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LifeisGood · RV-Dreams Community Member

Downloading pictures in journal

RVDude · RV-Dreams Family Member

Howard has this forum set up (to rightfully save him disk space expense and picture management time I suppose) so that you can only LINK to a picture in the forum and not actually upload a picture into the forum itself.

If your picture is already someplace on the web (flickr, photobucket, your website, etc, etc, etc) all you have to do while typing in your post is to click the "image" icon (the funny thing that looks like a picture on an easel to the right of the screen icon and to the left of the quotes icon) and type in the full URL of your photo.

The image will then appear when you save the post.

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-- Edited by RVDude at 10:11, 2008-02-09

Froggi · RV-Dreams Family Member

If you are talking about their blog then Howard uses smugmug.com (and I do as well). Once you upload your photos to their server, you view the one you want, click on the link to "share photo", copy the address of the size you want, then in your blog program there will probably be an icon to add an image, click it and paste in the photo address.

Howard · Host

Hi Bob & Sue,

As usual, our wonderful Forum members have beat me to the punch. smile

We store ALL of our photos in Smugmug which is an online photo gallery. There is a fee for Smugmug, but there are several free online photo galleries out there.

By storing the photos in an online gallery, each photo is given its own web address. And Smugmug even provides different web addresses for many different sizes of the same photo.

So rather than uploading the photos to our Journal's database, I link the photos in with an HTML tag. Our Journal software, Typepad.com, has a "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) editor where you just type in what you want. And it also has an HTML editor that allows me to put in HTML (Website code language) for links to my photos.

The HTML to link a photo into a Journal entry looks like this:

<img src="insert web address of photo here">

I just place that "tag" where I want the photo to go, and magically it appears.

By using this method, I only have to upload photos to our photo galleries and then I can link the photos in any size into any website or webpage we have without uploading it multiple times.

Also, by having all our photos online, I don't clutter up our computer hard drives. I can get CDs of the photo galleries later if I want.

Hope that helps. It's not nearly as difficult as it sounds. biggrin