A picture is worth a thousand words and it certainly enhances a blog.  Pictures get attention and help illustrate a point.  Sometimes pictures have no point, but then some blogs are pointless too!  :)

Before adding a picture, you need to know if it is protected by copyright.  If it doesn't belong to you, you can but the rights to use it, or you can use your own photo.  Using a photo that does not belong to you is stealing, plain and simple. 

Where can you find pictures to purchase? 

Doing a Google search for "royalty free photos" will yield many sources for photos. Please note, just because the photo is "royalty free" doesn't mean it is free.  You will need to pay for the photo.  You can buy a catalog of real estate photos, or a single photo.  I like using

IStockphoto

Stock.xching

Corbis

Most of the time, I prefer to use my own photos of sites in and around Denver, Colorado.  I take tons of photos and have a collection of pictures from many places. So when possible I use my own stock.  You can do the same.

Instructions for uploading Photos

 I keep my photos on my hard drive in a folder called, "MY Pictures"  Within that folder I have additional subfolders named after what ever the photo is about. When I use a photo in my Blog, I keep that photo in a folder named "blog pics" just so I can easily find it. 

Once you have written your blog, you can add a photo. While in the blog composition box, you click on the tool bar at the top.

After clicking on the "picture of a tree" another dialog box will appear. It looks like this:

demonstrating the process for adding a photo

The red arrow above shows where you need to click, It will bring up a "search box" that looks like this:

dialogue box to surf for photos

The next step; click on the "Browse" button. Now you need to know where the photo is on your computer.  Surf to the proper file.

My photo file looks like this:

sample blog photos

 

When you find your photo, click on it.  The file will then load into the "File Name" box.  Click "open"

The picture file is then loaded into the "Upload box" that looks like this:

picture upload dialogue box

 

 

Once you click on the "Upload Photo" box, the next box you will see will be one that requires you to adjust the photo's attributes for positioning on the page.  You will also give the photo a description (to aid impaired viewers & a title)  Be sure to pay attention to BOTH tabs at the top.  See the illustration below.

process for adding a photo

The Appearance tab looks like this:

setting horizontal space demonstration

The second tab is very important for placing your photo on the page.  If you don't give the proper instructions, you end up with a mess.

Once this section is complete, click INSERT.  In a few seconds (be patient) your photo will appear on your blog.  If it doesn't work, keep practicing.  Usually if it fails it's a user error.  I know about that, trust me!  :)

 

Colorado Licensed Broker
ABR - Accredited Buyer Representative
CIPS - Certified International Property Specialist
CRS - Certified Residential Specialist
The Berkshire Group Realtors
3801 E. Florida Ave. Suite 400
Denver, Colorado, 80210
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Mobile: 303-589-2022
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kristal@tbgdenver.com
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171 Comments on How to Add Pictures in Your Blog

NOV
03
2006
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Hi Kristal,  I'm definitely a big fan of pictures in blogs... that is, afterall, how you found your dream house in Wenatchee! 

10:25pm • #1
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Kristal, How do we these framed? Do people ever use your photos? Google keeps a record of all the website photos. Have you ever looked at them to see how many of yours are in the google images. Maybe somehow you get points for these.
10:42pm • #2
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KK,

Thanks for complete explanation. I'm going to copy and print out your instructions and try it.

I can upload to my Google blog with no problems...so I should be able to do this.

And, I always use my own original photos...

10:59pm • #3
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Hi Carol,  Yes, that's my dream house.  I'm saving my pennies to buy it someday.  BTW where is Wenatchee?  ;)

Eric ~ Yes, people use my photos.  That's why I have an attorney.  :)

11:02pm • #4
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Eileen, I did this for you, after your request today.  It's been wierd making the graphics as I went.  I confused myself!  Let me know if it makes sense, or not!

kk

11:04pm • #5
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Is your Broker an attorney too, lol. I have always wondered if google connects the photos to your site,will it hurt one who takes your photos. A girl in my office started using my condo photos. I told her google would frown upon the theft and her site. She quit from fear of google or me. " Oh I meant no harm, since you did the work, I just wanted to use them because I don't have time for that" I will remember her words
11:13pm • #6
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Eric, the sad but true truth is, the offender can get away with stealing because it is so expensive to pursue them.  So many people feel the same way as your associate.  It never ceases to amaze me. 
11:16pm • #7
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Kristal,
Wenatchee is in the geographic center of Washington State.   The Apple Capital of the World and the Power Belt of the Pacific Northwest.  The region has the cheapest electric rates in the nation (2.5 cents per kwh) because of all the dams along the Mighty Columbia River.  This cheap power is what is luring Microsoft and Yahoo and other technology businesses to our area.  

 

11:54pm • #8
NOV
04
2006
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Apples?  Cool, I love apples.  Cheap power is good. It sounds like a very nice area.  Do you have a lot of rain too?
12:35am • #9
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I never knew about the appearance tab! thanks for enlightening me.

