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Posting Photos in Comments:
1. Taking Photos and Getting them Onto Your Computer's Hard Drive
2. Using a Web-Based Photo Service (dailykos.com approved)
3. Sharing into a comment from the Web-Based Photo Service
1. Taking Photos and Getting them Onto Your Computer's Hard Drive
First, you will need a picture-taking device, such as a camera:
or cell phone:
Then you need to get the photos from your device to your computer's hard drive.
If you used a camera, it probably has a little chip inside of it, formally called an SD-card. It is twice as big as my thumbnail. You can remove this chip from your camera and place it into a special small slot (chip reader) in your computer. If your computer does not have a chip reader built in, you can use a separate device with a chip reader on one side and a usb port on the other:
If you used a cell phone, you should have an option to email the photo to yourself, or send to an online album, to blogs, to facebook, etc. I send mine to my online album at Verizon, and it looks like this:
I can then open the photo to full size, and right click, and choose "Save Image As" and download it to my computer's hard drive.
Hopefully, your computer will save all your pictures in a convenient location. If not, or for the ones you download from your phone, you will want to make a "Photos" folder perhaps on the Desktop, so you can use it to upload your pictures to the web.
2. Using a Web-Based Photo Service (dailykos.com approved)
FAQ says:
The approved image hosting services are currently:
http://www.photobucket.com
http://www.imageshack.us
http://flickr.com
http://smugmug.com
http://webshots.com
http://picturetrail.com
http://mac.com
http://allyoucanupload.com
Many of these services offer image hosting for free; you simply need an account with them to get started.
There is additional info available at this link.
I use flickr, and will use that in my examples. Julie Waters uses webshots and wrote about it here.
You will need to choose a service and upload photos there, from your hard drive.
Flickr.com, on the right-hand side of the front page, has a big fat button called "Upload Pictures and Video." I am guessing that the other authorized photo hosts have a similar link to click onto.
After I click on this "Upload" area, I get a "Choose Photos and Videos" in a new window. When I click on this, a box opens up that is peeking at my hard drive. Then I need to get to the folder with my pictures in it and I can start choosing.
My photos are either in the Photos area (Music, Photos, Video) on my i-Mac, or in my downloads folder, both attached to my account. (not the hard drive or desktop).
Then I just upload away.
3. Sharing into a comment from the Web-Based Photo Service
I either am writing a diary, or I have started a comment. At flickr.com, I choose the photo I want and open it at flickr. There is a little bar at the top left of the photo that starts with Actions, then there are symbols for Facebook and Twitter. The right-most arrow, when I click on it, opens a box with the html code. I choose "Grab the HTML/BBCode" and almost always choose Medium size.
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