Is the pic also in your photos? If so try from there.

I don't know about Mac, but sometimes it happens to me as well if I deleted something (picture mainly) in my post. Reloading the page does the trick for me (after copying whatever I have written up to that point!) and then post again.

I'm using a Macbook Air.
-Click on the photo icon.

-File Upload window will pop up.

-Locate the photo you want to upload.

-Open that photo.

-It will upload here. (I used one of my iPhoto pics)

Try moving the file from the desktop to another directory. There are sometimes issues with loading/sending files from the desktop as that's usually a "user" based directory on your home computer.

Thank you everyone. I just tried to upload a picture from iphoto & bam, it was attached! So, I need to get this picture I want to add to my post to my iphoto. Here's the problem, I'm not very techy...ok, not techy at all...so I'm not sure how to get this pic from my desktop to iphoto. All of the pictures I have on there are from my cell phone. And, I don't even have a clue how they got to iphoto! If you guys can help me w/ that, I'd be so thrilled! I spent 2 hours last night trying to figure this out & part of that time was trying to get it to iphoto. For the life of me, I could not figure out how to get it over there. I couldn't even get it to go to my photo bucket account. I hate that I'm so nontechy.

I appreciate all of your help. Thank you.

bicycle girl, thanks for re-introducing this topic as I am still having problems as well. I'm on a macbook air too, and pretty much non-techy-everything I do has been learned primarily through trial and error. I just exported a photo from iphoto to my desktop so I could see if I could include it in a post (before you wrote above). Even after making it the smallest size I was still over the character limit. I'm stumped.

But to your question-I wanted to move it back to iphoto to see if I could post it using the method above. If you have photos on you desktop, click on them and you should get a menu that includes "share". One of the choices is iphoto, so you can move it to there. That's what I did and then tried to get it on here, to no avail.

I'm hoping some one who actually knows what they're doing will chime in on this topic which seems peculiarly related to macs.

I feel like a dummy because I'm sure I'm missing something very basic.

pictures from your cell probably automatically go to the iphoto directory.

As for moving the picture try this:

-open iPhoto
-drag cursor to top right corner
-select and drag the images from the desktop to the top right corner.
-hover over the full screen iPhoto.
-A green + sign appears.
-release the mouse or trackpad button.
-the images are now in iPhoto.

try uploading the image then and after that you can delete the picture from the desktop.

mac forums are actually really helpful.

Mac Forum on moving pictures

One method that worked for me was to put the photo on my desktop and instead of clicking the Photo icon, click the Houzz photo icon and then drag the picture from your desktop into the square for dragging photos. It may take a minute for the picture to appear in the box, then when it does, click the insert button and it will show up in your post.

lenzai-that's right-I knew there was an easier way.

Okay-let's see if this will post.

Soapstone brick building.

After all that finagling it finally worked. I did have to wait a bit for the photo to appear.

Thanks, all.

I'm at work now, so will have to try all of this when I get home tonight. Leela4, I'm glad you got it to work! I'm sure that feels good. Hopefully I can get it to work, as well. I really need to post something to get help on & without the pic, it's not going to be much of a post! By the way, that is one heck of beautiful building. Did you take that picture? Where is this place? And, are they really soapstone bricks? Amazing!

thank you lensai & muskokascp...& everyone else! Hopefully you won't hear me complain anymore after this evening when I get home....& figure everything out!! Then you can get on my kitchen post & let me know if you have any thoughts on my delimma!

Thanks again!

leela4 - did you drag and drop using the Houzz Photo icon?

bicycle girl-That was a picture I took from a trip to VA a few years ago to visit my cousin who lives near Charlottesville. That is not too far from Alberene Soapstone in Schuyler, VA, where they have a working quarry. We remodeled our kitchen in 2010, and had soapstone counters installed. I wish I had known about Alberene then because I might have tried to use them, although it might have been cost prohibitive as we live in WA state. (Plus we didn't want to use slabs we hadn't seen in person).

It is indeed a building using soapstone bricks. It was a really cool place to visit-a working quarry. They also make sinks and sculptures:

muskokascp-I used the regular photo icon. But I just commented on a thread on the bathrooms forum and was able to drag and drop from my desktop using the Houzz Photo icon. That was a lot easier.

So I did it that way above as well :-)

Thanks again for the photo help. I was getting a little frustrated.

Okay, so the photos apparently didn't post! Argh. And I thought I had it figure out. Oh, well.

They showed up at first; I wonder what happened.

I give up (for now).

