Question: How do you imbed an image into a post?

But isn't that what we do when we upload a picture from our hard drive to

Photobucket and then link the picture from Photobucket on here? I'm lost.

 
Marsha, the "direct link" command is visible when you hover your mouse over the "copy" box at Photob

ucket. It automatically copies the direct link when you click on it, so when you come back to Finer Kitchens to post it all you have to do is use the paste command into the Image URL box under your message.

 
Ok, here goes my try at this

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Finer_Kitchens/DawnNYS/apple1.gif

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Finer_Kitchens/DawnNYS/fly.gif

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Finer_Kitchens/DawnNYS/afrviolet-1-1.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Finer_Kitchens/DawnNYS/happier-2.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Finer_Kitchens/DawnNYS/flg.jpg

http://i56.photobucket.com/albums/g166/Finer_Kitchens/DawnNYS/chick.gif

 
Yippeeee, it worked. Just a little suggestion, Write your commands in your computer's notepad

instead of trying to switch back and forth every time you enter a picture command. Then copy the whole page from your notebpad document and enter it here.

 
Dawn, I think it has to be loaded onto a public site, cause we're just linking to a pic...

We're just posting a link to the picture, and not actually uploading the file containing picture.

The file on your hard drive is probably named "c:my documentspicture", or something like that. But the internet doesn't know the difference between your c: drive, or my c: drive, so there's no way for the link to go out to your computer, and grab the picture.

But I'm just guessing - I'm not too much into the techie stuff.

 
The reason you can't link directly to your hard drive is that

in order to do so, you would have to open your computer up to anyone who clicked on the link.

Think of it this way - say you have some photos you carry around in those plastic sleeves in your wallet. You want to show them to us here at FK, but since we are not all in "the kitchen" at the same time, you leave your wallet on the table and let all of us open it up to look at the pictures when we come into the room (FK). This means that anyone that comes in to the "kitchen" (FK) could open your wallet and look at your pictures, along with anything else you happen to have in there. That is the equivalent of letting someone access your computer hard drive to see a picture.


When you upload a photo from your hard drive to a blog or photo hosting site, you are actually making a copy of it and putting it somewhere that is openly accessible to others on the net.

So to continue with the first example – instead of you leaving your wallet out for everyone to open, you take the photos out, make a copy of them, and leave them on the table for us to see. That’s what you do when you upload photos to a hosting site or blog – you make them accessible without letting others have access to your computer.

 
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