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Reality TVClubHouse Discussions: Help!: EZ lessons in posting fonts, images, and links Author Message Draheid Moderator 09-09-2001 Friday, February 13, 2004 - 5:26 pm        Originally Posted by Gail on Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 04:45 pm formatting lessons: Lesson 1: To post with colored letters you type: \red{Hello!} and that will give you: Hello! To get color that is bold type: \b{\red{Hello!}} and that will give you: Hello! To change size you can go up one and type: \1{\b{\red{Hello!}}} and that will look like: Hello! If you really want to make a spashy statement you can go to the largest size and type: \2{\b{\red{Hello!!}}} and it looks like: Hello! To center your message you type: \c{\2{\b{\red{Hello!}}}} and that comes out as: Hello! It is also possible to use smaller font by using the \-2{smallest size}} which looks like this: smallest size There are a couple of things to note. For every bracket like this ---> { you have throughout the beginning of your code (before your message) you need an equal number of these ---> } piled together at the end of your message. If you don’t have the same number of {{ and }} it won’t work. If you use (( instead of {{ in error--it won’t work either. There are several colors from which to chose: red, green, blue, cyan, purple, orange, yellow, white, black and gray. The yellow, white and grey are very hard for some people to see but they are available. Draheid Moderator 09-09-2001 Friday, February 13, 2004 - 5:41 pm        Originally posted by Gail on Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 04:45 pm Lesson 2: Available clipart can be found at the top of the page under clipart. General directions for posting a particular clipart would be to type: \clipart{smile} That would show up as: There are many images from which to choose and all are posted using the same method. If you want to center a string of clipart to make a border you can just type out one or a sequence of two or three and then copy and paste a few times. For instance: \c{\clipart{smile}\clipart{starb}\clipart{smile}\clipart{starb}} would look like: It’s nice to finish things off by adding another smile at the end to make the pattern symetric if you wish. That would look like this: When you find a border you really like and it’s fairly complicated the easiest thing to do is copy and paste to a document on your hard drive. Then you have it already done for future use. You do need to make sure you don’t string too many cliparts together or they will wrap around to the next line and not give you the effect you are after. It’s also useful preview your posts when doing complicated formatting to be sure there are no errors. It saves a lot of headaches. Feel free to practice in the spam room. Above all, HAVE FUN!! Draheid Moderator 09-09-2001 Friday, February 13, 2004 - 5:44 pm        Originall posted by Tess on Saturday, June 15, 2002 - 03:17 pm Lesson 3: Posting images: The current size limit for posting images is 40k. This capability will likely be turned off during BB to due to the sheer number of posts on the board, but most of the rest of the year we do have the capability and space to accomodate gifs and jpegs. Your image must be in one of those 2 formats already downloaded on your hard drive before you try to post it on the board. The code for posting an image, whether it's an animated clipart or photograph is: \image{name of your image here} For instance if you want to post a picture of welcome butterfly and you have that on your hard drive you type: \image{butterfly} and then hit preview\post. You will be brought to a screen that will give you a preview of your post with a box that looks like this: . Don't panic! Hit the button that says "Post this message." That will bring you to the next screen titled "Image/attachment Upload Form." You will see a message that says: Provide file for 'whatever title you gave to your image'. In the above example, it would say, "Provide image for butterfly". Under that will be a blank box. Next to the blank box is a button which says browse. Hit the browse button and select your image from your hard drive. Then hit the button under the box which says Upload