Must one have a Photobucket or similar web-based gallery account to insert pictures?  I am computer literate, just need a refresher.  It's certainly been some time since I was a member of any forum.  It seems that avatar pictures require a url?  How would one do a picture insertion within the bracketed code, say, in a post.  I don't want to attach pictures, as I prefer not to scroll to the four corners of the Earth just to get an idea of what I'm looking at.

Also to any moderators:  I was unsure whether to message you or simply post to get a quicker response.  If I have made a misstep in posting this here, please feel free to move this thread to where it belongs or to simply message me and delete this post.  I do believe, however, that many others on this forum may benefit from this knowledge as well.

Thank you so much!!

-Mitch

I don't wish to simply attach the picture, as I have attached a picture of a sling I made and it was huge.  I've seen people with pictures inserted that you can see the whole picture in a smaller space that fit in the post without needing to scroll to view the whole picture.

I was under the impression that attaching takes up more space on the site's server than inserting it with code.

Resize your picture first with picture manager. The correct size is 640 x 480 pixels (I think) but it tells you the correct one if that's wrong.

Thank you, and sorry for being bothersome.  I've figured out the sizing issue I had, but yes I will await another who knows how to use that function button.

the best size is around 800x600. and 96dpi (thought most pictures are at this resolution naturally - so ignore that bit I just included it to be pedantic ).

The only real issue with attachments is that you can only attach one per post. It's why I often stitch several pictures together to make one long one.
Currently there are almost 4,000 attachments in the attachment folder. A few more won't hurt. And that discounts a large amount that were put in individual users folders early in the forum's history.

So either method is fine 

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unfortunately that looks like a stuffed aardvark in a museum diorama.
The way the picture is evenly framed in black would suggest the same thing as well.

Can't imagine anyone being able to get that close to one in the wild

Curious Aardvark wrote on Aug 27^th, 2012 at 11:40am:

Dude, I did about an hour in photoshop to get that. black frame was done in paint. I did find the pic on the internet, then cropped, zoom, etc.
-Squirrel