Seasons return

[pameladean]

Via julian: I'm asking those who love the outdoors to post a picture on your page. A picture that you took. Just a pic. No description (but yes alt text!). The goal is to regain peace and harmony without negativity. Please copy the text, put a picture on your page, and let's look at these beautiful pictures.



I continue unable to understand why Dreamwidth's image hosting is so impossible to figure out and convoluted.

P.

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[dreamshark]

I have no expectation that DW will provide me with a fancy image hosting service. I just want to be able to embed an image from ANYWHERE (an external site, Google Photos, their primitive image hosting depository, ANYWHERE) without having to be fluent in HTML. I just want the fracking "image" icon in their RTF editing tool to work. I have never gotten it to do anything at all except insert a tiny, non-working bluish square, that I gather is supposed to be a link to something? If you know how to make their "clever" solution work, please enlighten me and Pamela and the other WYSIWYG dunderheads that are trying to post pictures here.]

Weirdly enough, the one method that does work for me is "post image by email." It has many limitations and is frequently broken, but it does give me a way to post images from my iPhone that actually end up embedded in the post instead of just a link. I have not found a way to do that with photos that are already online somewhere.

[asakiyume]

... well, I meant that it was clever in the sense that it took into account their own limitations, not that it was great for us users.

I'll tell you what I do, but I don't know if it'll be useful or helpful. Also, I have a paid account. I don't know if that makes a difference.

First, before I try to upload the picture, I resize it to make it a smallish size (usually about 400 pixels by 500 pixels). I have a Mac, so I do this using Preview.

Then I go to the "create" menu on Dreamwidth and select "upload images" and attach the image. Then I hit the "Save descriptions" button at the bottom of the page.

Then I go to the "organize" menu" and choose "manage images." When you're on the "manage images" page, you have two options, "View all your images" or "upload new images." I choose "View all your images."

From there, I look for the image I want to imbed--it should be at the top because I just uploaded it. I have a choice between "image embed" and "thumbnail embed." I don't like the thumbnails, so I choose "image embed"--and since I've presized the image, I know it won't be massive on my friends' timelines. I copy that code, and then paste it into the entry I'm working on.

It's pretty laborious.

[dreamshark]

Thanks, that might work. I had no trouble uploading and annotating the image, but had not found the "organize" and "manage" menus. I'll give it a try.