In Mozilla Firefox, right click the photo, choose "copy image location"
1. type 2. type img src
3. type =
4. paste the link
5. then close with a >
Probably something similar in other browsers.

It will look kinda like this:
<_img src_="_your" image link here.jpg_>

Only I had to add underscores _ _ _ so that the GW text editor wouldn't try to convert it to html. Type without the underscores :)

testing ....

{{!gwi}}

thank you!

Yay!

It worked!

Cool! Added it to My Clippings.

this is a test .....

it worked for me too!!

awm03: sending along hugs!!! Thanks!! :)

Hmm, that doesn't seem to work for me, I always have to save the web photos to my computer, then import them to Flickr, then here. Does anyone know how to post from the web from a Mac - I use chrome?

sochi, when you right click on a web image, what are your choices? Maybe the correct one is disguised somehow -- different terms, different location.

In the old days, I would right click on the image, open Properties & copy the image html. It needs to include the file extension (.jpg, .bmp, etc.)

Same on a Mac as anything else. You just need to know that you're copying the actual image address. You can actually just right click on the image and select, drumroll, "Copy Image Location."

Technically there are supposed to be quotation marks after the = and before the >, but this site doesn't always require them.

Sochi,
Sometimes, it doesn't work for me either, depending upon the way the image is included the in original site, unless I make my own file, etc. However, if I can find another location, e.g., Google Images, for the same image, then the embedding process works. Also, if folks are using the Mac mouse without a right-click feature, then they need to hold down the control button while clicking. (I haven't tried the track pad, so don't know about that.) I'm not using Chrome, but I would imagine there's a similar phenomenon.

Sochi, I am actually on a Mac using Safari. Just follow awm's and marcolo's messages, it is virtually the same instruction.

I thought you had to put " at beginning and end of link.

testing

Yes it should have " as follows, replacing parens with pointy brackets and xxx is the img address.

(img src="xxx")

If too wide then add a width constraint as follows

(img src="xxx" width="550")

Just an FYI...all macs are capable of right clicks - whether you use a mouse or trackpad. Under the " apple" menu, select System Preferences and set up your "mouse" or "trackpad" settings to do what you want it to do.

Helene

I do have to press control plus right click (this is how I've always save images to my computer as well). I have the option to save image URL or save image, but when I paste the URL for instance, it just provides the URL address in the body of the message, not the actual picture. The save image option doesn't appear to do anything, I will keep trying, perhaps with safari. Thanks for the help.

Aha, got it. Sorry I'm so dense. I needed the quotes. Thanks everyone.

Blubird is correct about changing the preference so that you can right click. I had forgotten. (Apple just replaced my entire computer after a six-month saga that included innumerable phone calls, six 160-mile round trips to and from the ironically named "Genius Bar," delayed research, frustration, dedicated senior techs who were "no longer with us," replaced logic boards, operating systems, graphics cards, "It'll definitely, definitely be okay now. We ran all the diagnostics," and you name it. Not fun, schlepping an iMac 27" back and forth.) I'm re-familiarizing myself. As to the quotation marks, yes, you are supposed to have to use them, but I inadvertently forgot a couple of times and it still worked. What accounts for this? I dunno.
Go to the little (cute, I admit) apple in the upper left of your monitor. Click it. Go to System Preferences in the drop down menu. Click it. Go to the mouse icon (also cute). Click. Go to More Gestures. Click the right side option.
Was all this cuteness worth the Apple premium? Topic for another day--sometime after I decide whether this computer functions properly after the first month.

Whether you need quotes or not is not dependent on your own browser; that's a function of the Gardenweb software. They apparently have it set to add the quotation marks automatically when it finds the image link in a post.

And as a reminder for those who are still struggling with this, you always have to use the Preview button before you will actually see the image in your post -- you have to let the GW software process the code in order to spit out the picture. Just pasting the URL of the image into the message box and typing the code around it is only the first step. :-)

Chrome works the same as any other browser; right-click and select 'Copy Image URL'.

You can set your Mac trackpad to right click by using two fingers to click instead of one -- I find this the most useful way to get a fast right-click.

Makes sense.

Thank you, I never understood this before!

arrgh

trying again .... just to keep reminding myself ....sigh ...

Not sure why this old thread was brought up, but this method of posting pics was for the old GW and it's different now with Houzz.

Oly, I just spent a good bit of time reading this. I was finally clued in when someone mentioned GW. I sure wish the old posts would stop popping up or I would become more observant prior to clicking a post.

Seems to be a rash offload posts this morning. Maybe a spammer at work, then their post is deleted, leaving the rest of us scratching our heads.

I have a feeling dedtired is correct. Late last night I tagged four posts from one spammer.

I probably brought it up, I was trying to figure out posting pics. I finally just uploaded the ones I wanted to share right in the post.

Why can't my iPad just post what I type? My post above was supposed to say a rash of old posts, not offload posts. Sheesh.

dedtired, I must have known what you meant, because I didn't even notice.

Auto correct sure is fun though, isn't it? You type what you want and it thinks you meant something else so changes it for you. You can't remember how to spell something that it should be able to guess and it has no clue.

I turned it off on my first smart phone, but it's rather fun to see what it comes up with, so I left it on my new phone and now my tablet. It's certainly good for a laugh now and then and who doesn't need more laughter in their lives?

No worries Joanmn. You are not the first to do so and won't be the last.