Tools/How To

It's Easy to Add Images To Your Articles; Here's How.

It's quick and easy to add images to your articles-- when and where you want. 

First, keep in mind that you must not use images without permission, so images from AP, for example, can't be used. And you must provide attribution for the image. 

There are plenty of great sources to find images where permission is automatically given:

Our favorite sources are   

-  flickr.com, 

-  screen grabs from  C-SPAN - YouTube  videos and  

- Wikipedia.  

Here's a tutorial on using flickr.  How to Add Flickr Images to Your Article

There are actually several ways to add images. 

The fastest way is available when you are entering your article. In the same text box where you are entering your article, you'll find two image icons in the tool bar at the top. 

Browse to the Image You Want To Upload: One icon looks like a video screen with a green arrow. That lets you browse to the spot on your hard drive where you have the image, and then upload it. A third party website is used to host the image. There is a limit on the file size, but most images that fit in an article will be the right size. Please be sure to use an image size, pixels-wise, that fits our formatting-- nothing bigger than 640 pixels wide.

Just position your cursor on the text entry field where you want the image to appear and then click on the icon. Click the Browser button. You can then browse your hard drive to find the image and then click on it. 

You can also submit the URL of the image, if it is hosted on another site, like flickr or facebook.  To do this, use the image icon on the tool bar that  looks like a video screen with a pencil-- to the right of the broken chain link icon. That will enable you to plug in the url of an image that's hosted elsewhere on the web. You can usually get that URL by right clicking on the image you want to put in your article.

Again, put your cursor on the article page in the text entry field, where you want the image to go, then click on the icon, fill in the URL (with maybe a little descriptive text) and then click the Submit button.

Accreditation :

Be sure you are respecting intellectual property rights.  You do this AFTER you click the Preview button when you are finished entering the article. You'll see an accreditation button. Use this button to give proper attribution. Make sure you include a caption and proper credit for the person who took the photo.

The OEN Legacy approach

This last approach was, at one time, the only way to add images to pages, outside of using HTML. Now, it's what we consider our "legacy" technology. Unlike the other approaches, you are limited to images of 100K size or smaller. It's usually a good idea to get your images ready ahead of time. Please keep them under 640 pixels wide.

Start by clicking on the ARTICLE TAB
click on SUBMIT ARTICLE
click on the white MEDIA SUBMIT button.
click on UPLOAD IMAGE
Click on the BROWSE BUTTON. Browse to the directory and file you want to upload. Select the file.
If you want, add an optional caption.
Give the the file a short name tag: just letters and numbers, shorter is better-- joe1, for example.

Once you've picked the file, tagged it and if, you've chosen, given it a caption, then click the UPLOAD button.

That puts the image into the website system. You'll see it listed in your image control panel. If you want to change anything, click on the modify button for the image.

When you are finished uploading images to the the website, click on the FINISHED button. That will close the image upload interface.

The rest is easy.

You should be back at your article submission page. Be careful if you've taken a long time that you don't lose what you put in the text box. I suggest you copy what you have in your text box and do a preview, to see if you have timed out, if it's been more than a few minutes.

Once you're sure you aren't going to time out, choose where you want the image to appear in your article.

Create a double bracketed "box" that looks like this:

[[]]

Then, type the tag you gave for the image you want in that position.

[[joe1]]

That's it. The image should appear in the article if you've uploaded it so you can see it in the image management control panel and have used the exact tag name you assigned it.

[[lake1]]