How do I embed photos

I’ve been trying to use google photos to do this but it never works. Anyone know how to use google photos to do this?

And giffs for that matter.

Click the “img” button above, you’ll get a pop up that says paste the url of the image. That url has to end in .jpg or .png or .gif or some other file format that this site recognizes as an image. I think google photos can add other junk to the url sometimes so it might not be the best option for hosting. People also run into permission/sharing issues with google drive at times.

In the past I created a google site and posted my images to a page there, which allowed me to get an actual url of the image. If it’s just sitting in your google photos within google drive it’s going to give you a goofy nonsense url that will get you to the photo but will not be recognized as an image by this site or others.

When embedding photos as opposed to posting a thumbnail, I use http://www.postimage.com

Select 640x800for the best fitting size. After your photo loads there, scroll down and you will see a selection of links to copy for different types of formats. Select “hot links for forums” by clicking on the icon on the right of the link. It automatically copies when you select it. Paste into your text box and viola –

I have always wondered this too. So in order for embedded photos to show up right in your post (vs. the attached photos that you have to click on to view) you have to first upload your photos to a different website?

Thanks guys. I’ll play around a little. One of the reasons I decided to get google photos is because I thought I could use it for this.

BoatsHateMe wrote:

When embedding photos as opposed to posting a thumbnail, I use http://www.postimage.com

I think that you mean, https://postimages.org not .com?

i learned something new today! IT WORKS!

in google photos right click and copy address
this took up the whole screen!
anyway hit img tab
paste
enter some description?
then submit reply

now I just need to get out fishing and post some fish porn!

Didn’t work.

Let’s see how this works. Made some zucchini bread tonight!

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Not working for me.

I resized the fish (original size was 159kb before I sent it to the “Postimage.org site) to 640×480 for message boards.
The bacon size 1.72mb I didn’t.

Trying again!

Uploaded a pic straight from my hard drive that was 5.84 mb no resizing

I have a fruit phone. Not sure if that matters.

Instead of using the google photos app I went to google photos in safari and held my finger on the pic until it gave me two options. Save image or copy. I chose copy. The link was huge. Not the same as the one you get when you generate a link through google photos.

I pasted the link into the img popup and it worked.

Hello there little man!

How can I load a video?
It will not allow a file larger than 25mb and no .avi

Try #3 with my zucchini bread!

Gifs work too.

I googled gifs in safari. I held my finger on the gif until it gave me the same options. Save image or copy. I copied it and pasted it in the img popup and it worked too.

Alright I’m not getting this apparently LOL.

Damn the Google!!

Trying a gif from Google.

I give up.

https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipO93yzCMmop2oJeLoJaQxrUblqx_y1pPrDToNvn

Tried in photos.google through Chrome and Firefox and this is what I got. No Help.

I still prefer my desktop for most items, way easier. I can’t get a photo from my phone to link up.