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Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps

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  •  10-04-2007, 6:56 AM 1011782 in reply to 182096

    Re: Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps

    ltlynX:
    Since I've been seeing a lot of people not being able to post their photomode-pictures properly I decided to write you a short tutorial on how to do so.



    Step 1 - Saving the photo

    You can find your photos in the My Stats & Photos section in the main menu of Forzamotorsport.net. Here you can select one of your five latest photos.

    I used an official screenshot since I don't have the game myself since I'm in Europe. So I haven't got any photos yet.


    Once you have selected the picture click it with your right mousebutton and select Save image as.. or Save as..



    It might be nice to save them all together in one folder, for example: My Documents > My Pictures > Forza 2 photos



    Step 2 - Resizing the photo (optional, but recommended)

    It's not that hard to resize a photo, you don't need photoshop or some other fancy (and expensive or illegal) tool for it.

    First thing to do is to find your picture through My Computer > My Documents (or however you can get there). When you do right-click it and select Edit. It will open in Windows Paint.



    In Paint go to Image and select Stretch/Skew.




    In here you can choose how much smaller you want it to be. It depends on how you want to post your image and for what purpose, so that's your choice. For this forum I'd go for 50%. If you want to post a thumbnail linked to the original (see step 4) you could choose 25% for the thumbnail and 75-100% for the original photo.

    *note
    to get the right resolution for the photoshop contest (800x450) you should resize it to ( 450/720 = 0.625 ) 62,5%.





    After resizing you can save it, to keep it organized you should use the same name as the original and add _resized or whatever you like.






    Step 3 - Uploading your photo

    Go to tinypic.com or photobucket.com (there are more, choose one you like and if necessary register there). Tinypic doesn't need a registered account so I recommend that one.
    The problem that every kind of website is different. That's why I'm only gonna tell you how tinypic works. But don't worry, every other website has a help-page, don't hesitate to use it if necessary!

    On tinypic you immediately find yourself on the upload page. Hit the browse button, find the photo you want to upload and click Open. The adress to your harddrive location should be in the field next to the browse button now.
    Add some tags if you like and hit the big green UPLOAD NOW-button.



    Depending on your connectionspeed you get a page saying that it's uploading, but soon after you'll arrive at the following page.




    Congratulations your picture has been uploaded Wink [;)]



    Step 4

    Now copy (select > CTRL+c) the 2nd line of [i mg]-code below the line that says:
    IMG Code for Forums & Message Boards

    Paste it (CTRL+v) in a new post or the post where you want it. Hit post and there you go! You have posted a resized an rehosted Forza 2 Photo!!

    Too large images are making it hard for people on lower screenresolutions to see the complete image. So if you really wanna be cool and help those poor guys out you can make a thumbnail, linked to the original pic (which opens seperately from the forum/website).

    For that you need a small sized pic (around 25%, for more info see Step 2) and the original 1280x720 pixel photo you got from Forza. It should be like this in normal forumcode:

    [ur l="http://url.com/image.jpg"][im g]http://url.com/image_thumb.jpg"[/img][/url]

    where [ur l should be [url and [im g should be [img.


    with this as it's result:


    ain't that sweet?

    Hope this helps, now don't let me see ANY black&white forza logo's again Wink [;)]


    *edit

    Extra info on thumbnail:

    elbass543:

    thanks alot. i put my picture up with no problem.im having trouble though understanding the thumbnail way of doing it.maybe its just me but could someone please explain.

    Thank You



    you gotta resize it, just like with a normal resize, but smaller. So instead of like 50% you make it 10-25% of the original size.

    Then you upload the thumbnail AND the original photo.

    When you have them both uploaded you put the url to the thumbnail between the [i mg][/img]-code and the url to the original photo in the [u rl=""][/url]-code.
    Keep in mind that I put an extra space between the first 2 letters so you can see what the code is like.

    so the the code for a thumbnail should look like this (the URLs are examples, you copy-paste them from tinypic after uploading):

    [u rl="http://tinypic.com/originalphoto.jpg"][i mg]http://tinypic.com/originalphoto_thumb.jpg[/img][/url]

    again where [u rl should be [url and [i mg should be [img





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  •  10-06-2007, 5:13 PM 1017245 in reply to 182096

    Re: Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps



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  •  10-10-2007, 7:42 PM 1027599 in reply to 1017245

    Re: Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps


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  •  10-11-2007, 12:32 AM 1028156 in reply to 182096

    Re: Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps

    I still cant do it Sad [:(]
    I have a complicated problem, that I'm not sure how to fix. I think I have 2 windows live ID's or something...so whenever i take a photo and hit "upload to forzamotorsport.net" no pictures show up in my gallery thingy.
    any help??



  •  10-11-2007, 5:07 PM 1029504 in reply to 182096

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  •  10-26-2007, 7:45 PM 1069999 in reply to 182096

    Re: Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps

    This is only a test. I wanna see how it works with two pics.
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    and this is my 2nd

    I need 2 weeks to design all the logos.Smile [:)]

  •  10-29-2007, 8:51 AM 1075423 in reply to 1069999

    Re: Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps

    How come when I post it doesn't come up on the topic? It does it instantly on other forums :S
  •  10-29-2007, 12:02 PM 1075685 in reply to 1075423

    Re: Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps

    You posts are currently moderated as a new forum member. Over time and continued posts that adhere to the Terms of Service you will be unmoderated.


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  •  10-30-2007, 12:07 PM 1078315 in reply to 219558

    Re: Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps

  •  11-13-2007, 12:07 PM 1111212 in reply to 182096

    Re: Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps

    This is a great post ltlynX! I do have one question: Is there a way to go back furthur than your 5 latest posts? I don't see any links on the forzamotorsports.net/mystats page that would let me see older pictures.

     

    Again, this is a good post for anyone who is going to be working with the forums.


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  •  11-14-2007, 6:35 PM 1113937 in reply to 1111212

    Re: Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps

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  •  12-09-2007, 3:22 AM 1157984 in reply to 182096

    Re: Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps

    test

  •  12-24-2007, 8:12 AM 1187740 in reply to 1111212

    Re: Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps

    nogar:

    This is a great post ltlynX! I do have one question: Is there a way to go back furthur than your 5 latest posts? I don't see any links on the forzamotorsports.net/mystats page that would let me see older pictures.

     

    Again, this is a good post for anyone who is going to be working with the forums.

    No, the site only stores the most recent 5 photos uploaded, so just post 5 images and download them before posting another 5, etc.
  •  12-30-2007, 1:14 AM 1196830 in reply to 219558

    Re: Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps



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  •  01-01-2008, 7:01 AM 1200601 in reply to 400459

    Re: Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps

     

     

    Just testing it



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  •  01-01-2008, 7:11 AM 1200610 in reply to 182096

    Re: Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps



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  •  01-14-2008, 8:45 AM 1233052 in reply to 182096

    Re: Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps

    CHEERZ!

     

    (if it didnt work damb you all to hell)

    :-)

  •  01-15-2008, 1:16 PM 1235861 in reply to 182096

    Re: Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps

    This is a waste of time not everyone has or wants xbl.
    old school ps2, gt4 and a usb jump drive straight to the pc.
     HELLO microsoft, turn 10 whoever can make this happen!
    demand an update now!












  •  01-25-2008, 7:56 PM 1260917 in reply to 182096

    Re: Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps

    what like this
  •  01-25-2008, 7:59 PM 1260925 in reply to 182096

    Re: Tutorial: Posting your Forza 2 photos in 4 simple steps

    like this?

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