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Posting Pictures In-Thread Using An Apple Mac Book: How To Do It

14 years ago

I have an Macbook and I'm wondering if anyone could tell me how to post a picture from a different website in-thread rather than in a link at the bottom of my post.

I did a search on the forum but only managed to find a desciption using a non-Apple computer. Since I cannot 'left' or 'right' click, I need help! Please tell me like you would tell a five year old. Step by step... Assume that I know nothing, because I really do know nothing about this-after being on THS for six years! Sheesh. I'll have to practice until it's second nature to me. Thank you!

Comments (13)

  • 14 years ago

    Why can't you left & right click? I have a Mac too.

  • 14 years ago

    I have a new mac with the right click option, but i think on the macs without it you just control+click on the picture you want to post to get the image info. then follow these instructions that someone else posted here and I copied to remember myself:

    Go to the website with the photo, put your cursor on the photo and RIGHT click (you would control + click) and a box will pop up.
    select and click on VIEW IMAGE INFO
    A box will appear with the line LOCATION: followed by that photo's location on the web starting with HTTP and ending with JPG.
    Copy and paste the location into your post at GardenWeb.
    Type in front of it img src=
    It will look like this:
    img src=http and so on, ending with jpg
    Then add carets at the beginning and end.
    Preview the message and if you don't see the photo, something has gone wrong.

    It is complicated to explain, easy to do. It's easier if you print this out and follow the instructions.

  • 14 years ago

    I have a 2 year old macbook pro and it has a touch pad, press Ctrl and click on the touch pad.

  • 14 years ago

    I forgot about the touch-pad. I have to use a mouse ... the pad irritates me no end.

  • 14 years ago

    {{!gwi}}

  • 14 years ago

    Thank you, Ladies! In spite of my touch pad and the fact that when I "right click" on the image it gives me the prompt: "Copy Image Address" rather than Locations (which saves me the time of highlighting and copying the long string of characters), the directions were perfect.

    I will copy these and keep it for future reference. For now, I'm going to post more lovely pictures. Thank you!

  • 14 years ago

    You can make your touch pad to do the "two finger" right click.

  • 14 years ago

    Please help me post from my macbook pro. The instructions didn't work for me. I did not get the message to select and view image photo.
    We are buying a home that I will need lots of help on.

  • 14 years ago

    Gingerjars, open a Photobucket (or the like) account, and post pictures from there. You cannot post a picture directly from a computer hard drive.

  • 14 years ago


    Allison, what did I do wrong?

  • 14 years ago

    Looks like it worked fine! You won't see the photo unless you preview it.

  • 14 years ago

    Thanks so much for the help. The house we are buying needs so much work and I will be honored for all the help I can get. As you can tell from the pic this will be one of the first place we will start.

  • 14 years ago

    Woohoo!!!!!