images/mypicture.jpg

becomes:

[IMG]www.somewebsite/images/mypicture.jpg[/IMG]

**edmont** · November 06, 2006, 06:27 AM

Great thanks!P.S. in photobucket I can't see all URl adress

**Spiff** · November 06, 2006, 08:17 AM

In photobucket your pictures should appear like this:

the URL is the text underneath the picture which you can copy and paste to a forum. In this case photobucket has been set up to automatically wrap image tags around the address.

If you cant see any sort of image address under your uploaded images then click "account options" on the top right of the photobucket page and make sure "Display IMG" or "Display URL" are set to yes.