You can avoid all this by getting your own free web space, and storing your pictures there.  Many internet service providers give you free web space.  Free space is also available from other sources.  A couple are mentioned on the download page for the FTP site.

Here are step by step instructions on how I do it.  I'm not an expert, so someone may know an even easier way to do it.  If you hear of something, let me know.

PREPARATION

1.  Get your free space.  Earthlink is my ISP, and here is what they offer.

2.  Get Irfanview.  A free program you can use to crop and resize pictures, and a bunch of other stuff.
Download it here.    Irfanview

3.  Get an FTP program.  This program is free, and is used to transfer your pictures, from your files to your webspace.
Download it here.  WS-FTP

4.  Get Cod-O-Matik.  This is optional, but it saves work, and ensures accuracy.  It's also free.
Download it here.  Cod-O-Matik

MAKING IT WORK

1.  Take your picture.  If you're using a digital camera, unload it to your computer.  If it's a print, scan it.

2. Open it in Irfanview.  This is where you can crop or resize the picture.  When direct posting, the picture doesn't have to be below 60 KB.
However, when I unload a picture from the digital camera, it opens so large, I can only see about a quarter of it on the screen at a time.

Click on File, then on Open.

3.  Select your picture.  Click on Open.  The picture opens, too large.

4.  Click on Image, then Resize/Resample.  Use Resample, for better quality.  Get the picture to a size, where you can see the whole thing on the screen at one time.

5.After clicking on Resize/Resample, you get this.

6.  Change the width, to something that allows you to see the whole picture on the screen.  The height will, automatically, adjust in proportion.
Choose the filter, as shown, for best quality.  You want something like this.

7.  Now, you're ready for cropping, if necessary.  With the picture open in Irfanview, place the cursor at the left, top corner of the part of the picture that you want to keep.  Left click, and hold down, while dragging the mouse diagonally across the picture to the right, bottom of the portion you want to keep.  You have drawn a box around the part of the picture you want to save.

8.  Release the mouse button, and click on Edit.  Scroll down and click on Crop Selection.  All parts of the picture, outside the box, will be gone.  You now have your picture, ready to save.  Click on File, scroll down to Save as, and save to WS-FTP.

The WS-FTP folder should be in your Program Files.  When you downloaded the program, you should have gotten an icon, like this, on your keyboard.

9.  Open WS-FTP.  You should see something that looks like this.

When you downloaded WS-FTP, there was a tutorial that shows you how to fill this in.  Profile Name is any name you want to give it.  The information for Address, User ID, and Password should have been given to you when you signed up for your free space.  Here's what mine looks like, filled in with the info for my free Earthlink space.

10.  After filling in the information, click OK.  A screen, like this, will open.  The left side will show everything you have saved in your WS-FTP folder, on your (local) computer.  Find, on the left, and highlight, the picture(s) you want to put on your web site.

After highlighting, I click on Auto.  You will learn about ASCII and Binary, in the tutorial.  Click on the right pointing arrow, in the center.  This will transfer the highlighted picture to the remote system.    Your picture is now on your web site.  Here's how mine looks, with my free site.

Note:  In order to access the pictures you have uploaded to your web space, you must have an "index page", the page that will open when someone types the URL to your web space into the address line, on their browser.
If you have, previously, made a web site on your free space, your home page is your index page. (index.html)
If, now, you are making a web site AND creating a place to store your pictures, for posting, your home page will be your index page.  Link any pictures that you would like people to be able to see, while viewing your web site, to the home page.  If you have pictures that you wish to store for posting only, do not link them.
If you ONLY want to create a place to store pictures for posting, highlight one of the pictures that you have uploaded, in the right hand, or remote, side of WS-FTP, click on, "Rename", and rename it index.html.  This will now be the picure that appears, when you type in your URL (in my case, home.earthlink.net/~johnson29/).
To access other pictures, that you have uploaded, type the file name, exactly as it appears in WS-FTP, immediately after the last slash in the URL.  Example: johnson29/rose.jpg
One other thing to remember: (although the screen shot, above, doesn't show it; I found this out, after the screen shots were made, and have since revised it)  Some browsers do not accept spaces, or capital letters, in file names, so in the shot above, where it says Pink Pandorea.jpg,
it should read pinkpandorea.jpg
 
 

Go to your web site, and find the picture that you want to direct post.

11.  Right Click on your picture and click on Properties.

12.  Right click on the address (URL).  Click on Select All.  This highlights the address.  Right click on the address again, and click Copy.

You are now ready to paste your picture into a message, on a forum.  When posting, you will have to have to type in, before the address, (URL)
IMG SRC=" and a < before everything, and a "> after everything, or you can let Cod-O-Matik add this for you.

13.  Open Cod-O-Matik

Put a dot next to Picture.  Right click on the box under URL, and paste the address in.  Click on Code it!.  Right click on the highlighted URL, and click copy.  Paste this into the message section, on the forum, just as it is.

Done!

This may seem like a lengthy procedure but, after a few times, it goes fast.  I can take a picture with the digital camera, and have it on a forum, in five minutes.