Once you have your images hosted on an external site, you can use either the Rich Text editor or the HTML editor to embed the images:Ĭlick your cursor on the position you want the art to appear. gifĮxamples of links that WILL work for image embedding:Īll of the above will work because they're a direct and complete link to the image you want to embed, and you can tell because the link ends in a file extension. An image url will end in one of the following file extensions. These will not because while the link will direct you to where you can view the image, it's not an image url. Simply copying a url from the browser window isn't enough, and you may need to go searching for this link as it's not always easily accessible.Įxamples of links that WILL NOT work for image embedding:

You can even use Dropbox and other similar file storage repositories, however, please note that you need a direct image url for embedding to work.

Also, if your image is NSFW, they may simply delete it as this is also against their ToS. Photobucket will sometimes put a watermark of their logo over your image, or throttle your bandwidth and stop showing the image if your quota is exceeded unless you're on their paid account.

Tumblr links are especially unpredictable and seem to break for no apparent reason.ĪO3 does not recommend Photobucket or Imgur because it's against their Terms of Service to host imagers for embedding elsewhere, but lots of people still use those services. You can use Tumblr, Twitter, Pillowfort or Facebook (or any other platform where art can be uploaded to share socially) but please note that URLs can change over time or disappear completely which will result in a broken art link, and your embedded art will no longer appear in the post. The suggested alternatives are Flickr and DeviantART. Wherever you end up hosting, you will need a full image URL to embed the art, so watch out for places like Google Drive which may not work as a source for hosting images - it gives a share link, but not the image URL. STEP 1 - upload your image to your preferred hosting environment If you're not sure where to host your art, AO3 have put together a guide on suggested posting sources. The first thing to know is that images must already be hosted on an external website in order to be embedded into AO3 posts. We've put together a quick tutorial on embedding artwork into works posted on AO3.

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