Leela, I can see all 3 of the photos you posted.

leela - Your photos are showing up...can you not see them?

bicyclegirl - "so I'm not sure how to get this pic from my desktop to iphoto"

I'm on a Mac desktop, but you should be able to just open iPhoto, then drag-and-drop the image (pdf/jpg, right?) from your desktop directly into the iPhoto "window".

Is there not a test forum anymore? I'm also on a mac air and would like a place to test without annoying everyone.

I work with photos every day on a mac.

There is not need to put any photo into iphoto from the desktop unless it needs to be resized.

There are two reasons it might not upload to here. First, the image is too big. Second, the image is not a jpeg.

You can find out the size of the image by going to info. If the photo is already in iphoto look at the bottom bar and click in the I for info. It will look like the screen shot below. The size is 3264 x 2448 which is huge. But the iphone and ipad takes these big pix. You also see it is a jpeg, which is good. That's the correct format. Basically, if your photo is a jpeg under 1000 x 1000 pixels in size you are ok. And basically if it is around 100KB you are ok. The photo size on the screen shot is 2.2MB which, again, is huge. I'm not familiar with the limit here but 100 KB will upload.

So, yes. I'm crazy. When I came back to look the photos weren't there. Now they are.

rococogurl-Thanks for that video on resizing. I was exporting from iPhoto to desktop and resizing that way.

And I hope I've not annoyed anyone with all these basic questions. I had all but given up on adding photos to a post until today.

NOOOOO, I still can't do it! UGH, so frustrating! However, I think I know the problem now, but don't know how to fix this. A lot of my photos are word docs (docx). I know crazy! But, when I see a picture on some website that I like for my house...which is most of my pictures...I just copy & paste on a word doc! It's easy & works for me. Until I want to upload it here! So, I'm dragging the picture on my desktop to iphoto, like a few of you have said to do. But, I get a message saying my picture is an unrecognized format. Which is probably why I can't upload from "Photo" below here, as well. I vaguely remember at one time a few yrs ago, I did convert my word doc pictures into a jpeg format. But, for the life of me, I cannot remember how I did that. Rococogurl, you mention jpeg....would you happen to know how I can convert the word docs to jpeg? Or, am I just out of luck?

leela, how fun to go visit Alberene Soapstone. It is gorgeous stone! That picture of that building is beautiful! I'm glad you figured out how to post pictures! I'm keeping my fingers crossed someone will have pity on me & keep helping me!! :)

bicyclegirl: when I see a photo online that I like, I just use the SnapNDrag function. You select the photo you'd like, and SnapNDrag saves it to your desktop as a jpg file. Not sure why you need to separately save/store your image in a Word doc...? BTW, DH tells me SnapNDrag -- make sure it's for Mac -- is a free download; just google it. I'm not techy either. :)

OK, until rococogurl returns with (what I'm positive will be) a more streamlined approach, try this:

1. Open your Word doc (with the photo).

2. Do a File > Save As > whatever, and select pdf (save it to your desktop).

3. Single click on the pdf image, then click Apple I. You'll see an 'info' box that describes your image. In the fourth section/box down, you'll see "Open with:" . Make sure you choose Preview from the pulldown menu.

4. Close the Info window. When you double click on your pdf image, it'll open up in Preview. From here, you can do a File Save As, and it should default to jpg/jpeg.

Good luck!

javiwa, thank you for snapndrag! I'll ck it out & hopefully can figure out how to use it! Haha!
Now regarding your next post...I can change a picture word doc from docx to pdf, but #3 has me baffled! "Single click on the pdf image, then click Apple I." Is the Apple l the apple icon in the top left corner? I click on that but don't see an info box describing my image. I don't know where to go to get the screen like your picture. I'm completely lost! If you can tell me what the Apple l is, so maybe I can move to step 4!! So sad! Thank you for trying to help me. I'm so grateful. Maybe rococogurl will chime back in, also.

I'm never going to be able to get my question answered about the finish for my cabinet fronts! Bum....mer!

Sorry: on my desktop keyboard, the "Apple" button (look for the pic of an apple) is in my lower left. Hold the Apple key down, then click letter "i" on your keyboard.

Message me if you'd like to take this offline. :)

OK, just checked DH's laptop: Apple button is the same as the Command key/button.

javiwa, you are so sweet to keep helping me. I'm completely frustrated at this point. I got my pdf picture, click once, hold down command & then I, but nothing. Every once in awhile I'd get the info window, click on open with preview, close info box & dbl click pic. Nothing! I'm going to bed. Tomorrows another day! I may message you offline tomorrow, if I feel like getting back into this. I have never had this much trouble trying to do something that should be easy to do. Have I said how much I hate computers?!?!

Thank you again.

I'll be glad to help!