I've never posted pics of FSX so that I can show my fellow forum members some things. What is your recommendation on snapping pictures, and RESIZING them to be able to upload them to AVSIM. Is there a tutorial showing "how-to" do it correctly and easily?Stan

Try this:Hit V in FSX to take a screenshot. That will appear in the 'My Documents' folder on your computer, in the sub folder 'My Pictures', where you'll find a folder called 'Flight Simulator X Files' which stores your screenshots. By default they will be at your FSX resolution at probably 72 dpi. That puts them over the odds for the AVSIM screenshot forum, so to resize them easily, go to Photobucket.com and get an account there (free), then on your photobucket page, start a library and choose to upload a picture (navigate to that folder where your screenshot is and pick your screenshot), it'll take maybe 20-30 seconds to upload the pic.When it shows up, click on the thumbnail of it and you'll be taken to a bit where you can resize it, look at the top of the image and hover your mouse there and you'll see the resize option. Choose something like 'Large 640' which will put you in the AVSIM screenshot library limits. Now, go back yo your library page in Photobucket and underneath your pic you will see four text windows, click on the bottom-most one, and it will highlight the text in there. Hit Control+C (to copy that text) and then when you go to a forum post, hit Control+V (to paste the text). That will paste the image code for the pic into your forum post and you'll see some text confirming that which will say something along the lines of:.It is the IMG bit in square brackets that tells the forum to find and display that image at the location it is stored online, so on your post, you won't see that text, instead you will see the picture.Al

Try this:Hit V in FSX to take a screenshot. That will appear in the 'My Documents' folder on your computer, in the sub folder 'My Pictures', where you'll find a folder called 'Flight Simulator X Files' which stores your screenshots. By default they will be at your FSX resolution at probably 72 dpi. That puts them over the odds for the AVSIM screenshot forum, so to resize them easily, go to Photobucket.com and get an account there (free), then on your photobucket page, start a library and choose to upload a picture (navigate to that folder where your screenshot is and pick your screenshot), it'll take maybe 20-30 seconds to upload the pic.When it shows up, click on the thumbnail of it and you'll be taken to a bit where you can resize it, look at the top of the image and hover your mouse there and you'll see the resize option. Choose something like 'Large 640' which will put you in the AVSIM screenshot library limits. Now, go back yo your library page in Photobucket and underneath your pic you will see four text windows, click on the bottom-most one, and it will highlight the text in there. Hit Control+C (to copy that text) and then when you go to a forum post, hit Control+V (to paste the text). That will paste the image code for the pic into your forum post and you'll see some text confirming that which will say something along the lines of:.It is the IMG bit in square brackets that tells the forum to find and display that image at the location it is stored online, so on your post, you won't see that text, instead you will see the picture.Al

Thanks for the very comprehensive lesson!Stan

Congrats too Stan on your new system! Looks nice!Best regards,Jim Young

But don't forget, screen shots go in the screen shot forum unless they are showing a problem or solution to a problem.Here are the Avsim Image posting rules so you can be ready..Image Posting Rules1. Uploaded image size can be no greater than 1600 pixels wide and proportionatly high2. Images can be no larger than 200K bytes large3. Images exceeding 1024 x 768 will be reduced to that size automatically when you upload, but once uploaded, by clicking on the image, readers will be able to view the full size image4. No more than 10 images are allowed in a single message5. All images must appear in the first message of the topic, no subsequent messages may be posted that include images6. The posting or linking to images that are not yours can result in banning - adhere to all copyrights7. Web sites found to be linking to images in the AVSIM Screen Shot forum will have access blocked8. All images uploaded to the AVSIM Screen Shot Forum will be removed after 30 days9. Images posted from commercial vendors are not allowed (please contact us about a Gallery for your organization)10. Images from products in BETA Testing are not allowed11. Images linked to the forum must be no larger than 1024 pixels wide and no more than 200K bytes in size12. You may link to images hosted on YOUR website, but the images MUST be yours and not exceed the 1024 pixel width size