# Uploading photos to the SDMB

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uploading-photos-to-the-sdmb/379601
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [November 8, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uploading-photos-to-the-sdmb/379601 "2006-11-08T19:59:28Z")
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### Author: ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uploading-photos-to-the-sdmb/379601/1 "2006-11-08T19:59:28Z")

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How do I upload a .jpg photo of my cat to the board for posting?

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### Author: ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uploading-photos-to-the-sdmb/379601/2 "2006-11-08T20:02:16Z")

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You don’t. You upload a copy to a Yahoo! group or photobucket or something like that, and post a link here to that location.

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### Author: ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uploading-photos-to-the-sdmb/379601/3 "2006-11-08T20:34:43Z")

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OK. I’ve got them in Photobucket. Do I just copy the URL and paste it in my post?

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### Author: ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uploading-photos-to-the-sdmb/379601/4 "2006-11-08T20:47:40Z")

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[QUOTE=Jake]  
OK. I’ve got them in Photobucket. Do I just copy the URL and paste it in my post?  
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Yes, just like you’d post a link for anything else. You have posted links before, right? 😉

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### Author: ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uploading-photos-to-the-sdmb/379601/5 "2006-11-08T22:15:13Z")

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you post a link by typing \<url=“[Uploading photos to the SDMB - About This Message Board - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=395399)”\>your link here\</url\>, except you use left and right square brackets rather than \<\>, so it looks like [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=395399).