Having difficulty with images- unsure what the problem is

[officerripley]

Why?

IDK; I just now tried it again and got the error message I always get: "Oops! We ran into some problems. The specified URL cannot be embedded as media."

 

[MarciKS]

IDK; I just now tried it again and got the error message I always get: "Oops! We ran into some problems. The specified URL cannot be embedded as media."

have you tried just using the insert image next to the smiley face? you can load it off your computer. i can never get the url thing to work.

 

[Jazzy1]

IDK; I just now tried it again and got the error message I always get: "Oops! We ran into some problems. The specified URL cannot be embedded as media."

@officerripley: You seem to be trying to insert an image using the media option instead of the image option. Try the insert image option to upload using a link or attach files to upload from your computer.

 

[RambleTamble]

You can just drag an image from your desktop into the text box. That's by far the easiest way to do it. You can also resize the image once it's in the text box.

 

[outlander]

@JustDave

Open the terminal, sudo apt install gimp

Or open the synaptics software and install Gimp from there.

You can also download the deb file if you have gdebi installed.

Flatpak or Snap is another way to get it done.

 

[officerripley]

@officerripley: You seem to be trying to insert an image using the media option instead of the image option. Try the insert image option to upload using a link or attach files to upload from your computer.

Actually, no, it is gif's I'm trying to insert--I got off topic, sorry--and I always used to be able to insert them before but I guess it's starting about a year ago, I no longer can. Images I haven't had any trouble with since somebody here--don't remember who, sorry--told me about ezgif.com, an online converter that converts to jpeg (and as Matrix pointed out, the site here now takes most png's too).