Start your own account at http://imgur.com/
Upload your pictures to your account.
Go to the place on Shotgun World that you want to place a picture.
If you are already composing a message concerning the content of your photo, that would seem to be a good place to post your photo.
Open another window on your computer and go to your IMGUR account and sign in.
Click on that photo that you want in your message so that your photo is the only one on your screen.
If your pic does not look like the one below, click on your picture and it should be fine then.
Here is an example. you will notice that I have colored yellow the Description BBCODE that has a link below it.
You will notice that there is a copy button next to that link. Click on the copy button. This will copy that entire link to the clipboard on your computer.
Move to your message that you are composing for SGW and Paste that link into the message. This you can do by right clicking your mouse and then select "Paste" from the pop-up menu
Or you can just use your keyboard CTRL-V and splat it at the curser. Do not add any other codes, HTML or otherwise. They are already there.
You can then hit the preview button at the bottom of the compose page and see that it did work. Repeat to add more pictures or hit the submit to send it on.
Having trouble or it isn't doing what you want?
Read this:
Are you trying to do this from a mobile device, if so that can be a problem
From a computer or a laptop, go to imgur.
Sign into your account
Then click on your user name
Click on images in the popdown menu
This should show all your photos, on multiple pages if you have a bunch.
Click on one of those images and it should go to a page with just that image on it.
On the right side of the page, you should see the same list of links that I have shown to you in the photo above.
Click on the copy button by that image's BBcode.
Paste that link as copied into your posting.
Click on our preview button at the bottom of the edit/compose page to see your work.
Repeat as needed to get them all in place.
Then finish by hitting the Submit button at the bottom.
That should get you rolling.
Most folks having trouble have missed the part that I underlined.
Like this:
Here is part of their terms of usage.
If someone else might own the copyright to it, don't upload it. Don't upload gore, "hate speech" (i.e. demeaning race, gender, age, religious or sexual orientation, etc.), or material that is threatening, harassing, defamatory, or that encourages violence or crime. Don't upload illegal content such as child porn or non-consensual ("revenge") porn. Don't hotlink to adult content or to file-sharing, gambling, torrent, warez, or Imgur rip-off sites. Don't impersonate someone else. Also, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network. If you do – and we will be the judge – or if you do anything illegal, in addition to any other legal rights we may have, we will ban you along with the site you're hotlinking from, delete all your images, report you to the authorities if necessary, and prevent you from viewing any images hosted on Imgur.com. We mean it.
So, Using IMGUR is likely to be a short-term thing and you should probably look elsewhere.
And Here is a method to use IMGUR with your MacBook Air.
Pine Creek/Dave wrote:
Curly,
Roger that, here are the exact step I used.
1. I used your Imgur account block to set up my Imgur account. Start from SGW thread you want to add the picture too.
2. When your account is set up, click on the mid Icon far upper right of the screen, the Icon will look like an old language symbol, 3rd Ident from the White D in the Green Circle.
3. A white box will drop down.
4. Click on Images in the White Box.
5. Click on Green box (Add Images)
6. Click on Browse box - your home computer pictures will appear.
7. Choose the picture by clicking on it & click choose at bottom right of screen.
8. Your picture will be added to the IMGUR account.
9. Click on your picture, the multi ident box will appear, click on BB Code to copy picture.
10 Use back arrow on your computer to go back to your Shotgun World thread.
11. Click on edit then add the picture using the left click.
12. Post picture in thread.
These are the exact steps I use on my MacBook Air, to add full pictures to the Shotgun World Forum. It took me a while to understand I had to click on the picture in the IMGUR account to get the Code box to appear, you must choose the picture by clicking on it for this to happen.
Roger that, here are the exact step I used.
1. I used your Imgur account block to set up my Imgur account. Start from SGW thread you want to add the picture too.
2. When your account is set up, click on the mid Icon far upper right of the screen, the Icon will look like an old language symbol, 3rd Ident from the White D in the Green Circle.
3. A white box will drop down.
4. Click on Images in the White Box.
5. Click on Green box (Add Images)
6. Click on Browse box - your home computer pictures will appear.
7. Choose the picture by clicking on it & click choose at bottom right of screen.
8. Your picture will be added to the IMGUR account.
9. Click on your picture, the multi ident box will appear, click on BB Code to copy picture.
10 Use back arrow on your computer to go back to your Shotgun World thread.
11. Click on edit then add the picture using the left click.
12. Post picture in thread.
These are the exact steps I use on my MacBook Air, to add full pictures to the Shotgun World Forum. It took me a while to understand I had to click on the picture in the IMGUR account to get the Code box to appear, you must choose the picture by clicking on it for this to happen.
