Inserting small photo in signature

I have an image saved as a gif, but can not get it to insert directly into my signature.  Can you provide more information on how to do that?  Thanks.  

OGR Webmaster posted:

The image has to be hosted on the internet somewhere. Once uploaded to a server, you just put a link to the image in your signature.

Any reason the image couldn't be hosted at OGR?  Once you add it to a message, it is hosted on the Internet, right?

gunrunnerjohn posted:

OGR Webmaster posted:

The image has to be hosted on the internet somewhere. Once uploaded to a server, you just put a link to the image in your signature.

Any reason the image couldn't be hosted at OGR?  Once you add it to a message, it is hosted on the Internet, right?

Seems to work (random pic previously posted used as a test).

Since I don't actually want that photo showing up on every post I've made, I just did a screenshot and removed it from my actual sig after testing:

-Dave

gunrunnerjohn posted:

Any reason the image couldn't be hosted at OGR?  Once you add it to a message, it is hosted on the Internet, right?

The reason that the image has be hosted elsewhere is because there is no provision within the signature block to use an attachment as we do in regular posts. If you use the "Insert Image" feature instead, that feature relies on the image having a URL, meaning it is hosted on the internet somewhere.

You can't drag and drop or paste an image into a signature, either.

But you can right click on any image you have in some way posted (in a post, in the "stuff I like" area of your profile, etc), click "view in another tab/window" to find and copy it's url, and then add it to the sig with the "insert/edit image" tool the same way as you can with a post in a thread.

While I didn't keep it (didn't want everyone reading any thread I had posted to to have to deal with it for more than the 2 minutes it took me to experiment), that's what I did to get it to show up in my sig in the screenshot I posted above.

Now, if we are talking about those URLs possibly evolving for some reason on the site (and then not working due to a url change), that is a different issue.

-Dave

I guess I'm not totally understanding that comment, the images in a post have a URL.  I have no real desire to add graphics to my signature, so this is a purely academic question.

gunrunnerjohn posted:

I guess I'm not totally understanding that comment, the images in a post have a URL.

Every image on the internet has a URL. That's not the issue here.

The problem is that a signature image has to be hosted elsewhere, and placed into a signature VIA THE URL for that image. For example, the forum header image has a URL of:

https://ogrforum.com/ws/2015-04 ForumHeader.jpg". 

If I place that URL into this post I get:

The full code to place that image into this post is:
<img src="https://ogrforum.com/ws/2015-04 ForumHeader.jpg" />

That's what has to be done to place an image into a signature.

OK, I think we just had a language disconnect, or maybe I still don't understand your previous comment.

OGR Webmaster posted:

gunrunnerjohn posted:

Any reason the image couldn't be hosted at OGR?  Once you add it to a message, it is hosted on the Internet, right?

The reason that the image has be hosted elsewhere is because there is no provision within the signature block to use an attachment as we do in regular posts. If you use the "Insert Image" feature instead, that feature relies on the image having a URL, meaning it is hosted on the internet somewhere.

You can't drag and drop or paste an image into a signature, either.

I know you can't drag-n-drop the image, but I can simply right click on any image hosted here and copy it's URL.  Are you saying that when I put that into a signature that it will somehow disappear?  I question the "hosted elsewhere" specifically.  To Dave's point, does the URL of hosted pictures in posts somehow morph into a different link sometime in the future? 

I suspect we're just talking past each other, just trying to clarify.

poniaj posted:

Thanks, Rich.  I was afraid of that.  I have no URL for any of my things, not having my own website.  There's still a bit I'd like to know about these boat anchors computers...

 

So for now, I'll just paste it into any message (yeah, I'm a C&O fan... among others)

 

 

 

 

Jerry-

Start a free account in photobucket... upload your photo to photobucket. Then copy past the URL website link to proper profile page location. That's how I added our Detroit 3 Railers icon below.

gunrunnerjohn posted:

I know you can't drag-n-drop the image, but I can simply right click on any image hosted here and copy it's URL.  Are you saying that when I put that into a signature that it will somehow disappear?  I question the "hosted elsewhere" specifically.  To Dave's point, does the URL of hosted pictures in posts somehow morph into a different link sometime in the future?

By "hosted elsewhere" I meant that it is not a file on your computer, as is the case with uploading and using an "attachment." Using an image hosted here will work fine using the URL for that image.

You can copy the URL of any image on the internet and post it here. As long as the hosting site doesn't move or delete the image, it will appear. However, if the hosting site removes the image, the image link will be broken.

Great Rich, I think we are on the same page.

Sgaugian posted:

I have an image saved as a gif, but can not get it to insert directly into my signature.  Can you provide more information on how to do that?  Thanks.  

David,

It's been a while since I did it, I almost forgot.  I simply copied the gif (but a jpg works too) and pasted it into the signature box in my profile.  Don't know if that technically gives it a URL, but it worked for me.  In my case I have a font program I bought from Railfonts of the C&O script (among others - very useful in making my own decals).  I saved the typing of my name on my computer as a jpg and pasted it in the appropriate box in my profile.  Case in point:

Yes, anything you paste into a message gets a URL.

Thanks.  I copied and pasted the jpg image into my signature, but it doesn't show up.  In fact it deletes a word where I paste it in.  Not sue what's wrong.  Will try it as a gif.  

Copying and pasting a gif into my signature didn't work either. 

It has to already be on the Internet, there's no provision to copy-n-paste directly into the signature it would appear.

I'll put this picture here and post this.

With the picture posted, it has a URL on the Internet.  Now I can right click on it and select "copy image location".  I use the Insert Image tool on the toolbar and insert the image into the signature.  Shazam, I now have a graphic in my signature.

Voilà, I found an online animated form (gif) of the static image (jpg) that I wanted.  I clicked on the insert/edit image icon, pasted in the URL for the gif, clicked OK, and sized it using the corner points provided once it showed up in my signature.  Works for me.  Thanks everyone for your help getting this cleared up, understood, and accomplished.  

The search feature works!

Just a test to see if my new signature photo shows up.

John