HowTo: Adding pictures to posts

Ya you know, the brain is a funny thing, if I posted two pics side by side and asked someone to tell me what they see is different I’ve seen where they couldn’t tell the difference at all, but if I then took the same pics and did it like flash card like for lack of a better way of explaining what I’m trying to say here, well the results were completely different for some reason which I really don’t know why but a roll over IMO MIGHT have the same effect?? We shall see, I’m just happy to have read here that this is possible, what a great write up and the answers I’ve gotten from you have really helped a lot, Thank You again…!!

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Yeah, IrfanView is pretty sweet.

I use it for just about everything image-wise, even though I have Adobe Photoshop. ;)

Just downed the app irfanview nice easy install and usually I can tell out the gate if this app is going to be a problem child or not hate the bloat that’s always thrown in, usually,
And right out the gate what do I spy with my quick scan through of current ver. changes which made me very happy
“Amazon 1Button App” offer removed” Nice… I hate that stuff, either it’s free or it’s a pest, like those Best Buy popups… argh
Nearly everything I use is open source, this package seems really light…
Thanks for the tuneup, this app is seemingly fantastic but only fiddled quickly and will get in deep later, thanks for the tip…!!

In addition to onmouseover= (action when the reader points at the picture), don’t forget onmouseout= (action after onmouseover=) and onclick= (left-click on the picture)…

There may be more, and this thread is The Place to report them.

HTH…

Here is an example. Quote this post for the details:

Is there a way to post .gifv? I played around with it for a while but I can't seem to make it work under video or picture.

I’ve been using Photobucket for over 8 years now. I used to like it. But now, it is laden with video ads that consume bandwidth and wonky Adobe Flash programming that thrashes the browser so badly that it crashes. I’m sick of it!

There are other photo sharing sites out there… so much choice, but hard to know what’s really good. Any recommendations? I recently started with imgur… It’s OK. I like the folder navigation provided by Photobucket. There are some very nice features… if only they the site didn’t have such horrible Flash problems.

postimg.org

No flashy ads or other garbage. I use it exclusively. Nothing more in life I hate than going to read a thread somewhere and finding most or all the images gone.

Quote:

"3) How long will images be left on the server?

You can upload unlimited images per post will never have to worry about your images being removed for inactivity."

(testing postimg.org) (tired of my pics disappearing)

1024 x 715 is kinda big for mobile devices.

Just sayin :slight_smile:

Nice pic by the way!

Yep EXACTLY!!! :+1: http://postimage.org/

Thanks. Looks pretty quick and lightweight. Too bad you can’t nest folders… would go a long way to help organize things (like this: LED-flashlights—>Astrolux, LED-flashlights—>Jetbeam, LED-flashlights—>Nitecore, etc.)

Please try to remember to set the Relative Width to 100% or less. Thanks.
Feel free to click the Quote button under this post for details.

Could someone please instruct me on how to make a mouseover? The instructions in the OP (roughly 3 1/2 year old) apparently no longer apply? Advanced Post Editor toolbar is completely different looking now, I tried Insert/Edit Image - Advanced tab, but nothing there like in the OP’s tutorial

You can no longer do a mouse over here, after the modifications on the newer version of the forum.

Mouseovers are still technically possible, but are extremely user-unfriendly.

I have a couple in my signature, but they were not fun to create.

EDIT: Here are the instructions to create a mouseover from Mr. Admin himself:

https://budgetlightforum.com/t/-/38105/145

Thanks rc, I tried* but can’t get it to work because I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing :slight_smile:

*to try I copied and paste the line of code from SB’s post, then I subbed in the image locations in where it says “URL IMG-1” and “URL IMG-2” but in the preview I only get image 1 and no mouseover.

I even tried to replicate SB’s example from in his post, (I used quote to get the code) but same thing, only the first photo and no mouseover.

Great post. It will be very useful to new newcomers.

Try this:

If that worked on your browser, just quote this message, select everything between and including the angle brackets, paste it somewhere like Notepad and replace the URLs with your own (be sure to get the whole URL but just the URL, leave the punctuation alone) and Preview the post as many times as you need to test it. You can always quote this message again to start over.

This gives you mouseover and onclick actions so you can add depth. Everything but the onclick should be some compatible image. You won’t win any friends putting an HTML link in a mouseover. But the onclick is what that’s for anyway. Remember to specify your Width, no more than 100%, please.

Thanks Dimbo!! That worked great, and so easy! Here’s mine: