Questions tagged [images]
For questions about the images used on Stack Exchange sites or about using images in your own posts.
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Resizing an image in a post?
Is it possible to resize an image in an answer? For example, How important is PhD research topic to getting a job? has an answer that should have the image in the answer, but it's too big.
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Creating an image link in Markdown format [duplicate]
How can I create an image link using the Markdown format? I want an output like <a href="" rel="some text"><img src="/path/to/file" alt="" /></a&...
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How to upload an image to a post?
Sometimes I need to upload, embed, or display inline an image in a question or answer. How can I do that?
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Stack Exchange’s image hosting arrangement with Imgur has ended - migration complete!
Update on the Imgur migration, May 28th 2024: Migration complete!
As of today, we are pronouncing the work associated with the Imgur migration "complete" for all intents and purposes. There ...
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What's the recommended syntax for an image with a link?
What's the recommended syntax for an image with a hyperlink? I tried doing it
with the markdown toolbar buttons and the image and link buttons conflict
with each other, so I had to resort to HTML.
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Please allow image uploads directly onto the site
Sometimes images are required to ask questions. Currently images need to be stored on external servers. If the image gets deleted, or the server goes down the question could become far less useful to ...
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Ban ImageShack images because they are reusing old URLs for advertising
There's a very popular topic on Stack Overflow's Meta asking to Ban ImageShack Images. This was created because ImageShack deletes old images to free up server space, making images within older posts ...
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Roadmap to HTTPS: serving and uploading HTTPS-images only
This is a cross post from mSO, but affecting the whole network. 1. is already enabled network wide, 2. and 3. will be enabled shortly on mSE and another SE community (main site + meta) of our choosing ...
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Mysterious Butt
I was attempting to answer a question today on SO and include some screenshots to help illustrate what I was talking about. Everything was fine until I went to upload my fourth image. Here is what ...
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Allowing images from external sources opens doors to serious security exploits and privacy risks
Note: Please see this answer for more info on how this poses a security risk.
I'm sure you guys already know this, but allowing users to put images from any source in questions means that askers can ...
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Imgur image URL migration: Coming soon to a Stack Exchange site near you!
Update on the URL migration, May 15th 2024
The work described below will be under way shortly. For further updates, we'll be maintaining the update log in the main post for the Imgur migration.
We're ...
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Allow SVG image uploads
I am unable to upload SVG image files to Stack Overflow. So I would like to know why it is blocked while other image formats are allowed. SVG images are useful for diagrams such as tree diagrams for ...
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How do I set the size of a picture in my question post? [duplicate]
The picture I uploaded is too large... Is there a way to limit the size (width & height)?
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"The Loop #2" contains inaccessible images with no transcription
The latest blog post, "The Loop #2: Understanding Site Satisfaction, Summer 2019", contains a graph showing percentages of responses to the site satisfaction survey:
Coded responses to &...
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The Stack Imgur service is no longer resizing images correctly
I noticed at the start of August 2018 that new images like https://i.sstatic.net/MJrvX.png no longer resize when an m is placed before .png.
Original image:
https://i.sstatic.net/MJrvX.png
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Please do something to encourage people to scale down their giant heavyweight photos
Once conveniently posting photos at imgur.com was introduced I see many users uploading photos right from their camera. For example, here the second photo is 2,5K by 2K pixels and has size of 680K.
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Is it possible to horizontally center an image on Stack Exchange sites?
Since we can only use Markdown and a limited subset of HTML/CSS is it possible to center an image, or any block element for that matter, on the Stack Exchange sites?
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Imgur TOS change on May 15th 2023 could cause the loss of thousands of Stack Exchange images!
On May 15th 2023, Imgur will implement its new TOS, in which
We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account.
I, and presumably many other users, ...
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Disallow new embedded images from hosts other than the SE imgur account
There are two issues with embedded images in posts that link to outside hosts:
These images are likely to expire at some point, which can render the post meaningless
External images allow users to ...
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Is stack.imgur currently down?
I just wrote a question before this one and had trouble uploading a screenshot. The drop your image dialog throws no warning or error, but after uploading it won't show.
I also noticed that other ...
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Any details about stack.imgur.com?
Since May 2011, images uploaded through SE sites are uploaded to stack.imgur.com. It seems that removing that stack part does not get one (the same) image, so it seems to be a standalone installation? ...
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Make all i.sstatic.net links protocol-relative
Stack Overflow has HTTPS in some places! However, this breaks most existing image links. Could those be made protocol-relative, or react to the requesting protocol, or just always use HTTPS?
The same ...
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Making a better image uploader
For those who don't know me, I'm a product designer here at Stack Overflow.
Currently I'm working on a project called Teams (for more information about Teams and other projects, read Tim's post on ...
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Warn new users earlier that they cannot post links or images
First impressions are important, and one specific restriction SE places on new users can easily lead to a very bad first impression (see here for a recent example). If you add more than two links or ...
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Knowing Your Limits: What is the maximum length of a question title, post, image and links used?
