# Test picture **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 13, 2022, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487 "2022-09-13T09:55:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487/1 "2022-09-13T09:55:25Z")
[[Album] Accurate ![](https://i.imgur.com/OA6jdKk.jpeg?fb "Accurate") ](https://imgur.com/a/OaSr0p1) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487/2 "2022-09-13T09:58:20Z")
Well shoot! Didn’t work. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487/3 "2022-09-13T10:00:50Z")
[[Album] Accurate ![](https://i.imgur.com/OA6jdKk.jpeg?fb "Accurate") ](https://imgur.com/gallery/OaSr0p1) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487/4 "2022-09-13T10:12:59Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/zLEwHRE.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/zLEwHRE.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487/5 "2022-09-13T10:13:37Z")
Finally! Sorry guys ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487/6 "2022-09-13T11:40:59Z")
[![](https://i.imgur.com/Z7EEi6p.jpeg) ](https://i.imgur.com/Z7EEi6p.jpeg) Sitting on the porch, eating dinner last night. The sky was beautiful, but by the time I took a picture it had changed. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487/7 "2022-09-13T12:37:00Z")
Beautiful pic. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487/8 "2022-09-13T13:04:20Z")
Thanks ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487/9 "2022-09-13T13:36:03Z")
Ha, yeah, it was your pic and not @kayaker’s I was complimenting. His pic was very cool as well. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487/10 "2022-09-13T15:58:08Z")
Great–how does it work? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487/11 "2022-09-13T16:05:05Z")
If you’re using `imgur.com` to host your photos, right click the picture (long-press on touchscreen device), then copy the image link. It should start with `https://i.imgur.com/`. Paste that here on its own line with no other text and the forum software will show your picture. Also, my favorite episode that I’ve seen as of yet. ~Max ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2022, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487/12 "2022-11-14T18:50:09Z")
So the only way to post an image and have it displayed without clicking a link is to use Imgur? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487/13 "2022-11-14T19:10:13Z")
LOL, no. 😃 You just need the path to a real photo, not the web page the photo is on. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2022, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487/14 "2022-11-14T19:17:24Z")
I’ve been trying to paste one from my phone. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2022, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487/15 "2022-11-14T19:27:51Z")
I’ll give you an example. Here is a web page with a picture of Albert Einstein. > **[The story behind Einstein's most iconic photo – DW – 03/13/2021](https://www.dw.com/en/the-story-behind-albert-einsteins-most-iconic-photo/a-56803031)** > > It’s been 70 years since the genius physicist stuck out his tongue at pesky reporters. The photo turned him into an icon. But what's the story behind it? The link is this: ```auto (https://dw.com/en/the-story-behind-albert-einsteins-most-iconic-photo/a-56803031) ``` Now, I post this if I want to have the actual photo imbedded in this post: [![](https://static.dw.com/image/45897958_509.jpg) ](https://static.dw.com/image/45897958_509.jpg) That link looks like this: ```auto https://static.dw.com/image/45897958_509.jpg ``` I got that second link on my phone (iPhone using Safari) by doing a tap and hold on the picture on the web page, and then picking “copy”. Now, this copies the image, not the link, and if you were to try to paste that into a post it would attempt to upload a copy of that photo onto the board. This board doesn’t allow that, so instead I opened a new tab in my browser and pasted into the address bar. That gives me the link with a jpg extension which this board will recognize as a photo and render properly. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2022, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487/16 "2022-11-14T20:29:55Z")
Ok. Thanks. I was just hoping for a way to embed cat pictures in my post without having to have them hosted by someone else. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2022, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487/17 "2022-11-14T20:30:47Z")
The SDMB is not an image hosting site. You have to host the image somewhere else. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487/18 "2022-11-15T00:03:29Z")
I usually copy my pictures from Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-picture/971487/19 "2023-05-28T14:08:44Z")
[![](https://www.antiquedesigncarpentry.com/images/portfolio/kitchens/a1.jpg) ](https://www.antiquedesigncarpentry.com/images/portfolio/kitchens/a1.jpg) Test Picture