Posting images, or links to images, via the Imgur hosting site
Posted: April 17th, 2018, 7:06 pm
This is a set of instructions on how to upload pictures to the free Imgur picture-depository website, which will then allow you to post a link to that picture within a Lemon Fool post, or even embed the picture itself in a Lemon Fool post, so long as doing so stays within the Lemon Fool posting rules (more of that later..).
The process is really simple and relatively quick -
1. Go to the Imgur upload page - https://imgur.com/upload
2. Press the 'Browse' button on the above page, and locate the image on your local device that you wish to upload.
3. Once the image has been uploaded, you'll be presented with a page showing your uploaded image, similar to this - https://imgur.com/a/L27V1
4. Right-click on the image, and using the context-menu, select the option that says 'Copy Image Location'. Doing so puts a copy of the actual image URL onto the clipboard of your device.
5. If your browser doesn't show you the option to 'Copy Image Location' when you right-click the image, you will hopefully have the alternative option to 'Open image in new tab', which you can use as an alternative method of gaining access to the actual image-URL that you'll need to copy to your clipboard. Select that option, and then COPY the image-URL from the new tab if you confirm that it opens your required image.
6. Open a new tab in your browser, and clear the URL bar of this new browser-tab.
7. Right-click in the tab URL bar, and select the 'Paste' option. This should paste the image URL copied to your clipboard in Step 4 or Step 5 into the URL bar.
8. Press <RETURN> to go to the pasted image URL page. On this tab you should now see an image of your uploaded picture on it's own. This is an important verification step to ensure that you've got the actual image-URL in your clipboard.
9. In your Lemon Fool post you've now got two options -
9a. Option 1 is to simply paste the URL on your clipboard into a post, and it will be available for someone to select when reading the post, and that will allow them to visit the URL themselves and see the image you've uploaded. With this option you'd simply see this URL as a click-able link as in this example here -
https://i.imgur.com/sILZnNh.png
9b. Option 2 is to embed the actual image into your post, by first pasting the clipboard image-URL into a post, then highlighting the image URL in the post (left-click the mouse and select/highlight the URL text in the posting box), and then selecting the 'Img' option at the top of the Lemon Fool posting box -
In the Lemon Fool posting box, when I paste the image-URL, highlight it and then select the 'Img' button on the bar above the posting-box, I will then see the following text in my posting-box -
The above 'img' tags either side of the image-URL will then embed the actual image into a Lemon Fool post, and in this Option 2 example, the post would then look like this once complete -
10. When posting links in Lemon Fool posts, or embedding actual images into them, using the 'Preview' option at the bottom of the posting-box is a very useful step in making sure that the post will look the way you want it to, before you actually commit to the next 'Submit' step. Using the 'Preview' option, you can verify any URL links in your post before committing it, using the right-click 'Open link in new tab' option, just to check that your posted URL's go to the intended destinations.
Whilst the above process may seem complicated, it's a really simple couple of steps that don't take a lot of time once you've carried out the procedure and get familiar with it.
One thing to be aware of if you're thinking of embedding images into posts is the Lemon Fool rules regarding this.
The Lemon Fool rules clearly state -
All embedded images (including data and graphs) in posts must:-
Include an additional link (URL) to a web page where the original may be viewed in context, or (where the image is hosted on either a domain owned or controlled by the poster, or a hosting site account e.g. Imgur, Picasa, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive) be followed by a statement that the poster owns (or is legally permitted to post) the content of the image. If this is later to be found to be incorrect, appropriate action will be taken by administrators. Images which do not comply with these requirements may be removed without warning.
Lemon Fool rules link here - app.php/rules
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
The process is really simple and relatively quick -
1. Go to the Imgur upload page - https://imgur.com/upload
2. Press the 'Browse' button on the above page, and locate the image on your local device that you wish to upload.
3. Once the image has been uploaded, you'll be presented with a page showing your uploaded image, similar to this - https://imgur.com/a/L27V1
4. Right-click on the image, and using the context-menu, select the option that says 'Copy Image Location'. Doing so puts a copy of the actual image URL onto the clipboard of your device.
5. If your browser doesn't show you the option to 'Copy Image Location' when you right-click the image, you will hopefully have the alternative option to 'Open image in new tab', which you can use as an alternative method of gaining access to the actual image-URL that you'll need to copy to your clipboard. Select that option, and then COPY the image-URL from the new tab if you confirm that it opens your required image.
6. Open a new tab in your browser, and clear the URL bar of this new browser-tab.
7. Right-click in the tab URL bar, and select the 'Paste' option. This should paste the image URL copied to your clipboard in Step 4 or Step 5 into the URL bar.
8. Press <RETURN> to go to the pasted image URL page. On this tab you should now see an image of your uploaded picture on it's own. This is an important verification step to ensure that you've got the actual image-URL in your clipboard.
9. In your Lemon Fool post you've now got two options -
9a. Option 1 is to simply paste the URL on your clipboard into a post, and it will be available for someone to select when reading the post, and that will allow them to visit the URL themselves and see the image you've uploaded. With this option you'd simply see this URL as a click-able link as in this example here -
https://i.imgur.com/sILZnNh.png
9b. Option 2 is to embed the actual image into your post, by first pasting the clipboard image-URL into a post, then highlighting the image URL in the post (left-click the mouse and select/highlight the URL text in the posting box), and then selecting the 'Img' option at the top of the Lemon Fool posting box -
In the Lemon Fool posting box, when I paste the image-URL, highlight it and then select the 'Img' button on the bar above the posting-box, I will then see the following text in my posting-box -
The above 'img' tags either side of the image-URL will then embed the actual image into a Lemon Fool post, and in this Option 2 example, the post would then look like this once complete -
10. When posting links in Lemon Fool posts, or embedding actual images into them, using the 'Preview' option at the bottom of the posting-box is a very useful step in making sure that the post will look the way you want it to, before you actually commit to the next 'Submit' step. Using the 'Preview' option, you can verify any URL links in your post before committing it, using the right-click 'Open link in new tab' option, just to check that your posted URL's go to the intended destinations.
Whilst the above process may seem complicated, it's a really simple couple of steps that don't take a lot of time once you've carried out the procedure and get familiar with it.
One thing to be aware of if you're thinking of embedding images into posts is the Lemon Fool rules regarding this.
The Lemon Fool rules clearly state -
All embedded images (including data and graphs) in posts must:-
Include an additional link (URL) to a web page where the original may be viewed in context, or (where the image is hosted on either a domain owned or controlled by the poster, or a hosting site account e.g. Imgur, Picasa, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive) be followed by a statement that the poster owns (or is legally permitted to post) the content of the image. If this is later to be found to be incorrect, appropriate action will be taken by administrators. Images which do not comply with these requirements may be removed without warning.
Lemon Fool rules link here - app.php/rules
Cheers,
Itsallaguess