- Do you hold copyright or have permission to use the image (including its components)?
- Have you respected Creative Commons or other licenses? And acknowledged the content creator, ideally with a link?
- Is the caption info ready to post, as part of the text or via an embed program like Flickr's?
- Save a copy of your original. Never tinker with your backup.
- Reduce the size of your image to a max of 1,200 pixels across.
- Convert to a web-friendly format: JPG (photos), GIF or PNG (line art, graphics).
- Compress 7085% (if that didn't already occur in step 3).
- The file size (not image size: file) should be 12-50k for graphics, less than 100k for photos, unless they are extremely large and detailed (full-post beauties on, say, a pro-photog's site). In that case, 500k is an acceptable cap.
- Either upload directly or via a sharing site. All these services allow you to select small, medium or large options and align the image. Cut and paste the appropriate embed code to your blog.
Remember: you can caption photos with Blogger’s built-in tools or you can get fancy by importing images from Flickr. Keep in mind that Flickr defaults to creating a live entry, so post first to your test blog, then copy/paste the code into your real site. That’s also a good technique if you have more than one photo to import from Flickr.
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