The image is not a lighthouse, but I don't have any of those online at the moment. Labs are good though! The image below is stored in the Public folder at my Dropbox account.

Dropbox is a 'cloud' service that allows you to 1) store important files somewhere other than your house and PC and 2) to share files with others (usually files too large for email) by exchanging a link to the files. As this experiment shows, you can also host pictures there for display elsewhere on the web.

Dropbox offers 2GBs of storage for free. More than that requires a subscription. www.dropbox.com

Putting your photo at Dropbox makes sharing it here a bit easier. All you have to do is right click the image in the Dropbox Public folder and select 'Copy Public Link'. Then paste that link into the message composition window on the Fora, using the 'Image' button.

You don't have to log into Dropbox from your browser. The software installs on your PC and you can do everything from the Dropbox program. Drag and drop is supported and the upload is automatic. It is just like working with folders and files on your PC, except the Dropbox folders and files are stored online.

You do have to size your image for use on the web. If you have MS Office, it has a feature/program called MS Office Picture Manager. If you right click a picture and select 'Open With', and then MS Office Picture Manager, you can resize your image in one of several ways. Selecting a percentage of the original is probably easiest because it will preserve the proportions of your picture.

Most image processing software has something similar.

Size the image, put it in your Dropbox Public folder, copy the public link, compose your post.



Good luck,

Rick