Ginger

1:09am • #10
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Kristal, AWESOME instructional post!!  These kinds of posts are so helpful to alot of us who haven't quite figured out all the nuances on our own.  And thanks for the links to the photos sites - very useful as well.

Thanks!
Ann Cummings

6:13am • #11
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Excellent post & very very helpful. I store my photos online with "Flickr." I did not realize I could upload from my own photo files.

 

Jay Merton 

6:37am • #12
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Thanks for the post, Kristal. It's easy to forget that many new members don't go back through the archives, so old is new. Posting photos is SO much easier since ActiveRain added this direct upload.

Hope you're planning a Part II which relates to the various choices in the Attribute Tab. 

7:12am • #13

GREAT POST  ! ! ! !

Except, with me, it's ALWAYS user error.

I love photos and images.  I plan to add more to my web sites soon.  I have thousands that I take just driving around.  I have a library of about 10,000 photos.  I need to get them organized.  I'll do that when I finished Homefinders.com new site and when I finish the new site for new homes that I started, and when I finish the new site for farms that I started and when I finish the new site for first time home buyers that I started and when I finish . . . . . . .

Lenn

Lenn Harley
7:29am • #14
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Wow!!  Talk about amazing instructions!  This must have taken you forever to put together.  Thanks!

 

11:05am • #15
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  I can only imagine the amount of time you must've taken to put this blog post together considering all the photos and detailed instructions... but what I find even more amazing is that you did not get a gold star for it!  It's more than well-deserved.  They may not have awarded you an official one, but here's one from me!

1:21pm • #16
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Great instructions, I have not been using photos but will try it.
3:29pm • #17
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I made the mistake of copy and paste my pictures into one of my first blogs.  It should up on my, but never made to the official posting.  I have since learned... the fun part is finding pictures on the net that I can use.

Thanks.

8:05pm • #18
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Ginger ~ Isn't it funny how we can look at something and not really See it!  I do that more often than I care to admit.  Glad to have been of help.

Ann ~ Ann you are welcome.  Hope you find it easy to understand, if you didn't  know it already.

Jay ~ We used to have to use Flickr, then one day that changed.  In fact I didn't even notice it until Sharon Simms mentioned it.  It was another one of those things I couldn't see for lookin'.

Sharon ~ I did instructions a long time ago, but now they are outdated.  I agree, it's much easier  now to load photos. 

Lenn ~  LOL, you mean like logging in when you are commenting on the blogs?  That's OK what ever you do is OK by me.  You are fabulous.  Besides I don't ever want to get on the wrong side of a woman who is a champion shooter...not smart on my part!  haha

Ines ~ Thanks Ines, the hardest part was remembering what I was doing making a graphic or writing about it or where I was in what I was doing...yaddy yaya...  It wasn't that hard...

Leanne ~  Thanks for the Gold Star, I do appreciate that! I just hope the detailed instructions are understandable.  Not everyone can understand "jersey."  :)

David ~ Once you try illustrating with a photo or two, you won't go back!

Jason ~ LOL, lot's of people do that.  It's funny when you tell them "I can't see your pictures" and they don't believe you because they can see the photos!  One of my competitors make that mistake on his website.  I might have told him, but since he took my content (he's since removed it) I let him make a silly fool of himself.  To bad! But now Jason you know...

Thanks all for stopping by.  Please let me know if the instructions are clear enough to follow.

kk

8:19pm • #19
NOV
05
2006
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 Kristal,

You never cease to amaze me at the details you put in your blogs... this one particularly helped me and I thank you..... Now hopefully my pictures will be an important inclusion in the message as yours are....

Keep up the good work!!

9:40am • #20
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Thanks Fran, glad to be of help.  You have been missed around here. Hope your just busy with good things happening in your life!

kk

9:42am • #21
NOV
06
2006
4 Featured Posts

Just discovered this post after trial and error finally got me to somewhere close to where I wanted to be.

How, my guru, do you get the pics anywhere other than where they place themselves. 

 Ed DeChristopher-Yellowstone 2005

6:05am • #22
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Hi Ed.  Look that the tab on the right hand side.  Adjust that before load the photo it will tell you where to place the photo on your page.
8:32am • #23
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Thanks for the info and help.  I will try and do this sometime soon.  Th blogs that have pictures added seem so neat and I just don't seem to be doing it right.  I appreciate the insight.
3:01pm • #24
NOV
07
2006
NOV
08
2006
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Better late than never, responding to your blog!  I've just got to ask - were you a trainer in your past life? Those screen prints are exactly how I used to write my training manuals. A picture IS worth a thousand words! Great job. But really - were you a trainer????
12:18am • #26
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Cynthia ~ practice a little and you will catch on.  If you are still having trouble, you can call me and I walk you through it.  Good luck...

Ed ~ my pleasure!

