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Ocelot II

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1. Save it to a photo hosting site like Postimage.

Reply to vapor2 (Original post)

Sat Jul 11, 2026, 07:41 PM

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There's no way to post a photo directly from your computer to a DU post. A photo hosting site will assigned a url link to the photo that you can paste into your post.

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Save it to a photo hosting site like Postimage. Ocelot II Saturday #1

Flickr is also free and will provide a direct link, but you have to edit out the unnecessary stuff from like. There's sinkingfeeling Saturday #2

here's the full scoop on 'how to' CurtEastPoint Saturday #3

Thanks folks! vapor2 Saturday #4

Here's the site I use. It's free without subscribing, but images are limited to 2meg surfered Saturday #5