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Have you noticed the new tool that appeared on the top right of your post message box, next to the YouTube tool icon? If not or if you wondered what it is, let me introduce you to the few easy steps to put this to work.

1. Open a post message window and click on the image wrap tool icon:





2. An option pop-up box will open. Type in the image alignment you want for your post (left / right).





3. Click OK and the wrap image code will be inserted into your post.





4. Between the code brackets, type the url for the image you want to wrap text around in your post.





5. After the last code bracket, enter the text you want to include in your post.





6. Post your message and voila!

You KNEW the first question that'd come up & you probably KNEW WHO would ask it, too!! Is there any way to control the size of the pic? IMO, posting that small a pic almost defeats the purpose of posting a pic at all. I personally liked the original text between the full-size pics format.

Trying to faithfully follow Ron's instructions....and the predicted result is........

Well I'm a failure!!!! Is it possible to do with pics that aren't loaded anywhere but my PC???

Test Sope Pic

Easier: 1) paste/highlight image URL 2) click IMG2 wrap icon; specify left/right 3) Type your text and Preview/Submit

Uno...dos...tres!

Originally Posted by longlegsinlapaz

Is it possible to do with pics that aren't loaded anywhere but my PC???

Nope.

IMG tags are instructions to go get a pic from an online host. If you're not online(or not running server software)...FAIL.

It's different than uploading something to our server.

WHY did I KNOW that was going to be the answer?

This is just great, I'm learning something too....

Online hosting is super easy...

Easiest

More bells and whistles, but still pretty easy/no registration required.

I think you can upload the image to one of your online albums and then right click the image for the image url...

Originally Posted by longlegsinlapaz

You KNEW the first question that'd come up & you probably KNEW WHO would ask it, too!! Is there any way to control the size of the pic? IMO, posting that small a pic almost defeats the purpose of posting a pic at all. I personally liked the original text between the full-size pics format.

Trying to faithfully follow Ron's instructions....and the predicted result is........

Well I'm a failure!!!! Is it possible to do with pics that aren't loaded anywhere but my PC???

Test Sope Pic

Well..... what is this?.... you have made me hungry.... have not had breakfest yet... the second load is on it's way... still have not turned on the power and phone line..

Can make do with a propane stove, lamps, and other emergency things.. but no internet.. well !!!!

And don't you dare tell me you grew the lettuce !!!

Originally Posted by BajaGringo

I think you can upload the image to one of your online albums and then right click the image for the image url...

Yeah, that's the hitch....trouble-maker that I am....in that all my pics reside only within my own PC. I'm not going to transfer all or any to an online site.

Wessongroup.....I didn't grow the lettuce....nor did I make the sopes....there's this little sope place on a back road in Centenario that doesn't even open until 9 PM!!! But her sopes are awesome & worth waiting for a late dinner!!

Originally Posted by longlegsinlapaz

Yeah...I'm not going to transfer all or any to an online site....

Except this one...

Five Users Whose Attachments Take Up the Most Space
User Name Attachments Total Size
1. longlegsinlapaz 482 247.27 MB

Originally Posted by Marty Cortez

User Name Attachments Total Size
1. longlegsinlapaz 482 247.27 MB

Are you sure? That would be more than 470 gigabytes. My whole hard drive (including everything ... programs, emails, photos, music, videos, whole websites, etc. ... contains 32.5 gigabytes!!

Edit: Ack, maybe I'm reading it wrong, and it's 247.27, not 482,247.27. Senior moment.

Originally Posted by Marty Cortez

Except this one...

Five Users Whose Attachments Take Up the Most Space
User Name Attachments Total Size
1. longlegsinlapaz 482 247.27 MB

Yes, your point is.....?? Do you want me to not post any more pics ever?


Or maybe there's an award for active participation in the site by sharing a large quantity of pics?

PS I don't weigh enough to be 5 people!!! Nor 4, 3, or even 2!!!

I think what I was trying to say is that you need a pic's url to use the tool. Let's see here...

1) Find "attachment" hosted here

2) Rt. click on it>> Copy Image Location

Give it a rip with the new tool...

SHAZAM; it works!

Your pics are already hosted here, Legs.


Surfer says: What's the big deal?

Now don't get her mad Marty. I think she can take both of us...

Are you guys are having fun talking to yourselves?? Because for the MOST PART you're talking over my head with the techie-nerd stuff!!

My only response would be that I THINK only the pics I've already posted here are hosted here....I think! At least that sounds logical to me!

The bottom line for me is that I attempted to follow the instructions given; I played with it to try to get it to work & failed! So it's back to typing up top about all the pics listed below the text. I preferred the format where I could add text between each pic, but that format isn't available any longer.

And for the record, I'm typically a nice, easy going & helpful person who goes out of her way to help others....unless & until really p'd off or backed into a corner. I actually prefer peace, free love & rock 'n roll over feeling the need to take anyone on. BUT if need be....................

Let's try an example.

Find all posts by longlegsinlapaz

Here's a thread with some pics.

2nd to the last post in that thread, there are two pictures of a katty(identical to our Flame Point Siamese; I might add )

Right Click on the pic, select "Copy Image Location"(that's the URL thingy I was talking about. Uniform Resource Locator; the actual location of the picture on the internet.)

Paste that URL into the text box, highlight it, and click that icon with the hand/finger next to the youtube one. Specify picture to either the "right" or the "left" where it asks you to "Please enter the option for your [IMG2] tag." In this case ^^^ I chose right.

You'll notice all it does it "wrap" your pic URL in [IMG2="right/left"][/IMG2] tags; without the space I put in.

Then start typing directly after that, and the board will place the image where you specified in relation to the text you type.

You can do that as many times as you like.


You can do it, Legs! If you don't want to have to dig through all your posts/threads to find where your pics are located here, I can think of two options.



Here I chose to put katty on the left.

I'll PM you a complete, clickable list of your pics by filename that you can open in a new tab/window with Firefox. You can Right Click it and select "Save Link As" so you'll have it where you save it and won't have to open this thread to get to it.

We can also sort by date uploaded if you like.

Or you could start using our album feature to have them all in one place(from now on.)

Community(at very top of page)>>Pictures and Albums

The key concept to understand is that those [IMG] tags are just instructions to go get an image from somewhere; you have to specify where that somewhere is.

To use that list, Right Click on the pic you want, then select "Copy Link Location", paste/highlight into the text box, and click the hand/finger icon to place it.


EDIT: Shoot! It looked perfect in Preview, but when I posted it the addition of my User Info to the left pushed the text below the pic. So evidently if a pic is wider than a certain number of pixels, the board software will put the text above/below to keep from stretching the page.

Originally Posted by Marty Cortez

So evidently if a pic is wider than a certain number of pixels, the board software will put the text above/below to keep from stretching the page.

And a very wise piece of software it is!!! If a page gets stretched, it makes the lines of unwrapped text in other posts on that thread about a mile long and very difficult to read!!

IMO, text wrap works best when images are smallish, so that each column is 1/3 to 1/2 the width of the message. Otherwise, the lines of text have too few words to be easily readable.

You mean trying to wrap text around a picture too wide, something like this???

here's who's the boss of our animals~


Sample picture using photo hosted on Photobucket and copying "IMG" code...let's see if it works....

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