HowTo: Adding pictures to posts

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 ‘public’ but can be viewed by those having the link.
It didn’t seem to work. I’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 didn’t see the pictures in a couple minutes and several different tries. Does it take 5-10” (more) to ‘load’?

I’m not familiar with Picassa - does it provide you with a variety of links to choose from? I use ImageShack and it provides “Web”, “Forum”, “direct links” and a few others. The only one that works here on BLF is the “direct link”.

[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]

I’m trying that Option 2 URL (seems to work below?):

I just posted the option 2 link into the box when using the “Sunset” 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.

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You’re a good man Johnny.

… but we had this conversation already.

The “Insert Image” 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 “Insert Link” button is used to create a link to a page. That’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 “image” concept into the trash. Not to mention wrecking everyone’s page display!

When your host shows you your image full size (specific steps depend on the host’s middleware), meaning not a thumbnail, right-click on it & see if there’s an option to “View” the image or “Copy” the shortcut or link location. If your browser is configured to show you what’s going on, you can simply select the URL from the Address Bar…

When you have the URL for the image itself, then the “Insert Image” link will work perfectly for you.

Lastly, look at the bottom of the “Insert Image” dialog… 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 “drive click traffic” to your host, put the URL they give you in the “URL” box of the “Insert Image” dialog. If you don’t fill in the “URL” box, the cursor won’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.

Don’t forget to set the relative width to 100% or less, PLEASE?

The “Insert Link” button should probably be only used for links like this one to Google’s search for ‘URL’…

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 (they’ll end in “.jpg” or “.gif” or some such, not “.htm”) are the only ones that work in the “Insert Image” button; and BLF’s middleware is not able to successfully display any image via the “Insert Link” button. Just the opposite of what you said.

Whew!

Dim

That is messy.
Guess I’m used to forums that I simply upload the picture from my PC. Easy, no mess.
Links, URL’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. I’m pretty sure I did that….and it simply didn’t work. That confused me so I tried variations, which didn’t work also. Thus my frustration.
FWIW I even made a folder in Skydrive, copied the same pictures there, and tried that…without success. But by that time it was late and I was flailing….and failing….and frustrated.

Thank you for the ‘enriched’ 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 “Insert Image” link and it did not work perfectly for me. It didn’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 on……or……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.

That’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 I’ve demonstrated I can make it work here. I’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 ‘hidden code’ mucking it up from my early failed attempts.

I copied the text, deleted the post, and made a new post….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, we’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:

Wait… That was you??? Sorry. Looks like I picked the wrong day to give up magic mushrooms!

Coincidentally, that’s “just an expression” I use… But there’s that nagging feeling of deja-vu…

Thanks for understanding.

Dim

LOL! No, you haven’t had it with me. Perhaps I should have been more specific. I used “we” to refer to all of us here on BLF. The “how to post an image” question is one of the first ones I ever answered on BLF, and it’s likely one of the most often asked questions. It continues to pop up regularly, despite the many good how-to posts on the subject.

and again, Thank You Dim! It's been very helpful to be able to control the addition of pics, I have yet to get a mouseover to work, but am fixing to try yet one more time....

Edit: It's always something though. I can use the simple post editor and post a picture with the percentage sizing, adding a direct link for a click to enlarge option OR I can use the advanced editor do a mouse-over. But I cannot do both. And once I have switched to advanced, it's not letting me easily switch back to simple. I logged out. I cleared my cache, logged back in (twice) to no avail, still stuck in the advanced editor and cannot add the optional link to enable a click to enlarge functionality. Why must it be so mindboggingly difficult?

That one I know, from personal pain.

The Root Cause is the tendency of people who hire programmers — non-technical, nevermind illiterate of programming languages — of demanding irrelevant BS like piss tests, wallpaper, how pretty their resume was, etc.; instead of demanding Logic, Reason, & Math skills and an honorable Work Ethic.

It’s a simple Calculus. Irrelevant concerns lead to irrelevant decisions, but there’s no one there to correct them, since most people have been led to believe “it works on your PC, it must be my fault”!. Users don’t cause errors, they discover them. Getting you guys to believe it’s your fault was the greatest trick any code-monkey ever pulled!

I wasted huge amounts of time (apparently) learning how to write excellent, bulletproof, efficient code in a variety of languages… Now I have to move overseas to get to use any of that to earn my keep.

Bottom line, when it ain’t working, just DON’T FORGET: It Ain’t You! Just because you find a bug, doesn’t mean you spawned it! Push it back to the guy who wrote it to fix.

(Yes, the subtle hint here is, if we can somehow get the BLF middleware coders to process images in a consistent manner — no matter whether linked through the “Link” button or the “Image” button — it’s a real “win-win” because everyone who uses this middleware is having the same problem, which, if fixed, would count as a “major enhancement” by the Marketeering Department.)