Installing a GIF, Picture, Video or Tweet

Learning Tip:

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Installing a GIF:
 

For GIFs, I am using the site GIPHY for searching for GIFs, (put on your favorites) although there are others out there. You can go there and search and even set up a free account.

 

 

I wanted something to support my notion written of next year being a good year for our football team, so I wrote in the search bar near the top below the title, “Oh Yeah!” to see what materializes.

 

 

So I found one of Christian Bale nodding that will work for this demonstration, (Red arrow above) and then I clicked on it.

 

 

Next, after clicking on his GIF you are taken to a page of the GIF specs and you then click on “Copy link.” (Red arrow above)

 

 

When you click on the “Copy link” a box appears as you see above and all I had to do was left-click in the box with the link and it all highlighted. Now I right-click on the highlighted link and the drop-down menu appears and I click on “Copy.”  

 

Or you can click on “Share” and then a colored box appears that states, “Copy GIF Link” and you just click on that it is now copied into your computer.

 

 

All I did next was place my cursor in the post and right-click and then select “Paste” and the GIF popped right in!  Another time I had a small window come up in the post that told me to click on the Control button in the lower right keyboard and press on the “V” key at the same time and that worked too.

 

All it takes is a couple of clicks! But wait…there might be another way that is easier?

 

While I suggest you save GIPHY to your favorites…there is a shortcut right in the Posting Box Toolbar!  (See below)

 

 

You would click on the “GIF” box in the Toolbar, (Red arrow above) and then a pop-up box appears where you can search for a category, (Green arrow above) of pick one of the offered.  (Yellow arrow above) All I did was click on the “Grizzly Adams” GIF and….

 

 

The GIF was automatically installed in my post!  Very cool and really easy…

–Installing a Picture:

 

Installing a picture from your computer is pretty easy, (other picture options below) select where you want the picture (Green arrow above) and then click on the “choose files.” (Red arrow above)

 

 

Now you search in your computer for the picture you have saved in the past and click on the picture selected (Red arrow above) and then click on “Open.” (Green arrow above)

 

 

As you see-the picture is loaded into post! I would suggest going into the Post Preview, (see No. 20 above in this page) to check it out in the post.  A method for inserting your picture without Submitting or Publishing your reply to check spacing is as follows…

 

 

When the picture from your computer file shows up at the bottom of the post…when you hover over this area the word “Insert” shows up.  Click on it and…

 

 

..it will insert it into your post and you can check out the spacing see if anything needs to be done.  In my case above, I want to insert another space between the text and the picture by simply placing my cursor at the end of the text and hitting the “Enter” or “Return” key on my keyboard. 

 

If I want to place text below the article, I just click on the right side of the picture and then hit the “Enter” or “Return” key again.  No sweat!

 

What about if you do not have a Picture? 

 

 

 

Open a new tab and go to Google as a search engine, and then go up to the right corner and click on “Images” as you see above with the red arrow.  A search box will appear and you type in the name of the player and add “Oregon Football” or “Twitter.”  In this case I keyboarded in, “Jahlil Florence Twitter.”

 

 

As you see–there are a ton of choices above and you can put any in the post to add interest, as we do not have copyright issues in a forum.  I selected the one indicated by the red arrow above, and then right clicked on the picture, and then clicked on “Copy Image.” (yellow arrow above)

 

 

All you have to do is paste in at the spot we placed the cursor and bam!  We have a picture in the post within 10 seconds…so easy!  Click on “Submit Topic,” (yellow arrow above) and the post is finished!

–Installing a Video:

 

 

The first step is to select the video you wish to install after searching among those on YouTube. (Above) Then select the point you would like the video to start as you can do that and I suggest it. Have it stopped at the spot you would like it to start. Then, click on “Share” as you see pointed to by the yellow arrow above.

 

 

When you click on the “Share” button a box pops up; since I want it to start at the 11:38 mark, I check the box indicated by the red arrow first, so it becomes part of the link I am going to copy.

 

Then left-click in the box with the code, (Green arrow above) and it becomes highlighted; you can then click on the “Copy” you see to the right or right-click on the code (link) and select “Copy” and now you have the link.

 

The final step is right-clicking in your post and selecting “Paste” from the drop-down menu and the video loads in there! Just a couple of clicks, but knowing what to click is everything and now you know!

–Installing a Twitter Tweet:

If you see a tweet you like, then you must get to the original tweet itself by the person who created it. That means clicking on the bird symbol and then clicking downward into the original tweet that was re-tweeted.

 

 

In this case I clicked on the tweet as you see with the red arrow above…

 

 

 

That is the tweet with the video I want. First, click on the tweet in any open area, (Green circle above) and then left-click on the URL address as you see it becomes highlighted, then right-click on the highlighted URL and select “Copy” from the drop-down menu.  

 

(If the URL is very long and goes beyond your sight, go ahead and click on it anyway and it will automatically become highlighted and you can still copy it, as I do it every day!)

 

Next, go to the post and right click in the post where you want it and select “Paste” from the drop-down menu and it will install!

 

 

Done!  All of these are just a couple of clicks...