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First of all, it has come to my notice that posting an image on the forum has become one of the major challenges newbies and beginners on the forum face at their early stage of attaining the eligibility rank which enables users to start posting an image on the forum (Jr. Member & above) because I was ones a victim of it and I know how frustrating it feels to have a very beautiful thread to share in mind which involves images but because of your incapability not been familiar with the available tools, it dies down in imagination.
(Oh. What a pity!!!  😟)

However, many people are much familiar with "Imgur" but not all know how to use it, most especially the mobile users, because I once tried it, didn't know how to use it and had to uninstall it from my phone, and luckily, I came across imgbb.com which has been helpful to me all this while.

But all things been said, I'm fully aware that we have over 50 to 100 threads on this forum talking about "How to upload an image on bitcointalk" which their all focus is centered on "Imgur" alone and no other, which is the reason why I decided to write this thread to introduce to you, imgbb.com (imgur's alternative) that is fast, easy to use and best for mobile users. And I will be showing you step by step guide on how to do that now.

But before we begin, there are certain criteria that enable a user to post the image on the forum, & they are;

1. Must be of the rank of a "Jr. Member," & above: And this requires you to have at least 1 merit and 30 activities to become a Jr. Member.

2. Pay a certain amount of 0.00060479 BTC for a Copper membership account, which enables you to post an image




STEP BY STEP GUIDE ON HOW TO UPLOAD IMAGES USING IMGBB


Step 1:  Go to the website imgbb.com and this is how it looks like, and tap on the arrow button to choose the image to upload on bitcointalk. (Shown below👇👇)

 https://i.ibb.co/LYvY4X9/Screenshot-20220421-154050.jpg (https://ibb.co/VJ3JXcM)


Step 2:  After choosing the image, you click on the upload button. ( shown below 👇)

 https://i.ibb.co/JCRzVf1/Screenshot-20220421-154120.jpg (https://ibb.co/vDxJp7F)



Step 3: After uploading, you click on the "Embed codes" and change it to "BBcodes full link' copy the link and take it to bitcointalk where you intend to post the image 👇

 https://i.ibb.co/4NJK0JF/Screenshot-20220421-154144.jpg (https://ibb.co/x53Xr32)


Step 4:  Open the reply box on bitcointalk and paste the BBcode link you copied and click on the post button👇

 https://i.ibb.co/Mgsjv11/Screenshot-20220421-154502.jpg (https://ibb.co/VLth1CC)


Step 5:  Finally, the image has been uploaded successfully on bitcointalk and this is how it looks like👇

 https://i.ibb.co/VQ44Y07/Screenshot-20220421-154545.jpg (https://ibb.co/5nHHhXN)


So, this is how to upload images on bitcointalk the easy way using imgbb, which is suitable for beginners.

But as you can see, the image above posted on bitcointalk forum is very large, and you  have to resize it, so to do that, you reduce the height by adding. "Height=300" to the BBCode link

NOTE:.
Where "300" means the length of the height, the lesser the number, the smaller the image will become.


Example,

Original BBCode link: 👇



Resize BBCode link👇



And this is how it will look like after the image has been resized 👇

https://i.ibb.co/F0CFHWZ/Screenshot-20220421-155032.jpg (https://ibb.co/QCt4DcS)
geojson spec (https://geojsonlint.com/)

Nice, to confess, I think imgur has become very popular amongst this forum users that it sometimes feels like theres no other like it out there, personally, I will always stick with imgur, but then, it's nice knowing there's an alternative out there.

By the way, you can adjust height and width of an image, and not just height alone, when an image is too tall, you can adjust the height by adding the height attribute to your img tag, like in the example below

But in the case where image is too wide, you can adjust the wideness by adding the width attribute to your img tag like in the example below

Also, in a case where image is too tall and also too wide, both height and wideness of that image can be adjusted at ones by adding both height and width attributes in the img tag like in the example below

I just use windows snipping tool and just Ctrl+V in imgur, https://imgur.com/upload

In windows 11 you can just click the button "Print Screen" on your keyboard and it will automatically open the snipping tool (if you choose to do so in settings).
I do it pretty fast. :)

https://d1rytvr7gmk1sx.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Windows-11-Snipping-Tool-Figure-a.jpg?x20752

https://d1rytvr7gmk1sx.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Windows-11-Snipping-Tool-Figure-b.jpg?x20752
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-take-screenshots-windows-11-snipping-tool

I think I have seen plenty of these topics before, make sure to use the search box on the top right-hand side of the forum for existing topics before you create one, it helps you reduce the stress of writing a book that people may dislike except if you are adding something new that forum members haven't learned before. When in doubt, always check Newbies - Read before posting, (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1689727.msg16958010#msg16958010) that single page we overlook has all key points that will guide any beginner and everyone on the forum.
You don't have to include width and height to adjust your image, the height alone is okay, and the forum will adjust the width automatically.

^^
Please fix this.
Because you used the img tags, the forum software thinks you are trying to upload an image and since the link is not a valid image link, the above image will be displayed.
The proper way to slove this is to insert the codes inside the code tags. Like this:

Alright.. Thanks Boss

Newbies do not have the privilege of posting images on the forum. You need to be a Jr. Memeber and above to be able to post images. You can buy the Copper Memebership while you are newbie to avail this feature. You did mention this later on in the post but your initial statement is kind of misleading.


Therefore please change the initial statement as it gives a wrong impression. I am comfortable using Imgur as it simple to change the image dimension on it. I have never used this platform.

Although i appreciate your efforts @OP but there are many similar threads related to image uploading on the forum so you can avoid it by going on the search bar and check for them first of all.

Like this one : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3974517

There is one more thing like you can only readjust either image height or width and it will automatically adjusts it's size accordingly


As we all know newbies can't post images on the forum and they need to be junior member or buy Copper Membership to bypass these restrictions.

That's also convenient method to do so like just snipping the image and that also helps to capture the images with SS restrictions on the page.You simply go on image hosting site like imgur and paste it there and then copy the BBcode here on the forum reply box area.

But as many users are also accessing forum from the mobile device going through this method is easy for them as you have to crop the image and then resize the images in the code according to your need.

Wow, this is so enlightening, and I'm grateful. I've seen many users post images on the forum and I envy them, I've always wanted to do the same but didn't know how to go about it, this is very helpful and I'm going to give it a try very soon.

Didn't you read some of the threads that also mentioned how to be able to post images?. I have came across it many times already. There's more of that posting image stuff which is the image link you should paste must end in an image format like .jpg. Sometimes, I uploaded images but it will show Bitcointalk Image proxy which what I did is downloaded the image and reupload it then try post it again and it works. Don't know other ways, maybe it will work readjusting the size works but haven't tried it. See the quote below which I had to reupload the images since it won't show up no matter how much I quote it and even deleted some numbers and letters so it will end with .jpg or .jpeg image format.

There few changes to the imgur page in the last few days and visitors might need to get an account with the website now. Also the interface had changed and the link can only be fetch after the uploaded image in the registered account.