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I’m going to be leading a casual game playthrough that starts on Monday 8/25. I would like to include screenshots as part of the playthrough. One plan was for me to take the screenshot and send it to a co-leader of the thread. She was then going to upload it to a cloud image site, send the resulting URL back to me, which I would use to post the image on the thread.

Convoluted? Absolutely! Because my concern was that creating an <img> link to a file on my computer could create a security issue. Should I be as concerned as I have been? Or, is this not an issue?

     

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You can’t simply create an image link to a picture on your computer, at least not unless you install some special software, place you computer in the demilitarised zone, open a hole in your firewall and leave it turned on 24/7 - So no it is not convoluted, but how we all do it when we want to post a picture.

The only convoluted part is that you have to send the picture to someone else. To simplify it you could create an account yourself on one of the many services for this exact purpose, for example imgur which is both free and fairly easy to use.

     

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Thank you IZ! I am truly grateful for the help. Becky and I had been trying get this to work, and it wasn’t! I’m not certain I’ve mastered the intricacies if Imgur, but I have three days to try. I’ve managed to upload an image to it. Not sure I see how to link an image from it.

     

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You are welcome.

To create a Link to the image you have uploaded you first click on the image, this should zoom in on the image and also display some links on the right side. The link you need is the one called “BBCode (message boards & forums)”, click on the copy icon to the left of the actual link code and it will automatically copy the link, you can then simply paste it directly into any post here on the forum. It even contains the correct tags, so you don’t need to add the “< img >” when creating the post.

One thing more you should be aware of, is that the software on the forum here clips pictures that are wider than 640 px, so it is best to resize them to that size before uploading them.

     

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Is there a way for imgur to trim the “windows” border? Or does that need to be done prior to the upload?

     

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Not automatically (as far as I know), but there is a build in small editor that you can probably use for this. I haven’t actually used it myself, as I personally prefer to do all editing, trimming and resizing before I upload the picture.

     

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