under pressure

[piranha]

photoshop manipulation of digital colour photo, dynamic contrast change and colorizing.

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[snippy]

May I please ask your help? I can't figure out how to put a photo into an entry, and I read the FAQ on journal entries without making it work.

photo help

[piranha]

sure. tell me more -- where is the photo located, and do you want to have the whole image displayed, or a thumbnail with a link, or?

Re: photo help

[snippy]

It's on flikr.com (this one http://www.flickr.com/photos/16163980@N07/3692235535/), or I have it on my hard drive--I can't tell whether DW lets you just upload or link. I'd like to display the whole image.

Re: photo help

[piranha]

the full image is 1024x768; that might break a lot of reading lists. but i'll show you both, the smaller picture with link and the full picture, then you can decide.

on flickr, go to the picture's page (the link you gave me). at about the same level with the photo's title, all the way to the right, is a small grey "share this" button. if you click it, a box pops up with several choices. for now, pick "grab the HTML". copy the code. it'll look like this:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/16163980@N07/3692235535/" title="blue ticking top by gelasticjew, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2573/3692235535_84f60cb2f2.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="blue ticking top" /></a>

if you just insert that code as is into a journal post in HTML editor mode, it'll display the photo as you see it on its flickr page, at 500x375, with a link so that when you click on the photo, you get the image's flickr page from where people can pick a larger size to display.

if you just want the entire photo at 1024x768, the best way to do it is this:

on your blog, start a new post in HTML editor mode and type
<img src="" alt="" /> -- that is the basic HTML for displaying an image, and works everywhere that HTML works, and with any image to which you have the direct link (and to which you are allowed to hotlink, such as scrapbook or flickr or imageshack or photobucket...).

on flickr, go to the size of the photo you want to embed in your blog post. right click, and (i hope) your browser will have a context menu that includes something like "copy image link" or "copy image address". you want the address, not the image itself.

go back to your blog post and paste the image address you just copied into the first set of "". into the second set of "" type a short description of the photo; alt text is crucial for people with visual disabilities or those who browse with images off.

that's it (and it looks way more complicated written out like this than it actually is). the result for the largest size should look like:
<img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2573/3692235535_84f60cb2f2_b.jpg" alt="blue ticking top" />. preview to make sure. ta-da!

if you will want to post pictures regularly from flickr, you can set up your blogs so flickr can post directly to them, and you don't need to go through this rigamarole of copying HTML by hand: http://www.flickr.com/help/blogging/#55.

Re: photo help

[snippy]

This is thorough and very helpful, thanks! I must bug flikr to add dreamwidth to the blogs it supports, that would be even easier.

Re: photo help

[piranha]

flickr supports dreamwidth through the blogger API; i have tested it.

the endpoint is "www.dreamwidth.org/interface/blogger". i think you can figure all the rest out yourself, but feel free to ask if something is cryptic.