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message 1: by Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief (last edited Jan 10, 2014 09:22AM) (new)

Moderators of NBRC | 33044 comments Mod
~ Add an Image or Picture the Size You Desire ~

Adapted from Mandie's post of Dec 03, 2010 06:03am from the "Nothing But Reading Challenges" group.

REVISED to try and outwit the GoodReads Formatting Bug.

Feel free to practice in this thread and ask questions.

POSTING A PIC

As an example, we are going to post this picture:
description

a little larger:
description


The internet location of this picture, or URL, is . Just right mouse click to copy it. It should read:
That is what you are going to replace/post between the first two "quotation marks"

TO POST A PICTURE:

� Click on (some html is ok) in the right-hand corner above a comment box.

� Copy what it says (by the bulleted word image and replace what is between the quotation marks, which I put in bold below.
description

� That is where the picture’s URL is inserted. Cut or delete that and insert the new URL. It should look like this:description

� Next, change the width and height measurements. You can get out you ruler and calculate aspect ratio, or just wing-it with a guess. I've discovered that most pictures nowadays only need one (width or height) and the other adjusts automatically. I put the numbers in bold that you will change.
description

� You may have to fiddle with these numbers to get the desired size. For the smaller picture, I used width="200" height="150". For the larger picture, I used width="400" height="300".

� Use the preview before you post to check the size. The description section is the text that is displayed if the image can't be displayed.


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message 2: by Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief (new)

Moderators of NBRC | 33044 comments Mod
Reserved.


message 3: by Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief (new)

Moderators of NBRC | 33044 comments Mod
Adjusting Size (in this case, height) to give a uniform appearance.

For my review of Gift from the Sea I wanted to use several pics; while they vary in width, they are all the say height (80) and look like this:

descriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescriptiondescription

To paste in a picture from photobucket.com you would normally use the html code, but when adjusting the size, you need to use the Direct link as pointed to with the red arrow in Screen 1 and close-up in Screen 2 and paste between the first set of quotation marks " ":

Screen 1


Screen 2 - close up



message 4: by Lisa Kay (new)

Lisa Kay (lisakayalicemaria) | 15159 comments Yeah, Eman!


message 5: by JoLene (new)

JoLene (trvl2mtns) | 705 comments Question --- what if you buy an image and have downloaded it to your PC?
I can't seem to get it to show up by just placing the location where the URL is?


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Lisa Kay (lisakayalicemaria) | 15159 comments JoLene wrote: "Question --- what if you buy an image and have downloaded it to your PC?
I can't seem to get it to show up by just placing the location where the URL is?"


JoLene, I would post it on your profile photos and then copy the URL from there. Or in your private group, if you have one.


message 7: by JoLene (new)

JoLene (trvl2mtns) | 705 comments Ah, do most of you have private groups???


message 8: by Lisa Kay (new)

Lisa Kay (lisakayalicemaria) | 15159 comments Well, I do. But then, I have a lot of challenges I'm in.


message 9: by Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief (last edited Jul 14, 2013 06:33AM) (new)

Moderators of NBRC | 33044 comments Mod
By the way, I discover if you only do one of the measurements (such as height), the other will default in with the right ratio with you trying to figure it out. The the pic isn't distorted.

For instance, if I just put in height="200" for the following, I get this:




message 10: by Ozana (last edited Jan 01, 2014 03:16AM) (new)

Ozana Ozzy (barbozzy) | 1018 comments Just trying it..

description


message 11: by Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief (new)

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Nope. Didn't work, Ozana. Well, I can't see it. Do you?


message 12: by Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief (new)

Moderators of NBRC | 33044 comments Mod
Your pic ends with .jpgimage:%20%3Cimg

It needs to end with .jpg


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✿C✿ (clairelm) | 1222 comments Is there an easy way to post images from pinterest? I used to be able to do it but now I can't figure it out...


message 14: by Lisa Kay (last edited Sep 04, 2013 08:53PM) (new)

Lisa Kay (lisakayalicemaria) | 15159 comments Claire wrote: "Is there an easy way to post images from pinterest? I used to be able to do it but now I can't figure it out..."

Yes, Claire, they've changed their format a bit. You need to click on the larger size of the picture and put in the url after < img src="

No space after <


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Ken Priddy [image error]" width="40" height="100" alt="description"/>


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Ken Priddy description


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Ken Priddy [image error]


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Ken Priddy description


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Ken Priddy i did it


message 20: by Lisa Kay (new)

Lisa Kay (lisakayalicemaria) | 15159 comments Yay!


message 21: by Lisa Kay (new)

Lisa Kay (lisakayalicemaria) | 15159 comments


message 22: by Lisa Kay (last edited Dec 18, 2013 02:10PM) (new)

Lisa Kay (lisakayalicemaria) | 15159 comments The above is without any designation for width or height.


☼♎ Carmen the Bootyshaker Temptress ☼♎ | 7238 comments I did it! That's awesome. Thanks this thread is so helpful.


message 25: by Lisa Kay (new)

Lisa Kay (lisakayalicemaria) | 15159 comments Super, Carmen!


message 26: by Moderators of NBRC, Challenger-in-Chief (new)

Moderators of NBRC | 33044 comments Mod
Also, Carmen, I've discovered if you only put in on measurement (such as height), the other will default in.

