G'day everyone, hope you're all doing well...

I'm not sure if this idea has been posted before, and this is not a slight on the Card Talk admins, but can someone with the holy grail of techy knowledge, make a "how to" instructional video, presumably on YouTube, then post a link here, on how to upload photos to these Threads/Topics ?
Jess (Catskilleagles) has been my go-to but would love a tutorial or link to one on SIMPLE steps to achieve this uploading nirvana.
Thanks in advance

Hi Cardscout,

This question comes from time to time. I answered it at least once:

https://nonsportupdate.infopop...147024007#5147024007

You can also do a search for "embed" on this site (the "Find" tab) and find other replies about getting images visible.

Those instructions are not that complicated, but require the poster to maintain photos in a specific way that they might prefer to resist. What seems to be the insurmountable problem is that many people still avoid the Cloud (OneDrive) or hosting sites (still the Cloud) and would rather save photos they want to their own PC or external drives.

Apparently, you must use some kind of hosting site to embed a photo and can't simply drop it into a post from your own equipment or off a flash drive. You would think someone would be able to figure out how to do that by now, but then we might not need all of this interconnectivity that the Computer Overlords are so happy to give us.

We may have bought it, but they still own it.

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In similar fashion I use the https://postimages.org/ web site.

Upload image then cut and paste the direct link into the card talk image url feature.

Biggest issue I have is that the images need to be sized down or you will blow up the card talk feed with a full on poster. I usually keep it down to the 80 - 140kb range.

Obviously if the site is down so goes your links. For the most part I have found it reliable.

At one point, we were limited to how much we could store online with our account so when I set up the forum all those years ago, I set it so that photos could not be stored here. They take up a lot more space than our text does.

As was posted, it’s been posted elsewhere on the forum how to use a third party site to store images and then link here. But I hope someone will explain it a bit further here. And if I can help further, please let me know.

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Originally posted by mykdude:
In similar fashion I use the https://postimages.org/ web site.

Upload image then cut and paste the direct link into the card talk image url feature.

Biggest issue I have is that the images need to be sized down or you will blow up the card talk feed with a full on poster. I usually keep it down to the 80 - 140kb range.

Also a user of postimages.

And for resizing, Irfanview is a great, simple photo editing program. I use it to crop, resize, color balance, and otherwise edit pictures.

As mentioned above you need a third party image hosting site. It is like that with most chat forums. I use Imgur.
- make an account, it is free.
- upload your photos to your account. You can make folders to keep them organized.
- After you upload the photo, click on it and there are various links on the side. Second one up from the bottom `BBCode (message boards & forums)'.
- At the bottom there are sizes, click on the one you want to use.
- click on the `Copy' button for BBCode and paste the link into your forum post.

I too use postimage.org using the online instructions to post images.

regards

John

Thanks all for your helpful suggestions. I'll have a go next weekend, IF I survive...