Posting Images
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2013 3:34:41 pmHey guys, time for a crash course in uploading and posting images on the boards! This is actually a breeze to do once you try it out once or twice, but this will be an essential skill in some challenges so better that you have it down in advance 
1) So first we need an image - or more accurately, we need it's URL (i.e. internet address :P ) If we are just pulling an image from somewhere else on the web, all you do is right-click on the image you want and you will be offered the option to copy image location or Copy Image URL
Note that if you are doing this from somewhere like google images, you will need to actually go and view original image, or at least visit the page. If you try do it straight from Google you will end up with a huge string of text instead of the URL. The URL is going to be something that ends in .jpg or .png or .gif . Now skip to step 3!
2) Thats all well and good if the image is already on the net, but if it's something you've made yourself - say the solution to a challenge - you will need to upload it to the web first. Make sure you use an anonymous upload site. Try any of;
http://www.imgur.com / http://www.cubeupload.com / http://www.postimage.org / http://www.min.us
Do not use your photobucket account where it will sit beside your holiday snaps
No-one wants to see that and it's a backdoor to breaking the anonymity rule.
Looking at imgur your chosen website will create a URL for you to use, like so
Copy the URL.
3) Now here's the not tricky-at-all part. You need to create [ img ] tags to make it appear here as a picture and not just a link. The easiest way is to just click the [ img ] button at the top of the post reply window shown here;
That will make the tags appear. If it's speed you're after, you might find you can type that out quicker than you can click ;)
Remember the URL you grabbed? Next you want to paste that between the tags, like so;
Now hit submit (or preview) and hey presto, that turns into this!
How hot am I? Even frumpy
kk, now you go. Use this thread. I promise we won't laugh at your noobie fudge-ups
Srsly though, learn this now, reap the benefits in later challenges
1) So first we need an image - or more accurately, we need it's URL (i.e. internet address :P ) If we are just pulling an image from somewhere else on the web, all you do is right-click on the image you want and you will be offered the option to copy image location or Copy Image URL
Note that if you are doing this from somewhere like google images, you will need to actually go and view original image, or at least visit the page. If you try do it straight from Google you will end up with a huge string of text instead of the URL. The URL is going to be something that ends in .jpg or .png or .gif . Now skip to step 3!
2) Thats all well and good if the image is already on the net, but if it's something you've made yourself - say the solution to a challenge - you will need to upload it to the web first. Make sure you use an anonymous upload site. Try any of;
http://www.imgur.com / http://www.cubeupload.com / http://www.postimage.org / http://www.min.us
Do not use your photobucket account where it will sit beside your holiday snaps
No-one wants to see that and it's a backdoor to breaking the anonymity rule.Looking at imgur your chosen website will create a URL for you to use, like so
Copy the URL.3) Now here's the not tricky-at-all part. You need to create [ img ] tags to make it appear here as a picture and not just a link. The easiest way is to just click the [ img ] button at the top of the post reply window shown here;
That will make the tags appear. If it's speed you're after, you might find you can type that out quicker than you can click ;)
Remember the URL you grabbed? Next you want to paste that between the tags, like so;
Now hit submit (or preview) and hey presto, that turns into this!
How hot am I? Even frumpy
kk, now you go. Use this thread. I promise we won't laugh at your noobie fudge-ups
Srsly though, learn this now, reap the benefits in later challenges
