How I do pix in Dreamwidth

[bill_schubert]

I'm not much of an HTML person.  There are probably half a dozen ways to do this other than the following but this is simple for me and seems to work. I created a free Flickr account specifically for this process.

1 - From Flickr, open a picture.

2 - At the bottom right select the share arrow icon.

3 - FIRST TIME ONLY (when you set the selections, the program remembers) Select 'Embed' from the top menu.  Change size to 'Small' (I've got 400 x 300).  

4 - Click on the result in the window to turn it blue and copy.

5 - Back on Dreamwidth, go to Post.
 

From here are choices.  What I do is:

Add verbiage in the 'Rich Text' mode until I want to paste the picture.  Then click on the 'HTML' tab, position at the end of the text where I want the picture to be and paste what I copied from Flickr.

 

Repeat as necessary.

 

Check in preview to be sure I didn't screw it up.

Comments

[siglinde999]

Good to know. I am still posting in LJ then importing here. I don’t have a Flikr account. I may need to change that.

[plaidcake]

Thank You! I will definitely try this.

[mrdreamjeans]

WHat's the solution if you don't use Flickr?

[bill_schubert]

I'm sure that there are are other ways to do it but since I've got my sister to show me this one I've not looked. Flickr is free so no reason not to use it.

[alefy]

I tried Imgur recently following recommendations from some of my reading list friends- I found it very easy to operate with dw.

So, you upload a photo there; then get the .jpg link. Then in the Rich Text version of dw, paste the link in ‘photo upload’, I use a 400- then done.

Flickr is good, but I think has a limit?

[bill_schubert]

They limit non-public photos to 50 for a free account. Since all mine are public is no matter. It works and is same as my sister has had for a couple or three decades so I get free tech support if I need it.

[alefy]

Ah, that must be why. Mine are usually set to 'private'. Great, then :).

More puppy-pics, please!

[bill_schubert]

Here is the link to all of my Google Dog Ranch photos. There are some in there I've not put in DW.

I add to the dog pile of photos all the time.

[msconduct]

You have this sorted already in practice, but I thought you might enjoy knowing about it as it's such a neat trick. To get small, medium or large directly in the HTML, you just put a s, m, or l right at the end of the code you post, just before the .jpg. So instead of:

img src="https://www.example.com/images/dinosaur.jpg"

it would be

img src="https://www.example.com/images/dinosaurm.jpg"

It's particularly handy if you want to vary the size you normally use for a particular image.

[johncomic]

I upload my pix to DW here, snag the "img src" code, then do much like you — switch from Rich Text to HTML and paste the code in [but I also edit out the bit that tells it to display a 100 x 100 icon of the pic].

[mollywheezy]

Thank you! Good to have instructions for when I need them. :)