There are so many image posting fails on here, I thought I’d do a very quick pictorial guide about how I do it.
It’s often put forward that everyone on here is an IT professional and so it’s surprising that so many struggle.
There are lots of different ways of course, but this is what I do, and it’s incredibly simple to do, despite the claim of many who don’t quite manage it and get a bit mardy 😂
Right then. The steps here are virtually the same whether on your phone, or computer.
Essentially what we are doing is using an image hosting website (Postimage in this case) uploading our image to that, the site then gives us an ‘address’ for that image, we post it in the forum reply box using the specific button for images, and Bob’s your uncle.
You don’t need to have an account to use Postimage. It’s free and simple. Many other sites are available that do the same but this is what I’ve come to use.
Right, first open a new tab and go to postimage.org
Notice the button at the bottom ‘Choose Images’
This will allow you to navigate to the particular folder that your image/images are stored in. Choose the images and hit ‘next’ or whatever next looks like on your particular setup. You’ll get the image uploading screen.
Once your image has uploaded, it will appear and it will say ‘Upload Completed’
If the image does not have the little ‘Share’ icon by it (notice mine doesn’t here), just tap the image, it’ll appear in a new page with the little triangular dotted Share logo. Hit that.
A pop-up box will appear with all sorts of sharing options. Hit the second one that says ‘Direct Link’.
This will copy the image address that we want to your device’s clipboard.
This should normally end in .jpg or sometimes .png
Go back to Singletrack and to the reply box were you want to post your image. Hit the ‘img’ (image) button.
You’ll get a box pop-up asking you to enter the ‘Url’ (address) of the image. This is the line of text ending in .jpg on your clipboard.
Paste that into the box making sure that you are not including the text that is already there (http etc) as you already have that in the address you have copied to your clipboard, and including it twice will mess things up.
It’ll look something like this after pasting.
Hit OK. You’ll get a second box come up asking you to title your image. I don’t bother with this to be honest.
Hit OK again and it’ll all appear in the reply box in a format that’ll become an image when you post it. You don’t get a preview unfortunately.
When you’ve finished composing your reply, including the image related text, hit Submit.
A picture of a dog on a paddleboard will appear, or indeed, whatever image it was that you uploaded.
Hope that helps. It’s a better forum when people can post images I reckon. 👍
No doubt many folks do this differently, but this is one way and it works fine.