No wonder my pics won't turn up, I've been using the button with sunset picture to post pics when I'm in Advanced mode...
For advanced mode, you have to press the "tree" icon(beside anchor) on the second menu bar instead.
Hey thanks for the tip. I was re-sizing my pictures before posting them here. I didn’t realize I could just do it here. Saves me a step!
The very first post. Where he shows how to put a picture into a post.
It can be done. 
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I don't see the pic. Looks like your image link is taking me to an entire gallery and not directly to an image.
Edit-I've quoted your post 2 posts back and it's not showing up in my post.
-Garry
I love it!
In the gallery I saw pics of mangled batteries. Might have been more, but that's what I remember.
-Garry
Nope, no pics showing up.
-Garry
No.
What is the URL of the photo? I can’t get “dropbox” to reveal it. Not a dropbox customer/fan, so IDK how they work on your end.
It only matters what the URL of the photograph itself is, not which Server is holding it, nor on what “gallery” or other page that Server shows it to you. It won’t work if that Server is trying to use its “free” Service to make ‘click-money’ & has some krufty kode to prevent showing the actual URL of the photo. Some of the “popular” image hosting sites make it quite difficult to get the address of the image itself and if you’re not willing to dig into their middleware to find Just The URL For Your Image, it’s not likely that anyone else will be either (that includes the authors of the middleware used to run this forum). Sorry, Real Life crashes down in a flash sometimes.
There’s nothing odd about it. It’s how the WWWeb works. Sorry if no one told you that already.
When you add an image to a post here on BLF, the ONLY thing you need is the URL of the actual image itself, not the host’s “doorway” to it, nor any other “gallery” nor “album” nor page nor whatever else the host throws up in your way. If that URL doesn’t end in “.jpg”, “.jpeg”, “.gif”, “.png”, or maybe “.bmp”, it cannot possibly be made to work (unless you’re willing to code up some Forum Middleware for the Admin to use…)
Not to be snooty, but this has already been covered pretty thoroughly in this very thread, BTW…
The code for displaying an image depends on which input format is used. For example, when using the “Simple Post Editor”…
!http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412DA2FE2NL.jpg!
…displays this:
But when using the “Advanced Post Editor”…
<img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412DA2FE2NL.jpg">
…displays the image.
So when quoting a user who posted an image using a different input format that yours, unfortunately the image won’t show up unless you adapt the quoted code to display the image.
Lynyrd Skynyrd said it best: “If we’d stick to the simple, there’d be much less abuse”…
Does the Advanced Editor allow for “Width=###%”? That seems to be a greater problem in image posting, AFAIK…
Both methods require the specific Image URL (as the prompt states quite clearly), not the address of the gallery.
(from looking at the questioner’s posts, that seemed — to me — to be his Root Cause…)
Yep, try resizing your browser while viewing this post:
How to add a picture directly to the post from your disk?
Anyone know?
You need to find your own image hosting site (e.g photobucket.com).
FYI, to post pictures from your Photobucket account, select the photo in your Photobucket account and you will see the following in descending order on the right side of the photo:
Email & IM
Direct
HTML
IMG (this one is the URL option)
Select “Direct” by clicking once on the word “Direct”. You will notice immediately that “Direct” is dithered and faded and the word “copied” shows up to the right of “Direct”. This means the Direct link has been copied and you can now go back to the BLF editor and paste it into the correct spot (the BLF editor will bring up an image maker when you click on the sunset picture icon as directed at the very beginning of this thread).
I made the mistake of selecting “IMG” since I thought we needed the URL link but that didn’t work for me so I started to click on the others and “Direct” worked for me.
Anyway, carry on…
Below the comment box for responses you’ll see the words “Input Format”. Click on it and pick “Advanced Post Editor”. Then you’ll see the term “Disable rick-text” that toggles when you click on it.
Boy, this is all well and good for all you tech savvy younger folks but it sure is convoluted for us older technically challenged people.
Why can’t BLF just have a button that says “add photo” and it accesses your photo library and you pick what pictures you want to include? Almost every forum nowadays has this simple way to post pictures.
(If you’re still breathing, you can’t be that much older than I am! Read this whole thread for a lot of good information about the topic.)
I think the main reason is the first word in this forum’s name: “Budget”. Uploaded pixtures cost disk space, which costs our Admin money. Which would require a lot more of those stupid billboard ads the other fori use.
Also, the freedom to choose your own picture host dovetails perfectly into the general philosophy that makes this forum so great.
Thanks JohnnyMac, for this very useful howto