How to post pictures?

I always look on the post article link - there are some instructions to the right.

Don't know if there's a better place to find them or not?

http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/userarticleform

Its basically the same info on the textile page you linked, but the Cliff's Notes version. :)

You need to have an account at a photo sharing site like flickr, photobucket, imageshack, etc. where you can upload photos. I don't have the space to host photos and videos.

Photos uploaded to Facebook would work too, but when you share photos that you have uploaded elsewhere, your photos must be publicly viewable. Private settings will prohibit your photos from being displayed elsewhere. In theory.

Once your photos are uploaded elsewhere, you can embed them here pretty simply. Just grab the URL to your image and post it here with the URL surrounded by exclamation marks.

Example:

Here's the URL to a Web page that contains a photo of bumpy Lake Erie in winter.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/toledotalk/414112412/in/photostream

That is NOT the URL to embed here because that URL points to the Web page that contains the photo. What's needed is the URL to the image file that typically ends with .jpg or .gif or .png.

You can usually grab the direct link to the image by placing your mouse cursor on the image and then right-click your mouse. When I do that with the Chrome Web browser, I then select the option "Copy image URL," and I paste that URL in a post here.

So here's the image URL to the medium-sized version of the photo that I want to embed here. It ends with .jpg.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/186/414112412_a5fb81ac09.jpg

To display or embed that photo in a post here, I surround that URL with exclamation marks like this:

And that produces this:

Suggestion: Imageshack is fast and easy and will even resize your photos so they are not massively huge when you post them. Please do not post very large images - anything larger then 600 pixels tall or wide is considered very large.

Awesome! Thanks JR, you explained it just as I needed it explained. I was trying to get them from here:

http://www.dynamicdigitalimages.com/B_MyPortfolio/WildwoodPark/WildwoodPark.htm

and I thought I was linking to the pic, but don't remember exactly. I may be having problems with my lightbox viewer software doing something odd as well. I'll play with it some more tomorrow.

GTVT - I love Wildwood Park! There are so many beautiful places to photograph.

The mansion in the middle of the park looks fascinating too. I've always been curious about the story behind it.

Thanks for the info OhioKimono! Glad you said that, cause I usually reduce to 800Wx600H.

Mom2: I should have some posted of the outside of the mansion soon. I did some HDR test shots of the outside last weekend, just got sidetracked with learning my new software on the bridge. I can do so much, now all I have to figure out is what people like, and what they will pay for. Nothing like being able to the whole gambit from Black & White & antique, to way wacky polarized with 1 image.

I was hoping to post some on here to get a feel of what is "liked" around these parts.

You can use a free online hosting site like http://imgur.com (often used by other sites like reddit.

Then it's simple HTML :)

img src="http://imgur.com/blahblah.png" and put < before img and a > after the last ".

The blahblah changes with each image.

mom2: agree Wildwood is one of the many Treasure that keeps me in Toledo. Not only the beautiful scenery, the Mansion, heck the people that frequent there, but it's also pet friendly. That and Pierson are my 2 favorite parks in Toledo.

Oddly enough to show how many parks there are, I briefly dated a girl here and she took me to one someplace not far from downtown, it was beautiful even had some hills, to this day still haven't found it :)

But doesn't imgur delete the images after a certain amount of time? Last year, I looked into using their service for something, but I think I read on their site that they eventually purge the images.