Deb Salkeld ~ Trainer?  Not really.  I have given a few talks in my time, top producer panels, Realtor techie stuff (that is not really techie, but to Realtors is was :).  Thanks for the compliment...I assume you meant it that way.

The photos do help people see what it is I am trying to say! Photos help with so much more than this...

11:54pm • #27
NOV
09
2006
2 Featured Posts

I can't wait for part 2....there is a part 2 right..I hope ..I hope ..I hope

 

 

8:02pm • #28
NOV
10
2006
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Monika ~  What were you hoping to learn in Part II?  Give me a clue, I'll write it!!

KK

10:27am • #29
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Hey Kristal,

For part 2, how about all those things that show up under the tab "appearance"?  The 'vertical space', 'horizontal space', etc. - what does all that mean?  I insert my picks, choose from 'alignment' on where I want it, and then resize and use the space bar once it's inserted if I need to adjust it.  What do those other things mean?

Thanks!!

Ann

7:04pm • #30
NOV
14
2006
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this is a great post.  I need to take this to heart and make sure I add photos/images to my blog posts here and elsewhere....
9:14pm • #31
NOV
15
2006
363,169 Points 110 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Ann ~ I am working on Part II, hopefully to be out soon.  Thanks!

 Craig ~ Glad to be of help.  Hope to hear and see more of you Craig!

11:09pm • #32
NOV
28
2006
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I know i'm LATE  ...., however.....thanks for all of these instructions, i was wondering how it worked.  In part 2 can you cover the pixel sizes....is there a limit? 

 

8:59pm • #33
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Diane ~ better late than never!  Yes, I have Part II on my ToDo list...stay tuned....

kk

9:39pm • #34
NOV
29
2006

Kristal,

I want to thank you for the information that you share in your blogs!! Especially this one. It has been very helpful!! I am having a little trouble but will keep working on it until I get it down pat!

Thanks again,

Jim Graham 

2:10pm • #35
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You are welcome Jim.  If you need help sometimes it's better to talk in person.  Let me know and I can walk/talk you thru it!

kk

4:33pm • #36
DEC
29
2006
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This may have already been answered, but does the size matter? i.e., 630x or 300 x?
10:41am • #37
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Suzi ~ size always matters!  400 pixels is about the largest you should use.

kk

10:46am • #38
JAN
02
2007
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Dawn ~ you are welcome!  Good luck with it!

kk

11:35am • #40
FEB
04
2007
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Kristal,

I have written over 100 blog posts now and never did figure out how to post a picture to a blog on my own - this is awsome. you could write a Dummies Guide to ActiveRain - your instructions are just awesome.

Hop[e you are enjoying the rid int the pack - you were great up front.Mt San Jacinto from the Hemet Valley

Now have a Blessed Day,

John Occhi, Hemet REALTOR
www.johnOcchi.Com

1:23pm • #41
MAR
16
2007
great job, thank you so much, you helped me... kriste
4:31pm • #42
MAR
19
2007
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09
2007
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Kristal:

Thank you for your very informative post. Generous people like you make it easy for people like me to navigate around AR and it is greatly appreciated. Pictures make any post so much more interesting, don't you think.

 Michelle Minch, Moving Mountains Design & Staging, Pasadena, CA

5:22pm • #44
APR
15
2007
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Still making an effort to include photos in my blog articles.  Thanks for the tips.

10:02am • #45
APR
21
2007
2 Featured Posts
I wish I'd read this months ago. Thanks for going through the effort to help those still learning.
9:41am • #46
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23
2007
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Kristal, I agree with Sharon, it would be a great Part II to know what the options on the Appearance tab mean. (hint! hint) in your spare time of course (LOL)
1:03am • #47
MAY
02
2007

Wow, I cannot believe how much great technical stuff I am learning from AR...Thanks for sharing and teaching....

3:58pm • #48
Thank God for people like you who know what they are doing, so people like me can figure out how to do it!  Thanks for your help.
11:50pm • #49
MAY
05
2007
166,386 Points 15 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Thanks for the tips!

How do you get the "View Reader Community" provided by mybloglog embedded into your activerain page?

I like that feature!

Also, when you are taking pictures, are you taking them on the highest quality setting and then reducing them to fit your web page, or are you taking them on the lower quality settings? Have you found that one method is better than the other?

Thanks again!

9:19am • #50
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Thanks for the tutorial. It really makes it easier.

11:09am • #51
Kristal - wow...very informative....thank you for sharing.! ron
5:16pm • #52
MAY
06
2007
1 Featured Post

Thank you 'KK'. 

How many more treasures like this have you contributed? 

 

 

2:56am • #53
Kristal,...........Thank you for this blog of posting pictures to blogs.  I too believe that pictures are very important.  I will have to start carring my camera where ever I go.............What is the rule for clip art?      Thank again for taking the time to be of great help to others.          Pat
8:11pm • #54

Kristal,

Thank you so much for taking the time to give this valuable information to us.  Here is another website I had found months ago, but found it a bit confusing,  http://www.bigstockphoto.com/.  I am very greatful to you for sharing with us.  Because of you, I now have more resources.

