Embedding Images: Testing

[alycewilson]

Trying out the "Embed Media" option, which apparently does work if you do it on your PC. It didn't work for me on my phone.

This is what happens when I use "Insert image." It might be because the URL is for the entire Flickr page, not just the image.



OK, so I used a recently Sims 2 screenshot and tried using the option of uploading images to your Dreamwidth account, which seems to work better on my PC than when I tried to use it several weeks ago on my phone.



I know you can't tell when you look at the image above, but the original HTML for that, which you copy and paste into your entry from the "Manage my photos" page, is not standard. Instead of quotation marks around the URL, there are apostrophes. Can this be the reason it works? When I tried to type in HTML code the proper way, it wouldn't work for me. (Above image, the width is set to 500 pixels.)



(Above image is full-sized.)

My contemplations above are incorrect. Although it was apostrophes in the code that you copy from the "Manage Pictures" page, after you save the entry, it saves it with the proper notation of quotation marks. The only other thing it does is it adds a slash symbol right before the close brackets. I'm going to try below to manually type in the URL for the Flickr page.



OK, that doesn't work, but it might be because the Flickr URL is for more than just a photo: it's for the entire Flickr page that contains the photo, showing the Flickr toolbars and comments box. I'm going to try the "Insert Image" option with a version of the Sims screencap uploaded to Dropbox now.




Doesn't work, but probably because the page is more than just the photo. Like Flickr, it goes to the entire Dropbox page, including their menu for downloading and sharing.

OK, without monkeying around further and coming up with even more obscure things to try, it looks like my best options for embedding photos are probably to either use the "embed code" available from Flickr's sharing options, and then paste that code into Dreamwidth's "Embed Media" option (from my PC). Alternatively, I can upload photos to Dreamwidth itself and then copy the URL from the Manage Pictures page to use with the "Insert Image" option. Don't know if either of these options would work from my phone, however. I'll try that another time.

Comments

[halfshellvenus]

WHAT is happening with their mouths?

The blonde in front looks like the advance scout in a zombie welcoming party. :O

[alycewilson]

Certain poses cause them to have really big smiles. All of the poses I chose were ones where they're hamming it up a bit. The girl with the peace sign, whose name is Anisa, is probably the closest to what she normally looks like in game. The girl in front, Felicity, is a daughter of the premade character Gavin Newson (yes, with an "N") who happens to have a rather small nose that often seems to get passed down to his progeny.

[halfshellvenus]

Ooh, I like the detail of having children resemble their parents!

I've never played Sims, though our kids did, so I'm not up on the details. :)

[alycewilson]

There are several versions of the Sims, but one of the reasons that the Sims 2 has so many fans is that the genetics work especially well. Especially the recessive and dominant traits. It's a lot of fun, for example, to see a baby be born with red hair like his grandmother, when both his parents had black hair. Part of the fun for me is seeing how the genetics play out. The two red-haired twins above both look an awful lot like their father, but the girl has her mother's eye shape. I love those little details.

[tonithegreat]

Ah! I meant to try to play with some of this this week also! Thank you for the tips!