Stamp collecting is a very visual hobby - members are strongly encouraged to add captioned images to all posts, and now this is easy with Stampboards hosting its own images.
Since our major tech update on June 1st 2020, you can add images here directly - from your phone or laptop or tablet etc -
Maximum Size is now 1024, a big 15% increase from the maximum on the old board.
Please do NOT add images via third party image hosting sites like IMGUR, photobucket, ImageShack, IMGBOX etc anymore. Any such images need to be manually converted by Volunteer Moderators, which is hugely time consuming
And do NOT EVER remove the ''S'' from end of https on any image or link you post.
How to instantly add Images off your device to stampboards -
Click on New Topic or Post Reply to open a posting window.
Click on Attachments tab then Add files box
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Clicking on Add files will take you to the images files on your device.
Select the image/images you require then click Open
You will be returned to your posting window with image files displayed at the bottom of the screen.
1 Add a caption in the File comment box
2 then click Place inline/b] - that bit is most important.
3 Press Submit
Use the "PREVIEW" Button to ensure you get it all correct!
Your image and caption have now been posted to the board
If you are loading images directly from an iPhone/android sometimes images appear fine on the phone but automatically rotate when loaded to the board. In this case rotate the images 360 degrees in your phone photos and then save them again - then upload. This prevents the annoying auto-rotate
Google ''spidering'' is ESSENTIAL to this board. Use detailed and precise captions in the caption box BEFORE you hit submit - you cannot easily add them later. We ask that EVERY image here have a caption, and the word stamp should be in most of those captions.
AGAIN - Please do NOT add images via third party image hosting sites liie IMGUR anymore. Any such images need to be manually converted by Volunteer Moderators.
And do NOT remove the ''S'' from end of https on any image or link you post.
Sadly the new software JAMS things up often. So we added the ADD SPACE button .. use that before you type anything, even words, or before any images, to stop that. It adds white space.
NOTE: Only click it ONCE .. yes two ''ADD SPACE'' html commands appear - that is just quirky coding. i.e. do not hit it TWICE as you will get LARGE spaces then!
Those savvy members that use the PREVIEW button, will see instantly how that improves your final post! No more ugly jamming up of YOUR posts.
Near ALL mages posted here looked better CENTRED -- simply select the attachment image code and then hit CENTRE button as shown.
Also, when posting a string of 6 or 8 images, each butts up to one another - pretty ugly, and no definition between them. Using your SHIFT key to add space does not work.
There is a SUPER simple and fast solution to add a few mm of white space between them .. just manually add a full stop as shown here -
Please test your direct image loading skills below! It is much easier than you may think. And always use ''PREVIEW'' button for your first few tries.
