Anyone? - Dumbass DUer needs help...

[The Doctor.]

I've been trying to put pics in posts, but have had no success.

I realize it's probably something simple- but what am I missing?

How does one go about this?


Sincerely,

- Dumbass.

[Pacifist Patriot]

1. I think you just put in the URL to the pic.

Let me check a minute.

[motely36]

2. Can't help you...

I tried once a failed miserable :(

And hey are you a freeper with you 911 post count? :evilgrin:

[The Doctor.]

6. only for one post I guess- it's 913 now

[Lavender Brown]

You're not dumb

You just put the url to the pic right in your post. The pic should be hosted online, like at photobucket.com.

[Pacifist Patriot]

3. Yep, that worked. Here's what you do.

If there is a picture on the web that you want to use, right click on it and then click on Properties. The URL will appear in the pop up box. Copy the URL and paste it into your Message box here. At least that's one easy way of doing it.

[underpants]

4. Okay right click on the photo

hit Properties

highlight and copy the URL address in the middle of the black box

Right click in the Message box (here) and hit paste.

[The Doctor.]

7. well, let's see...

[KitchenWitch]

10. NICE

Ok getting the barf bag now!

[Phillycat]

9. YOU ARE TRYING TO GET HIM INTO TROUBLE, AREN'T YOU?!

Newbie, that is called "hotlinking" and it's NOT NICE! You should take your chosen photo and host it at photobucket or something.

/selfrighteous.

(hotlinks all day because can't be bothered to find photo hosts.)

[The Doctor.]

11. So what do you suggest?

[Phillycat]

12. Oh, I'm just kidding.

But really, if you don't want to steal other people's bandwidth, you SHOULD host your photos. You know, you go to "properties", copy the URL, go to any photo hosting site, like www.photobucket.com , paste the URL in, and then photobucket will host it and you're not stealing the original person's bandwidth. Especially on a site like DU, where we're getting a ton of hits, we've been known to shut smaller sites down by linking to their photos.

But I hotlink all the time because I'm lazy. So it's up to you I guess.

[The Doctor.]

15. Indeed - this is from Google Images...

I don't think that'll hurt them TOO much.

But I will keep the consideration of bandwidth in mind.

Thanks!

[elehhhhna]

5. lemme try it

HEY IT WORKS!

[Kali]

14. ?

am I missing something?

[The Doctor.]

8. Yep - Thanks Guys!

That's a cute couple you put up there!

[CO Liberal]

13. The Picture Can't Just be On your Hard Drive

It needs to be hosted somewhere on the 'Net. One of the best sites I've found is www.photobucket.com. An account is free and once you store the pictures there, you can use the URLs they provide to post them here on DU.

[WildClarySage]

16. I wanna try....

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[WildClarySage]

17. delete posted twice

sorry, they are cute, but not that cute...