How do I post a picture?

[Voni]

Try using that with [IMG] tags before and after the link, like this:



Nice kitty!

Voni
sMiling

[RINTY]

Thanks Voni; that's Suri. My test above was just by using the URL button, and it was just an experiment. I don't know how to attach [IMG] tags. You can see I edited the post by trining to bracket the link and it didn't work. I am chopping something that I shouldn't be chopping.

Kurt/Dave: I am pulling the images out of SmugMug the same way I have always done, by clicking on "share", then "get a link", then "large". Then I minimize SmugMug and maximize the Forum. When I click on the "get image" icon, a window opens, and at the top it says "from computer" and "from url". I click on the "from url" tab and a window slot opens. I put the pointer in that window slot and right click and paste my image. That is when the invalid comes up.

As another test, I am trying to pull a picture out of my computer data base, using the "from computer" tab:

summer 2012 079.jpg

Anyway, thanks for your help everybody. Luckily, my imaging guru is still here a few days before he goes back to school, and I need him to come in and teach me Olympic Master 2, which I also can't operate. I can operate Office 10, but not this imaging stuff.

[20774]

Voni -

That will pretty much always work...depending on the site that hosts the image...some of the on-line microfiche sites don't allow "hot linking". I think what maybe what rinty was trying to do was use the tools at SmugMug to drop in a picture. That's what I did with my post from flickr. Each site should provide ways to "grab" a link for direct posting. Sometimes it's not by going to the URL you see at the top of the page that you are viewing. There may need to be some formatting in-between. But I think you know all this as you post pictures from your account all the time.

[20774]

Kurt/Dave: I am pulling the images out of SmugMug the same way I have always done, by clicking on "share", then "get a link", then "large". Then I minimize SmugMug and maximize the Forum. When I click on the "get image" icon, a window opens, and at the top it says "from computer" and "from url". I click on the "from url" tab and a window slot opens. I put the pointer in that window slot and right click and paste my image. That is when the invalid comes up.

rinty -

I think that's where you might be going wrong. Once you've "gotten the link", you just then go to the forum post you're working on and paste the link in. By getting a link, you're copying it to the computer clipboard...you just need to paste from the clipboard...that should do it. I've used to forum "get image" icon but only for uploading from my computer...I've not tried the "from URL" side. When using the "get a link" from SmugMug, you should be able to simply paste it into the post directly...you can then do the same thing for additional images from SmugMug...that's the beauty of using an on-site hosting feature, more than one image per post. Using the image upload feature in the forum, you can only do one picture per post.

[RINTY]

Test: I bypassed the "insert image" box in V Bulletin this time:




Nope. Another cat shot for you, Voni. This is Shiloh.

p.s. I edited the link by replacing the "url" in the square brackets with "IMG", and the image appeared. But this is not too efficient.

[20774]

rinty -

Again, this image could be displayed if the [IMG] and [/IMG] tags were put around the URL you posted. But that's not what I think you're trying to do. From my flickr account, the URL at the top of the page is way different than what I actually pasted into the forum a few posts ago. I can tell by right clicking on the image and comparing it to the top-of-page URL. It has additional phrases within the URL that are specific to flickr...I suspect SmugMug would be the same.

[RINTY]

Kurt: you'll see I finally got the image up by doing Voni's trick. I figured it out by pasting a picture on the Rennlist, and then writing down the link sequence there and copying the same format in my post above. Whew!

So, that's an end run around the problem, for now.

Thanks again for your help, everybody.

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first time ever-trying to get started

[bluehole]

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[bikerfish1100]

Kurt: you'll see I finally got the image up by doing Voni's trick. I figured it out by pasting a picture on the Rennlist, and then writing down the link sequence there and copying the same format in my post above. Whew!

So, that's an end run around the problem, for now.

Thanks again for your help, everybody.

you guys try photobucket.com yet? stupid easy photo hosting site, and tons of uploadable space.