railroader9731 Wrote:Well im running modern era 1990-2000 area. I have already built a shelf layout that is kinda a U shape and i was looking for something that will cap off the side that is 2ft wide by 7ft long. In order to help ill get pics on here once i mail them to my supervisor at work. ( a train nut with no space to build )
Harry ... I'm not sure why you must mail them to your supervisor at work ... why get him (or her) involved ... try this ... it's so easy even I can do it! It's even less complicated if you just have all the windows you will need open as tabs across the top of the Web Surfer Window!
1. Go to PhotoBucket <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://photobucket.com/">http://photobucket.com/</a><!-- m --> and open a free account. (just follow the instructions.) Next, (I tell you this 'cuz I had to learn by making mistakes) make an album called "My shelf layout" or whatever you want to call it ... just don't operate from the initial spot you land because you can't organize your images as well from there. And if you must move them later to organize them, it breaks the link to anything you've already posted and you have to go back and edit and re-paste the new link to the image ... it's a pain ... I had to do it on my "Building a Small Fleet of Very Small Cabooses" thread!
2. On your computer, take each image to MS Picture Manager or some sort of image manager program and reduce the size of the image to either 800x600 or even better, 640x480 and put the edited ones in a separate file where you can easily find them.
3. Now go back to PhotoBucket and upload the images from your computer to Photobucket, making sure that you are keeping them organized (remember ... if you move them, you will "break the link" and your images will vanish from where you eventually post them!) When you've up-loaded all your images, minimize PhotoBucket and switch to Big Blue.
4. Now you can start a thread here at Big Blue and when you get to where you want an image, maximize your minimized PhotoBucket window, put the curser over the image you want, when you see the four codes, slide down to the "img" label, right-click-save, toggle back to Big Blue, right-click-paste where you want to insert the image and ...
There you go ... easy peasy!
Anyway ... just give it a try ...