Thanks again, Shirley 

8:55pm • #55
MAY
09
2007
MAY
10
2007
I feel I'm a Near-Newbie graduate, but I just found this post today and am so thankful!!  I've been having the darndest time trying to get my pictures to stay where I put them.  Thanks for taking the time to write such a helpful post.  I'll have to bookmark you, too:)
7:36am • #57

Krystal,

Thanks, this is great information in an easy to understand format. 

8:35am • #58
MAY
14
2007
135,558 Points

Krystal,

You made this so clear and easy to understand, much thanks.  Now I am trying to print a couple of blogs/post comments that had valuable info that I want to keep someplace other than here on AR and I cannot find out how to do that.  When I do the usual print command I get a blank page with the Active Rain info but that's it.  Can you direct me to where to go to find out how to do this?  Sorry to butt-in on the add a photo element but you're very knowledgeable about the workings of AR and so I'm hoping you can help me.  Or if anyone else can...thanks in advance. 

 

2:26pm • #59

Krystal

 Thank-you for the wonderfully clear, concise instructions.  Many of the blogs that I have read included photos and I had been wondering how that was done.  With a little practice I should be able to start blogging with the rest of you.

 

Cheryl-Anne Priest
8:09pm • #60
134,631 Points Outside Blog
I am going to try to add photos to my blog...we'll see how it turns out. Love the pics in the instructions.  Thanks!!!
11:15pm • #61

Thank you for the instructions!  I've never done a blog, so I'm checking out any and all newbie instructions ~

Katrina

 

11:25pm • #62
MAY
15
2007
6 Featured Posts
Thank you for sharing this info. w/ us newbies.  Although I'm not that new I have not added any pictures to any of my blogs as I did not know how.  I soooo wanted to and as they say a picture is worth a thousand words.
10:31am • #63
MAY
19
2007
193,901 Points 13 Featured Posts Outside Blog
Thanks so much for these great detailed instructions.  I can't wait to post a blog with photos and your guidelines will help me get through the process.
3:59pm • #64
JUN
01
2007
1 Featured Post

Kristal, you just answered a question that I have been searching for!  Thank you.  FYI, it was how to wrap the text around the picture.

Thanks,

Jon

5:56pm • #65
JUN
02
2007

I have tried to upload photos and I can't get the isert image box to open correctly. I even held down the CTRL key but I just get an empty box that opens.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Dave

8:56pm • #66
JUN
05
2007
Kristal, I guess this email will be for everyone to see, so please keep in mind that i am a veteran newbie!! I haven't had time lately to read this information you guys are sharing, but my interest has been peaked!! Not only do I want to learn how to include photos, but video snips and be able to link all of that back to my web site. Any information you can provide will greatly be appreciated!! I can not wait to settle in to read all of this material and put it to use. Thanks, Jim Graham
Jim Graham
1:25pm • #67
JUN
08
2007
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Very helpful - I had disregarded the "appearance" tab.  Now, at the risk of sounding totally ignorant, to get it so that text is in the open space to the right or left of the photo, I assume I have to put something into the boxes for vertical space and horizontal space... maybe class...  Help!  What goes in there for a typical blog - could you make a suggestion?  Once I have some idea, I can tweak it from there, but I don't know where to start.  THANK YOU!
5:35am • #68
JUN
26
2007
Kristal - Michelle DeRepentigny, Real Estate Broker * Athens, Georgia has provided me with a link to this blog and I am most appreciative.  Your instructions are very clear and concise.  I am still having a little bit of a problem with wrapping the text though.  Am I right in thinking that you have to have the cursor positioned just right?  I seem to lose all my "bullets" when I insert the photos.  All in all though I am very pleased with the results.  Thank-you for sharing.
10:39pm • #69
JUN
27
2007
Thank you so much for the helpful information.  I've been trying for hours to post pictures.  You're instructions are very clear and easy to understand.  I can't wait to try this out.
12:14am • #70
Thank you very much for sharing, I tried to post a gif file where there was movement but after I posted it, there was no movement. Am I doing something wrong?
12:26am • #71
JUL
01
2007
Hi Kristal,  I have printed a copy of your instruction and I will try it out.  Thank you.
11:52am • #72
JUL
16
2007
This is exactly what I was looking for when I made my search for How to post a picture without a copyright! Thanks Kristal, As a "newbie" I find your posts extremely helpful and fun to read!
8:45pm • #73
JUL
19
2007

Hi Kristal, thanks for the easy to follow instructions on how to add a picture to your post. I recently posted my first blog in the "Practice Here" group and Mike Mueller suggested that I add a photo. Nice idea, but I wasn't sure how--he directed me to your post. Thanks for all helpful hints!!

