Images Help

The first way to include an image in your post is to upload it to our site and include is at an attachment into a post.

First, make sure your images are no larger than 900 pixels along the biggest dimension. Our software rejects large images. To resize your image, you can use any popular photo editing phogram, like iPhoto.

Start a new post, and write some text. When you are ready to include an image, click on the purple "Attachements" button.

This will cause a new area of the page to appear, including a blue "Add Files" button. Click on this button.

Once a File Dialog opens, navigate to the folder where you stored the resized image and select the file, then click "open."

The selected file will appear in the Attachment field. You now need to tell it where in your post you want the image to appear (if you skip this step, the image will still upload, but it will appear at the bottom of your post as an "attachment")

After you click "Insert" the code that tells our system to include the image in the post will appear in your post's text.

Now click "Submit" and your post and image will appear in the post!

You can also insert multiple images this way, however, keep in mind that the total size of all images uploaded cannot be very large, otherwise, the whole post will be rejected (no more than 2Mb). So do not include too many images in one post. If you are posting a large number of images, it might be better to make a Google+ album and post a link to it (see instructions on how to do that below).

If you keep trying to insert an image but it doesn't appear in your post please check the following:

1. The size of the image is no more than 900 pixels in the largest dimension.

2. The image is a jpg, gif, or png

3. If you are including multiple images, the total size is no more than 2Mb. Too many photos, or too large photos are the main reason uploads fail. Your post wil appear, but the photos are just going to be discarded. Try posting fewer photos per post!

4. If you are still having trouble, you can try uploading images to an external site such as Google+ Photos or Flickr, and posting a link to the images or the entire album as described below.

Our forums also support a way to include images from other websites. For example, if you find a cool photo somewhere on the web and want to post it, you don't need to download it, then upload it to the forums, you can post a link to it directly. This will save you a lot of steps!

First navigate to the site that has the image that you want to include. If you are using a photo sharing site, click on the image so it displays in your browser. For example, below I am including an image from Google photos. I navigated to my Google photos account (photos.google.com), selected the album that has my image, and then clicked on the image thumbnail to open up the larger version.

The trick now is to get the address of the image itself and include it in the forums. Most browsers allow you to copy the address (or URL) of an image when you right-click (or control-click) on it.

After you click "Copy image URL" (sometimes it's called Copy Image Address) the address of the image will live in your paste buffer and you can paste it anywhere you want by pressing Control-V (windows) or CMD + V (Mac). The image URL usually ends with a .jpg or .png, except if you are using Google Photos, when it's just a bunch of text. You can test if you have the correct URL copied by opening a new browser tab and pasting the URL there. You should get your image and nothing else.

Now you get to use one of those cool editor buttons in the toolbar. Image Link says "Insert an image into the post that lives at the address that I will give you." Ensure that your mouse cursor is where you would like the image to appear in your post. 

Then click on the Image Link button (it looks like a photograph of a tree) and a new module will appear. Past your image URL into the URL field (Ctrl + V on Windows; CMD + V on Mac). 

Here's my URL pasted into the correct field. You can optionally specify the size, but if you leave it blank our system will choose the right one for you.

Once you have added the link, click on the blue "Add" button to add your image to your post. 

One you click "Add" the URL gets copied into your post, with some additional code.

Click "Submit" and your image should appear in the new post.