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SeanTheProducer
04-01-2008, 12:44 AM
Okay... another tutorial:

For this example, we're gonna look for and post this photo:

http://moda.stile.it/fnts/moda/immagini/230x315/mariagrazia11.jpg

1) Go to GOOGLE ADVANCED IMAGE SEARCH (http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl=en).
(The ADVANCED Image Search is the easiest way to find exactly what you're looking for)

2) In the LOWER-LEFT "Safe Search" section, make sure that the "No filtering" option is selected.

http://members.aol.com/bighandzct/safesearch.jpg

3) Look at the "Find results" section. There are FOUR search options.

4) To take a shot in the dark with random words that generally describe what you're looking for,
use the "related to ALL of the words" option (but don't use that now for THIS tutorial).

5) In the "Find results" section, the second option is "related to the EXACT PHRASE".
We'll use THIS option for the tutorial, because the results are more exact with this option.

6) Type the FULL NAME of the person or subject that you're looking for in this box...
[No need to put the name in (parentheses) or "quotes"... just type it all in the box]
...and click on the "Google Search" button on the web page, or hit your keyboard "Enter" key.

http://members.aol.com/bighandzct/google1.jpg

7) In the Results Window, find the thumbnail image of the image that you want to post
and click on it (I know, I know... you already know how to search... but just in case...).

http://members.aol.com/bighandzct/results.jpg

8) When the page that contains the image starts to load, a frame at the top of the browser
window will appear which gives you a direct link to the image that you're searching for.
Click the "See full-size image" link in that frame, and a browser window with ONLY your image will appear.

http://members.aol.com/bighandzct/google2.jpg

9) RIGHT-CLICK on the image and a menu will pop up.

10) Choose "Properties" from the bottom of that menu, and a Properties Window will open.

11) Find the "Address: (URL)" section of the Properties, and CLICK & DRAG YOUR CURSOR
OVER THE ENTIRE URL of the image to highlight it (start at "http:" and copy the WHOLE line).

http://members.aol.com/bighandzct/properties.jpg

12) RIGHT CLICK on the highlighted text and a menu will pop up.

13) Click on "Copy" from the menu, then close all of the browser windows
(except for the Nick DiPaolo Forum window, of course).

14) When you get to the place in your post where you want to embed the image,
click on the EMBED IMAGE icon in the toolbar above the Text Window.

http://members.aol.com/bighandzct/embed1.jpg

15) A small window will open that has a text box under the words "Please enter the URL of your image:".
In that text box, DELETE the "http://" that is already there.

16) RIGHT-CLICK in the text box, and a menu will pop up... choose "Paste" from that menu
and the URL that you highlighted and copied earlier should be pasted into the text box.

http://members.aol.com/bighandzct/embed2.jpg

17) Click the "Ok" button, and that small window will close.
You should now see a line of code in your post that starts with the "IMG" tag
and ends with the "/IMG" tag... this means that the image has been embedded.

* * * DONE * * *

does this look infected?
04-01-2008, 06:06 AM
seann i passed out around step 5 haha jk

apache69yell
04-01-2008, 07:10 AM
this doesn't always work, alot of the time you will get no hotlinking graphics, it is best to transfer the image to a free image host like photobucket or imageshack and use there hotlinking code.

If you don't want to do all of that than atleast test that the image is hotlinkable: http://altlab.com/hotlinkchecker.php

SeanTheProducer
04-01-2008, 11:04 AM
this doesn't always work, alot of the time you will get no hotlinking graphics, it is best to transfer the image to a free image host like photobucket or imageshack and use there hotlinking code.

If you don't want to do all of that than atleast test that the image is hotlinkable: http://altlab.com/hotlinkchecker.php

Yeah... that's why I mentioned the step of using Google's stand-alone-image frame at the top of the page that the results link to.
If you just find an image on a page and try to hotlink to it, many times the image won't link, and the link you copied will just send you to the image's site's main page.

Going to the stand-alone-image to copy the link tends to work about 90% of the time... but if it doesn't, you WILL have to save the image to your hard drive and then upload it to Photobucket or Imageshack.
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