if you already have a garden with images uploaded skip the first list of instructions to read how to post a picture in a thread.
1. start off at the growkind home page: http://www.growkind.com/home.html (at the bottom of every forum page there is a HOME link that also gets you there)
4. now, if you already have a garden account (this is separate from your forum account) skip to the next step. otherwise sign up for a garden account by clicking on need an account? or this link: https://www.growkind.com/edit/signup.asp fill out the information (you can use the same info from your forum account). then click the Main Page link to get back to the login page.
5. log in using your garden account username/password.
6. onced logged in click the Start a New Garden link.
7. fill in the required info and submit the form. you will now see your garden listed with Title/Status showing the title you specified followed by In Progress.
8. click on the Edit button, and then scroll down to the bottom of the page.
9. fill out the Add A Picture To This Garden form (description is optional), and click the Upload File button.
10. your picture has now been uploaded...but your garden is not LIVE yet, so only you can access it by logging in. you can leave the status as In Progress if you want to keep your pictures private.
11. to make your garden visible to other members, simply change the Status drop-down menu box to Live and then click the Save Changes button.
2. once you find the picture in your garden you want to upload, right-click on the image. if you are using Mozilla Firefox web browser you will have an option to Copy Image Location. click it to put the image's URL into your clipboard. if you are using Internet Explorer (god forbid), you must click the Properties option, and then manually select the URL of the image and copy it.
3. once you have the image's URL copied you are ready to include that picture in a post. to do so, use the following format: [ img ] URL [ /img ] ...where URL is the address you will paste. make sure there are NO SPACES between the [ ] characters.
4. make your post and you should see the image.
5. if your garden is not live, then you will have to log in as you would when uploading new images. click the Edit button next to the garden that contains the image you want to upload.
