My Autopia/Meguiars day pics

[Scottwax]

Soarer's SC400:





Mike-the paint is shiny---no finger prints!

[Scottwax]

Hood demo:



rdwara and rjstaff finishing up that Accord:



Mike showing the do's and don'ts of the PC:

[Scottwax]

ERock (aka Eric) putting what Mike showed him to good use:



A couple shots of the finished car. Clayed, Meguiars Speed Glaze #80 with a polishing pad and NXT:





You can see how the metallic explodes out of the paint:

[Scottwax]

A few more pics. Some of the cars that showed up for the meet. Very nice selection and as a whole, very well maintained!








Again, thanks to the Meguiars staff, from Barry Meguiar and Mike Pennington all the way down for opening their facilities to us and a special thank-you to Mike and Lynn Phillips who put so much time and effect into making this event so successful!

[soaped]

Scottwax those are some excellent pictures!

may I ask what camera you were using?

Daniel

[Scottwax]

Daniel-I use a Nikon N60 35mm SLR with Tamaron lenses and Kodak High Definition Film. When I get the film developed, I have the pictures put on a CD.

[n1976jmk]

mike no pics here either?????

[Mike Phillips]

The reason the pictures don't show up is because either,

• *The photos are no longer hosted in the location they were at the time they were posted to Scott's reply.
  *The URL address has changed and the current URL address points to the wrong location.

If you click on quote like you were going to quote Scott in a reply, your message box will open up with his message and the code to his pictures, I have copied and pasted it below but removed the brackets so that the code will show up (Brackets would look like this [ and one of these ] around the letters, img in front of and after the URL address

img]http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/1099cars1.jpg[/img

img] http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/1099cars2.jpg [/img

img] http://www.photohost.org/gallery/dat...ished_cars.jpg [/img

Now you can see for the first picture, the URL Address is

http://www.photohost.org/gallery/data/500/1099cars1.jpg

And if you click on the link it goes nowhere. That's why the pictures don't show up.

Pictures in messages have to be hosted or stored somewhere on the Internet so that a code link can point to them and they'll show up. The picture will only show up as long as it is in the original place it was uploaded to and the URL address remains the same, otherwise... a RED X

The best bet for any pictures you want to post in your messages on Meguiar's Online is to upload them into the Gallery here on Meguiar's Online and then use the IMG tags to insert them into your messages.

Here's an article I wrote that explains why the Attach File option in our forum in not enabled, and it also has links that go to three tutorials that use pictures to walk you through the process of learning how to work with images in the vbulletin environment, (and most discussion forum environments).



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Hi everyone....

A lot of people want to share a picture in their message and naturally try to do so using the Attach file option at the bottom of where you type in your message...

That would be right below to the left where it says "Attach File"





When I say that the Attach File option is not enabled, what I mean is it won't insert your picture, but instead inserts a link. You can still click on the Browse button to select a picture off your computer, but it won't actually insert the image. See below,





The "Attach File" option is turned off because over time the data base tables become corrupted and the wrong pictures show up in messages, (everyone's messages). What this means is overtime, if you were to read a message you posted you may see someone else's picture in your message instead of the picture you originally Attached. This can be very annoying. For example, you post a message about the horrible swirls in your car's finish but the pictures shows beautiful car, or something else. When this happens, you message doesn't make sense you to, or anyone else that's reading the thread.

The other problem with using the Attach File option is that it creates two data bases with pictures, (one for the gallery and one for the forum), which is a bad use of resources and causes long back-up times.

For the above reason, we provide all our registered members with their own gallery to keep their photos in. We ask all of our members to upload their pictures into their gallery and then use the IMG tags to insert your picture into your message.


It would look like this,



Note: In the above picture, there is a Yellow Box drawn around what is called the URL Address of a picture that is on the Internet, whether it's in your Meguiar's Online Gallery, or somewhere else. To snag this address, all you have to do is Right Click with your mouse on the top of any photo on the Internet, and then select Properties. An information box will appear on your computer screen with information about the pictures. Look for the words, URL Address and then use your mouse/cursor to to highlight the address and then Right Click on the highlighted text and select Copy, to copy this URL address into the IMG button/tags.



It's pretty simple and easy to do, once you do it a few times. After uploading your pictures and inserting them using the IMG button, you will get the hang of it and it works the same way on most forums.

Here are some tutorials on how to work with images in the vbulletin environment. These can be found in a forum called, Meguiar?s On-line Technical Tutorials.

1) How-to Crop your photos before uploading them to your gallery
2) How to resize your photos using Easy Thumbnails - Free software!
3) Step-by-Step Picture-Posting HOW TO


In most cases, you should follow the above order when working with your images. That is,

First Step - Crop your photo's. Cut out the junk so that your picture contains what's important, the picture should tell a story even if the story is, "Look at me, I'm a beautiful car". There is an example in the tutorial).


Second Step - Resize your photos. It's bad Netiquette to post pictures that are wider than 700 pixels wide as it will not fit on the majority of peoples computer monitors and in order to see you picture, the viewer will have to horizontal scroll, ugh.... A lot of digital cameras take very large pictures, so you you must resize them to make them easy to view as well as faster to download.

The Tutorial for his shows you how to do it with a free software program that I use, but any software program that you already own and know how to use will also work.


Third Step - Upload your picture to your gallery, this is covered for both PC computers and MACcomputers in the tutorial.

When you see someone, especially a new member trying to attach a picture using the Attach file option, please be kind and share with them the link to this message so that they will understand why their pictures don't show up and so that they can learn the proper procedures for inserting photos into their messages.

We want to encourage people to post their pictures, but we want to show them how to do it the right way.

"Each one, teach one"

Thank you!



Mike