how do i post pictures?

[RandomRyan]

yo guys, im new here and i want to post an artwork that i drew on my notebook last night.

but it always says too much letters or something like that

[Starwhip]

Try a hosting service, like Imgur, and then copy the BBCode link of the upload to the forum post.

Welcome aboard!

[pendant]

Welcome!

This is actually a harder question to answer than it at first appears, as one has to make various assumptions -- sorry if I've assumed more, or less, than I should...

As Starwhip says, you will need to use a hosting service. I've used photobucket quite happily for many years.

1. Save your artwork to a file on your computer. There are many image file formats: JPG is a useful one. Remember where you've saved it so you can find it again!

2. Upload your image file to your image hosting service. This will either be easy, or somewhat less so, depending upon your familiarity with computer systems. Identify and copy the image's URL.

3. When creating a message on this forum, click on the 'Insert Image' icon and paste in the image's URL:

4. If you're planning on doing a lot of image work, you'll want to become familiar with some sort of image manipulation software, if only to be able to compress your images to a reasonable size (cf folk who email you 6MB bitmap images of their latest newborn). As many (most?) image hosting services will offer you a certain amount of space for free and then want to start charging you when you exceed that limit, the sooner you learn how to optimise your files, the better for your pocket.

5. If you're planning on doing a lot of stuff on the Internet, you will definitely want to look into using a password management system of some sort. I strongly recommend you start here.

6. Go to 5.

7. Warning! Warning! Danger, Will Robinson! Once you start down this path, forever will it dominate your destiny...