HowTo Embed Pictures to UKBouldering

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HowTo Embed Pictures to UKBouldering

Reading the forums you'll notice that quite a few posts have images included, or embedded, in the post. At some point you might want to embed pictures of your own and with the help of this guide you should be able to.

Posting other people's Images

Lets start with embedding pictures that you have seen on the internet as that's easiest.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3043/2883734853_939f7221c1.jpg

  • The first thing you should do is check the copyright of the picture and check that theres no objection to embedding pictures. Some sites or users of particular sites don't allow pictures to be embedded (e.g. UKC and some flickr users).
  • Next you need to first find the URL of the picture. This is relatively easy, most browsers (certainly in Firefox) you simply right-click on the image and from the menu that appears you select "Copy Image Location".
  • Now start your Reply in the relevant thread and open an image tag ([img]) 
[img]
  • Paste in the images URL (Ctrl+V) 
[img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3043/2883734853_939f7221c1.jpg
  • Finally close your image tag ([/img]) 
[img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3043/2883734853_939f7221c1.jpg[/img]
  • Now hit the 'Preview' button and you should be able to see the picture in the preview at the top of the page. If you're happy with the picture and text go ahead and 'Post'.

Posting your Images

UKBouldering Forums don't provide hosting of your images, so you need to have somewhere on-line where you can store your picture so that when the page with your post in is loaded into a web-browser the person reading the page will be able to see it. This involves copying the picture from camera or computer to somewhere on the internet.

There are various places that offer limited and unlimited image hosting, some you pay for, others are completely free whilst others have limited free hosting. Some are more restrictive about the images you host and will delete (and eventually ban you) if you post images that you do not hold the Copyright for.

A few suggestions are listed below.

Site Free/Pro Image Size on Free Monthly Limit on Free Image Size on Pro Maximum Limit on Pro Comments
Flickr Both 10Mb 100Mb/month 10Mb Unlimited Excellent image hosting site, free account limited to 200 images, quite strict on copyright infringements.
Imageshack Both 1.53Mb Unlimited? 3Mb Unlimited? Excellent for hosting small images for free (most will require down-sizing first though), more permissive on copyright
Photobucket  ?  ? 5Mb 10Gb Popular image hosting site.

More information on Wikipedia:Image hosting service

Once you've hosted your pictures simply follow the instructions above for embedding pictures

Back linking

Some sites, such as flickr stipulate in their guidelines that when pictures are embedded to external sites such as UKBouldering that they should link back to the original page on their site. To help avoid UKB administrators getting into trouble it would be courteous to adhere to such requests. Fortunately its fairly straight-forward.

  • Copy the URL of the page where the picture is hosted by going to the address bar, highlighting the address (Ctrl + A) and copy it (Ctrl + C).
  • In your post prefix the code that embeds the picture with the URL tag ([url=]) and the URL 
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/slackline/2883734853/][img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3043/2883734853_939f7221c1.jpg[/img]
  • Suffix the code that embeds the picture with the closing URL tag ([/url]) 
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/slackline/2883734853/][img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3043/2883734853_939f7221c1.jpg[/img][/url]

Backlinking the easy way

If you use Firefox you can make back-linking a lot easier by installing the Greasemonkey plug-in with the Allsizes+ script. This modifies the 'AllSizes' button that is above pictures (on accounts where embedding is allowed) and you have a window where you can select Wikipedia:BBCode to copy and paste straight into your post.

If you use another browser you can instead use the flickr BBcode generator to automatically generate the Wikipedia:BBcode.

If you come across a picture thats hosted on flickr but its not been properly embedded and isn't backlinked and you perhaps want to find out more about the picture or embed it correctly you can use the flickr reverse look up to find the page on flickr based on the URL of the image.

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