As you probably know, anybody can post photos to threads in our forums. It's quick and easy, and there are hundreds of thousands of them. On the other hand, if you know exactly what plant the photo is of, you can post the photo to that plant's entry in our database, and then include the photo in your post using the db_photo tag. This has many advantages, primarily that the photo in the thread now shows which plant it is, and people can click to get more information about that specific plant.
Consider this example:
This is what a photo looks like that was just uploaded as a regular image, without being associated with a plant:
But after being associated with a plant, it looks like this:
Thread Title | Last Reply | Replies |
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Is this the same thing as ... by plantladylin | Dec 19, 2015 6:06 PM | 11 |
Wrong plant by kqcrna | Dec 19, 2015 12:41 PM | 8 |
Notification to original poster by jvdubb | Dec 19, 2015 10:42 AM | 15 |
Trying to improve ATP, but sorry if---- by CarolineScott | Dec 19, 2015 8:55 AM | 5 |
generic entries not showing up on list by greene | Dec 18, 2015 5:17 AM | 12 |
Not my image by JRsbugs | Dec 17, 2015 7:58 PM | 3 |
I didn't post them on purpose by coboro | Dec 17, 2015 12:45 PM | 16 |
Database photos by Weedwhacker | Dec 17, 2015 10:52 AM | 21 |
Great idea!!! by Suga | Dec 14, 2015 6:43 PM | 6 |
Acorns for your photos by luvsgrtdanes | Dec 14, 2015 6:26 PM | 2 |
My Own Images by Chillybean | Dec 12, 2015 7:06 PM | 4 |
Copyrighted photos by LynneHTx | Dec 12, 2015 5:05 PM | 1 |
Question by vic | Dec 12, 2015 2:05 PM | 5 |
acorns by jmorth | Dec 12, 2015 12:43 PM | 5 |
glitch? by Dutchlady1 | Dec 12, 2015 11:41 AM | 3 |