HowTo: Adding pictures to posts

Very enlightening post, much appreciated!!

Test Picture.



thanks.

Cheers for the ā€˜how toā€™, seems easy enough. The bit I cannot figure out though is on the imageshack page there are loads of options for links to the photoā€¦which link should I use?
Is it really obvious, should I use the ā€œforum codeā€ option?

Sorry, bit crap with ā€™puters

Woody

I just tried this from Photobucket and I had to use the ā€œDirectā€ link (starts with http) because the ā€œIMGā€ link (starts with [URL) wouldnā€™t work. Is that the one Iā€™m supposed to be using?

Yes! That's exactly what I do.

-Garry

Thanks Garry. I tried a bunch of times using the URL link and just could not make it work. I blame JohnnyMac! :stuck_out_tongue:

To add pictures to posts, I use a stapler. Also works for poles, fences, walls, etc. Works better than tape. J)

I tried adding photos to a discussion. Pictures are in Picassa. The folder is not ā€˜publicā€™ but can be viewed by those having the link.
It didnā€™t seem to work. Iā€™m on this page since I did read directions.
In [Simple PE] I click on the [Insert Image] and paste the https://picassaweb.google.com/restofaddress in the menu box that pops up.
No work.
Does Picassa not work?

Was I too impatient? I didnā€™t see the pictures in a couple minutes and several different tries. Does it take 5-10ā€ (more) to ā€˜loadā€™?

Iā€™m not familiar with Picassa - does it provide you with a variety of links to choose from? I use ImageShack and it provides ā€œWebā€, ā€œForumā€, ā€œdirect linksā€ and a few others. The only one that works here on BLF is the ā€œdirect linkā€.

[quote=flydiver]
If I click on the picture in Picassa the address bar in the browser gives this:
[https://picasaweb.google.com/105462383495128044995/OMSLight_breakdown?authkey=Gv1sRgCLTqyOeQoKiy2AE#5925148916301574050]

Off to the right it has an option under [Tags] with a little chain that says[link to this photo]
Click on that and I get 2 options:

  1. [Link] with the following in a menu box: [https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/xXN_CLqXlO7FClRTjcP4iCuZUCL4F5PCrzWsWSsGpbg?feat=directlink]
    I tried clicking on the [Insert Image] icon in BLF and pasting it in the first box. Click OK > Save > Nothing happens.

2. OK, Edit again.
Option 2 in Picassa is [Embed Image]. In that menu box I get this [https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WQCsJX2wxgk/Ujpbi-1yL6I/AAAAAAAAA08/n6cKFT7kySY/s144/Dive%2520pill%2520mod1.JPG]

Iā€™m trying that Option 2 URL (seems to work below?):

I just posted the option 2 link into the box when using the ā€œSunsetā€ icon (2 icons to the right of the Link icon).
This is the string I posted:
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WQCsJX2wxgk/Ujpbi-1yL6I/AAAAAAAAA08/n6cKFT7kySY/s144/Dive%2520pill%2520mod1.JPG

I tried that at LEAST 4-5x. NEVER works.
NOW it works. Sometimes computer can REALLY piss a person off.

g

Youā€™re a good man Johnny.

ā€¦ but we had this conversation already.

The ā€œInsert Imageā€ button requires the URL of the image itself, not the page where the image is displayed (with ads, etc.) by the host (Imagebox, Picasa, Postimage.org, whatever).

The ā€œInsert Linkā€ button is used to create a link to a page. Thatā€™s all. That Link you make will be any page, including the one where the host shows your image, or the URL of the image itself. This merely makes a Link and does NOT allow BLF to scale the image in any way, and throws the whole ā€œimageā€ concept into the trash. Not to mention wrecking everyoneā€™s page display!

When your host shows you your image full size (specific steps depend on the hostā€™s middleware), meaning not a thumbnail, right-click on it & see if thereā€™s an option to ā€œViewā€ the image or ā€œCopyā€ the shortcut or link location. If your browser is configured to show you whatā€™s going on, you can simply select the URL from the Address Barā€¦

When you have the URL for the image itself, then the ā€œInsert Imageā€ link will work perfectly for you.

