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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHelp! Does anyone know if there instructions here on how to post pictures?
applegrove
(118,808 posts)Photobucket, Imgur and others.
elleng
(131,143 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,664 posts)JHB
(37,162 posts)Firefox is like Chrome: right click and Copy Image Location. Not sure about Microsoft Edge.
For YouTube links, DU won't jump to a particular time, so directing people to part of a clip needs to be done by telling people where to start watching (e.g. "the relevant part starts at the 4:20 mark" .
A bigger and more complicated issue is that many sites now have shells or overlays that prevent hot linking directly to an image. For those you need to copy them to your desktop and upload them to a hosting site like Imgur.
It also might be good to add something about truncating long URLs after a "?".
CurtEastPoint
(18,664 posts)JHB
(37,162 posts)...usually goes up at Daily Kos, and ther's usually someone who makes a post here linking to it. Unless they clean up the URL, after the image you'll see text starting with a question mark followed by a string of numbers and/or letters.
I won't be able to use my desktop computer until this afternoon, and it'll be much easier to provide a clear example from that.
CurtEastPoint
(18,664 posts)I know what you are talking about as I have done it but need an example and my brain... ya know...
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)applegrove
(118,808 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,469 posts)If from the internet, right-click on the image and select "Copy Image Address". Then, right-click inside your post and select "Paste".
If the image is on your computer, you will have to upload it to an image hosting site like https://imgur.com/gallery/2Vdtu (this is a tutorial on how to upload images and share them on Imgur).
Caveat: For some reason, some images on the internet are nearly impossible to post, and I suspect it's by design to cut down on bandwidth piracy.
OnDoutside
(19,974 posts)On the internet issue, sometimes you get a link like
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbEoBdkX0As3Gas?format=jpg&name=medium
all you need to do is change the link to (and I'm putting the space before .jpg and Capital J in "media" to stop the picture replacing the fixed link)
https://pbs.twimg.com/meJdia/EbEoBdkX0As3Gas .jpg
otherwise it would appear like this
Other times, when i right click on the picture (if i am having issues copying) I click on Inspect, and find the link that way, in the Media folder.
Worst case, I use the Snip & Sketch free app to screenshot it and the host the pic.
Brother Buzz
(36,469 posts)I've all but given up trying to post pbs.twimg.com images.
On my own, I've discovered how to defeat a couple of others, like deleting all the pesky +'s embedded in the links.
yonder
(9,678 posts)I'm fairly clumsy posting images so anything to simplify it is helpful.
BigmanPigman
(51,632 posts)OnDoutside
(19,974 posts)brush
(53,876 posts)Rollo
(2,559 posts)Once you get your image uploaded to a service like imgur, select "Get share links", and then copy the URL code. Paste into a post here as is, like this:
You do not need to bracket the image URL including suffix with [url][/url]. DU software will automatically recognize it as an image and post it. If you do include the [url][/url], they'll just show up as extra text by the image. If that happens, just edit your post to remove the [url][/url] text from the image address.
If you have a photo on another web site with a known format such as jpg, just post that address (including the .jpg, .gif, .png suffix).
Easy peasy, really.
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ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)You need the link that ends in .jpg or .png or whatever the file type is.
mnhtnbb
(31,405 posts)among the options for links identified when you open the photo on imgur.
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Buns_of_Fire
(17,197 posts)...is to right-click on the image and select "Open image in new tab". Then you can go to that new tab and, like magic, there's the link all nice and purdy without all those "&"s and "+"s and "="s and other strange stuff. Then you can copy that link and paste it in the post. Usually it works, sometimes it doesn't. It has the advantage of showing you exactly what the DU software is going to see.
Hint #2: Preview before posting. Always, always, always.
Ohio Joe
(21,763 posts)You should be able to post pics now... Here is another thread from make7 to show you how to do a lot more, very easily.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/12561674