3:55pm • #74

Kristal,

Thanks for the pointers.  I have been using photos on my blogs, but wasn't using the Appearance tab.  Now I will be able to place the picture anywhere. :)

Kathy

4:59pm • #75
JUL
28
2007
Thanks for the good advice.  It seems a lot of us were wondering about this, but nobody was asking about it!
8:27am • #76
JUL
30
2007
I had to really search for this advice and am so glad I found it. Behold the power of blogging! Your post is still being using months after it was posted and I am still learning weeks after I have joined the activerain community. Great addition of example pictures.  This has been so very helpful. You made my day. Thank you so much!!!
8:10pm • #77
AUG
14
2007

Boy this article has gotten some mileage!  Thanks for writing it. I'm a bit new to blogging but not to the technology.  This helped me.  I'm a bit surprised I had so much trouble finding help for this within the AR faq's.

My grandparents lived in E. Wenatchee throughout my childhood.  I love it there.  My dad went to school in Leavenworth.  Awesome place to live. 

9:02am • #78

Thank you for this blog!  This was my next question.  It was great to find it already answered!

 

10:15am • #79
SEP
07
2007
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Howdy Kristal

Thank you for taking the time to be very helpful to all of us on Active Rain. This is something I have been thinking about asking how to do.  Now I do not have ask.

Have a good one

 

5:54pm • #80
SEP
21
2007

Ok Kristal,

You have all the cool answers for this stuff, so let me ask this,How do you make the drop shadow and ripped edge with a drop shadow images? I could do this in photoshop but you must have an easer way. Will you share?

And thanks for all of the wonderful posts. I learn a lot reading your stuff.

3:11pm • #81
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24
2007
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Thanks, this helps a lot.  I've been afraid to even try it but now I have a much better understanding.  Thanks so much.   Ricki
5:08pm • #82
SEP
27
2007
Hi, Kristal, thank you so much for making this search so easy. i started being active yesterday without photos. i am going to use photos to post a blog regarding Tango in localism in Burbank CA. thanks for posting how to add photos so easy.  regards. LUPE SOTO from Burbank CA
10:58pm • #83
SEP
28
2007
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Great tutorial. Some time we live and learn. Some time someone takes us by the hand. Thanks.
12:59am • #84
OCT
09
2007
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Thank you!!!  I was confused on one part of the process and you cleared it up for me! I appreciate this post greatly:)
9:00am • #85
Great Tutorial.  I'm so glad I found it finally.  I'll know to come to your blog first in the future: you have so many great pointers.  Thanks for being so helpful
3:59pm • #86
OCT
16
2007
Thanks for posting this tutorial. This is a testament to how long good content can stay alive.
7:59pm • #87
OCT
17
2007
2 Featured Posts

Kristal,

Great tips and thanks for sharing! Nicely done! I will bookmark this page and use for future reference. Thanks!

Dave

2:45am • #88
OCT
18
2007
Thanks for the detailed instructions and good luck to your Colorado Rockies.  I've been a Realtor since 1976 but this blogging stuff is all new and mysterious to me.
3:09pm • #89
OCT
20
2007

Thank you. I was wondering hou to add a picture.

Tommy

8:27pm • #90
OCT
26
2007
7 Featured Posts
Thanks, I was having some trouble with this!  Now the problem is solved!  I'm sure this post took you a while to create but look how many people you have helped!!!
8:44am • #91
NOV
18
2007
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Hi Krystal,

Great information and helpful tips.  Thanks for sharing. 

 

4:23pm • #92

thank you Krystal. I have had lot trouble with pictures. Now I just discipline myself to follow what you have laid out here and I will be all set. Picture taking hasn't been my strong point for me but I am going to make an effort to be better at it.

10:02pm • #93
DEC
06
2007

Thanks, Kristal.

I will practice some more.  Maybe my mistake was that I was trying to place the photos first and then work around them.  So maybe it is a sequence problem for me.  I will certainly give it at try!

7:25pm • #94

Oh, now I get it.  I wish I had read this first it would have saved me the stress of trying to make my picture fit.  Thanks for helping.

Sharon

7:29pm • #95
DEC
16
2007
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Great instructions, thanks.  Now can you tell us how to include "animated" graphics in our posts?
1:32am • #96
DEC
17
2007
468,862 Points 3 Featured Posts Outside Blog

THis is a great explanation of how to do this.  Thanks so much!  I will check out the appearance tab, which I didn't ever look at before!

Thanks

Don

6:16am • #97
DEC
28
2007
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233,699 Points 5 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Kristal,

All good info to use. I still do not understand the last part about vertical space_________ and horizontal space___________. What do you put in those spaces?

3:25pm • #99
JAN
10
2008

Kristal,

Your information is very valuable and useful to me as well as to a lot of AR users.  I am a newbie to AR and gave up trying to add a photo to my first entry.  Now I will be able to present much more appealing posts with all of the knowledge that I am picking up from you and my other peers.  Thanks again for sharing the How-To's!!!! 

