When you respond to a post OR create a new thread, you will get a dialogue box to enter your text.

There are two ways to insert a picture:

1. In the dialogue box, one of the icons, as well as the usual B for bold, I for italics etc, is one that looks like a mountain picture on a postcard: - don't ask I didn't choose it! - click it and "Please enter the URL of your image" pops up. Enter the url of where the image is - youtube, Picasa, your website etc and click ok, and it will show in the post. NOTE: If this doesn't work, see the media sites info below.

If the picture already exists on the web this is the easy way to do it - and saves us bandwidth and server space. The negative is that the picture could one day no longer be there, so only use if you're sure it will stay available, or it won't matter if it goes away.

OR

2. In the dialogue box, one of the icons on the top row is a paper-clip: - the usual icon for attachments. Click it and a "Manage Attachments" dialogue pops up. (Make sure you don't have pop-up blockers on for HU - we only use them where needed and don't use them for ads - so please "whitelist" or "trust" HU to make sure these popups work). Fill in the dialogue box as needed, noting carefully the restrictions on file size and pixel dimensions. You can upload pictures both from your own computer or from the web.

This is good if the picture is only on your computer, or it's important that it remain available for a long time. Remember YOU have a limited amount of server space reserved for your use.

For more on the levels for Registered Users, Contributing Members and Gold Members etc, see the FAQ item on "Member privileges".

How to add Photos from various Media hosting sites:

There are many media hosting sites out there, and I will endeavour to add details on how to use their images on the HUBB.

Postimages.org:

An easy and free way to post pictures is using https://postimages.org/

All you need to do is upload a picture to their site, choose what size you want it to be available at, and whether it expires or not, and they give you a link. That's it. Easy!

MediaFire:

1. Find the image you want to share,
2. then click Share to the top right of the image,
3. then Embed,
4. and click the link symbol on the BOTTOM of the dialog box - "Forum Embed Code" - and you'll get a message, "Copied to Clipboard".
5. Then just Paste into the HUBB form, and done! Nice and easy system, once you know!

flickr

1. When looking at a photo, you should see on the right your user name at the top of the right column, and a number of items below that.
2. One of them is a box with an arrow up to the right: that's the "more ways to share" link.
3. Click that and you get a drop down box.
4. Click the Pushpin (OR the text "BBCode"):
   
5. and select your size of photo, probably best 500 or 640, at the very largest 800 for a full width image and click in the code box, which should start with [url=www.flickr.com/photos/ and etc, and the code will be highlighted.
   
   You should be seeing this:
   
   
   OR this:
   
   
   
   
6. Right click on the [url=... and select copy, or press Ctrl-C or Command-C to copy to the clipboard.
7. Back in your post, just paste it in, and you can then center it by selecting it, or just keep adding photos as you wish.

At Step 6 above, you can also

7. click the icon top right of the "Message" box and you will get the code view. The advantage of doing so is you can see your image when editing, but it's not necessary.
8. Paste! And the image code is there.
9. Click the icon again and you should see your photo!

NOTE: You don't have to click the icon, it will work ok without it, but you can see your image when editing if you do that.

Google Photos:

Google, in their infinite wisdom, decided that "share" gives you a link to the page, not the photo.

It probably works in FB etc, but it doesn't in a simpler system that is looking for a *.jpg file, not something like "https://goo.gl/photos/24NSQALc4zvHNJA8932" which you'll notice doesn't have a .jpg extension on it. If the link doesn't end in .jpg it wont work!

Sadly our software can't keep up with this and it just won't work. I spent / wasted (don't get me started on Google!) trying to figure out how to get the actual url of the image, but it's not possible.

So there is NO way to insert a photo that is on Google Photos. You will have to "attach" using the paper clip icon from the original photo on your local computer. Perhaps in our new system coming soon-ish...

Other web photo sharing sites:

If you use something else, please send the instructions to the Contact Us link at the bottom of the page, or suggest I check it out. Thanks!