When I realized, early this morning, that nobody was going to be beating down the doors to respond to my request, I decided I would do it, however verbosely and ineptly, myself. I'd want someone to do it for me.... if I didn't know how.How to Post Pictures From Kiva.org:Once you’re at your Entrepreneur’s Profile page, click on his/her picture to enlarge it. Now that you’re looking at the enlarged picture without the accompanying text, copy the URL that ends with “
jpg” that you see at the top of your screen.
For instance:
http://kiva.s3.amazonaws.com/img/w800/129509.jpgWhen here at the Forum, at the appropriate place in your reply/post,
a) Paste that URL into the text.
b) Highlight that URL.
c) Then look at the page above the smiley guys, the emoticons, and
click on the very first square on the second row. (It’s under the “B” for bold and to the left of the little globe which, if clicked on, enables you to create a hyperlink). The pointer turned into little hand will generate the words, “Insert Image”, so you’ll know you’re at the right place. After you click on that little square,
“
img” in brackets will appear on both sides of the URL you’d copied there from your pic.
When it’s a picture taken from Kiva’s website, if you then click on Preview, you should be able to see the picture before you actually click on Post, so you will know that you did it right.
If you want to reduce the size of the picture, after doing the above, take your pointer and place it after the “g” in the “img” that shows up in front of the “http” part of your pic’s URL. Click, space, then type in:
width=
After you’ve typed in width= , without adding another space, type in 700 or 600 or 500 or 400, etc.
so it might look something like this:
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How to Post Pictures From a Website Other than the One at Kiva.orgOne great place to find pictures is at Google Image Search,
http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi&q= Type in the thing you are seeking as your search term. You probably will get a lot of choices.
As an example, I remembered once seeing a painting by Van Gogh of himself after he cut off his ear, so I tried to find it using the following search terms:
“Van Gogh” +painting +ear1) Click on the thumbnail pic you think you might like.
(Note: particularly with famous paintings or famous other things, you may have many different thumbnails on the Google Image page that show the same thing. Particularly with paintings, different thumbnails (from different websites), once clicked upon, might generate different sizes or richer color renditions, etc., so if you’re not satisfied with your image from the first website you try, click on a thumbnail pic of the same image from a different website)2) Then, either click where it says “See full-size image” at the top or click where it says “Below is the image in its original context on the page……”
3) Once you see the enlarged image, put your pointer on it and drag off the page onto your desktop.
(This won’t always work but it will much of the time). If something will successfully drag onto your desktop, you won’t see the picture, itself, but some little square thingy, probably with numbers and/or letters and maybe “
jpg” or “
gif” or something similar. (Test by clicking on it to see if the picture you want shows up. If yes, close the picture itself, leaving the little square thingy with numbers and “jpg” or “gif”, whatever, on your desktop).
Leave it on your desktop until you’ve written your post and are nearly ready to insert it.4)
After you’ve finished writing the text of your post, scroll down to where it says, “Attach” in bold print, with a space next to it, and the word, “Browse,” next to the space. Double-click on the word, “Browse.” You should then see a list of a number of things/files, etc.
Make sure that you’re looking at things on your Desktop. Scroll down until you see the letters/numbers with “jpg or whatever and double click on that. It should show up in the space between the words “Attach” and “browse.”
If you want to post more than one picture, click on “more attachments” which should generate another space which you can fill by following the same “browse and click” instructions you used for the first pic.
Once you’ve done this for the pic(s) you want to post, if you have already previewed your text to proofread it and make sure that everything shows up the way you want, now’s the time to click on “Post.”
NOTE:
For some reason, unless it’s a picture from Kiva.org, when you click on “Preview,” even when you’ve done everything correctly, your picture will not show up. It will only show up after you click on the word, Post.
