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How to post pictures in your blogs or forums 101

Blog entry by GaryK posted 166 days ago 5420 reads 30 times favorited 28 comments Add to Favorites Watch

I have been asked by a couple of people how I add pictures into my blogs so I thought that I would make a little blog on how I do it. This is what works for me and not the only way to do it.

First you have to have your pictures in your computer. You can download then from your camera or scan them with a scanner or whatever method you want.

I like to resize the pictures in advance. The maximum width picture that you can display in a blog is 640. I don’t know what the limit for the height is. Anyway I use a free little program from Microsoft to resize my pictures. You can find it HERE. All the instructions on how to use it are there.

Then you need a place online to store your pictures. I use Photobucket, it’s FREE. You can find it HERE.

Once you sign up, you can start uploading your pictures. The following are a series of pictures showing how I upload a picture.

First select “Albums and upload” from the drop down menu.
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Here’s another way to change the size of your pictures. Just do it before you select your files.
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Then select “Choose Files”
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Find the file you want to upload on your computer, hightlight it and select “open”.

You can select as many files as you would like.
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Then you will wait while it uploads.
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Once it’s done you can add a title and so on if you like. Then select “return to album”
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And there’s the picture I uploaded.
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The picture itself will have it’s own pull down menu. Go to “Direct Link” and highlight the link and copy it. (right click and select “copy”).

This is the link that you will paste into your blog.

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Then go to Lumberjocks and start your blog like you normally would.

Paste your picture link (right click, paste) into your blog.

To get your picture to display you MUST put an exclamation point at the beginning and end of your link with no spaces like the picture below.

I like to add a couple of periods to space my pictures and text. If I don’t everything looks too crowded.

Then click “Preview” to see if it’s correct.

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If you still need to edit it some more select “Close Preview” and make your edits.

Post it when you are done.
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If I have forgotten any thing, let me know and I will add it to this blog.

You might want to add this blog to your favorites so that you can point other people to it when they ask how you do it.

I hope this answers your questions

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.


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a1Jim

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posted 166 days ago

Wow Thanks Gary not only are you a master furniture maker but a computer ace also. This is the kind of stuff I fight and fight to figure out, were my sons say its simple.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

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patron

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posted 166 days ago

thanks gary
see me soon !

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

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spanky46

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posted 166 days ago

Were from the wrong generation Jim for computer skills to come easy!

-- spanky46 -- Never enough clamps...Never enough tools...Never enough time.

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ND2ELK

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posted 166 days ago

Thanks for the info.

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

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degoose

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posted 166 days ago

And if you dont want to do the resize step allow photobucket to do it for you with the reduce to size feature in the upload window. also use the insert image Icon above the window you are typing in and paste the copied direct link of the pic in photobucket.
Just a slightly different way to do the same thing, as there is always many ways to do it.

-- Drink once, cut twice. New website up.... lazylarrywoodworks.com.au

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lew

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posted 166 days ago

Great writeup, Gary!

This should be required reading for all Lumberjocks- new and old. Martin should put this in the help section!

Lew

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DAN

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posted 166 days ago

thanks Gary … this should be very helpful … I even learned a bit myself …or should I say a better way

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

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CanadianWoodChuck

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posted 166 days ago

Thanks Gary, it’s something I have fought with numerous times.

-- Canadian Wood Chuck (Bruce)

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firecaster

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posted 166 days ago

Thanks for doing this for us.

-- Father of two sons. Both Eagle Scouts.

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GaryK

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posted 166 days ago

You are all very welcome!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

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Andy

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posted 166 days ago

Very easy when explained properly.
Thanks for the walk thru Gary.

-- " If I can make it,so can you" Andy in Oregon

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sharad

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posted 166 days ago

Thank you Garyk for this helpful information. I have failed to do it many times in spite of getting help from couple of LJs. May be I was missing some step. I will try again and hope to succeed.
Sharad

-- patanjali

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DaleM

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posted 166 days ago

Thanks Gary. I kept cutting off the right side of my pics, so I gave up and posted links. This will really help.

-- Dale Manning, Carthage, NY

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sIKE

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posted 166 days ago

As a FYI, Flickr.com is another service that you could utilize for this purpose, and it automatically resizes the pictures as they are uploaded. The nice feature they have is the pics are resized into S/M/L categories. I use the medium sized pictures for the LJ blogs.

