<big><big>A.</big> TITLE IMAGE:</big>
[A.1.] You don’t have to have one up there. In fact, you can click on the minus-a.k.a.-dash symbol in the top right corner of the “click here for title image” grayspace to minimize that area out of your way. (You don’t have to do that either, even if you’re not putting a title image in, but some kosaks prefer that space minimized if they’re not filling it.)
<big>Tiny minus/dash symbol right below the blue dot — you won’t see that blue dot on a real draft screen, tho’ — it’s only there right now.</big>
With the title-image space minimized, your draft will look something like the illustration below, except with the big honking black&orange toolbox also there. If you’re working with a very large font/enlarged screen, as those of us with vision difficulties often do, your draft screen may look exactly like this illustration, and you click on the menu button (to the right of SAVE and PUBLISH) to slide the black&orange toolbox in from the right edge of the screen and again to slide it away.
[A.2.] But if you do want to have a title image up top:
- Leave the “Click Here to Add An Image” area as is, and click there! ;-)
- Follow the same steps as in B below to find images — be they images you uploaded or others in the DK Image Library.
- A title image usually has to be 915 pixels side-to-side, otherwise the published diary may display it down in the top of the text area at the right margin (“right-justified”), with your opening lines of text squeezed narrow to the left to accommodate it, even though in your draft it’s up in the title-image space.
- On occasion, images that are a little narrower than that may stretch to fit the title-image display space; you’ll find out by experience how much leeway the system will allow.
<big><big>B.</big> IMAGES WITHIN THE TEXT OR IN COMMENTS</BIG>
[B.1.] In your comment or draft, position your cursor at the end of any paragraph where you’d like the image to display alongside or under OR position yr cursor at the start of the paragraph you want the image to come before. If no text is in yet, disregard this step! ;-) But you’ll have to do a lotta repositioning of images (see [B.8.]) if you put images in before text.
[B.2.] Click on the image library button in the toolbar, 2nd from the right end — it looks like a white mountain and moon against a black sky...
[B.3.] The the image library window will appear, looking something like this: (it may have 2 columns of images, or 3, or 4):
[B.4.] If you’ve uploaded an image to use, click on the orange MY IMAGES button right below the header word <big>Library</big> (and just to the right of the words “Public Library”) to display all the images you’ve ever uploaded, most recent first. You can use any image as often as you like.
[B.5.] To look for images:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY is the default display, so click on MY IMAGES to reach the ones you personally uploaded, and scroll down to find which of your own uploads you want to use, if it isn’t the one[s] you most recently uploaded. (You can use the same image many times over, no need to upload it again.)
- You can search for usable images other people uploaded (or find yours if they’re too far down your collection to scroll to) by clicking on the searchbox with the tiny magnifying glass, just to the right of <small>MY IMAGES</small> ► type a likely tagword or keyword there or click to use one or more of the search strategies in the menu that will show ► Scroll down the batch of images that appear ►Click on the one you want to choose or try ► A thin orange frame will appear around that image, and a larger preview of it will appear in the gray right-side section of the window above its data fields….
... ► check to make sure the info in the data fields seems to allow you to use that image without violating anyone’s rights ——if using it even might violate someone’s rights, forget that image and find another that’ll work for your purposes legitimately (see <tt>ADDENDUM</tt> at end of this diary you’re reading).
[B.6.] Click on the large orange CHOOSE button at center bottom of the library window to return to your draft or comment with the image now displayed there (probably at the right margin but in [B.8.] below you can adjust that).
. . . . . . . .[B.6.a] If NOTHING HAPPENS when you click CHOOSE, It means your cursor is not positioned where the system can “see” use-able space, in which case: click on the image library window’s CLOSE button, top right corner (don’t worry — the image library window will keep place what you were looking at and will put you right there again when you click the image library button…)
. . . . . . . .and reposition the cursor. Then repeat steps [2] thru’ [5] until the image is roughly where you want it.
. . . . . . . . [B.6.b.] If all that happens when you click CHOOSE is you’re back in your draft or comment with no image added, click on the image library button again, and, yeah, give it another try. Sometimes it takes a few.
[B.7.] NOTICE that you will probably see your text rearranging itself to accommodate the image just brought in. belinda ridgewood explains:
If you add an image in front of an existing paragraph, initially that image will push all the text down below it, instead of wrapping the text beside it [the way the below image] is doing now. If you want it to wrap, highlight (blue-ify) the image and change its alignment [step [B.8] below]...
