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Re: Other: Post pictures on this site? *PIC*
By:StephenHJ
Date: 3/21/2011, 7:49 pm
In Response To: Re: Other: Post pictures on this site? (Paul Lueders)

: Fred,
: I went to flicker, right clicked on the picture, went to
: properties, highlighted the link, would not let me copy or
: paste? What did I do wrong?
Hi Paul,

Flickr has a proprietary way of encoding the images on the site, so you can't "steal" others images using the right-click method. Flickr is actually one of the harder photo sharing sites to get just an image URL, as they are trying to force viewers to the Flickr page for the image, not just letting you share the image elsewhere. This is using a Windows machine and Firefox browser, but this is functionality built into the Flickr website, so is not specific to an OS or browser.

While looking at the image, on Flickr, near the top left corner of the image you should see a couple of buttons, "Actions" and "Share this".
If you click on "Share this" a menu should drop down, and have an item lower in the menu that reads "Grab the HTML/BBCode"
The URL is the part of the code that begins with "img src=" - copy from the "h" in "http" to the "g" in ".jpg".
You can then post that image URL into the "Optional Image URL" box on this forum.

Here's a link to my flickr picture of a kitten we fostered not to long ago, and the URL from the "Grab this..." info pasted in the Optional Image box for this post (I used the "shortened" version of the URL, hope it works like I expect...)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/redstrk/5051488351/

Messages In This Thread

Other: Post pictures on this site?
Paul Lueders -- 3/21/2011, 6:31 am
Re: Other: Post pictures on this site?
Brian Nystrom -- 3/21/2011, 6:36 am
Re: Other: Post pictures on this site?
Paul Lueders -- 3/21/2011, 7:07 am
Re: Other: Post pictures on this site?
Bill Hamm -- 3/21/2011, 8:57 am
Re: Other: Post pictures on this site?
fred -- 3/21/2011, 9:52 am
Re: Other: Post pictures on this site? *NM* *PIC*
Paul Lueders -- 3/21/2011, 4:54 pm
You DID post a picture link
Paul G. Jacobson -- 3/22/2011, 3:30 am
Re: Other: Post pictures on this site?
Paul Lueders -- 3/21/2011, 4:57 pm
Re: Other: Post pictures on this site?
Stephen Troy -- 3/21/2011, 5:40 pm
Re: Other: Post pictures on this site?
Paul Lueders -- 3/21/2011, 8:30 pm
Re: Other: Post pictures on this site? *PIC*
fred -- 3/21/2011, 11:25 pm
Photo posting
Randy Echtinaw -- 3/21/2011, 6:18 pm
Re: Photo posting
Bill Hamm -- 3/22/2011, 2:30 am
Re: Other: Post pictures on this site? *PIC*
StephenHJ -- 3/21/2011, 7:49 pm
Re: Other: Post pictures on this site?
Paul Lueders -- 3/21/2011, 8:37 pm
Re: Other: Post pictures on this site?
StephenHJ -- 3/21/2011, 8:42 pm
Re: Other: Post pictures on this site?
StephenHJ -- 3/21/2011, 8:44 pm
Re: Other: Post pictures on this site?
Rod Tait (Orca Boats) -- 3/22/2011, 1:39 am
Re: Other: Post pictures on this site? *PIC*
Noel Bennett -- 3/22/2011, 12:09 am