do you have to have photobucket to download pictures onto the site?

No - you can upload them into your gallery - Stuff, Geek Gallery

I do have photobucket - but not really used it but you can then copt the web address of your picture to your thread like Emma did attached.

Emma has actually done both copying the web page and also adding a picture onto her post so is a good example.

Do a search on Seanny's name as he has done some fab threads in photos on threads.

Emmas thread - bridesmade's nails! (pics)

hi hun
i find photobucket is great ,theres no limit ,whereas on the gallery if you are not a premmie,you dont have much space
if you need any help just pm me
and i agree seanny is a star,he has helped me loads regarding photo's !

You can use photobucket. Just put the url for the image between the [ img] [ /img] tags.

Personally I hate photobucket. Its slow and drenched with ads

it is slow sam you are right ...if i want to upload more than 2 pics at a time ...i press upload go make a cuppa..go shopping ...pick the kids up from school...make tea..bath them put them in bed,and then they are ready just in time
ok ok im exagerating a little ,but it does take a while....
i keep photobucket account to keep all my piccies online in case my pc breaks, as it is always breaking lol and ive lost tonnes of pictures,
but i have them online always now!

i use photobucket sometime... as ive ran out of gallery space.... some of my earlier gallery pics were/are massive files but as ive had them for a while and had some nice comments i didnt wanna delete any... silly eh!

Jess
xox