ARE YOU PIX POST TRAINED?

"What are you waiting for, the TOTAL polar cap  meltdown???"

  From time to time, PL members ask me how to post images here.  I usually handle it in PM.  So here's one for everybody.  Feel free to add any info you find helpful.  Please post a picture here when you are successful! 

POSTING IMAGES IN PL

1.  Your image must have a url!  You can can google/bing etc. an image then right-click / copy 'image location.' Or you can copy your image url off Photobucket or another such service that attaches url to images you import - personal photos, etc.


2.  Open a Post a Reply window in your thread. Locate the Insert/Edit Image Option.  It's the post-card icon in the Post a Reply tool bar.  Next to the smiley face. Left Click on it.


3.  A window will open showing you where to paste-in your image url.


4. Right Click / Paste in your url.


5.  Click OK.


6.  Your image will appear in your Reply post.  Submit as usual.


You might want to type in your remarks before you paste in an image.  That way, your photo won't bury your comment, so to speak.  You can use the left/right/center option to re-position your photo.

HAPPY POSTING!

TAKING CONTROL

EXAMPLE:  Use of PL Insert/Edit Image Option AND Quick Diff Online Tool:

"David Gergen, editor-at-large of "U.S. News & World Report," engages Richard Brookhiser, senior editor of "National Review," author of Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington.  

RICHARD BROOKHISER ON GEORGE WASHINGTON

MARCH 28, 1996

TRANSCRIPT

RICHARD BROOKHISER: Well, we, you know, we don't realize that a lot of the rules that we live under were precedents established by him. You know, we assume that when the President or, or any high official, when their term ends, when they're voted out of office, or, you know, after a certain number of years, they will just step down. They will give up power, you know, commanders in chief will give up power at the ends of wars. We just assume that. And, and that was, indeed, the political theory of Washington's day. You know, all the intellectuals of his time in America believed that that should be the case. But it had to be established in reality. It couldn't just be ideas or theories. And so it was very important that we had the leader of both the revolution and also the first President willing at the end of those two tours of duty to step down and give the power back. And this, this made real the principles that everybody believed and espoused."

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/gergen/brookhiser.html

thanks :) ive been here since 07 and still dont know how to post pics in forums lol  now i do and hope to get the gang here a pic of my wrist tonighgt...sorry typing lefty here  doing best  bare w me pl family

SOUND OFF!!

Example:

Combination of PL Insert/Edit Image Option and the Quick Diff Online tool to create a post containing a poem and an image of the poet herself.

"Bury Me in a Free Land" is a poem by Frances Harper, an African American abolitionist and poet.


    Make me a grave where'er you will,

    In a lowly plain, or a lofty hill;

    Make it among earth's humblest graves,

    But not in a land where men are slaves.


    I could not rest if around my grave

    I heard the steps of a trembling slave;

    His shadow above my silent tomb

    Would make it a place of fearful gloom.


    I could not rest if I heard the tread

    Of a coffle gang to the shambles led,

    And the mother's shriek of wild despair

    Rise like a curse on the trembling air.


    I could not sleep if I saw the lash

    Drinking her blood at each fearful gash,

    And I saw her babes torn from her breast,

    Like trembling doves from their parent nest.


    I'd shudder and start if I heard the bay

    Of bloodhounds seizing their human prey,

    And I heard the captive plead in vain

    As they bound afresh his galling chain.


    If I saw young girls from their mother's arms

    Bartered and sold for their youthful charms,

    My eye would flash with a mournful flame,

    My death-paled cheek grow red with shame.


    I would sleep, dear friends, where bloated might

    Can rob no man of his dearest right;

    My rest shall be calm in any grave

    Where none can call his brother a slave.


    I ask no monument, proud and high,

    To arrest the gaze of the passers-by;

    All that my yearning spirit craves,

    Is bury me not in a land of slaves.





 

Very excellent post, Marly.

Hope all y'all keep this one around. It's the gospel in how to do these thing right !

I have been able to post pics in forum threads...... What I want to know how to do is post a pic in the comments section of a submitted news article.  Marly, I've seen you do this.  School me.

Thanks Marly... does the same hold true for posting pics in member's comment walls?

MarlyB this is great stuff! 

My brudder is a Genius at these kinds of things, but when I ask him something he either refuses to put it laymans terms, gets frustrated, laughs or it costs me a lunch. 

My NETpertise is just a notch above these two. 

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CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE

Crediting the artist is a good idea.  It is often hard to tell where an image originated. 

Depending upon your computer, you can get a little clue -

Hover/Right Click View Image Info over this image to get an idea if YOU feel safe visiting the webpage(s) it is found on.

This one lead me to a business site:  http://www.redandbluegraphics.com/home.php

Was the graphic generated by the firm?  That's a phone call/email question.  It's advertised for $150. 

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MIKIESPLACE says ...

uhhhh,  whats a url?

URL is short for Uniform (or Universal--oh, how ironic that the name itself isn't "uniformly" agreed upon) Resource Locator, which is really a fancy way of saying "web address" (e.g. http://policelink.monster.com is a URL).

Thanks, mz66!  Good question, MIKIESPLACE!

SURF THE WORLD WIDE WEB


URL IN DA CURL!

Basically,  you get around the internet by means of URLs.  They are web addresses.  For instance, look at the address bar at the top of your page (or where-ever you set it up.) 

Do you see this: http://policelink.monster.com/topics/86000/posts/new?quote_id=1171435    ???

That's the web address for this page.  Also called the "link"  to this page.  But you used a short-cut to get here.   You logged on to PL,  clicked Forums, found the Topic title, clicked on it, then clicked to this page.

If you want to navigate here again, by just using your address bar....open a fresh window.  Cut and paste the link in, then click the 'go' icon next to your address bar or just tap "Enter" on your keyboard.

Presto.  You're back. But now there's 2 windows open for PL!  Now WHY, you ask, would you want to have more than one window open for PL?  So you can edit one of YOUR  fine stories while listening to your playlist you posted in your Comment wall.  Or MY playlist.  PM a friend, etc.

URL

"A uniform resource locator, abbreviated URL, also known as web address, is a specific character string that constitutes a reference to an internet resource. In most web browsers, the URL of a web page is displayed on top inside an address bar. An example of a typical URL would be "http://en.example.org/wiki/Main_Page". A URL is technically a type of uniform resource identifier (URI), but in many technical documents and verbal discussions, URL is often used as a synonym for URI.[1]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_resource_locator

MIKIESPLACE says ...

uhhhh,  whats a url?

I use Photobucket, my pics will post on other's comment wall but not in a forum. I even tried all the link options.

http://s1290.beta.photobucket.com/user/PRIVATE2013/media/14341_1274580112888_3428236_n_zps7317518e.jpg.html

http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b521/PRIVATE2013/14341_1274580112888_3428236_n_zps7317518e.jpg

<a href="http://beta.photobucket.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1290.photobucket.com/albums/b521/PRIVATE2013/14341_1274580112888_3428236_n_zps7317518e.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo 14341_1274580112888_3428236_n_zps7317518e.jpg"/></a>

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