How to upload a picture
As you can imagine, counterfeit items are designed to pass as legitimate products hence will look similar, if not almost identical. This is the reason why good quality photo's are necessary. It is usually pointless using your camera's photo function - results are almost always not good enough. However, by using a good quality compact or SLR, you may in fact end up with so much data contained in the file that the size of that photo may may 10MB or more! Even if you have access to image hosting of such large files, uploading them onto the forum would make the page load for viewers here an absolute nightmare - even with a fast BB connection. With that in mind, my uploads tend to be in the region of 300kb per image, though when there are multiple images on one page, it can make that page still uncomfortably slow. Subsequent viewings though from that user should be quicker as the images become cached.
SO:
1. If possible, crop the photo using photoshop or paint to only show the vial, pills etc and get rid of surrounding crap. This will reduce file size.
2. To reduce file size further use image\image size in photoshop to adjust width size down to perhaps 1500 pixels (maintaining height proportion).
3. Open photo with paint then just click 'save'. This will reduce file size by another 60 or 70%
Process of actually uploading from your Hard Drive, via an image hosting site:
1: Click "image" as shown below. This will open a pair of image tags:
visit
www.imageshack.us and upload your image by clicking "browse" and navigating to where your image is stored on your hard drive. If your image is quite narrow but deep, you may wish to resize it to 19 or 21", otherwise keep it at 15 or 17". Don't upload without resizing otherwise you risk uploading at actual pixel size and it will be huge requiring not only downward scrolling, but left scrolling also which annoys viewers beyond comprehension.
OK, after upload you will see the following screen where you will need to right click and copy the bits shown
Now paste the contents in between the image tags that you created in step 1 and you get
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