[Tom]

If you want to post an image, you'll need a photo host or website.  Not to worry!  If you don't have a photo host we recommend using flickr or google photos to post images here.  Why?  They offer free accounts and we've made it very easy to include images in your posts (see below).

flickr.com
- upload the image to flickr (we recommend using the desktop uploader for this and having it automatically resize to 2048 pixels - if you don't resize, your uploads will take longer)
- position your cursor where you want the image to display in your post
- just above where you post a message, select flickr in the drop down, enter your flickr username or email in the box to the right, then click on the "Pics" button
- click on the photos you want to include in your post
- that's it! (alternatively, just paste the link to the flickr image or page in your post)
- note: if your flickr username or email doesn't work then enter the xxxxxxxx@yyy that appears here under "useful values" (you must be logged in to flickr to see this) and make sure your photos are not hidden from third party sites

flickr notes:
- the description you give the image at flickr will be displayed with the image
- you can override the flickr description by appending =some other description after the URL in your post
- if you change the description at flickr, you will need to edit and re-submit your post here to refresh it

Google photos
- upload the image to google photos
- tip: create a generic share album (e.g. nwhikers) and add photos you want to share here to that album so you don't have to keep generating new share links every time
- go to the album (or select a single photo or multiple photos if you don't want to put them in an album) and click on the < share icon at google photos to "get link"
- position your cursor where you want the image(s) to display in your post
- just above where you post a message, select google photos (instead of flickr), paste the link in the box to the right, then click on the "Pics" button
- click on the photos you want to include in your post
- that's it! (alternatively, use the Picasa options for albums created before July 2016)
- warning: do not use any other method for google photos!  This is the only way to embed permanent links (other methods such as right click get the image link will result in expiring image links).

Picasa
- upload the image to picasa and put it in an album
- position your cursor where you want the image to display in your post
- just above where you post a message, select picasa (instead of flickr), enter your picasa username or google email in box to the right, then click on the "Pics" button
- select an album, then click on the photos you want to include in your post
- that's it! (alternatively, see below)
- note: if you are missing some albums make sure your albums are public (or temporarily make them public).  For albums created after July 2016 you must use google photos.

SmugMug
- upload the image to SmugMug
- position your cursor where you want the image to display in your post
- just above where you post a message, select SmugMug (instead of flickr), enter your username in the box to the right, then click on the "Pics" button
- click on the photos you want to include in your post
- that's it! (alternatively, see below)

ImageShack (we no longer recommend or support this awful host)

All other websites (including photobucket, websh#ts, imagestation, dropbox, etc.)
- position your cursor where you want the image to display in your post
- just above where you post a message, click on the IMG button, paste the URL of the image, then OK
- that's it!
- to add an image description, use the following format: [img]url[/img]=some description

note for dropbox users: be sure to replace https://www.dropbox.com with https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com

[Tazz]

climbed observation rock which is the peak just in front of Rainier. this was taken at 6 am while haveing coffe in camp

thanks tom

[Tom]

See, piece of cake wasn't it?

[Tazz]

[Tom]

Best of all, I won't need to send daily PMs to those who upload large images on our server after neglecting to read the attachment guidelines.

Give it a whirl.  It's easy, and now you can put pictures wherever you want in a post, not to mention post as many as you want.  Just don't overdo it.

[polarbear]

So what happens if flickr.com gets bought out by photomugopoly.net.  Do all the links become toast, or do they get preserved somehow?

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...and a window that looks out on Corcovado...  Corcovado Hill

[Tom]

flickr.com was recently acquired by Yahoo, so it's relatively safe from photomugopoly.net.

[Slugman]

Lately I've been trying to limit myself to linking the two pics they allow at WTA, this will be a major upgrade, nice job Thomas!

Edit: I just joined flickr, took like two minutes, very cool. Thanks again.

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"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not man the less, but nature more..."  Childe Harold

[peppersteak'n'ale]

[polecatjoe]

Let me try!

Our new neighbor

By the way, I love the "don't overdo it" bit. I'm going to post links to my entire photo collection, now!

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"If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged."    - Virginia Woolf

[Tom]

polecatjoe, you may want to resize your pictures before uploading or you'll eat thru your 20MB monthly upload limit very quickly.

[polecatjoe]

Thanks, I think I have a handle on it now. Perhaps if I had read ALL of the instructions in the first place...

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"If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged."    - Virginia Woolf

[Scrooge]

Let's see if this works.

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=28308812&size=s

Nope.   

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Something lost behind the ranges. Lost and waiting for you....... Go and find it. Go!

[polarbear]

Scrooge, I think the URL should look something like these:

[Tom]