and voila! You will then have successfully posted an image. Draheid Moderator 09-09-2001 Friday, February 13, 2004 - 5:45 pm        Originally posted by Gail on Thursday, July 11, 2002 - 04:52 pm Lesson 4: To post a clickable link the first thing you need is the url of the spot you want people to find. You can just copy and paste the url right into your formatting. For instance, if I want to provide a link to the Spam Room for TVCH members to practice their formattdzs22C I would type and paste the following: \link{https://tvclubhouse.com/forum/forumcgi-bin/forum/board-auth.cgi?lm=1076477837&file=/6402/6403.html, Spam room} That will look like this: Spam Room The first thing after your { is the URL of the site or place on the board for which you need the link. After the url there is a comma and after the comma you need a description of the link. The next person who comes along would only need to click on the words “Spam Room” to reach that particular area. Draheid Moderator 09-09-2001 Friday, February 13, 2004 - 5:46 pm        Originally posted by Halfunit on Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 06:28 pm Gail, I’m posting here because I know you will see it. Please feel free to remove if need be. I have a question about uploading gifs and then getting a file lock. When that happens, the “Your Image Here” icon appears and then if I try to edit it, I can’t upload another pic - my only option is to change the post to text and try in another message. Am I missing something? Sorry to post this here, but I didn’t think it belonged in the tech area, nor did it warrant a personal e-mail... thanks!!! Originally posted by Gail on Tuesday, August 27, 2002 - 07:00 pm Halfunit - I think in that case you’re kind of hosed. When that happens though - make a post that starts with Moderator and ask for the bad post to be deleted. You wouldn’t believe how bad I botched posting the example above! I finally had to just move Tess’s post over instead. The only thing I can suggest (and this probably doesn’t work) is go back and edit your post to delete the image upload, then after it posts, go back and edit it again and see if you can add the image again. I have no idea if that will work or not. Originally posted by Flyonthwall on Sunday, September 08, 2002 - 10:41 pm Screen caps how to’s: (this is my way of doing it, it’s fast and easy after you get the hang of it. But there are other programs out there, you can read about in the tech help threads. Maybe someone will post here about those as well. I’ll post what I know best!) Have real player Have a paint program like Paint shop pro or Photoshop etc. Open real player Click on the real player and then on TOOL PREFERENCES HARDWARE In the hardware make sure the “Use Optimized Video Display” button is UNCHECKED <image lost - sorry> Now click on Real player (think of this as “selecting” real player from everything else open on your desk top) Then press the ALT key and the F12 Key at the same time. (this is a copy feature and will copy the real player screen) Open or change over to your paint program. Click on the paste button, or you may be able to right click on the paint area and paste. You should now see your screen cap in your paint program. NOTE: If you have a black screen, you didn’t UNCHECK the view optimized video display button. If you have your entire desktop with a tiny real player, you need to be sure you click on real player, like selecting it, then hit the alt+f12 keys. Now in your paint program Select the part of the Real player picture you want to save. I use PSP7 I cut out the part I want to save, click on copy, then hit paste again and the new cut out version is there. Play with your own program to see what you need to do to get the best version of the screen cap you want. Cutting off the “real player” frame. Next you save it to your hard drive. Be sure you save it as a JPEG file. These are smaller files. NOTE MORE ADVANCED: At this time you can even compress the image, but most of the screen caps are around 13K or less, so there is really not much need if you don’t really know how! :-) If you take a quad cam shot and all four cams are the same, or say two cams are the same picture: You can again cut out the sections you