-- //FC - Round Rock, TX - "Experience is what you get just after you need it"

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stefang

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posted 165 days ago

Appreciate the sizing tip Gary. I tried to show pictures with the text in a project before and everything worked except the pictures were way too big. Now I’ve posted my first blog and the sizing came out right thanks to you.

-- Mike, American in Norway

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Raymondz

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posted 165 days ago

Great info!

Thanks

-- - Ray

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Tony

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posted 165 days ago

Nice presentation. It was recomended to me to reduce the pixels/inch down to 75 for transmission on the web – this reduces the loading time significantly, without too much reduction in quality

-- Tony - All things are possible, just some things are more difficult than others! - SKYPE: Heron2005 (http://www.poydatjatuolit.fi)

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Grumpy

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posted 164 days ago

Here is my secret formular for getting photos from any site.
You need to have Excel or Open Office (which is free to download & is just as good as Microsoft Office which is not cheap).
Anyway back to posting photos
Firstly you need only two columns in your spreadsheet. One for the URL address on any photo (will talk about that later). Then another column for a formular that concatenates the URL allowing you to copy & past it into a LJ page.
Heres how I do it
Say you find a photo on any web page you want to put on “Grumpy’s Old Barns Site”. Right click on the photo Select properties from the drop down list Highlight the contents of the URL address Right click & select copy.
Now open Excel (or open office) In the first cell A1 past the URl In the cell adjoining, ie cell A2, write this formular-
Photobucket

Now right click on cell A2 and select copy.
Now go to your LJ page and right click and paste the contents
You should now have a copy of that photo pasted into the LJ site & you can do this for any page on the www without first copying it to photobucket or some other compatible site.
As long as the photo is not moved form it’s original source it will stay on the LJ site.
To add links to more photos to your spreadsheet simply copy the formular in cell A2 down the column. Every time you paste a link in the adjoining cell (in column A) the formular will concatenate the link.
This all sounds complex but it is very simple once you perfect it.
If anyone want help with it let me know.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

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Joe Lyddon

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posted 164 days ago

Grumpy, that is one COOL trick!
I will have to try it!!
Thank you!

-- Have Fun! Joe Lyddon - Alta Loma, CA USA - Home: http://www.WoodworkStuff.net ... My Small Gallery: http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?ppuser=1389&cat=500"

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TopamaxSurvivor

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posted 145 days ago

Hi Gary,

I put the exclamation point at the beginning and end of my link without any spaces and I got a box with a red “x” in it instead of the picture on the post. Any Ideas what might be wrong? thanks

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

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GaryK

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posted 145 days ago

TopamaxSurvivor – It doesn’t look like you are copying the “Direct Link” from photobucket.

From you Holly post your direct link should look like this:

http://s730.photobucket.com/albums/ww302/Dopamax/Holly01.jpg

and with an exclamation point at each end with no spaces you get:

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

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TopamaxSurvivor

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posted 144 days ago

Thanks Gary, There was a lot of stuff between dopamax/ & Holly01 that I edited out. That fixed it. I copied the link from my address bar on the browser. Is there another place to copy it that has it without all the extra garbage?

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

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TopamaxSurvivor

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posted 144 days ago

Never mind, I just looked at youir blog again:-)) I see what I missed. It’s in the next to the bottom picture.

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

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sikrap

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posted 132 days ago

Great blog!! I just wish I’d read it before I posted the “ad” for the staking dado set. ;) Oh well, I’ll know better next time.

-- Dave, Colonie, NY

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joseph b harlacher III

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posted 68 days ago

too many choices photo this flicker that where’s the frigerator i gotta put this away.

-- joseph

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Monkeyboy1

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posted 46 days ago

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Monkeyboy1

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posted 46 days ago

ha it worked thanks gary

-- MonkeyBoy1 Lex Ky

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Joe Lyddon

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posted 46 days ago

Congratulations Monkeyboy!

-- Have Fun! Joe Lyddon - Alta Loma, CA USA - Home: http://www.WoodworkStuff.net ... My Small Gallery: http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?ppuser=1389&cat=500"

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