Sharing Pictures on this Forum
If you want to show a picture stored elsewhere, online,
1. get its URL.
2. Next, in the upper right of the NEW/EDITING dialog box, choose the third icon from the right.
This allows you to place your image link to your reliable own hosting or services, such as Smugmug or Flickr.
The advantage now is that the image can be larger and have greater tonal quality and more detail.
The difference between having images as attachments versus via linking to external servers.
On any new post, there is a “copy” link on the bottom right corner. It’s function is different for “attached” versus “linked” images.
For an “attachment”, reuse is somewhat awkward and limited. One has to accept a written, (but perfectly functional), link to a viewer in a new screen.
For an “externally hosted image”, however, one gets the actual full size image inserted and directly visible in the quoted post.
Attachment, as limited as it is, still provides a fast and beautiful way of including relatively smaller size images directly from one’s cell phone, tablet or computer.
My goal is to have all images hosted with us and then can be quoted in one step!
Asher