want to keep, for your choice out of the four selections. (you can save it and post it as is but it’s a smaller picture) OR you can: Paste them then resize them. I have found that 300 is the best size set for the width. Height is set automatically. (if not just adjust it out till it looks good) After you’ve saved it you upload it like any other graphic. Please please be sure to practice here or on the spam pages before you try this in the LFP area!!! Make sure you have it down, or you’ll drive Ryn insane! LOL Also limit your screen caps when posting as it uses a lot of bandwidth and causes the pages to load very slowly for those who are reading the LFP’s and have a dial up modem! Thanks! To post your image, go to the top of the page to the TVCH banner. There click on FORMAT and it has a detailed description of how to post an image or graphic. Use the \image {your screen cap here} command (NO spaces!) Read the instructions and watch your backslash \ and brackets { or your image won’t show up! One last tip. If you get a file lock error when loading your graphic or screen cap. DON’T cancel! Use your browsers back button, and it will ask you to reload the grapic from the upload page! If you don’t use the back button on your browser then you’ll be left with an “image here” box in your post! If you do have an image here box you can use the edit button on your post to go back and “remove” the tag line for the graphic. Because once it’s posted you can’t reload it in that post, it has to be a new post. Hope this helps and is easy to follow! I’ve had many ask and used these same directions and they have learned how! Be sure you practice first on the spam pages!!! FLY Originally posted by Flyonthwall on Wednesday, September 11, 2002 - 08:16 pm Rolandcat, you can download versions of Paint shop pro and others at CLICK HERE: Cnet.com Do a search for paint programs or specific programs like Paint shop pro or PSP7 for short. Good luck! FLY Originally posted by Flyonthwall on Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 09:38 am Thought I’d add the link for the Paintshop Pro 7 download. Free to try but for full program and extas you have to buy it. I thinks it’s around $100....Best buy and Comp USA have them on sale around Christmas time generally. It also includes an animation program so you can create animated graphics or words that change, such as the name graphics I made. Very cool and easy to learn! CLICK HERE for download page for Paintshop pro 7 With this download you have all working files but some of the extra files for different effects are not available until you buy the whole program. I used PSP5 for a long long time on the trial version and didn’t need a lot of the extras. Basically because I didn’t know what to do with them! LOL There are many tutorials on how to use PSP on the net and you can do a search for tutorials PSP and find many that will teach special graphic techniques. Many filters also for free, these give special effects to your graphic. Search for filters or tube files. As you work with it you can learn a lot more about these special features! Also photoshop is a good program too. I have it but have found it has a lot of the same tools and effects as PSP. So I stick to that. Micrographicx is a great program that was inexpensive and has lots of premade graphics. It also comes with a animation program. Premade layouts for greeting cards, business cards and many other usefull templates. If you get one program and work with it, the next program from another creator will be easier because they all work basically the same way. Best of luck! You have all winter to practice and be ready for BB4? LOL FLY Originally posted by Rissa on Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 03:36 pm I have a question about links. How do I stop a long URL from widening the message screen? Is it simply a matter of hitting return in the middle of the URL? I always worry that the link won’t work then, so I just leave it and then feel guilty. RFLOL Originally posted by Sia on Tuesday, October 15, 2002 - 07:43 pm That’s a great question, Rissa. I don’t know how to do it, either, unless the answer is to hit a carriage-return before putting the url in. That way the URL would be the