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[Afterburner]

I've seen this topic coming up a lot in various threads lately, so perhaps some will find a sticky topic for reference to be useful!

If you are uploading an image from your computer:

• You cannot upload images directly to the forum, so you will need to host them elsewhere on the web first and then link to them here on the board. I personally recommend https://postimages.org, as they allow you to limit the time your uploads remain on the web (if you trust them of course).

• To upload an image to https://postimages.org, simply select your resizing preferences and the amount of time you want them to host the image, then select an image from your computer or drag-and-drop to the button on the website.

• You will be presented with a screen showing you a variety of links; you want to copy the link next to the heading, "Thumbnail for Forums", and paste it into your post.

• Click post, and the board will replace the coded link with an image!

If there is an image on a personal hosting site you would like to share:

• You will need to provide a URL to the image's location and place it within the following code:

[img=URL]

• Replace "URL" with the link to your image, and when you click "Post", your image will appear! Be sure that there are no spaces between the = and your URL, otherwise the image will not appear.

• Please do not use this method to link to images hosted on other organisations' websites; they aren't expecting to have to pay for traffic to their image coming from our forum, so it's poor netiquette.

If you have any questions or issues not covered here, perhaps we can use this as a general help thread. Happy foruming!

[PayasYouRace]

An idiot's guide from another thread.

 

Handy user guide to posting images.

 

1. This is imgbb.com, which is a reliable hosting site and many of us use it. Click start uploading and choose the files you wish to upload, or drag and drop them into the window pane.

 

 

2. When you've selected your images you should see this. Click upload.

 

3. When the upload has completed, you should see this. You have a couple of options. Either select BBCode full linked from the drop down menu, or click the image itself to be taken to a new screen.

 

4a. If you selected BBCode linked from the menu, you should see this: copy the url tagged text from the box.

 

4b. If you clicked the image thumbnail in step 3, then you are taken to a window with your image shown in large. Scroll to the bottom of the screen. Click the "Embed Codes" tab next to "About" and then you can copy the same url tagged text from the box.

 

In both cases, simply paste that url tagged text in full into your post. It will appear when you submit your post. Click "More Reply Options" to see a post preview if you're not sure.

 

However, there is another method which you may try.

 

5. Following on from step 4b, if you clicked the image thumbnail in step 3, you will see your image in large. Right click and select "Open in New Tab".

 

 

 

6.Your browser should look like this, with only the image itself in a tab/window. Copy the image URL.

 

 

 

 

 

7. When composing your message, click the image button.

 

 

8. Paste the image URL from step 6 into the box, and click OK.

 

 

This time, your image should appear in the composition box of your message right away. I'd recommend you still preview your post before posting.

 

Note, you can upload multiple images at the same time. That is how I posted this guide.

[Vitesse2]

Some further explanations.

 

1 You cannot link to images which you (or other people) have uploaded to Facebook, Twitter or other social media sites, because they over-ride the name of the image you have uploaded and just assign a random series of numbers as the image's address. The board software will only allow you to use images with addresses which end with a recognised image file extension like .jpg, .jpeg, .png or .gif. You cannot link to - for example - an image saved as a .pdf file - even if it is just a photo saved in that format - because that's a document, rather than an image.

 

2 Only images which are hosted on a secure - https - server will display in your post. All the major hosting sites do this. But if the web address of the image starts http it may not display - although it will show up in a preview, as the board software will then interrogate the server to check if the address can be treated as https. Unfortunately, manually adding the extra letter won't work!

[danstheman]

I tried following the above steps but got a message "You are not allowed to use that image extension on this community."

 

Is this still up to date? What website can be used

Thanks

[Marklar]

I tried following the above steps but got a message "You are not allowed to use that image extension on this community."

 

Is this still up to date? What website can be used

Thanks

check out what ending your url has, for example twitter images are usually in this format

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqVe7UeWAAAd-yk?format=jpg&name=medium

this wouldnt work, you have to rewrite to

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FqVe7UeWAAAd-yk.jpg

[pRy]

I've been re-uploading Twitter images to imgur for years and now I discover all I had to do was change the URL.        Thanks for the tip Marklar.

[pup]

Is there a way to scale down a twitter image to non-enormous size?  Like this one...

 

Edited by pup, 20 March 2023 - 15:46.

[GlenWatkins]

Some further explanations.

 

1 You cannot link to images which you (or other people) have uploaded to Facebook, Twitter or other social media sites, because they over-ride the name of the image you have uploaded and just assign a random series of numbers as the image's address. The board software will only allow you to use images with addresses which end with a recognised image file extension like .jpg, .jpeg, .png or .gif. You cannot link to - for example - an image saved as a .pdf file - even if it is just a photo saved in that format - because that's a document, rather than an image.

 

2 Only images which are hosted on a secure - https - server will display in your post. All the major hosting sites do this. But if the web address of the image starts http it may not display - although it will show up in a preview, as the board software will then interrogate the server to check if the address can be treated as https. Unfortunately, manually adding the extra letter won't work!

 

I learned how from your post back in 2018:  http://https://forum...ain-april-2018/  

 

And Pup, Postimage gives you image size options.

[TomNokoe]

A lot of images online use the ".webp" format nowadays, which isn't supported. The workaround I use is to copy and paste the image to Microsoft Paint and then save as png.

Is there a way to scale down a twitter image to non-enormous size? Like this one...

The quick, dirty way is to upload via www.Imgbb.com