Posting images

[Theflyingfox]

How do you embed an image in a post without a link? Please help

[Atkara]

Most image hosting sites, have an option to copy the direct link of the image you want to post. The rest is a matter of simply pasting that link in your post. In most cases, the forum takes care of the rest. Currently, this works for single images, not albums.

[LordFerret]

8 hours ago, Theflyingfox said:

How do you embed an image in a post without a link? Please help

The answer is: You can't. You need an image hosting site/account like Imgur.

 

6 hours ago, Atkara said:

Most image hosting sites, have an option to copy the direct link of the image you want to post. The rest is a matter of simply pasting that link in your post. In most cases, the forum takes care of the rest. Currently, this works for single images, not albums.

 

[Atkara]

That's another way to interpret the OP's question. I thought he was using an image hosting site and wanted his link to show straight up as an image (like what most of us do), instead of posting a link, leading to the image when clicked on.

[Snark]

Moving to Kerbal Network, since this is about the forum rather than about KSP itself.

8 hours ago, Theflyingfox said:

How do you embed an image in a post without a link?

There's no way to host an image directly in the forum.  (It pretty much has to be that way, because image files are large, and if they allowed you to host the files here, multiplied by thousands of posts across thousands of users, they'd have to spend too much on server storage.)

However, it's very easy to "embed" an image in a post in the sense that it shows up directly in-line rather than as a hyperlink.  Just paste a link to the image and it will get automagically converted to an in-line image.

So, the steps to get an inline image generally look like this:

1. Take an in-game screenshot using F1.  It gets saved to the "Screenshots" folder of your KSP installation.
2. Go to www.imgur.com.  (You don't need to make an account or anything, this works fine anonymously.)
   • Or you could use some other hosting site, if you like. I just suggest imgur.com because it's popular here and you can use it without needing to make an account.
3. Click on the green "new post" button up top.
4. Drag your image into the "drop image here" box that it pops up.
5. As soon as the post is complete, right-click on the image on the imgur page and choose "Copy Image Location".
   • Important, not the URL of the page on Imgur.  You need the URL of the image, i.e. it should end in ".png".
6. Paste that URL into your forum post here.  It'll get automagically converted into an in-line image.