Question about posting a photo to appear in subject box

catfriend · **Joined:** Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:19 pm **Posts:** 21

I am trying to post a photo of my cats to appear in either the signature box or the subject box of my postings, but so far all that posts is the links which need to be clicked to see the photo, but the actually photo doesn't automatically upload into my signature box or subject box.

How do I solve this problem?

Thank you.

This is what I mean: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0BdTN ... sp=sharing

brianj12 · **Posted:** Sun Sep 11, 2016 11:53 pm

I have google drive, and just played with it a bit. I didn't have any luck either, linking it onto a message here. My guess is that google drive just isn't meant to act as a photo host for forums and such. One clue is that it wants to give you secure (https) urls for shared pictures, which sites like this don't seem to deal with too well.

My suggestion is to sign up for a site meant to work in this capacity (a personal website, or image shack, photobucket etc). The other way you can do it is to "attach" photos to your messages, which downloads them up to this forum. The downside to that is that you are limited to smaller pictures and you can't attach the pictures to your profile or signature.

Oh... one other thing I should have mentioned is that when you do get your pictures up on a sharing site, you don't just simply paste url's into your messages. When you are in the file editor you click on the little icon with the mountain and the sun (4th one from the right), and paste your url into the popup box. That helps give you the correct markup for this forum. But like I said... that still doesn't help you with your problem right now, because it still won't work with google drive :(

catfriend · **Joined:** Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:19 pm **Posts:** 21

catfriend · **Joined:** Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:19 pm **Posts:** 21

I'm still confused. I uploaded my photo to imageshack.com and now the signature page just shows the link to imageshack.com instead of showing the photo itself.

What should I do now? Thanks!

catfriend · **Joined:** Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:19 pm **Posts:** 21

Oh good! At least my photos are now showing up in the body of the message just not the signature line, so all I need help on doing is making my photos show up in the signature line at the bottom.

Thanks!

brianj12 · **Posted:** Mon Sep 12, 2016 3:19 am

Excellent! For the signature, you just do the same thing (it's the same editor as when you create a message. You either use the "mountain and sun" icon or just type in the "img" markup around your url.

If that is the photo that you want to use in your signature though, you should heavily crop it vertically. Otherwise you'll have this MASSIVE sig that fills up entire pages when you contribute to threads :wink:

P.S. you've inspired me to update my avatar... muahahahaha

catfriend · **Joined:** Mon Sep 05, 2016 1:19 pm **Posts:** 21

Sherry · **Joined:** Thu May 23, 2013 2:21 pm **Posts:** 9217

I have not figured out the avatar deal here myself! Guess I need to check it out. Happy you are finally able to post pictures. Love your beautiful kitties.

CMYKjill · **Joined:** Tue Sep 23, 2014 6:38 pm **Posts:** 1838

I tried to include a signature, but I got this message:
It was not possible to determine the dimensions of the image.

Is there a specific size we should use for a signature?

brianj12 · **Posted:** Mon Sep 12, 2016 9:50 pm

CMYKjill · **Joined:** Tue Sep 23, 2014 6:38 pm **Posts:** 1838

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