Author Topic: how to upload a photo? (Read 9303 times)

Neil Obstat · « **Reply #5 on:** January 13, 2014, 01:21:37 AM »

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I usually copy the J-peg URL and paste it into the IMG pop-up box.

Maybe that drags down the bandwidth on source websites, but CI traffic isn't all that heavy so it's not going to make any difference.

But if the source website dies or if they delete the image, it's going to disappear on CI. For example, there have been hundreds of very nice scans that Hobbledehoy linked in various threads, but they were not UPLOADED onto CI. Consequently, many of them have disappeared when the source website deleted them. If they had been uploaded onto CI first, they would still be here.

To preserve an image here, upload it onto CI first, and then copy the CI image URL to paste it in any post you want, and it will always be there, so long as CI doesn't delete it.

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Neil Obstat · « **Reply #6 on:** January 13, 2014, 01:28:40 AM »

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Your thread question literally asks for the more complex procedure when it says, How do you upload an image onto CathInfo? ("how to upload a photo?")

I'm not sure you are asking for that, so that's why I answered as above.

I suspect all you want to know is how to paste a link to an outside image source into a CI text box.

Correct? Or not?

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Stubborn · « **Reply #7 on:** January 13, 2014, 06:43:56 AM »

It sounded like she wanted to take a photo from her desktop and put it into a post - like we can do with our avatar.

Unfortunately, for some reason we can't do that for posting, only for avatars.

If you happen across a picture on the web that you want to insert, just right click on the picture and select "copy url" - then when you go to post, click the box at the top that says URL and paste that link into the box.

Marlelar · « **Reply #8 on:** January 13, 2014, 10:18:29 AM »

yes, I wanted to post a pic I have in a folder on my computer, not a link to one on the web.

Marsha

Frances · « **Reply #9 on:** January 13, 2014, 07:32:34 PM »

:dancing-banana:
I'd like to do both, but I haven't the slightest idea of what any of you techies are talking about. Someone would have to show me in person at least four or five times, walk me through it, and even then, I'd get confused. I do not "think" in computerese. I don't know what questions to ask.
If I'm writing seriously, I think with literal pen and paper, not a keyboard. Words flow from my brain, down my arm, into my hand, through the pen onto the paper. Next, I proofread it, and only then "type" a good copy.