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I know the question has been asked before but I cant find it, I want to add pictures on the forum
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There are two ways to do this, one is to upload the images with the forum post itself, which can be done from manage attachments.

Advantages: no need for external file hosting.

Disadvantages: maximum of three images per post, image must be compressed below a certain file size before uploading. (I forget how small but its only a few hundred kilobytes) There is also a limitation on the total number of attachments that you can upload to the forum - its somewhere in the low hundreds but when you hit that limit (as I have) you're completely out of luck and unable to upload any more images/files.

The other way is to upload the image elsewhere (and scale it to no more than 800x600) and then link to it using the img tag. I use dropbox for this but there are other sites. Upload your image, get a raw URL that points directly to the image (not to a page containing the image) then in your post press the Img button which will insert the image tags, paste your URL in between these two tags and your image will appear there.

Using this method there is no limit to the number of images per post.
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Thanks Mandrake, I will give that a try
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Simple instructions here.
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