I've decided to create an article about adding pictures inside Multiply. It can be used in
any place here: replies/comments, group notes, personal messages, any post at all.
First of all, you need to host the picture on the Internet, you can't use images that are stored on your own computer. There are thousands of free services that host files for hot-linking, specially images. Some of them have some restrictions, like limited bandwidth, maximum file/image size, or will store your file for a limited time then will delete it. For these reasons and as things will be easier and faster if you do it all on Multiply, you can create a private album here (so no one else will see the pics) and still use the images here or anywhere else (if it's used outside Multiply, a small watermark will be visible, so you don't have to credit Multiply for hosting the image for you). I will come to this later.
After you have uploaded your image somewhere, you need to find its URL so you can use it in your post. The URL is the unique address of the image on the Internet. You just need to right click on the image and select
Properties if you are using IE or
Copy Image Location if you are using Firefox (or the similar command in your preferred browser). If you chose Properties, a small window will appear, where you can select and copy the image URL. You can also select
View Image so the only the picture will be show on your browser window, and you can copy the URL from the address bar.
For instance, if you go to this album:
http://multiplydesign.multiply.com/photos/album/4/Instant_Theme_with_Transparencyyou will see that it has only one picture. What you see first is the image thumbnail, a small sized picture so you see many pics of one album at once. You can use the thumbnail if you want, just get its URL, but then you will use the small image (it can be useful for creating a link in a post, for instance). If you want the bigger one, click on the image once, and you will see the preview image, which is bigger than the thumbnail. If there is a high resolution version of the image, you will be able to click on
Zoom In. The only problem is that if you host your images on Multiply, the high resolution version may get removed after 6 months if no one has ordered a print of it. Normally, if you plan to add the pic to a reply or something else, you are not using a high resolution image, or maybe the image you've uploaded is small and there is no bigger version of it, so you don't need to care about it (PS: even if Multiply removes the hi-res picture, it won't delete the preview nor the thumbnail). In this example, I will use the preview image. Its URL is:
http://images.valeriewwf.multiply.com/image/25:modify/photos/26/500x500/1/Dock.jpg?et=U7D3ENOmB8mHsStgV8%2BEDQ&nmid=61676016Now, the only thing you need to do is use this command where you want to display the image:
<img src="Image_URL">
where you must replace
Image_URL with the actual URL of the image you want to show, and don't forget to include both the "<" and ">" too. In this example:
<img src="http://images.valeriewwf.multiply.com/image/25:modify/photos/26/500x500/1/Dock.jpg?et=U7D3ENOmB8mHsStgV8%2BEDQ&nmid=61676016">It will show the picture like this:
Some useful variations of the command:
<img src="Image_URL" border="0"> - draws no border around the picture, useful if you use it for a link and don't want the border around the image.
<mg src="Image_URL" align="left"> - aligns the image to the left.
<img src="Image_URL" align="right"> - aligns the image to the right.
<img src="Image_URL" height="300" width="400"> - sets the image width and height (you can use other values, of course, and if you use only one parameter - width or height - the other one will be automatic to keep the proportion ratio of the image).
OK, now about the private album... I will use the text that
kindspirit wrote in a
post in another group:
- Create a new photo album as you normally would, and add all the photos, Gif's or any other images to that album that you wish to hot link from.
- When choosing "Who should be able to see this album?", just select "Individuals" But Do Not add any individuals to the list! None! Just leave the list blank.
- After saving your album, and confirming that the album is complete, it will appear on your message board, but only you will be able to see it, no one else will.
- Now you can go back to your Private Photo Album and hot-link your images here on Multiply or to any other site on the web.
Of course, you will be able to add more pictures to this album, so you will need to create only one. And this tip works for any picture, from any album or any picture from the Internet, as long as you get its URL. And adding the images to your albums on Multiply has many pluses: it will load faster, has no bandwidth limits and you can easily add them later to your blog posts too.
As a final note, remember that's it's not right (nor legal) to use someone else's pictures unless you ask for it first and you have the express permission to do it. It's the same when you create your own albums. And it's polite to cite and thank your source, even after you have asked them to use their material. Respect the copyright and play nice. ;)
If you want the image to be displayed in the Type column of your posts when the page for that section is set to Table View (for example, add the album artwork to a playlist), add this code to the begining of your post:
<span class="insertedphoto"><img class="aligntop" src="Image_URL" border="0"></span>
Update1: in order to paste (or edit) HTML codes in blog entries, click on 'Edit HTML' checkbox
before you paste the code.
Update2: you can also easily grab the code to embed your pics anywhere using the
share link you can find below your pics. Use the embedding code to display your pic and link it to your album. Just copy and paste the code. The 'share' code will display the preview pic and also add a link to the original post (don't worry, you can use it anywhere since only the people you allowed to access the album will be able to open the link).
Update3: now you can also get the EMBED for a slick Flash slideshow of your entire album! Click on the the
share link to get the code and paste it wherever you want, even outside Multiply.
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