How to upload images to your posts!

Here's a quick guide to posting photo's to the forum using PostImages.org to host the images.

1. Go to PostImages.org. You can create an account here if you want, which means that you can access your images later, and organise images into albums etc, but you don't need to create an account if you don't want to.

2. You'll see the image posting option below. I would recommend resizing your image to 640x480, which you can select from the drop down list, as this stops images from taking over the whole page (and more!) when viewing forum posts. Once you have selected your resize option, you can either drag images into the web page or select them from a file browser after clicking the Choose images button.



3. Once the image(s) have uploaded you will be redirected to a page with the uploads. Click the Share button, which will display a list of links for the image. The link you want is the "Direct" link, so click the button to the right of that link to copy this text directly to your clipboard, so that it can be pasted afterwards:




4. Now you can create your forum post. Note that if you are replying to an existing thread, then you will get a more fully featured editor if you click the Reply button instead of using the "Quick reply" box underneath the post.
Write your post and, when you want to insert an image, click the Image button in the toolbar above the post editor. This will open a small window where you can paste the link text that you coped in step 3:



Note that you do not really need to provide any alternative text, but you can if you want (browsers that cannot display the image will show it, but otherwise you won't see it).

Good luck, and if you have any questions please post them to this thread!

Thanks Matt will certainly give that a go.

Is the photo showing to anybody else, or is it just me who can see it?

Yes Diane,
Can see the woodpecker picture.
Looks lovely glad you have found out how to post pictures 

Well done Diane - I will ‘try’ when I get an hour or two cause I am sure it will take me all of that time 
Sue

Hi Sue
Hope you've managed to sort it by now. I use my iPad too and find the adding picture box is sort of 'off screen' to the bottom right of the screen I had to hunt around for it.Did you find that so you could paste in the copied Url? Don't give up

Hi Sammi, thanks for that, I will keep trying.  Seem to be able to get right the way through but when I ‘paste’ to the forum I just get an empty square - when I click on the empty square it gives me the url again which I could then post but not much good to anyone.  I am determined to master this.  Going to have another attempt later.  Thank you.
sue

Come on Sue!
You can do this!! 

Yay, i’ve only gone and done it  , i’m So happy.  Just used one I took of kingfisher last week to test. Yippee.  Will I be able to do it again???  Thanks Sammi you were right about deleting first.  
A very happy SUE
Ps, is there any way to stay logged in on site as seem to have to log in rather a lot of times.

Sue
Oh I'm so happy you did it. 
Such a stunning pic of one of my all time favourite birds waveee0
my my advice is to keep posting all your fab photos until it becomes second nature  I always knew you could do it. 

Fabulous photo - I've never seen one in reality, so this is second best.

Hi I’m doing everything Matt explained but I just get a square blue box, what am I doing wrong.