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Images in Posts

Images can be uploaded from your computer or linked from another site and embedded via the image icon above the text editor. Note new members need to be approved before being able to upload images.

Three ways to upload from your computer

• Click on the image icon above the text field when posting a message and click the upload icon (arrow pointing up) to browse to the image on your computer (or device)
• Copy and paste an image from your computer into the text editor (CTRL+C CTRL+V on PC CMD+C CMD+V on Mac)
• Drag and drop an image from your computer to the text editor.

File sizes

Ideally if you upload jpg or png files they will be compressed automatically to a suitable size webp image. In most cases you no longer need to worry about file sizes unless they are really massive (e.g. over 32MB)

Embed image from another site

Please do not do this if (a) the site does not allow due to copyright reasons or (b) the site is likely to remove the image in the not too distant future.

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To add a hyperlink to an image

• Click on the image icon above the text field when posting a message, click the link icon (looks like a chain link) and enter the URL of the image (the URL of the actual image, not the web page that the image is on).
  

Editing an image (resizing, aligning adding alt text description etc)

After inserting an image in a post and before actually posting, or when editing a post, you can carry out various basic image edit functions. First select the image by clicking on it (or tapping if on a touchscreen)

• Resize by grabbing the square "node" at one of the corners and dragging
• Use the image edit box to align the image left or right, add a title, add a link, alt text (description) etc.
• alt text is very useful for search engines it is a written description of an image that helps make visual content accessible to people with visual impairments or those using assistive technology. To access this click on the i (info) icon in the image menu (see image above)