How To Post Images in the New HC Platform

By Phil O'Keefe

Posting images in the Lithium software is a bit different than it was in previous HC software. Here's how it's done. First of all, either create a new topic, or reply to an existing one.

A Post Message box opens up, with the Rich Text tab selected as the default. Immediately below the rich text tab you'll find a line with an assortment of tools and icons, including B (bold text) I (italic), U (underscore), strikethrough, the icon for the spoiler tag, Insert Code icon, Paste from Word icon, insert emoticon icon, insert link icon, insert image icon, insert video icon, and two list icons for ordered and unordered list. The insert image icon has a graphic image of a little tree on it. (Fig 1) To insert an image the steps are fairly straightforward, but differ slightly, depending on whether your image resides on your local computer, or is online in an image hosting site such as Photobucket. Let's look at each separately.



Figure 5: Previously uploaded images can be easily re-used without having to re-load them