There's one question in SO I'm planning to answer with a really long answer. While I'm still baking my post, these questions dawned to me:
What is the maximum character length of a post?
How many ...
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Image hosting for Stack Overflow answers? [duplicate]
I'm sure this has been asked before but a quick search on Stack Overflow didn't turn up any result.
I've put images on my own site for now but it's quite possible I'll restructure or move hosts at ...
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Is it possible to add images to comments?
I was wondering if it is possible to post a comment with an image.
Recently, during a question about data-visualization in Cross Validated, there was a controversy about using one type of chart for ...
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Images from i.sstatic.net only work for me after being accessed from another IP address
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There's the new image hosting system and Super User (my main "playground") is trialling it.
My problem is I cannot see images hosted on i.sstatic.net. This is how it looks like:
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Can we get a paste feature added to image uploads in chat?
We've already got it for questions and answers. Let's get it for chat too! Most of my images come from screen captures so this would be really great!
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Show larger images for high DPI displays
Some of the newer tablets and also Notebooks (notably the iPad, Macbook Pro and the Nexus 10 tablet) use displays with ultra-high resolutions at around 300 dpi. This makes text look very, very good, ...
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Remove the 160px minimum image size limit on Stack Exchange internal image hosting
This "image too small" limit is very frustrating:
For reference the image I tried to attach is 320px x 129px.
You're forcing me to add whitespace to my image, why?!
Please remove the limit, ...
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How do I create a screenshot to illustrate a post?
How do I create screenshots?
How to: Windows
How to: Unix-based
How to: Mac
How to: iOS devices
How to: Android
How to: The GIMP
Additional tips
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Support showing image in original size in overlay
It would be nice to support showing images in their original size when they where automatically resized because they are too big to fit in a question or answer (Example).
I envision it just like in ...
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Image uploading fails with "Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server"
I can't upload images anymore: on the Ask Question page, the image upload dialog shows a red error message
Failed to upload image; an error occurred on the server
See the screenshot below (uploaded ...
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Please negotiate and make obvious user-favorable license terms for uploaded images
Uploading photos to Imgur appears to assign them rights to do whatever they wish with them.
It would appear that, taken on face value, uploading an image to Imgur gives them total non-exclusive rights ...
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Detect attached images of data and direct user to insert as table instead
It feels like there is a plague of people posting screenshots of data in SO questions. Perhaps it would be possible to add a basic classification model to the image upload functionality that alerts ...
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Automatically resize images if their file size is too large
I posted this in 2018 here and it was marked as status-deferred. It's almost three years later and this is still an issue on Gardening and Landscaping and any site where photos are used to help ...
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Can we get a way to wrap text around images?
Right now as far as I can tell all images have to appear as inline paragraphs, left-aligned with other paragraphs.
For sites like Stack Overflow, it makes sense... images are only used when you want ...
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What is the future for Imgur and SE? [duplicate]
SE relies on Imgur for hosting images and avatars on public sites. Most of the content is text, but the images are often important as well. So the part that is delegated to Imgur is a pretty important ...
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Add "hasImage:1" or "img:1" advanced search operators
There are some great posts on SO and other SE sites with explanatory images that give a better understanding of the problem or its solution.
Recently I was searching for a particular post I had come ...
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How to make pictures smaller? [duplicate]
The pictures I place into questions and answers appear very huge. They are always scaled to the width of the text that is good for the wide, low pictures but not for the narrow and high pictures. Some ...
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Images can be pushed outside the boundaries of a post by using nested lists
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I don't even know. It just seemed weird.
Yes, I understand I could just avoid doing something like that. But the problem already exists with a single level.
Consider having 2 ...
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New users and attaching images
I think adding a way to approve/reject low-reputation users' images would be a nice addition to the StackOverflow feature set.
Right now, when attaching images for a low-rep user, I have to edit the ...
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Could image description be input in the Add Image dialog box while uploading images?
When uploading an image, could there be a field to input the caption inside the dialog box? This could work so that as the user waits for the file to upload, he could be typing the caption.
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More and more images go missing. Can the cooked HTML be rebuilt?
Would it be doable to re-generate the cooked (cached) HTML of all posts that hold images and were last edited between August 16 2010 and June 21 2011?
Many references to i.imgur.com were ...
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Automatically resize high-resolution screenshots
On a modern Apple device with a high-resolution screen, if I take a screenshot of a window, this is what I get:
As you can see, when the image is displayed normally, it's too big.
Because my screen ...
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Why are images of text, code and mathematical expressions discouraged?
Often I see new users posting images, containing the text of the question they were intending to ask, or a part of it. This is especially true for the science and math based sites where new users don'...
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I am getting the wrong image when uploading a picture
I have just tried to upload an image on Puzzling (although have checked and it is happening in both chat and on other sites) and it generated a link to a picture I have never seen before.
It doesn't ...
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How can I write good alt text?
When editing Stack Exchange posts, a whole ton of them don't have alt text on images. Alt text is important so the visually impaired that have to rely on screen readers can experience and value Stack ...
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