first thing on a new line of type and might not be overly-long. Am I on the right track, anyone? Originally posted by Draheid on Sunday, October 27, 2002 - 08:56 am Rissa & Sia: 1st off, I’m sorry I didn’t see this sooner. I hope you’ve already gotten answers to this. In cas you haven’t here goes. The trick is to give the link a ‘name’. When you use the \link or \topurl tags, be sure you put between the brackets both the link and a ‘name’ seperated by a comma like this: \newurl{http:\www.websitewithalink.com_whatever.html,A link} This would appear as: A link If for some reason you have a problem with a link, sometimes you can leave a note for a moderator with the thread and approximate time of your post and they can go in and ‘clean it up’ for you. You should post this info in the ‘local’ Q& A section or in the Questions to Moderators located in the TV Clubhouse section. Hope this helps. Originally posted by March on Wednesday, October 08, 2003 - 07:04 am Gail, Thanks for posting these lessons. I have printed them off as I know I would never remember all this. Will try one of these days. Draheid Moderator 09-09-2001 Friday, February 13, 2004 - 7:07 pm        FFFFFF FFFFCC FFFF99 FFFF66 FFFF33 FFFF00 CCFFFF CCFFCC CCFF99 CCFF66 CCFF33 CCFF00 FFCCFF FFCCCC FFCC99 FFCC66 FFCC33 FFCC00 CCCCFF CCCCCC CCCC99 CCCC66 CCCC33 CCCC00 FF99FF FF99CC FF9999 FF9966 FF9933 FF9900 CC99FF CC99CC CC9999 CC9966 CC9933 CC9900 FF66FF FF66CC FF6699 FF6666 FF6633 FF6600 CC66FF CC66CC CC6699 CC6666 CC6633 CC6600 FF33FF FF33CC FF3399 FF3366 FF3333 FF3300 CC33FF CC33CC CC3399 CC3366 CC3333 CC3300 FF00FF FF00CC FF0099 FF0066 FF0033 FF0000 CC00FF CC00CC CC0099 CC0066 CC0033 CC0000 99FFFF 99FFCC 99FF99 99FF66 99FF33 99FF00 66FFFF 66FFCC 66FF99 66FF66 66FF33 66FF00 99CCFF 99CCCC 99CC99 99CC66 99CC33 99CC00 66CCFF 66CCCC 66CC99 66CC66 66CC33 66CC00 9999FF 9999CC 999999 999966 999933 999900 6699FF 6699CC 669999 669966 669933 669900 9966FF 9966CC 996699 996666 996633 996600 6666FF 6666CC 666699 666666 666633 666600 9933FF 9933CC 993399 993366 993333 993300 6633FF 6633CC 663399 663366 663333 663300 9900FF 9900CC 990099 990066 990033 990000 6600FF 6600CC 660099 660066 660033 660000 33FFFF 33FFCC 33FF99 33FF66 33FF33 33FF00 00FFFF 00FFCC 00FF99 00FF66 00FF33 00FF00 33CCFF 33CCCC 33CC99 33CC66 33CC33 33CC00 00CCFF 00CCCC 00CC99 00CC66 00CC33 00CC00 3399FF 3399CC 339999 339966 339933 339900 0099FF 0099CC 009999 009966 009933 009900 3366FF 3366CC 336699 336666 336633 336600 0066FF 0066CC 006699 006666 006633 006600 3333FF 3333CC 333399 333366 333333 333300 0033FF 0033CC 003399 003366 003333 003300 3300FF 3300CC 330099 330066 330033 330000 0000FF 0000CC 000099 000066 000033 000000 FF6347 40E0D0 EE82EE D2B48C 008080 D8BFD8 4B0D82 E6E6FA FFF0F5 FFF8DC FFFAF0 F8F8FF FFFAFA 00FF7F 4682B4 87CEEB 6A5ACD 708090 DCDCDC F0FFF0 FFFFF0 F0E68C FFFACD FFFFE0 FFF5EE A0522D C0C0C0 FA8072 F4A460 2E8B57 FAF0E6 F5FFFA FFE4E1 FAEBD7 F0F8FF F0FFFF BC8F8F 4169E1 8000B0 D87093 DA70D6 FFC0DB F5F5DC FFE4C4 FFEBCD E0FFFF D3D3D3 B0C4DE DDA0DD 8A2BE2 FF1493 FF00FF C71585 FF69B4 FAFAD2 FFE4B5 FFDEAD FDF5E6 EEE8AA FFEFD5 FFB6C1 BA55D3 9370D8 9400D3 9932CC 8B008B FFDAB9 FFA500 CD853F FF4500 FF8C00 E9967A FFA07A F08080 CD5C5C FF7F50 BDB76B FFD700 B0E0E6 AFEEEE 000080 48D1CC 20B2AA 00BFFF DAA520 B8860B DEB887 8B4513 800000 B22222 00CED1 1E90FF 00FFFF 7FFFD4 808000 688E23 8B0000 DC143C A52A2A 696969 808080 778899 98FB98 FF0000 D2691E A9A9A9 7FFF00 006400 0000FF 5F9EA0 6495ED 00FFFF 008B8B 00008B 556B2F 8FBC8F 228B22 008000 ADFF2F 7CFC00 483D8B ADD8E6 87CEFA 0000CD 7B68EE 191970 90EE90 00FF00 32CD32 66CDAA 3CB371 00FA9A To use any of these colors, simply choose the one you want then use the following tag in your post: \rgb{######,Your text here} where ###### is the code you have selected above. Halfunit Moderator 09-02-2001 Saturday, May 20, 2006 - 11:35 am        Originally Posted by Draheid on Saturday, May 20, 2006 - 08:03 am This could be 'sort of' done by using the \tablebg{######,text here} tag. Not exactly the way it is supposed to be used (because you have to 'escape' the use of commas by putting a \ in front of them like this: \, to use them) but it might be what you're looking for? The ###### represents an rgb color as seen in the chart above.