Now go to an image hosting site like imgur.com and upload your photo. Copy the "direct link" URL and paste it into the sawmill creek image URL box.
The problem with this is eventually with changes over time the links are broken and then there are no images in the post. For many that isn't a problem, but for some instructional posts, it can render them useless to future readers.
My recollection is SMC has a 1.4Mb limit to uploading image size. It may be necessary to run a copy of an image through an image handler to reduce the size before posting. My method is to take a screen shot of the image, my understanding is Windows can do that now, this allows for cropping and at least on my computer also makes a smaller file that can be uploaded without a problem.
All of my images in posts are hosted on SMC and even with a few glitches due to site software changes they have all been retained.
Bob Smalser has some great instructional posts. Many of his images are stored off of SMC. Many of them are no longer visible due to broken links.
jtk
Last edited by Jim Koepke; 07-14-2017 at 1:04 PM.
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