How to add Pictures and GIFs to Steemit posts

in #steem-help8 years ago

If you are new to Steemit, Welcome!!! In this post I’ll show you how to add pictures and GIFs.

• Create a folder on your desktop to store your pictures /GIFs
• Got to http://imgur.com/ and click new post

• Next drag your picture, GIF over to the box.


• Move your mouse cursors over the picture / GIF and copy the URL.

• When you are ready to post, paste the URL and add .gif for GIFs and .jpg for pictures like I have in the box below. I hope this helps!

When you click post this is what it should look like.

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This was amazing! It works like a charm. The techchat team will be using this tool from now on! ❤️

Share it!

Great GIF! :D "so you're tellin me there's a chance"

I'm new to steem it and was trying to figure out how to add an image.
Glad I found your post!

Your post is very helpful to get me started to add picture to my first post. However, the last point isn't quite clear to me. So, I just pasted the url (with .jpg added for my picture) onto the body of the post where the preview of text is located. But nothing happened. Then I tried another approach. I clicked on the image icon in the editor box, then pasted the url into the rectangular box that appeared. After that I clicked on the check mark beside it to submit and the picture appeared in the preview body where I wanted it to go. But when I got ready to post it gave me an error message that reads "An image in this post did not save properly".

Well, once again I had to search for solution. Again, some were helpful but still got me nowhere until I stumbled around and got it solved.

Thanks for the very useful, easy to follow and helpful directions.

Need help, my gif are not showing when i click on post

How do I know where to get GIFs that are free to share?

This is super helpful - thanks a lot! :)

Thank you great info, readily available should make my posts a bit more exciting.

Kudos @rodb

Love the avatar pic. Saitama!

You fuckin kick ass dude. First person to actually mention formatting needed @ the end of the embed link (.jpeg or .gif). Maybe I'm just retarted, but your post is the 1st one that actually helped me!

Looks like you can only make gifs work if they are the original size. I couldn't get it to work with the different size options on imgur.

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Thanks for the help!

I was trying to paste the embed code the whole time. And steemit kept telling me giphy.com was unsupported. I knew something wasn't right. Seriously, all I needed was the .gif link?

Too bad I can't change the size of the gif though.

But this is very helpful. Thank you so much!

Thanks for this. I am new to Steemit community and I trying to figure out how things work. I have been uploading few original stories, memes and gifs, but especially with gifs, I am not able to see the preview. Can you help me with tis issue? What shall I do? Mainwhile, upvoting and following you ;) Cheers!

Thanks, this came in handy!

Thank you so much! I was having issues getting my gif to work and then I realized it was .gifv so when I removed the v it started working! I would probably have not figured this one out!

This was usefull thank you!

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Did it!!!!

Thanks Heaps rodb. super quick and easy guide mate! Rad....

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This tutorial is awesome, thanks a lot !
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