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MRH Staff 7,972 posts jeffshultz MRH Staff 7,972 posts
jeffshultz

A question was sent to MRH recently asking how to add photos to a blog entry. I decided this was a topic that deserved it's own blog entry.  I personally think trying to explain this without having access to the images would be futile.

NOTE: Since Jeff posted this, we've added a newer, simpler method for posting images, and we demonstrate it in this video.

 

ORIGINAL POST

The method Jeff originally posted also still works, but it's more work ...

First you bring up the Create Blog Entry page:

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 As can be seen above, you want to click on the circled "Insert/Edit Image" tool.  Which brings up the following dialog box:

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 Again, you click on the circled button, Browse Server in this case, and it brings up another dialog box, the file browser. This is a list of all the files (pictures and otherwise) you have uploaded to the MRH site. Notice it includes a couple of pictures that I uploaded for a previous blog post:

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 Click on the Upload link, marked as Step 1, and the box changes slightly - an upload section drops into view:

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 Clicking on the Browse button, Step 2, will bring up the appropriate file browser/selection box for your operating system and/or web browser. Select the file to be uploaded and click on the appropriate button (in Windows it's normally "Open") to close the file selection window. The filename selected will show up in the File: box next to the Browse button. Click on the Upload button, Step 3, to actually send the file to the MRH server, where it will show up in the list, normally highlighted in yellow. Your browser may have different colors. 

Finally, with the selected photo still highlighted, click on the "Send to FCKEditor" link, Step 4, and the File Browser will disappear and you will be back to the Insert/Edit Image Tool, with some changes:

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 As seen above, the link to the photo is now in the URL box, and if you click inside the Preview window the "Loren Ipsum" text will be replaced by the image.  Click on the OK button and the image will be placed inside the editor:

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To put text beside or below the image, use the arrow keys to move your cursor down until it stops, then use the Return/Enter key to continue until the cursor is below the image. You may need to go two lines below the image or when published part of the first line below the image may be "sucked up" beside the image. The Preview button is definitely your friend.

And that's it - you end up with a blog post that looks like this one, with a lot of text surrounding the uploaded images.

One additional note - if your photos are already available on a webserver or photo gallery site such as Photobucket, when you bring up the  Insert/Edit Image tool you can simply put the URL of the photo in it, like this:

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Resulting in this being served from my own server instead of the MRH one:

And that's it. Questions?

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Jeff Shultz - MRH Technical Assistant
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kcsphil1 Prolific poster 1,233 posts
kcsphil1

That would work

If the Browse Server button was on the pop-up currently.  It's not, so I'm having a bit of a challenge.  I think it must have come off on your server change over this week.

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Rio Grande Dan Prolific poster 2,305 posts
Rio Grande Dan

I see this Question still

I see this Question still being asked so I bumped it back to the front of the Posts

Dan

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lexon Prolific poster 1,211 posts
lexon

Adding photos

Thanks again. I was at my girlfriends house and did not have the tutorial. I try to limit my PC time when at her house. At near seventy, the brain leaks, at least that is what I tell her. That's my story and I am sticking to it. Rich Ok, did it again. I will have to dig up the Paste tutorial again. I copy my message and paste into an Open Office Text document, correct spelling errors and copy and paste back to the forum and I get the big space above my message. Only forum this happens in.

Moderator edit: No need for a tutorial, just look in the editor window for the clipboard icon with a "W" on it. Try using this button, "Paste from Word" to paste from Open Office, although I'm not sure why you would copy and paste when you can just switch to the plain text editor, (at the bottom of the comment box) to check spelling?

Quote:

"Only forum this happens in."

And only guy it seems to be still happening to. [grin]

I did email you the link to this adding a photo turorial yesterday but perhaps you did not receive it? 

This is a test of the Paste from Word applet. Hopefully this text does not have huge gaps or other “foreign” data included.
As you see above, the paste from word applet works to paste from Open Office, give it a try.
Type your comment in Open Office, copy it, in the editor window insert the cursor where you want your text to go, click the clipboard with a "W" on it.  Paste the text you copied from Open Office in the box that opens and click "OK".  That should do it for you.
 
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lexon Prolific poster 1,211 posts
lexon

Question

Is there any good reason why this process cannot just be a cut and paste from, say, Photo Bucket?

So far, all other forums I belong to, allow a simple cut and paste of the IMG from Photo Bucket and the photo show right up very nicely. Just wondering.

Right now, I need two computers, one to try and follow the tutorial, the other, to put the message in the forum.

I tried a method I got from here for the Decoder tester thread but it did not work.

I can always just lurk as there is good information here.

I do tell others about this free on line magazine and all seem to like it.

Thanks.

Rich
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MarcFo45
MarcFo45

Insert an Image file

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l267/richg1998/DCC/Mydecodertester.jpg

The first one was a simple cut and paste.  simple but no picture shows up.

The second one was as per the instructions .  

Open your post or comment. Click on the Insert/Edit Image icon.  Now paste your URL in the URL field and press OK. Your image should show up as this one did.

Marc Fournier, Quebec
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jack Active Member 47 posts
jack

photos

Hi, Jack from Star, Idaho.  How many photos can I post to one blog or post.  I have a number of photos (jpeg) of a large trestle I have been working on and I would like to share them.  Thanks Jack Strong

Jack From Star, Idaho
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LKandO Prolific poster 3,839 posts
LKandO

Alternate Way

Images in your posts are easy to upload and manage with the handy tab File browser in the "My account" section of MRH. Joe you are a wizard!

