Adding Images to Your Article

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There are two ways to add images to your article.

1. Use the built-in attachments system

This is fairly easy. When you are entering your article text, you will see a tab labeled as Attachments. You can use the functions there to load your images from your local computer and then to paste references to those images into your text where you want them.

If you used a BBCodes converter to generate the text for your article, it will likely have created the

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[img][/img]

tags in the text where the image should go. All you need to do is replace those with the references that the Attachments system generates.

If you used Word to convert your article from a Word file to an HTML file, it will have placed your images in a directory that it created. These images may require some simple editing (i.e. Paint) to make them usable.

This method is very limited. You can have up to 3 images in the article and the image files must be small - up to 256K. You are also limited in the ways you can use images, for example flowing text around the image.

2. Use external images

This method is unlimited but requires abilities and resources you may not have.

You can see an example in the articles Death/The Intermediate State and Prophecy/The Sixth Trumpet.

The phpBB cannot pull the images from your local machine. The images must be placed on a server somewhere. Most people don't have access to a server like that.

If you used a BBCodes converter to generate the text for your article, it will likely have created the

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[img][/img]

tags in the text where the image should go. All you will need to do is add the URL for the server where the images can be found.