Newbie questions thread. Feel free to add your own.

**neko_kawaii** · July 13th, 2019, 07:47 AM

Originally Posted by Ylva

The album privacy settings can be changed to public, members only, friends only and so on. However, if you upload the photo to an external hosting site and use that image URL to post it here, it will be visible to everyone.

This is correct.

**Brethil** · July 13th, 2019, 05:13 PM

In the hair typing guides I've seen elsewhere, and sort of in the one here, you are instructed to compare your hair to the width of a thread. Some guides have thread-width hair as medium, and thicker as coarse. Is normal hair really that substantial? Mine is much much finer.

**-Fern** · July 13th, 2019, 05:48 PM

I have a mix of medium/coarse hair. If you think of embroidery thread, which is typically 6-ply (meaning six threads twisted together), my medium hairs are about as thick as one thread, and my coarse hairs are about 1.3x as big as that, but wiry and kinky.

Fine hair tends to be significantly smaller (three or four hairs together might be the same width as one thread).

**enting** · July 14th, 2019, 04:14 PM

I think the hairs I thought were medium are thinner than 1ply of embroidery thread, but I'll have to go physically compare. I know people with finer hair than mine so I assumed mine is medium, or maybe medium/fine mix.

**elise.autumn** · July 14th, 2019, 05:18 PM

Makes sense about not showing faces for privacy. I personally don't care a ton, so I will upload some pics showing my face. Just wanted to make sure that wasn't a faux-pa or discouraged.

What are the common external hosting sites - Flickr, Imgur?

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The conversation above about fine vs medium strands makes me realize my hair is probably actually thin. I think it used to be coarser than it is now, but it's more fine than I realized.

**elise.autumn** · July 14th, 2019, 05:52 PM

Sorry if this has been answered somewhere else - but is there a way to edit the [IMG] tags to make the image smaller? Like HTML or something. My images take the whole post width, and that's way too big. Like this:

**TreesOfEternity** · July 15th, 2019, 08:48 AM

Originally Posted by elise.autumn

Sorry if this has been answered somewhere else - but is there a way to edit the [IMG] tags to make the image smaller? Like HTML or something. My images take the whole post width, and that's way too big. Like this:

You may add a letter to the link, right before “.jpg”. The letter you add depends on the size you want, for the forum I use “l” most times.

s = Small Square (90×90) as seen above
b = Big Square (160×160)
t = Small Thumbnail (160×160)
m = Medium Thumbnail (320×320)
l = Large Thumbnail (640×640)
h = Huge Thumbnail (1024×1024)

**MusicalSpoons** · July 15th, 2019, 09:09 AM

TreesOfEternity that's so cool! I don't use imgur but if I ever need to switch over that would most certainly be very handy to know.

elise.autumn that is a stunning pic! That one deserves to take the whole post width (but I know what you mean about wanting to post more moderately-sized photos

). Imgur and Flickr are popular hosting sites, I'm not sure about what others though Tinypic does not work with the forum software for some reason.

**elise.autumn** · July 15th, 2019, 10:13 AM

Perfect, thanks so much!

**S&S** · July 21st, 2019, 08:40 PM

Hi all,

I would like to know if any of you have been able to get away without trimming for 1yr or 2 and just doing S&D on split ends?

I use heat on my hair about once a week. I guess once I start to see patches of split ends, rather than strands, it means it's time for a trim