How do you post a pic?

[blacklistedbully]

Keep getting told it's an invalid file. have tried a jpg from my computer and a link to a photobucket pic.

[JayDawg]

Try uploading your image to http://imgur.com/ and using the link it gives you. I don't think you can simply upload an image from your computer.

[blacklistedbully]

Try uploading your image to http://imgur.com/ and using the link it gives you. I don't think you can simply upload an image from your computer.

Thanks, but isn't photobucket the same thing?

[hacker]

I recommend imgur as well. imgur is a lot smaller and more straightforward, and you don't need an account. photobucket also has anti-direct-linking mechanisms in some situations, but I don't know what the rules are.

[TheRef]

What I would say is upload it to whatever site you want it to be on, then once it is uploaded, right click (or double-click if you're on a Mac) and select "copy image URL". Then once you are on here, use the url template to post it on here. That should work.

[blacklistedbully]

Have tried that. Following every rule in the instructions, but it keeps telling me it's an invalid file. Here's the image URL:
http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae9/kellybully/Bulldog2_zpsa9084adb.jpg?t=1377841743

1) is this the correct one to click? Choices are:
http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae9/kellybully/Bulldog2_zpsa9084adb.jpg

<a href="http://s952.photobucket.com/user/kellybully/media/Bulldog2_zpsa9084adb.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae9/kellybully/Bulldog2_zpsa9084adb.jpg" border="0" alt="Bulldog helmet 1 photo Bulldog2_zpsa9084adb.jpg"/></a>

http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae9/kellybully/Bulldog2_zpsa9084adb.jpg (http://s952.photobucket.com/user/kellybully/media/Bulldog2_zpsa9084adb.jpg.html)

I have tried uploading all of these as is, also with the [url] added to the front and [/yrl] added to the end. Nothing works. I've also followed the directions for uploading from my computer, mindful of file size restrictions, but I still just keep getting "invalid file" for this jpg.

[blacklistedbully]

^ OK, that's funny. What seems to have worked, quite by accident, is pasting one of the links directly into the body of my post.