Lastly, look at the bottom of the ā€œInsert Imageā€ dialogā€¦ That URL is what will come up if you click on the picture. If you want to be nice to us, just paste the same URL in both; but if you want to ā€œdrive click trafficā€ to your host, put the URL they give you in the ā€œURLā€ box of the ā€œInsert Imageā€ dialog. If you donā€™t fill in the ā€œURLā€ box, the cursor wonā€™t make the hand when you point at the picture. BUT, we can still use the right-click=>View Image method to see the full monty.

Donā€™t forget to set the relative width to 100% or less, PLEASE?

The ā€œInsert Linkā€ button should probably be only used for links like this one to Googleā€™s search for ā€˜URLā€™ā€¦

Clear as mud? Go back & re-read the OP, with this new knowledge of Uniform Resource Locators and how some URLs point to images and some point to pages that show images. The ones that point to the actual images (theyā€™ll end in ā€œ.jpgā€ or ā€œ.gifā€ or some such, not ā€œ.htmā€) are the only ones that work in the ā€œInsert Imageā€ button; and BLFā€™s middleware is not able to successfully display any image via the ā€œInsert Linkā€ button. Just the opposite of what you said.

Whew!

Dim

That is messy.
Guess Iā€™m used to forums that I simply upload the picture from my PC. Easy, no mess.
Links, URLā€™s, direct links, embedded, 2 separate drop down menus with a dozen option.
KeeRist, I just wanna load a picture. :expressionless:
I think I did that. Iā€™m pretty sure I did thatā€¦.and it simply didnā€™t work. That confused me so I tried variations, which didnā€™t work also. Thus my frustration.
FWIW I even made a folder in Skydrive, copied the same pictures there, and tried thatā€¦without success. But by that time it was late and I was flailingā€¦.and failingā€¦.and frustrated.

Thank you for the ā€˜enrichedā€™ lesson.
Seems to work now.
Now, why is that other guy having issues with Dropbox? He obviously knows how to post.

Is is not possible to [Edit] a post and put pictures in?
I just tried to use EXACTLY the SAME process I use to post the test picture above, but it was in the original post of a couple days ago.
I use the EXACT same URL for the image itself, pasted in the ā€œInsert Imageā€ link and it did not work perfectly for me. It didnā€™t work at all.

When I click [ok] a box pops up that Says [This page is asking you to confirm that you want to leave - data you have entered may not be saved.] and asks me if I want to [Stay onā€¦ā€¦orā€¦ā€¦Leave the page].
Neither choice works. Stay does nothing, just sits there with the [Insert Image] menu open.
Leave makes the box disappear, a ghost icon shows up in the post that appears useless.

Thatā€™s what I was dealing with the whole time yesterday.
So, I cannot edit that post to add pictures like a new post?

Addendum-a little later:

OK. I [Saved] this posting. Now I came back later (actually closed the forum to make sure) and did EXACTLY the same thing I tried in the original thread.


I think Iā€™ve demonstrated I can make it work here. Iā€™m not doing anything different there.

Why does it work in this thread, and not in the one I want to post it in [New cheap 26650 diving light at DX] post #46?

NEVER MIND - see post #28 below.

You should be able to. I don't get the "This page is asking you to confirm that you want to leave" message. I don't understand.

-Garry

Since I COULD do it here, and NOT do it there, including editing and adding pictures in this thread I came to the conclusion there must have been some ā€˜hidden codeā€™ mucking it up from my early failed attempts.

I copied the text, deleted the post, and made a new postā€¦.It worked.
Stuff like that is crazy making.

Glad you could figure it out!

-Garry

Have a little too much coffee this morning? :bigsmile:

Yes, weā€™ve had the conversation before, and we doubtless will again. Hopefully your post will help a few of them avoid the frustration flydiver experienced. :slight_smile: