Recently, some people have asked me how I add images to posts. Just in case others are interested, I thought I'd outline how I go about doing it.


BACKGROUND
For an image to be able to be posted, it needs to have a web address. This can be accomplished in many ways: for example uploading an image to your homepage or using Flickr, TinyPic, Photobucket, etc. The URL below is a list of picture hosting sites; some are free, some are not.

... link to a list of photosharing sites

Once an image is uploaded to the web, it has a web address and this makes it possible to link the image into a PG Music forum's post.


WHAT I USE
I personally prefer to use Dropbox (found here) as a way of making images available to the web.

I like Dropbox because …
  • It is free (up to 2 GB storage)
  • I do everything in a Dropbox folder on my computer's desktop and Dropbox does the rest. I don't need to worry about uploading or anything. That's taken care of in the background by Dropbox.

MY PROCESS
  • I use Windows snipping tool to crop a section of the screen that I want to post.
  • Next, I save the clipped image as a jpg file in a PG Music subfolder of the Public folder found by double-clicking the Dropbox icon on my desktop.
  • When Dropbox is installed, it adds options to Explorer's right-click menu. I right-click on the image and then select “Copy public link”



  • I now paste that link between the html image commands in a post, as shown below.



  • That's it.

A WORD OF CAUTION: The PG Music forum window has a limited size so it's important to ensure that images fit within the space.

MY SONGS...
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