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How do you create a URL for an image?

Asked by Taciturnu (6045points) March 7th, 2011

Sometimes you encounter sites that will ask you to provide a URL for the image you’re trying to upload. How would someone create a URL for an image?

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anartist's avatar

If the image is online it has a URL. If you put it in a folder called ‘images’ it is often “hrrp://www.domain.ext[com,edu,etc.]/images/filename.ext[jpg,gif,etc.n]”
If you are using something like flickr, they assign the url when you upload.
Before you upload, your image has no URL. It can’t be located [universal resource locator] until you put it up there.

If a site is asking for a URL for an image you want to use there—it is asking if it is already online and you are just citing it. To get the image URL for an image you see online in Firefox [maybe ie too] right-click on the image and select “cooy image location”—copy it into notepad first then use it as you will.

Dog's avatar

I just use Imgur.com

Taciturnu's avatar

Thanks both! I will try them out. :)

nicobanks's avatar

@anartist is right.

A URL is like a street address, or like a document path in your computer: it just tells you where a thing is. Everything that appears online has a URL; everything that doesn’t appear online, doesn’t.

If you want to find the URL of a picture on the internet, try clicking the picture. Often it links to the picture’s URL, and you can grab the URL right from your browser’s address bar. If that doesn’t work (if the picture isn’t a link, or if it links to something else), try what anartist said (right click > copy image location). If that doesn’t work, and if you know how to read markup, you can find the picture’s URL in the webpage’s source (right click > view page source).

If you want to provide a picture on your computer with a URL, you have to upload it somewhere.

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