Hi everyone. I have recently posted a link to a beta I have made in the WIP section of the site.

http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=451952

I tried to upload a screenshot from photobucket, but the site says the "dynamic pages are not allowed in [IMG] tags".

Can someone please tell me how I can upload an image? Am I not allowed to use photobucket or something?

you need to use images in format of .gif or .png

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Moderator Edit: ...or .jpeg or .bmp

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Edit Edit: Apparently .bmp does not work inside image tags. You can only use .bmp if you post the bare link. For example:

http://blogs.theage.com.au/schembri/war2.bmp

But my picture was in bmp. format when I uploaded it to photobucket

@moderator: i always got an error with .Bmp

what i do:

for .GIF:

open in the Game Maker image editor and click save as gif, then it doesn't loose quality like when its done in paint


for .PNG and any others:


open it in paint, click save as, choose from the drop down list any compatible format and save it.


Once you have a format that works on the forum, upload it to which ever site you use and it should be ok.
If not, just post the link using tags

I just tried with a .bmp image with image tags and got an error also. I thought the forum accepted .bmp inside the image tags, but I was wrong. You can only use .bmp if you post the bare link. For example:

http://blogs.theage.com.au/schembri/war2.bmp

@sonosublime: sorry for the misinformation. Try .png or .jpg/jpeg They work fine inside the image tags.

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EDIT: I removed several posts below this one, because they were discussing ways to use posted images to play pranks (or worse). The original question was answered. To post images, just embed the image address between image tags:



To have an image also act like a link, do this:

Hi everyone.
I have converted my image to a png, and then re-uploaded it to photobucket, but the GMC site still says that it is a dynamic page...

The link photobucket gives isn't actually the image, its a referral link to a page on their site with the image on it, so they receive ad-revenue.
Right click the image on that page and click 'copy image url' or 'copy image link', whatever it is in your browser(varies).

Do you mean to pull up the page which only has the picture and nothing else? That's what I do.

Once I'm in photobucket, I go to the "View Image" page. I then copy down the url from that page.

Now that you finally sent me the link, it was easy to see the problem. The link contained page information -- not just the image link.

Just remove that extraneous info at the end of the link, so that it ends with .png. Then it works fine:

Once again proving that if we keep harassing people, begging them for pertinent information, they will finally concede, allowing the solution to be found.

Ahh, the GMC, the good Samaritan's haven.

Ack, please do not promote the usage of such an outdated, bulky image format on the internet.
And everyone who read this: Avoid the .bmp format. Use jpg for high colour pics and gif or png for low colour pics/pixel art.

Great! Thanks a lot!

use tinypic.com! you don't even have to sign up!

When using JPEGs for photos under 500 pixels wide and/or 500 pixels tall, use 90+ or higher quality, 75+ for larger images. Just a recommendation.

tinypic.com converts any type of picture to JPEG!!!!



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Edit: See My Post Below

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EDIT: See Post Below

There are 3 pictures in every single post I make hosted on tinypic.com that are not jpgs and one post I made in this very thread contains nothing but a gif hosted there.
100 points for you if you find out which post that is.
Maybe you can deduct, from the content of that mystery post, why tinypic converted your picture to jpeg.

oh i forgot, it converts to gif OR jpeg OR png

This One Is A Png Because It Was A Gif!




Click Save Picture as and the file association will be png



Ive got one more question, are you doing "www.tinypic.com" (wrong) or "tinypic.com" (correct)

It only converts bmp to jpg.

I'm pretty sure that at no point has this ever been a gif.

fine, or jpg

It has more than 255 colors so it can't have been a gif.
It has alpha transparency (the shadow) so it can't have been a jpg.
It has always been a png.

nope. trust me, its a gif
its a png



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Ooops. My Brother changed The File Assoc.

Can we stop arguing now??

When to use PNG, GIF, and JPEG. Notice how BMP is not included.

Nice illustration.

It's safe to say there is no reason you should ever use a bmp. There are no quality gains of it over png. There's a loss, actually. Pngs are just compressed bmps with alpha channels, in case you don't already know.

ok, thanks for the extra info

More details. Once again, BMP is not mentioned.

o.k. i get the point