Here's a quick tutorial for IE - the procedure is similar for all OS's and browsers. It's a little tougher than a regular link, but once you do it a few times, you'll get the hang of it.
- Go to the picture you want to include. For this excercise, we'll assume it's in a C-Brat photo album, although it could be anywhere on the Internet. Here's a link to Digger's puller bracket in the Snoopy-C album.
- When you see the image on screen, move your mouse over it and click it with your right mouse button, then select Properties. In the window that pops up, you'll see an "Address" field - it starts with "http://". This is the text you need to make the image link work.
- Drag your mouse across the Address text to highlight it. Note: it may span more than one line, so make sure you get it all.
- On your keyboard, press Ctrl+C - this will copy the text to your clipboard. It will look like nothing happened.
- In the window where you are entering your new message post, position your cursor where you want the image to appear. Press Ctrl+V - this will paste the Address text you highlighted earlier into the message window.
- Drag your mouse across the Address text you just pasted into the message window to highlight it, then click the button that says "Img". The text for the picture on the linked page above will look like this in the edit window:
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Click the Preview button, and you should see the picture in the message. If everything looks OK, click the Submit button to post your message, and as you'll see below, the pic makes it into the message