Here I only designated width="200".




☼♎ Carmen the Bootyshaker Temptress ☼♎ | 7238 comments Thats awesome. I loved looking at all those libraries. I told my husband that I was going to go on a trip to find my favorite library and he just started laugh along with my kids. My daughter said that's going to be my home one day. Lol


message 28: by Lisa Kay (new)

Lisa Kay (lisakayalicemaria) | 15159 comments LMBO! Yes, love libraries. Now that brick & mortar bookstores are so few and far between, they are all the more precious.


☼♎ Carmen the Bootyshaker Temptress ☼♎ | 7238 comments So true. My husband and I use to love going to Bordes bookstore because it was closer than B&N until they closed but it never stopped me from going to the library but it was just nice to be able to sit and have a cup of coffee or tea while I read the book covers to see which one was interesting enough to buy or even to see which bargains there were. Ah such nice memories. I hate that it closed because B&N is such a long drive and I hate the traffic to get there too.


message 30: by Lisa Kay (new)

Lisa Kay (lisakayalicemaria) | 15159 comments Yes, you know it is bad when you have friends that aren't obsessive readers say, "Geeze. I really miss bookstores being around."


message 31: by Celeste (last edited Feb 21, 2014 08:39AM) (new)

Celeste (pinkbear) | 53 comments description

Just a practice run


message 32: by Lisa Kay (new)

Lisa Kay (lisakayalicemaria) | 15159 comments Looks good, Celeste!


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Kathleen (klcharles)


message 34: by Mikala (last edited Feb 24, 2014 05:18PM) (new)

Mikala (somemoronicwolfyclaim) [image error]


message 35: by Lisa Kay (new)

Lisa Kay (lisakayalicemaria) | 15159 comments Message #36 works, K. But no dice, Mikala. Do you have an extra space somewhere, or are you missing a > ?


message 36: by Lisa Kay (new)

Lisa Kay (lisakayalicemaria) | 15159 comments Ah... that's a gif. If the file is too large, it won't load.


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Layne West | 1 comments [image error]


message 38: by Renee (new)

Renee (reneeconoulty) | 3309 comments Destiny~The Girl Raised by Wolves~ wrote: "YESS! THANK YOU!!"

It took me a few goes to get it too. If you play around with the height and width numbers, you can make it not so squashed. That one looks like the standard width 40 height 100 as copied from the "some html is ok". Try changing the width to 100 and height to 150 and see how that looks?


message 39: by Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado (new)

Karen ⊰✿ | 16375 comments Mod
I find that if I just put the width and no height it just kind of ratios itself out


message 40: by Ladiibbug (new)

Ladiibbug Help! So I can't upload from My Pictures on my pc, right?

When I go to Google Images and click on the pic I want, the link has 20 or so lines.

The first pic I'm trying to find is Ambon Scorpionfish. TIA!


message 41: by Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado (last edited Sep 14, 2014 02:48PM) (new)

Karen ⊰✿ | 16375 comments Mod
When I use pictures from my computer, I upload them first to somewhere like photobucket or tinypic ; and then they give you the html code.

Sometimes in google images you need to click on the "show image" first to get a page with just the image, and then use that link

I hope that helps!


message 42: by Ladiibbug (last edited Sep 14, 2014 04:31PM) (new)

Ladiibbug Karen wrote: "When I use pictures from my computer, I upload them first to somewhere like photobucket or tinypic ; and then they give you the html code.

Sometimes in google images you need to click on the "show..."


Arrrr, yer one fine scurvey wench! I raise my cup o' grog to ye!

Got it to work *yippee* - pic is very large but now I can fiddle with it! Thanks so much!

You'll not be walkin' the plank today, me fine pretty ...

ETA: I'm so bummed real life has kept me from noticing that NBBC had a Pirate Takeover. Will read everything, but might be awhile. What fun, ROFL!


message 43: by Karen ⊰✿, Fiction Aficionado (new)

Karen ⊰✿ | 16375 comments Mod
Hahaha

Glad it helped :) there has been plenty of pirate fun so far and still a few bottles o'rum (and weeks) to go!


message 44: by Nigham (new)

Nigham Ken wrote: "i did it"

How did you do it? I 'm facing the same problem, like you did in the above comment.


message 45: by á (new)

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message 46: by Nigham (new)

Nigham [image error]


message 47: by Nigham (new)

Nigham á wrote: "

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Why can't I? :/


message 48: by á (last edited Nov 02, 2014 12:06PM) (new)

á If you're working on tablet (as I do) and have problems with "some HTML is ok", you can upload picture to site like
and then copy/paste the 1st row of uploaded picture, you can, also, fit the width you want. or you can literally just copy the description posted in "some html is ok", then upload the picture on tinypic and copy/paste last link of uploaded picture into the <> - >

its a simple cheat for tablets
I'm bad at explaining, jusdt exercise and you'll get it ;)


message 49: by á (last edited Nov 02, 2014 12:35PM) (new)

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last of my pictures, above; (write in that order but all in one sentence):
<
img src
=
"
post the link to picture
"
/
>


message 50: by á (last edited Nov 02, 2014 12:58PM) (new)

á small one:

(mine's 80/100)

(write in that order, without spaces - all in one sentence)
<
img src
=
"link to your picture"
width="number" height="number"alt/>


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