Charlene

 

Charlene Light in Sunny Sarasota Florida
2:22pm • #100
Thanks for the info Kristal, posting a variety of picture has been a little challenging for me, this helps a lot.
3:09pm • #101
FEB
06
2008
401,214 Points Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Howdy Kristal

I have not been adding photos to my blog posts. But I do feel it's time that I start adding them in. I know you are always writing about very helpful info for folks to read, and giving us insight to thing that we can use.

Have a good one

Dale

5:23pm • #102
FEB
14
2008
Outside Blog
Thank you for this great tutuorial...I have been searching for the answer.....to paraphrase - "you complete my blog"
8:49am • #103

Thanks.  You have been bookmarked.  I was going out the other day to take some snappy pictures of anything I could find interesting and I dropped my camera.  It was bound to happen.  I just bought it.

12:43pm • #104
MAR
04
2008
Thanks, I have yet to use photos either but I will start.  I think I will start taking photos around my community and then post them to the groups.
6:01pm • #105
MAR
10
2008
Thank you for the helpful information. I now have the tools to make my blogs stand out. I feel that I am going to become a photo junkie.
11:34am • #106
113,205 Points Outside Blog

Wow- This post has benefitted alot of folks! I kept ignoring the appearance tab-thanks.

Kathy

2:12pm • #107
MAR
11
2008

Thank you for sharing! I copied and pasted the instructions in an e-mail to myself so I can add your information to my blog folder.

Smiles,

Katharine K. Whiting, John Hall & Associates, Tempe, Arizona http://www.SellsArizonaRealEstate.com

9:51am • #108
MAR
20
2008
THANK YOU! I was completely unaware of how to do this and I am grateful you took the time to break it down for those of us who are a little behind the times :)
8:02am • #109
MAR
22
2008

Hi Kristal, thank you for the great information.  I am trying to create on my personal real estate website (http://www.myownmyrtlebeach.com/) where my clients can come together and upload pictures of the area, their experiences, and community functions.  My webmaster (z57) says I can not do that directly on my site because that would involve giving access to the public on the backend.  Then they recommended creating a blog on Activerain and have it framed into my site.  I have created a blog here called Share Your Myrtle Beach and put it on my website (http://myownmyrtlebeach.com/professional4.shtml) My question is this, I see that visitors that are not registered with Activerain can submit comments to my blog but cannot insert/upload their pictures, is it possible for non-registered members to upload their private pictures to our blogs?  Thank you for all your wonderful assistance and knowledge!

 Jordan Lipman

jordan@lipmangroup.com

 

7:17pm • #111
Thank you for your quick response! I also have been using flickr, it is unfortunate that that won't work, it would be a great tool for us to get the general public to the activerain website!
8:21pm • #112
APR
04
2008

Hi Kristal, thank you for the detailed explanation on how to add a photo to my blog. It was very helpful. I am still learning how to use all the features that Activerain has provided for us.

Thanks again.

12:57am • #113

 

  I am sooooo glad I found this post ! I wondered why there wasn't a browse button on this site. Now I know it was me who couldn't find it!

2:31am • #114
thanks for all the help!!  i will admit i'm a newbie and i needed that.
1:01pm • #115
APR
07
2008
Thanks for the post...I was wondering how people find these cool pictuers/images to put it in their post.
9:14pm • #116
APR
22
2008

Being blog illiterate, I have bookmarked this for future reference!  I am trying to put my first photo in a blog right now.  Thanks for the insight!

4:01pm • #117
MAY
18
2008

 

Hello Kristal K,

When I go to upload my Charlottesville Va homes for sale pics from the BROWSE drop box to the right does not work.

Has anyone else had this formidable problem? Thanks Toby

1:17pm • #118
MAY
19
2008

Hi Kristal,

I need help!  Your tutorial seems very easy.  O clicked on the tree and General dialog box popped up.  So I clicked on the red tab but all I got was a little quirky sound and nothing else.  The search box never appears.  Any ideas? 

12:48pm • #119
363,169 Points 110 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Michelle ~ Do you have a lot of Windows open?  I've had that happen when the window is actually open, but it is hidden below another window.

Hope that helps.

 

Toby ~ Not sure I've had that problem.  I hope you are  not trying to add photos that are too large for the web.  Sometimes when you forget to reduce the size the computer just refuses to let you go forward.  Kind of like a stubborn mule!

4:41pm • #120
151,030 Points Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Thanks Kristal,

I like how you laid that out.

