Here is an alternative method to post images from anywhere. My example uses my deviantArt account, but the images can come from anywhere using the same method. I can only vouch for this on Windows based machines, but I would imagine that the process is fairly similar on Apple based machines as well. First you will either want to reply to a thread by choosing reply at the bottom of the last post or you can create a new thread Go to the location of the image on the web, right click the image, and choose Copy Image Location Create the body of your post and then click the image button:

A dialog box will pop up asking for text (this is really asking for the location of the image file) Right click inside the text box and choose Paste: Then click OK: Make sure to check the box for "Deactivate smilies in this post."

And like magic, your image will appear in your post:

Nice work, Mylari! I'll have to try it this way sometime soon!

Feel free to let me know if you run into any issues. The only problem I tend to run into is forgetting to turn off smilies. dA has a tendency to have a series of characters in the image location that trigger smilies like or such and I have to remember to go back and edit the post to turn off smilies and then it works

Gonna try here with a new pic...I've used the image button before but not in this way. The only difference I saw was instead of "Copy Image Location", mine said, "Copy Image URL"...same thing, though... It works! Thanks so much, Mylari!

you're welcome. I think different browsers and operating systems might have slightly different wording. I like using this method since I don't have to post things on dA and photobucket.

Thanks Mylari!

Thanks a lot Miylari, that's very useful! Springie......I love your new pic and profile photo.....ahhhh, so romantic!

*grin* Glad you like it, Adriana! I was happy with the way it turned out!

Originally posted by Springie *grin* Glad you like it, Adriana! I was happy with the way it turned out!

It's really nice and I'm sure one of the girls will come up with a nice story!

I would love to read any story that comes from this!

*Letting out a quiet yet evil laugh*

Uh oh....perhaps I spoke too soon...LOL!

Giving EW ideas generally leads to trouble.

You can post images from anywhere on this site. Simply get the URL of the image and put image tags around it. [IMG] and then the same thing with the / before the IMG at the end. In other words: [ IMG ] URL of image [ /IMG ] (you will need to remove the spaces) Photobucket is a popular hosting site, but you can also use Flickr, tinypic, imgur, lifehacker, imageshack, etc. As Mylari discovered, you can also use Deviant Art. Note that it is considered impolite to do this with pictures on regular sites. Posting an image linked to a regular (non-hosting) site is called hotlinking, and most sites don't like it. If you try to do this, they will find your link and remove the image, or perhaps even change it to something embarrassing.

Thanks for the nettiquete tip, TJ!