Alan

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Rio Grande Dan Prolific poster 2,305 posts
Rio Grande Dan

Posting Photos

Go to the first post in this thread for instructions on inserting photo to a blog or Post

This is a Bump

RGD

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Driline Regular poster 434 posts
Driline

Why can't we just cut and paste an image from photobucket?

I have the same question as Rich and I don't think his was answered.

MODERATOR NOTE: We deleted your signature image because it was the Photobucket ransom image.
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LKandO Prolific poster 3,839 posts
LKandO

Cut Paste

You can cut and paste the URL but not the image itself as I understand it. Pasting an image just results in a blank character in a post. Must be a Drupal thing.

 

Alan

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Rio Grande Dan Prolific poster 2,305 posts
Rio Grande Dan

Why you can't Cut and Paste

Simple This Program doesn't allow it to keep Spammers from going to a library and using the library Computers to cut and Paste Porno which is considered spam to the site. For security reasons the Photo has to be loaded on your computer and then downloaded from your computer here.

Then if you post Spam we can track it back to your computer and take you to court and Have you put in Jail for posting non authorized photos on this Family oriented site.

The other reason the photos you load here stay here until you remove them. If photo buckets servers dies or they go out of business your photo or movie reference you  saved here as a cut and paste are lost. Then what good is your post. So what you are doing in placing a actual photo or Video in a file here at the MRH forums in it's complete form and not just a link.

Dan

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Russ Bellinis Prolific poster 3,335 posts
Russ Bellinis

I would like to add a picture to a post in a thread.

I have read through this thread, but I don't see any instructions for how to post a picture from my computer files.  I don't have any sort of photo bucket account and have never ever posted a picture on line anywhere.
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joef MRH Founder 17,402 posts
joef

Not sure how you missed it

Not sure how you missed it ...

1. In the editor, click the Image button (hover over the buttons with a mouse until you get to the one labeled image), then click it.

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2. In the box that pops up, click Browse Server (this is goes to YOUR PERSONAL FILE REPOSITORY on the MRH server).

 

This is how you load files from YOUR COMPUTER to your personal repository on the MRH SERVER:

3. Click the Upload link in the Personal File Repository Manager window

4. Click the Browse button to browse the files ON YOUR COMPUTER.

5. Once you find an image on your computer, click the Open button. The image file name you selected will be loaded into the text box.

5. Click the Upload button to copy the file from your computer into your personal repository on the MRH server.

6. Once the upload is complete, the image is now in your Personal File Repository with MRH.

7. Click Send to CKEditor to put the file into the URL box in the post image popup.

 

This is how you put the selected image into your post:

8. Click OK to post the image into the editor window.

 

EVERYONE HAS A FILE REPOSITORY WITH MRH

The key is to realize that all MRH subscribers have a 64 MB file repository with us, and the steps to posting an image in summary are:

1. Bring up the image post dialog by clicking the Image button in the editor.

2. Upload an image from your computer into your MRH repository.

3. Select the image from your MRH repository to put into the image post dialog.

4. Click OK on the image post dialog to put the image into your post.

All image uploads always place the image in your MRH image repository first - then you select an image from your repository to put it into your post. It's always into the repository first - and THEN into your post.

To see your image repository, just click My Account on the right, and click the File Browser tab. Voila, there's your MRH file repository! You're always uploading the image to your MRH repository first, then putting it into your post.

Joe Fugate​
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Russ Bellinis Prolific poster 3,335 posts
Russ Bellinis

Thanks Joe.

I thought I had seen this somewhere, but when I did the search the search engine found dozens of posts most of which didn't seem to have anything to do with posting pictures.  I finally found the post that I responded to, but it seemed to be focused on moving pictures from some sort of photo hosting web site instead of moving pictures from my computer.  I'm wondering if this instruction could be posted somewhere predominately on the web site.
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joef MRH Founder 17,402 posts
joef

It's under the help menu

It's under the Help menu> Frequently asked questions> Website help> How do I post an image? - First help entry.

You can also go to it directly with this URL:

http://mrhmag.com/help/how-to-post-an-image

Joe Fugate​
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Rio Grande Dan Prolific poster 2,305 posts
Rio Grande Dan

Bump

Moving this to min page

Bump

Rio Grande Dan
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rickwade Prolific poster (deceased) 6,447 posts
rickwade

Bumping

I'm bumping this up for the new users on the site.

Rick

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MikeHughes Super User 5,465 posts
MikeHughes

how does one add video?

It seems to only take mp3, not mp4, and mp3 i think is audio only?
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Prof_Klyzlr Moderator 7,950 posts
Prof_Klyzlr

Post on YT, then link...

Dear Mike,

MRH won't host video files, too large and bloaty. Best advise is to post your video files on YouTube,

(they have the storage to handle large video files, it's what they do...)

And then Link to your YT clip within your MRH post. (Search box at top right, use terms "how to post video", should get you the complete "walkthru" process...

https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/help/posting-video-mobile-too ) 

Happy Modelling,

Aim to Improve,

Prof Klyzlr

 

PS yes, MP3 is generally considered an Audio file format...
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MikeHughes Super User 5,465 posts
MikeHughes

Ok, thanks

I'll do that.
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