With My Mac, How Can I Use a picture from Photos and post it in a thread? (1 Viewer)

[Johnny Angell]

Use a picture from Photos and post it in a thread?

 

[DaveF]

Drag photo from Photos to copy to your desktop. Then post that copied photo into the forum post. (Then delete that desktop copy.)

 

[Sam Posten]

Just highlight the picture you want in photos, hit command c, switch to the browser window, command v

No need to export first

 

[Johnny Angell]

I had been doing just that, but with the image in the viewer window. I tried doing it with the image thumbnail window. Command-C and Command-V. Nothing is pasted. Then I right-clicked, selected Edit with Grab, copy and pasted from Grab. Pictures appear in the new thread box, but when posted, they are gone.

 

[Johnny Angell]

Just highlight the picture you want in photos, hit command c, switch to the browser window, command v

No need to export first

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I ended up doing the drag to desktop, upload to my media, then inserting the media into the post. Quite a few more steps then you take. I wonder why you can do the short way and I can’t.

 

[Sam Posten]

What browser are you using? Try Chrome.

 

[Johnny Angell]

What browser are you using? Try Chrome.

I’m using Safari.

 

[DaveF]

Yeah, I use Safari and never saw that trick Sam described work.

Meant to check again, but haven’t been on desktop today.

 

[DaveF]

Just highlight the picture you want in photos, hit command c, switch to the browser window, command v

No need to export first

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Nope, doesn't work with Safari.

 

[Johnny Angell]

I did this using Chrome. Copy from Photos and post directly into the reply box. The caption for this photo is "Why doesn't this work in Safari!"

 

[Sam Posten]

Try just dragging with Safari.

 

[DaveF]

Doesn’t work either. You get a link to the local file system location.

 

[Mark Booth]

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Mark

 

[Ted Todorov]

Curious to see if it works on Safari/iPad:

OK - tried copy/paste - no. Works fine to Twitter (Tweetbot). I guess I’ll try Chrome.

 

[Ted Todorov]

From Chrome - copy/paste doesn’t work, but “upload a file” works fine. (One of our two schnauzers - Max - he had his 5th birthday yesterday)