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Plain picture

Linking to a plain picture

A plain picture with no formatting can be inserted with the statement:

[[Image:PictureName.jpg]]

Notice, the name and size of the picture do not change. If you want to use the picture, you must remember its original name - or else you won't have any way to link to it! Also, you must be logged in to edit pictures.

• So to recap, to edit pictures you must:
• Create an account or log in
• Upload the picture Be sure to remember the name!
• Enter this code on your edit page: [[Image:PictureNameHere.jpg | right]]

Picture With Border

A plain picture with a border can be inserted with the statement:

[[Image:PictureName.jpg|thumb|(Size)px]]

With a real image that would be

[[Image:Sun in X-Ray.png|thumb|150px]]

This code results in the image you see to the left

Picture With Caption

NASA image of Sirius A and B

Pictures with captions can be inserted with this statement:

[[Image:PictureName.jpg|Alignment (center ,left or right)|thumb|imagesizepx|Caption]]

An example with an real image would be

[[Image:Sirius A and B Hubble photo.jpg|left|thumb|200px|NASA image of Sirius A and B]] 

The above example results in the image to the left

Galleries of images

The Gallery Tag is used to make Galleries.Its syntax is :

 
 <gallery>
 Image:(Image 1 Name)|(caption)
 Image:(Image 2 Name)|(caption)
 </gallery>

You can put as many images as you want into a gallery. An example of Galleries with real images:

 
 <gallery>
 Image:Weather-few-clouds.png|Cloud
 Image:Community-portal.png|Globe
 Image:Sun in X-Ray.png|Sun
 </gallery>

The above code results in

Cloud

Globe

Sun

Useing External Images

To use an external image in the text of one of your articles you simpily type in the url to that image in a format like this :

http://example.com/foo.svg

Here is an example with a real image

http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/8661/archmedalsmmq3.jpg

It results in this:

http://img353.imageshack.us/img353/8661/archmedalsmmq3.jpg

Table of Image Formats