ALIGNED AT A MARGIN, AN IMAGE MAY DISPLAY AS SMALLER THAN IT’S POTENTIAL FULLEST SIZE.
[B.8] When the image first appears in your draft or comment, it will usually be aligned at the right margin (a.k.a. “flush right”, “right-aligned”, etc., no politics intended) like this’un_►►►
TO REPOSITION IT (and make the text “wrap” accodingly), click on it so it turns blue-ish and:
[B.8.a.] To ALIGN it at the LEFT MARGIN (“flush left”, “left-aligned”, ibid.) click on the 7th format button from the left in the top row of format buttons — it’s marked with lines aligned flush-left (next to the button showing double-quotes marks for making blockquotes) and it works on highlighted paragraphs of text, too.
<big><big>The boxed button is for aligning images or highlighted text flush left. The next button is for centering images or highlighted text. The next after that is for aligning flush right.</big></big>
When the image is left-aligned, click anywhere in the text to confirm position, and the image will show in full color again. (Important to avoid accidental deletion!)
[B.8.b.] To RIGHT-ALIGN the image (or paragraph of text), blue it, and click on the 9th format button from the left, and confirm position as above.
[B.8.c.] To CENTER the image — which will make it way bigger if its pixel size allows, and the text will not wrap around it but end above it and resume below — blue it and click on the 8th format button (between 7th & 9th, of course — it’s marked with centered lines).
To fill the page nearly margin to margin, an image usually has to be at least 800 pixels wide (the title-image calls for over 900, of course) and even then it won’t go wall-to-wall because that’s how the dk system is designed. If the image is significantly narrower than 800 pixels, it’ll sit in the center, but text won’t wrap around it on the sides no matter how narrow it is.
[B.9.] To move the image up or down in the text, turn it blue, and hover your cursor at the top left corner of the image. A tiny box with a sort of plus sign in it will appear there — that’s your “handle” to drag the image up or down in the diary. A dashed horizontal line will appear as you start to drag — that’s your indicator for where the top of the image will be.
That line —and the image— will NOT accept a position anywhere midway thru’ the text of a paragraph, only above, below, or in between. So, sometimes you may want to divide up a paragraph in order to be able to position an image more to your liking.
NOTE: When an image is put inside a blockquote:
the image will display as smaller than outside it, and blockquoted text will adjust itself right before your eyes, similar to belinda’s explanation after step [6]. This happens whether the image is aligned left or aligned right.
You can use a gray blockquote box to make a centered image small like that, too.
GO EXPERIMENT FOR THE FUN OF IT! An ooooold diary you don’t care much about is great to use for practicing and experimenting with every kind of DK formatting skill and tool there is. No one will notice because of it being so far in the past. DK drafts are NOT WYSIWYG, — not what-you-see-is-what-you-get, but only fairly close, so take an oooold diary with no significant recs or comments, bookmark it or make it easily findable some other way, and then you can hit the edit button on it to reach its draft “layer”….
and put in a title you’re not sure how it’ll look, position paragraphs and images to see how they’ll look, and in the black&orange toolbox click SAVE DRAFT ► click the orange-on-white PUBLISH CHANGES button ► click the white-on-orange next PUBLISH CHANGES button you get … and then you’ll be looking at it in newly published form so you can see how the experiments worked out. You can re-edit and re-publish any diary practically an infinite number of times, no worries.
<tt>ADDENDUM/s</tt>
▓ What images are legit to use?
Simplify commented that kosaks can all use images in the Library that are attributed to Getty and linked NOLO’s citation for Stanford University's Fair Use (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use).
belinda ridgewood commented that images which are work products of some branch or agency of the US federal government are public domain because the federal government is financed by our tax dollars. She uses NASA pictures of/from space most often, and there’s a wealth of others of all kinds of things taken by feds that are legit for us to use. Since state and local governments are also supported by the taxes we pay, this is probably true of their published images as well. SO LONG AS THEY ARE NOT USED AS IF TO REPRESENT THAT DIARIES WE PUBLISH ARE AUTHORIZED BY THOSE GOVTS, ‘cos they’re not and a world of legal hurt may occur if any of us represents otherwise.
I use almost nothing but images from Wikimedia Commons —usually getting there via Wikipedia articles— because the data for each is usually very clear about what’s legit to use (public domain images and those which say, in essence, usage permitted with attribution) and to whom ATTRIBUTION belongs.
<big>Again, please don’t forget to fill in properly the Library data fields for each image you upload to this site, especially ATTRIBUTION so legitimacy is clear, and DESCRIPTION (see belinda’s explanation at step [4] and all appropriate tags.</big>