Just highlight, cut and paste your photo from where it goes when you upload it to where you want it. Bear in mind that if you have chosen your photo as center when you upload you can't move it left or right but you can move it anywhere within the blog.

I haven't used Smugmug so can't help you there.

I use Blogger and SmugMug and this is how I do it. It seems complicated but once you've done it a couple times, it's actually pretty easy.

1) write the blog without photos

2) enter two extra lines where you want to insert the photos (note - I only put them between paragraphs and I center the photos)

3) click the EDIT HTML tab

4) find the first extra lines and enter the following

<center>

</center>

The code for the photos will be inserted between the center tags

5) I paste in the code for a photo and I will substitute the actual photo ID

The code is:
<a target="_blank" href="http://YOU.smugmug.com/photos/99-L.jpg"><img src="http://YOU.smugmug.com/photos/99-Th.jpg"></a>

This will open the Th sized photo (thumbnail) in a new window and show the L (large) photo I uploaded. If you want to just display the image use:

<img src="http://YOUsmugmug.com/photos/99-S.jpg">
and you can use M for medium and L for large, the S is for small.

Once you know the code you want to use, copy and paste that every time you want a photo, then you will replace the 99 with the actual photo ID.

6) In another window open SmugMug and go to the first photo you want to insert (I use the ALL THUMBS view and click the photo). Look in the browser address and you will the actual photo address...the part you want to copy is the code just before the size. Something like 321491382_44Pci or 321490453_VG7hx  That is what you will copy and paste over the 99 in the code above.

Again, I know it sounds complex but really isn't that bad. Try it with one photo. If it works for you, let me know and I'll post the line spacing tips.

Leslie, I use Blogger all the time and don't have the problems others seem to experience. Yes, the pictures all load at the top of the post, but then I just cut and paste them where I want them. I, too, write the post without pictures first, then use the load picture icon to load the pictures. I use the center formatting because I like having the text in an orderly paragraph format.

Once the pictures are loaded at the top, I just place my cursor where I want the photo, insert a couple of extra lines and then past the picture.

Hope all of the advice helps.

Your right Sandra...it would be nice to set down and see what they do. I have no problem except for the amount of pictures I can upload to the page. I guess you can have that increased???

Joe and Sherri

Leslie,

As you know, we use TypePad rather than Blogger, but we do use SmugMug.  The way we insert photos into our blog should be the same for you using the "img" tag according to the Blogger "help".

In SmugMug, find the photo you want to insert.  Click on that photo.  Under the photo are the words "Share photo:" followed by a link -  "links, forums, blogs".  Click on the "links, forums, blogs" link.

That brings up a page of Gallery Links and Direct Photo Links.  Just click on the link for the size photo you want to insert (I usually use Small).

Then, in your text (your post) using the "Edit HTML" tab in Blogger insert a couple lines where you want the photo to appear and type <img src= and paste the URL link for the photo you just got from SmugMug.  Close the "tag" and your photo should appear.

It becomes second nature and that's how I insert photos every day.  That way I only upload photos once and then I can link them into our Journal, RV-Dreams.com, this Forum or anywhere else.  And if I change blog hosts, my photos aren't stuck on the prior blog's servers.  The HTML would follow a conversion and I wouldn't have to re-insert photos all over again.

By the way, I take my photos on a Basic setting in my camera to keep the file sizes down.  So I don't upload the highest resolutions to SmugMug.  That takes too long time without a DSL or better connection.  Since most of our photos are used on the web, it's no big deal.  And I can print the photos up to the "Large" setting in SmugMug without any noticeable loss of quality.  Yeah, it's not great if I want a poster size some day, but we don't have any wall space for posters anyway. 

Leslie,

Yeah ... one thing I really don't like about Blogger is that photos are always added to the top when you use their image tool.  But, there's so much to like about Blogger - we find our ways!

I use Picasa Web Albums - mainly because I use Picasa for all my photos on my computer and it's single-click easy to upload to the web album.  Once they're on the web album, you can click on "Link to this photo" and grab the complete html code that can then be placed exactly where you want it in your blog.

I see that SmugMug provides the basic URL to the photo, not the complete linking code.  Therefore, you need to either:

1. as Howard and Froggi suggest - add the <img src=  code yourself.  Make sure to enclose the URL in quotes, and also make sure to close the img tag with />  (this will not make a link, it will just display the picture)

2. use Blogger's upload image tool and put the URL in the space provided for "Add image from the web" .  This will take the photo's URL and add the img code as well as the linking (a href) code. 

HOWEVER, it will still put the image at the top   
Oh well, ya gotta get used to cut and paste, to put the photo's code where you want it.   It'll look something like:
<a href="http://myphotos.smugmug.com/photos/338864448_jk5hz-S.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px;" src="http://myphotos.smugmug.com/photos/338864448_jk5hz-S.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a>When you cut - make sure to start with the <a  and end with the a>

I'm still hoping that blogger will someday make their image upload tool place the code at the cursor location.

till then, we do what we gotta do.

-- Edited by mrsgeek at 04:59, 2008-07-26

We were thinking about starting a blog, as we are keeping a Travel Journal from when we started fulltiming.  After reading all of the problems stated above we think it best not to mess with it.  Would love to do it but, not that tech savvy.