How do I upload an image?

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Captain Brillo
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How do I upload an image?

#1 Post by Captain Brillo »

Every place on the internet is different, it seems, or I'm too thick to figure it out. The how to here just tells me what extensions are allowed...
but neither drag-and-drop nor trying to paste it in worked for me.

Can someone take pity and step me through?
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Richard
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Re: How do I upload an image?

#2 Post by Richard »

Open the Full Editor and Preview.
Scroll down below the Editing Window, looking for Attachments.
Below that look for Filename.
Choose File
Click on Place Inline:
IMG_20181116_154432_075.jpg
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
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Re: How do I upload an image?

#3 Post by asqwerth »

But there's a size limit.

Big pictures you'll need to host your pics elsewhere and link to it.

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Re: How do I upload an image?

#4 Post by Stevo »

I put all my images on postimg, then just put the link or thumbnail link (better for big images) they provide in the post.

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Re: How do I upload an image?

#5 Post by Adrian »

Especially from screenshots I simple use the Screenshot tool and upload to Imgur, screenshot provides the code to add in forum, very easy.

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Re: How do I upload an image?

#6 Post by Moltke »

I like this site http://es.tinypic.com cause it allows to change/select the size of the image you want to upload.
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Re: How do I upload an image?

#7 Post by chrispop99 »

If the image is too large to upload to the forum, you can open it in the default image viewer, Nomacs, and select 'Save for Web' from the File menu.

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Re: How do I upload an image?

#8 Post by Richard »

@Captain Brillo,
(The suppliers of these forums need to re-examine their search engine, I tell ya)
I don't really understand the relation.

From your experience with the forum software, what do you think needs to be changed?
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Re: How do I upload an image?

#9 Post by skidoo »

Richard, the search functionality provided by some forum platforms includes support for boolean (AND/OR/NOT) queries.
Here at MX Forum, phpBB accommodates only exact phrase plus ANDed queries.

There's also a comparatively painful issue (here at MXforum, and other distro-centric forums) regarding noisewords.
The db FULLTEXT index is, necessarily, configured to prune/ignore "too common" words...
...but, across the cumulative topics, the frequency of occurrence of terms/words within pasted "inxi output" and similiar
causes surprisingly many words to become "too common" to the extent that they are omitted from indexing.

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Re: How do I upload an image?

#10 Post by Richard »

Thanks, skidoo.
Didn't make the connection.
I never use the forum search anymore for those reasons.
Get better results for hits in our forums by searching with Google/StartPage/DuckDuck.
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