4:47pm • #121
JUN
08
2008
Localism Sponsor

Active rain is the "AYSO youth Soccer" Everyone plays for many of us Bloggers. thanks to you we have a coach!

greatly appreciated. seeing your blog home page is like going to New York and looking up at the Empire State Building.

something seems wrong with my tree button is it rt or left click I cant get it to go to browse lately. popelynne

8:37am • #122
JUN
13
2008
1 Featured Post

Will this take care of wrapping the text around the picture? I don't get it like that! What am I doing wrong?
www.carolinazepeda.com

11:21pm • #123
1 Featured Post

Will this take care of wrapping the text around the picture? I don't get it like that! What am I doing wrong?
www.carolinazepeda.com

11:21pm • #124
JUN
14
2008
Localism Sponsor

Thanks Kristal I thin I get the drift.

7:00pm • #125
1 Featured Post

It's funny that your picture only shows half of your face.  Very ironic

8:39pm • #126
JUN
23
2008

Good inof I was wondering how to do this, lately i just have been cut and paste,

10:31pm • #127
JUN
30
2008
125,467 Points Outside Blog

I tried and tried and tried and it doesn't work. It states it was the image url. I even put the photos I wanted on Photobucket and got the Url and still nothing. I find dragging the picture, gets it to the place I want it to be.

7:14pm • #128
JUL
04
2008
1 Featured Post Localism Sponsor

Thanks for this post. I am able to get to the part where I browse for the photo but when I click upload it just says ...sending request to AR.....and hangs there. Any suggestions on what the issue is? I have resized the phot to make it small but other than that don't know what I am doing wrong?????

 

Any help is appreciated

10:59am • #129
JUL
20
2008
281,358 Points 13 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Great post, wish I would have found this month's ago...Now I'd love to know how to add the youtube or video's...anyone know?

7:39pm • #130
JUL
27
2008
Localism Sponsor

thanks for the post Kristal. 

You described everything very well...now off to adding some pictures.

12:22pm • #131
AUG
14
2008

Thanks, Kristal! I was wondering this as I posted my first blog. Thought I was going to have to use Photobucket or something.  I appreciate you sharing!

12:22pm • #132
AUG
22
2008
SEP
12
2008
126,170 Points 1 Featured Post

Krystal - THANK YOU , THANK YOU, THANK YOU!  This was so helpful.  As an AR newbie, adding pixs to my blogs is something I need to start doing.

10:44pm • #134

Hi Krystal,

Thank you for the comprehensive instructions.  I will keep these for those times when I am in a hurry and have a mental laps.  You had also given me some techniques that were just a little easier than my way.  Thanks.  I always appreciate improvement.

11:12pm • #135
SEP
14
2008

Wow, thanks for making that so easy to understand. Sure will bookmark this site.

tj stroben

11:25am • #136
SEP
16
2008
3 Featured Posts

OOOOOOh, I keep missing the apperance tab...that's why my pics and text don't flow well...thanks!

2:57pm • #137
SEP
30
2008
Outside Blog

Thanks Krystal, that was very informative - I love pictures/diagrams when figuring out the instructions -

7:11pm • #138
OCT
06
2008

Thanks - Now I finally know how to properly line up my photos...

12:32am • #139
OCT
17
2008
206,919 Points

Thanks for this helpful blog.  Being new to blogging and active rain I can use all the helop I can get.  This is invaluable information. I saw the url pop up and basically thought I can't take a picture from my folders....  now I know how....  Much appreciated,  Sincerely,  Diane

11:45am • #140
OCT
27
2008
NOV
10
2008

Kristal thanks a million. Without your instructions i would be @x#! my computer all night!!

1:27pm • #144
NOV
20

Thanks for the pictures.  Sharon Tara pointed me to your website but I still couldn't perform such a simple task.  Because of your pictures I was able to figure out that my pop up blocker was preventing me from accessing my pictures.  Thank you Kristal and Sharon.

9:49pm • #145
NOV
26
NOV
27

Kristal,  thank you, I have been planning my next blog and was wondering how to add pictures.  Thanks for sharing your knowledge

10:39am • #148
NOV
28
NOV
29
206,660 Points

Great explanation and one that I find will be very helpful.    Thanks for the post.

4:08pm • #153
1 Featured Post

Krystal, Krystal, Krystal....THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!

You absolutely proved the point "we don't see the forest 'cause the trees are in the way!"  I've been trying and trying to figure out how to PLACE images within the text so they are wrapped, Googling for format instructions, trying the html tab so I could change an "align" command, but each time I try I only mess things up more.  Now I know to simply go directly to the image upload screen and PATIENTLY restrain myself until AFTER I've determined where I want the image placed by clicking on the appearance tab.

LOL....I just noticed you wrote this post about 2 years ago!!!  See, Krystal...you created a gift that just keeps on giving!!!!!

Thank muchly!

6:31pm • #154
NOV
30
DEC
01
DEC
02
258,253 Points 30 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Krystal- I put a link to this Post in one of mine a while back....I had bookmarked this last year.  It is timely every day.  BTW don't you just love the new look of AR with all those dates above and no comments LOL :)  Maybe you could get them to at least put a picture or 2 in those empty comment boxes LOL :)

7:03pm • #163
116,992 Points 1 Featured Post Localism Sponsor

thanks for the great explanation and pix! 

