Hey Joe, That thud you just heard way up at the Cloisters was me falling over in shock.
Does this work for images on the Internet? I'm gonna go find out.
YAYYYY!!!!
Now do it with ten different pictures......
Goggle up a Dlowan dragon!!
Uh, drag queen.
Uh.
Joe( doomed)Nation
It's little, but it's here.
Not gonna ask how to make it bigger. I'll leave the fancy shmancy stuff for another day.
I'm thrilled!!!!
Thank you one and all.
You are a very very clever girl roberta. You deserve a mister man stamp. well done.
Yes, querida, from the net.
She's a whiz at this stuff now!
Joe(off to the subway)Nation
dadpad wrote:You are a very very clever girl roberta. You deserve a mister man stamp. well done.
Don't know what it is, but I'll take it.
Mooches grassy ass
Thanks, Deb. I think I once knew how to do this. Now I know again.
ossobuco wrote:Roberta, who is - let me just say - a tad computer phobic while being the brightest person in Manhattan - can learn to, with help.
Osso, I responded to the first part of your remark and missed the second part. C'mon. There must be two or three other people brighter than me in Manhattan. Well, maybe two.
Actually, aw shucks.
Try this.
1) Create a folder on your desktop - right-click anywhere in a blank area of the desktop, select "New", then select "Folder". Name the folder something like "Pictures to upload", or anything else you prefer so long as its descriptive and easy to remember.
2) Navigate to any page on the web that has a picture you want to save - any picture; this is just for practice.
3) Right-click on that image and select "Save picture as"
3) The "Save Picture" utility will pop open
4) At the top of the "Save Picture" utility, there is a dialogue box labled "Save in". At the right side of that box, there is a button which looks like a folder with an upward-pointing arrow. If the dialogue box is empty, or displays anything other than "Destop", click that button until the dialogue box to the left displays "Desktop" (it may be there already as soon as you open the "save Picture" utility ... if so, naturally no need to do anything else).
5) Now, in the panel below the dialogue box, you'll see the folders on your desktop. Locate that folder we just created and named, and double-click it to select it.
6) Click "Save" to save the image to that folder.
7) Now, the image will be in that folder on your desktop, easy to find. Follow the same proceedure to save any picture - just direct the "Save" to that folder every time.
8) Whenyou want to upload that picture to a hosting site, use the hosting site's dialogue box to navigate to and select that folder on your desktop.
9) The picture you want to upload will be in that folder; locate it and click on it to select it.
10) Click "Upload", and the picture will upload. Once it has done so, you can 'hotlink" to it any way you wish.
Now I'm confused!
When Roberta copied the image url and uploaded that photo of a tiger on her post above, that was hotlinking, wasn't it?
If she put it onto, say, photobucket, and then copied it to here, that changes the url - is that then not thought of as hotlinking?
I use photobucket (or those sort of sites) to enable me to post my own photos with the right url, but don't usually do that two phase method to post web photos...
Except for the travel trivia game, when the source url can give away the answer, I try to remember to give the photo source credit, even though I know people can check what it is by clicking properties, and so on. (Most on that travel game don't cheat by looking at that).
Partly, I like giving credit for photos since I love photography, and partly I would want to get credit if someone selected one of my photos if they were, say, on google image.
I'm confused re why one would do the two phase (photobucket/imageshack) method for web photos - doesn't that effectively hide the credit/source? wouldn't that piss you off if it was your photo?
All images posted by members to A2K threads are "hotlinked" - that's the way A2K works; it does not host those images itself. The most common reason to use the "two step" would be in the case of an image from a site which frowns on hotlinking - and in such case, it would be proper to credit the original source. Another common reason to use hosting sites would be the case of an image which does not appear on the web, but is one you have saved to your machine - your own photos or scans, for instance.
Roberta, you did it.
