How do I Post a Picture in a WoV Post?

I've been working my butt off lately. But I'm taking today off. I would like to post some pictures on WoV of the plays I'm on but when it comes to computers I'm about as smart as a rock. Could someone explain to me how to take a picture from My Documents and put it in a WoV post? Any help is much appreciated. And please. Could you explain it to me like I'm a three year old?

Quote: mickeycrimm

I've been working my butt off lately. But I'm taking today off. I would like to post some pictures on WoV of the plays I'm on but when it comes to computers I'm about as smart as a rock. Could someone explain to me how to take a picture from My Documents and put it in a WoV post? Any help is much appreciated. And please. Could you explain it to me like I'm a three year old?

mickey,

This is coming from someone who is completely frustrated with trying to load pictures on here, so take it with a grain of salt.

1. upload your pictures to a 3rd party photo site, someplace you can share them with friends and family. Two popular ones are photobucket and flickr. I think if they're on facebook or pinterest, that also helps. But you can't upload them directly to this webboard.

2. pretend you're someone else, and call up your photo via the web. If it's going to work on here, you're going to be able to see it if you just go to that page. The reason I say pretend you're someone else, is that when you upload a picture, you're usually inside some kind of secure link, and the link won't work for anyone else if you use that one. So you have to get the public address.

3. copy the URL (the address in the box where the web address is) completely by clicking it until it's all in blue, then right-click on that, and go down the menu it displays to "copy".

4. come here and start a thread, or reply to someone's post, including your own.

5. this is a bracket inside two brackets: [ [ ] . Type a bracket then "img=" (without the quotes; just the 3 letters and the equal sign) then right-click again and select "paste" from the menu; the address you copied gets pasted into your post. finish the sentence with a close bracket.

6. preview your post with the buttons below; if the picture's going to display, you can see it then. if not, you'll see a little outline box with a red "x" in it.

Good luck!

Like BBB said.
#5 was the easiest for me:

After right clicking on the pic and then clicked on "Copy Image Location", I then pasted it in the post. The image location was http://a.abcnews.com/images/GMA/MAZDA_CARGIVEAWAY_wg.jpg
I then added the "[ immediately followed by img=" in the front and the " ] " at the end.

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Quote: EdgeLooker

Like BBB said.
#5 was the easiest for me:

After right clicking on the pic and then clicked on "Copy Image Location", I then pasted it in the post. The image location was http://a.abcnews.com/images/GMA/MAZDA_CARGIVEAWAY_wg.jpg
I then added the "[ immediately followed by img=" in the front and the " ] " at the end.

EdgeLooker and Babs, it will take my ignorant self three days to figure out how to do all this. I wanted to show WoV'ers what a real advantage play looks like....and describe the strategy behind it. So I was wondering if I could email the pictures to either one of you and get you to post them on WoV and name the thread Chambers of Gold. If you will do it for me then email me at mickeycrimm@yahoo.com and I will send you the pictures.

go to www.tinypic.com click on CHOOSE FILE
then click UPLOAD NOW
copy the link contained in DIRECT LINK FOR LAYOUTS

go into the thread you want to post the pic in and type:

[img=

put the link directly after the equals sign and close it with a bracket

Quote: aceofspades

go to www.tinypic.com click on CHOOSE FILE
then click UPLOAD NOW
copy the link contained in DIRECT LINK FOR LAYOUTS

go into the thread you want to post the pic in and type:

[

put the link directly after the equals sign and close it with a bracket

There you go, mickey; that looks very simple compared to either photobucket or flickr, or googleplus, all of which I've found to be more trouble than they're worth. However, I'm emailing you now, and you can return your pics and I'll attempt the tinypic link above on your behalf.

Quote: beachbumbabs

Quote: aceofspades

go to www.tinypic.com click on CHOOSE FILE
then click UPLOAD NOW
copy the link contained in DIRECT LINK FOR LAYOUTS

go into the thread you want to post the pic in and type:

[

put the link directly after the equals sign and close it with a bracket

There you go, mickey; that looks very simple compared to either photobucket or flickr, or googleplus, all of which I've found to be more trouble than they're worth. However, I'm emailing you now, and you can return your pics and I'll attempt the tinypic link above on your behalf.

This is Murphy, my dog, via tinypic:



Thanks, ace!!! I can finally do this! What a battle!

Glad it worked for you!!! Post away!

mickey's thread is called Chambers of Gold, and starts here