I am trying to figure out how people get such cute graphics....and how they resize them...

10:47pm • #165
DEC
03
DEC
04
DEC
08

Thank-you for this.  It has been very helpful

8:06am • #174

Kristal,

Can you tell me what an "outside blog" is?

8:10am • #175
DEC
25

Thank you for the informative post. I will definitely be using your advise.

6:44pm • #176
DEC
26
112,665 Points 2 Featured Posts

Krystal,

I am looking forward to sprucing my blogs with more photos.  Thank you for providing us with websites where we can purchase photos for those occasions where we don't already have personal ones we can use.

7:04pm • #177
DEC
31

Hi Krystal,  Thank you for sharing this info as i'v not been able to add pics to my blogs, when I press browse button nothings happens?  Its been rather frustrating, I willl keep being persistent and hope for the best.

thanks again

Happy New Year

Louise

4:05pm • #178
363,169 Points 110 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Louise ` Are you holding down the "CTRL" key while clicking on "browse?" Try it that way it might help. Popup blockers sometimes prevent you from searching this way.   

Another reason that might trick you up is if you have too many windows open.  I've found that on occasion the window is actually opening but it is below other windows so you can 't SEE it!

Give it a try now!  Hope that helps.

 

kk

5:23pm • #179
JAN
05
1 Featured Post

Thank you so much for this tutorial. I couldn't figure out how to move those pictures around. Now I understand.

9:30pm • #180
JAN
08
363,169 Points 110 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Gail ~ Glad to be of help.  BTW I grew up in Monmouth County, Exit 100, Jersey Shore.

kk

11:11pm • #181
FEB
06

Kristal-  thank you for posting this... well explained and simple to follow.  I appreciate it- have a great weekend!

9:35pm • #182
FEB
20
5 Featured Posts Hit Router

Thank you so much for making this post!  I tried adding a picture but didn't even think to click on the "tree" to select a picture from my local drive.  I thought I could only use pictures hosted on the web!  DOH!

7:35pm • #183
FEB
27
Outside Blog

I think I got it figured out. I can get my pictures on but there is dead space where the picture is. I am going to position with appearance. Maybe that will make up the difference. Thanks for the post. I bookmarked it.

3:29pm • #184
MAR
21
170,799 Points 1 Featured Post Outside Blog

Great info Kristal! Now for a Newbie to apply...............

9:05am • #185
APR
14
590,645 Points 111 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

I just sent this post to a new member who needed help with inserting pictures...this one surely comes in handy :)

1:15pm • #186
Outside Blog Hit Router

boy on toy horseAlright, here's my first photo!  Not perfect, but close. and much better than a blank square with a red X in it.

6:58pm • #187
APR
15
210,836 Points 3 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Kristal I am going to have to come back and re-read this one. I have a whole lot of pictures that I want to put on AR. However they are too small and I just end up not using them at all. Hopefully I will start posting personal pictures after reading this blog. Great post.

2:09am • #188
MAY
02

Thank you for the step-by-step instructions, I will let you know how it goes.  Have you ever given classes on this before?  You appear to be a natural.

Monika Depalo
9:18am • #189
MAY
12
1 Featured Post

Kristal,

I still can't get the pictures where I want them. I align center and it stays to the right?????? Please help me. ;~(

1:52pm • #190
363,169 Points 110 Featured Posts Outside Blog

Rich, Tell me step by step what you are doing.  Are you importing from another program?  If so, there is code in the formating that is causing the photos not to align right.  You will need to find it and delete it.  You can do that by looking at the HTML version in AR.  If you do that be sure to SAVE you work before switching views, otherwise AR will delete your work.

 

Describe to me what you are doing and I might be able to help.

,kk

2:02pm • #191
JUN
05

Hi Kristal,

Great tutorial and  Blog!  I have learned much from this blog.  Now if I can just implement these instructions. I am trying to put interior pics down the left hand side of the homes I have posted.  I will get there someday! grin :) The pics just always come out as large as my front picture of home. I guess I need to adjust the size of the pic, so they won't come out as large as the front picture of the home.  I will keep working on this.

thanks again,

Ginger Moore

9:11am • #192
JUN
27
1 Featured Post Outside Blog

I am more than confused now... cannot even find the button... i have lots of pictures... are you not allwoed to add pictures till you upgrade and pay per month?

1:19pm • #193
JUL
21
AUG
01
Outside Blog

THANKS so much, the 'url' thing threw me - this is like taking baby steps!

Susan Jacobsen, Engard Real Estate Company, HHI, SC

3:09pm • #195
SEP
01
Outside Blog

Kristal,

I have had very little luck getting pictures uploaded.  I'm going to give your tips a try...let you know how that goes.

10:31am • #196

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