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Posting google images to site/forum (in mozilla firefox browser)
amyawake
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I can normally post google images on most sites (in mozilla firefox) except for one site/forum. I know that others can do this (i.e. copy image and paste it there) since they have said so and I see their images posted. So why can't I do this on that same site? It operates with adobe flash plug in - is that a clue?
I try to copy image but it doesn't have a paste facility (neutral/unavailable grey). Have tried to "copy location" and get it pasted but it comes up only as a word description, i.e. not photo. I tried typing in front and after the typed copy location...still no joy, i.e. again just comes up as the typed reference (no photo).
What can I do to get a direct photo on to that forum (as others do)?
I try to copy image but it doesn't have a paste facility (neutral/unavailable grey). Have tried to "copy location" and get it pasted but it comes up only as a word description, i.e. not photo. I tried typing in front and after the typed copy location...still no joy, i.e. again just comes up as the typed reference (no photo).
What can I do to get a direct photo on to that forum (as others do)?
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i click the one i want and it pops out.
one of the buttons available in the pop out is 'view image' i click that and now the only thing in the browser tab i a banana.
i go to the address bar at the top of the browser and i can see the address of the actual image.
i click in there to highlight it and copy it with ctrl+c or right click and go to copy.
i'd then paster that inside img tags like
that is the usual way but some forums may use a different format the thing used by this forum is called BBcode there are others.
maybe it would be useful to 'quote' a post with an image in so you can see what they did?
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
Wouldn't allow me to it (on forum). It's actually a chat site so doesn't have the BB code.
Also, doing as you suggested, produces the same result as my clicking on copy image location and pasting it (which is shorter)...still the word link.
http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1808304
you are not doing what i said.
If you just right click on the image in the grid on Google you get a URL like you have posted. That will not work.
You need to left click on the image first. That makes it display on a black background. If you now right click on the image and select View Image you get the true URL of the image.
OK - yes tried that...when it then goes to the address section and I click on the image line of info.(not the 2 upper lines of "background") gives exactly the same info though (as #3 here) and still doesn't allow me to it once in the post section (before clicking it to send).
The steps to take are...
- Go to Google
- Enter your search term and select Images
- You get a grid of thumbnail images on a white background.
- Find the one you like and left click on it.
- The display of thumbnails will part and in the middle of the screen on a black background is the image you have clicked on. At this stage you can still see the other thumbnail images above and below the black band.
- Right click on the image in the black band
- From the pop-out menu select View Image
- The image should now open in isolation with nothing else visible on screen
- The address bar of the browser should show the URL of the image, something like this
Enter "trees" into Google and get thishttps://www.google.co.uk/search?q=trees&client=firefox-a&hs=8Ye&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=0giXUo3sIeGb0QXkt4DIAg&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=582&dpr=1
Click on one of them to get this
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=trees&client=firefox-a&hs=8Ye&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=0giXUo3sIeGb0QXkt4DIAg&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1280&bih=582&dpr=1#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=NvDMQpvh9C-UfM%3A%3BN-42e2QoessedM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.stirling.gov.uk%252F__images%252Fplanning%252C-regulation-_and_-waste%252Fplanning%252Fsundown-tree.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.stirling.gov.uk%252Fservices%252Fbusiness-and-trade%252Fcountryside-and-farming%252Fparks%252C-gardens-and-open-spaces-management-and-maintenance%252Ftree-management%3B450%3B326
And finally right click and select View Image to get this
http://www.stirling.gov.uk/__images/planning,-regulation-_and_-waste/planning/sundown-tree.jpg
By the way that is "View Image" NOT "View Image Info" you don't want the latter.
The best way in to right-click on the image and select 'copy image URL'. To make sure it appears in the forum, make sure you click on the image icon (a landscape image usually) to insert the link and not the URL icon (the globe and chain).
These forums don't allow you to use the
Will try chrisjr's method a bit later...thanks chris.
It's a chat site and, as mentioned, other members are simply copying and pasting google images there so the question is...why can't I do so? I am in mozilla firefox and that chat site operates on an adobe flash plug in...for what that's worth by way of explanation.
Ah, okay. I misread your first post. I thought you were talking about these forums.
So if you copy those and paste into something that isn't Google it does the electronic equivalent of "WTF is this crap?" and spits it out in disgust.:)
That's why you need the left click step to finally get at the real URL of the image.
And actually in my 9 point step guide steps 8 and 9 are optional. Step 7 could be changed to "Copy Image Location" and that will get you the URL directly.
Amy, I think you should add chrisjr to your Christmas card list, your computer might have been struggling to see in the new year without his and others advice.
Xmas is a nonsense to me - consumerism eclipsing JC (and am not a christian anyway) so I don't celebrate it. That said, if I saw chris I would give him an enormous hug!
And JC, in his own turn, eclipsed Saturnalia and all the other pagan festivals that were held at this time of year all over the world.... I wonder if that makes consumerism a new religion...?
Yep. And it's been the driving factor behind a fair few established religions anyway before consumerism came on the scene in a big way...
I don't have much money either and don't envy the rich.
Rather, I resonate with this quote...
"we are not rich by what we possess, but by what we can do without" (Immanuel Kant)
.....it's a spiritual thing which most may not "get".
I think Lion was being humorous as opposed to upset...