Test run of pictures

[erichunter]

1st time posting pics....hope this works...

here is the 8th at the Dunes in Michigan

[Kevin_Reilly]

Change your link to the main picture and not the smaller one on Mystic.

[erichunter]

thanks for the tip Kevin, I'll post more of the Dunes later

[Brian_Gracely]

Is the 8th a Par5 that is so well regarded?  I wish I'd been able to get out to Dunes last week while I was in the area.

[erichunter]

The 8th is quite a hole.  From the tees where the pic was taken, it is about 280 to the cross bunker.  Ample room off the tee.  The 2nd shot is key as you need to be in the right center of the fairway to avoid an overhanging tree that makes it very hard to hit the green if you are on the left hand side.  The green itself is elevated and you can only see the top of the flag.  There is also a bunker that fronts the left hand side of the green and runs down the grade.  

[david h. carroll]

I know this has been asked many times before, but due to my inherent laziness and lack of desire to search for the info, how does one post pictures here?  I recently returned from Morfontaine and would love to share the digital pics I took.

DC

[Brian_Gracely]

David,

It's been posted a few times, but obviously it gets bumped back to Page 100 or 101 or 102 over time.  And there are lots of places on the Internet to host pictures, so if you find somewhere else you like, it will work too.  But the place that a number GCA'ers use is MysticColorLab.com.  So how do you remember how to post them once this thread goes to page 101...?? The original post was a GCA "Top Hits" and therefore is list under "More Stats" if you click GolfClubAtlas.com at the top of the page (under GolfClubAtlas Discussion Group).  Look for the thread on the right side called "Posting (ass) Pictures - For Free".  It actually explains it pretty well.  

Basically the steps are like this:
1) Go to www.mysticcolorlab.com and register for an account.  It's free and fairly simple.  It'll probably ask if you want to download their "easy to use" software...just click yes.

2) Click on "Upload Photos" and it'll bring up screens that let you browse through your PC to find the images.  

3) After they are uploaded, you'll need to double-click on them to get the larger images (by default they are small).  

4) Put your mouse over the image, do a "right-click" and you'll get a menu with "Properties" at the bottom.  

5) Highlight THE ENTIRE string listed next to URL:.  It ALWAYS ends in .lsi, so if you don't get that, you need to drag it down a little more to get the whole string.  Then copy the string.

6) Open a GCA thread/reply and paste in the URL string.  Now, THIS IS THE IMPORTANT PART, you need to add the tags on the front and back of the URL to make it display properly.  The tag at the beginning is [img] and the tag at the end is [ /img] (except it doesn't have a space between the bracket and slash).  DO NOT put any spaces between these tags and the URL.

7) Another tip....click the "Preview" button before posting it to GCA.  This will show you what it'll look like to others, and you can make any changes if the image doesn't show up correctly.


Sorry for the really long-winded techo-geek babble, but once you do it once, it's actually pretty simple.  

[Jim Johnson]

Just wanted to bump this up, for anybody that might need help. As Brian says, once you've done it once [or a few times   ), it gets easy.

I'll add my own version, if it seems any easier for anybody.

Go to www.imageshack.us
Click in the little circle beside "File".
Then click in beside "browse", and then click "browse".
Browse in My Documents or wherever your photo is saved, and select it.
Back in imageshack...resize the image for message boards.
After waiting several seconds, click on the entire line beside "Direct link to image" and copy that line.
Go to your GCAtlas post, and follow step 6 in Brian's notes exactly.

That should do it.

Hopefully all of this helps in getting a few more pics onto this site. A picture does say 1,000 words.

JJ