These instructions are intended for the raw beginner and cover every step of the procedure. More experienced bloggers may find them tedious.

HOW TO INSERT A PHOTO INTO YOUR BLOG

ON OPEN SALON

PRELIMINARY NOTE:

I find it very helpful to move the photo I want to use to my desktop before starting. It is much easier to find there than in an album of hundreds. Then give it a distinctive title so it’s easy to find.

Once that is done you’re ready to go.

1- Open up your Open Salon page…

2- Click on New Post (the usual New Post page opens) Write the text that you want to be above your photo then leave the cursor below the text. (Instructions below will cover inserting text after you put the photo in, so you can leave it until later if you prefer.)  

3- Click on the wee tiny tree symbol that is between the little anchor and the little brush just above the area for writing a blog. (a small window opens that is titled Upload Media)

4- Click on the Choose File button (a small new window drops down)

5- In the top centre bar scroll to and click on Desktop (a list of everything that is on your desktop appears) To the left of that centre bar should be a short bar with three options in it.

6- Click on the centre option (it looks like 5 little lines one above the other)

7- Look for the title of the photo you want to insert in the list on the right half of that window and ……

8- Click on it (it will highlight and the “Choose” button in the lower right corner will light up)

9- Click on the Choose button (the window will return to Upload Media)

10- Click on the Upload button (it has white letters on a dark blue or black background) Wait for the photo to upload.

11- When the photo has uploaded, the New Post page will re-appear automatically. It will have your photo in the usual blogging space right where you left the cursor.

OTHER STUFF

You may want to put text above your photo at this time. If so, do this:

1-   Put your pointer to the right of the photo and ….

2-  Left Click. (a blinking cursor line will appear at the right edge of the photo)

3-  Tap the left pointing arrow on your keyboard (that will  move that blinking line to the left side of the photo)

4-  Tap your Enter key once for each line you want that  photo to move down (twice is usually enough)

5-   Tap the up arrow until the cursor is above the photo. You  are now ready to enter as much text as you want above  the photo.

You may also want to put text or another photo below the first photo. If so do this:

1-  Tap your down arrow until the blinking line is on the left side of the first photo.

2-  Tap your right arrow to move the blinking line to the right side of the photo. (These two steps are only necessary if you entered text above the photo AFTER you inserted the photo. If you did not enter text above the photo, or if you entered text before inserting the photo, then after putting the blinking cursor line to the right of your photo, go to step 3 below)

3-  Tap your Enter key to make the blinking cursor line  move down to the next line under the photo. You can tap  it a few times if you want to leave more than one line of space under the first  photo.

4-  Type in the text you want under the photo or repeat the above procedure for entering another photo.

NOTE: On a mac keyboard use the “return” key where I said to use the Enter key in the instructions above.

MORE OTHER STUFF

You may find that when you insert a photo, it does not fill the blog space and you’d like it to be bigger so as to fill the 485 pixels of width that space has on Open Salon. To make it get larger do this:

1-  Click on the tiny  HTML letters up where that little tree is. (a window will open that has HTML code in it)

2-  Look for the word ‘width’ with a number to the right of it. The number is usually “285” but not necessarily.

3-  Change that number to “480” (Take care to change ONLY that number)

NOTE: The word ‘width’ will appear in the HTML code once for each photo you’ve inserted. Change the number beside it for each one.

4- Click UPDATE in the lower left corner of the HTML window. (You will return to the New Post page. If your photo is not now visible, don’t worry about it. It WILL appear on your page when you click on PUBLISH at the bottom right corner of your New Post page.

NOTE:

If you really, really want to see that photo BEFORE you send your blog to your page, you can see it this way: Do NOT enter your heading. Go to the bottom of the New Post page and click on Publish. A small window will appear that reminds you that you don’t have a heading AND your photo will magically appear where you put it. Then enter your heading and click on Publish again.

Hope this is some help. Any questions, feel free to PM me.

……Sky