posting picture in the forum

[piercedguy76]

hi, i use to be able to post pictures in forums but now cant seem to see where i can upload jpegs etc. just above the reply box there is a bar. INSERT IMAGE only lets me add a URL and the other is MEDIA which also only lets me enter a url.

any ideas please?

 

[kellyt1994]

Did it work?

Cool. I've been trying to post a profile picture but it wants me to resize. Can't figure it out.

 

[Jodaily]

What a babe! Guess that makes me a dirty old man. Yup. Nice to meet you Kelly

 

[SexyAruna]

Did it work?

Cool. I've been trying to post a profile picture but it wants me to resize. Can't figure it out.

lol it still says Pica AI in the bottom right

 

[kellyt1994]

Been trying to resize for two days.

 

[Sprocketman74]

I'm excited to see it.

 

[Pad_Foot]

lol it still says Pica AI in the bottom right

Not in my download
@kellyt1994
There are sites for sizing, making gifs, and for checking pics …
I’m not checking your pic

 

[OralAllOver]

Did it work?

Cool. I've been trying to post a profile picture but it wants me to resize. Can't figure it out.

wow, Kelly, find a way! I need those pictures

https://www.bing.com/images/search?...ex=25&itb=0&ajaxhist=0&ajaxserp=0&vt=4&sim=11

 

[kellyt1994]

Yeah I tried a bunch apps before I got one to work

Wish I remembered which one

But it was resize and not enhance

 

[Feznixgiste222ricky]

It works for me, at least this time it did , I’m hopeful it will continue to work for me, i enjoy posting my pictures for others to see how I look

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

hi, i use to be able to post pictures in forums but now cant seem to see where i can upload jpegs etc. just above the reply box there is a bar. INSERT IMAGE only lets me add a URL and the other is MEDIA which also only lets me enter a url.

any ideas please?

Did anyone actually answer your question? I understand the new rules about posting dirty pictures. But why are other people able to post main stream pictures and mine NEVER show up as a picture - just as a link to click?

 

[Britva415]

Did anyone actually answer your question? I understand the new rules about posting dirty pictures. But why are other people able to post main stream pictures and mine NEVER show up as a picture - just as a link to click?

That doesn't happen if you upload the image file instaed of trying to include it via a link.

The "upload" option is the default choice when you click the "insert image" icon on the text-imput toolbar. You can't even input a url unless you deliberately click away from the "upload" option.

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

Thank you for your answer, but I still do not technically understand. When I find a picture, like of a train, I right click on the image and select "Copy image address." Then I use the "Insert image" icon and place the image address there. When I enter it, I personally see the image, then when I enter the post, it converts from the picture I saw, to a simple address link.

What is different between my explanation and your suggestion of, "upload the image file instead of trying to include it via a link?"

 

[drusus]

Thank you for your answer, but I still do not technically understand. When I find a picture, like of a train, I right click on the image and select "Copy image address." Then I use the "Insert image" icon and place the image address there. When I enter it, I personally see the image, then when I enter the post, it converts from the picture I saw, to a simple address link.

What is different between my explanation and your suggestion of, "upload the image file instead of trying to include it via a link?"

What you see in this editor and what gets added to the forum are not necessarily the same thing. When you hit the 'Post reply' button, the forum software executes a callback to parse your entry and insert it into the database. There are all sorts of options for how it does this, but in the case of linked images it can do four things: copy the image file to a local cache, embed the remote image, show a link to the image or remove it completely.

You wouldn't see the difference between a local copy and an embedded remote image unless you went digging in the page code but they're not the same. Pulling the image to the cache gives control of the file and prevents empty images but it puts a higher burden on the local server. Connecting to a linked image means a post is relying on a file that could move or disappear at any time.

Uploading an image places it directly on the lit server rather than pulling and embedding it from somewhere else with the <IMG> tag. The file has to live somewhere, so embedding makes sense for an uploaded image as a link would just point back to the local server. Recent changes mean the forum parses out the image tag for remote files completely, so you see a URL rather than the image itself. There have been many threads about images and why this change has been made.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Thank you for your answer, but I still do not technically understand. When I find a picture, like of a train, I right click on the image and select "Copy image address." Then I use the "Insert image" icon and place the image address there. When I enter it, I personally see the image, then when I enter the post, it converts from the picture I saw, to a simple address link.

What is different between my explanation and your suggestion of, "upload the image file instead of trying to include it via a link?"

Lit won't host images, but allows you to link to someplace else. The change to a link is recent, as a consequence of a much tighter policy on illustrated content. I suspect over time the site might stop allowing links, too.

 

[Britva415]

Thank you for your answer, but I still do not technically understand. When I find a picture, like of a train, I right click on the image and select "Copy image address." Then I use the "Insert image" icon and place the image address there. When I enter it, I personally see the image, then when I enter the post, it converts from the picture I saw, to a simple address link.

What is different between my explanation and your suggestion of, "upload the image file instead of trying to include it via a link?"

Well, you tried to include it via a link and you didn't upload anything at all.

When you're looking at a webpage that has the image you want to post here, you need to, instead of “copy image address” when you right click, do “download image” instead.

Now you have a copy of it on your device, which you can upload.

“Upload” is the FIRST thing you see when you click the “insert image” icon in Lit's forum post text entry form field. That tool also has an insert-via-address option, which looks like a chain link, but you don’t want to use that. Stay on the Upload option and, well, upload the image.

 

[Britva415]

Lit won't host images

Yes Lit will. Many of us upload images into Lit forum posts all the time.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Yes Lit will. Many of us upload images into Lit forum posts all the time.

Nudes?

 

[Britva415]

Nudes?

No, but you're the first person to mention that in this thread at all, and you didn't mention it in your first comment.

One can still follow the given instructions and upload them, which is what the question was about.

Will it be reported or moderated and taken down? Very likely, but that isn't a tech-support matter until it happens and the person doesn't know why and comes here to ask. That isn't what happened here.

 

[Obeylily]

hoo

 

[Heyteach]

I can see them!