Copying Pictures from other Websites

[Eric Mc]

Up until a short while ago, copying a picture from another website to PH was dead easy. You simply copied and pasted the picture file and placed [pic] [/pic] at either end of the web address

At the moment, I can't seem to get PH to accept any pictures I want to copy into a thread.

The only way I can do so at the moment is downloading the picture to my computer - which is a bit of a pain and a bit longwinded.

Any suggestions?

[Ted2]

Working fine here with the first image that came up on google images and using the usual pic tags.

Post the links to the pics then we can see what you're doing wrong.

[mickk]

Right click and open in new tab, then copy the address and wrap it in [pic] [/pic]

works for me.

[Eric Mc]

mickk said:

Right click and open in new tab, then copy the address and wrap it in [pic] [/pic]

works for me.

That's the way I always did it and it always worked. But not in the last couple of weeks for some unknown reason.

Other forums don't seem to have the same problem, just PH.

[SS2.]

Can you copy & paste (into this thread) just the address of an image you are trying to post ? Might help to confirm if others can post that picture.

[Eric Mc]

Having a go. The picture is of a Pan Am Boeing 747



Aha - what I have to do is actually copy and paste the actual address of the picture. In the past, I was able to "copy" directly from the image itself. I now (for some reason) have to copy and paste the picture address from the address box of the picture and not from the image itself.

Why would that be?

Edited by Eric Mc on Sunday 10th December 09:36

[TooMany2cvs]

Eric Mc said:

Having a go. The picture is of a Pan Am Boeing 747



Aha - what I have to do is actually copy and paste the actual address of the picture. In the past, I was able to "copy" directly from the image itself. I now (for some reason) have to copy and paste the picture address from the address box of the picture and not from the image itself.

Why would that be?

Flaky memory. Any forum has always required you to link to the actual image, not a page containing it.

[miniman]

Have you changed browser recently? In the past, choosing "copy image" might have been copying the URL as opposed to copying the image itself.

e.g. in Chrome you can choose either:

[Eric Mc]

My new computer is using Bing as the web browser. However, initially, that wasn't causing a problem. I expect a recent update to the browser might have changed how it does things.

I may install Google Chrome as an alternative browser to see if that helps.

Anyway, it seems I've worked out how to copy pictures now using Bing so I think I'm sorted for the moment.

Thanks for the help.

[miniman]

Eric Mc said:

My new computer is using Bing as the web browser. However, initially, that wasn't causing a problem. I expect a recent update to the browser might have changed how it does things.

I may install Google Chrome as an alternative browser to see if that helps.

Anyway, it seems I've worked out how to copy pictures now using Bing so I think I'm sorted for the moment.

Thanks for the help.

Bing is the search engine, suspect the browser will be Edge. Anyway, would recommend installing Chrome or Firefox and setting Google as default search engine.

[Eric Mc]

miniman said:

Bing is the search engine, suspect the browser will be Edge. Anyway, would recommend installing Chrome or Firefox and setting Google as default search engine.

Yeah - I get my terminology mixed up sometime. Edge is indeed the browser.