A Simple Guide to Adding WikiMedia Commons Images to Your Steemit Posts to Spice Them UP

Good Morning, All!

After some good advice by @getonthetrain on adding images to my posts, I have found that adding images to my posts has added some success.

While I have suggested some ways to FIND pics in this post,
The suggestion for blog posts is to use pictures...so where do you get pics? Read on!,
It is time to give a step-by-step process for using one of these resources, as well as giving credit where credit is due to the owners of those pics.

• You are going to go to
  
  Wkimedia Commons

• There is a "search" box in the upper right corner of the page
  

• You'll enter whatever subject you want to illustrate your post. I'll go with Halloween for an example The site will return a lot of selections and categories. Take your time and look around for the best pics to go with your post. I explored a bit and found Category:Halloween in the United States
  

• Scrolling down a little bit, I found a picture I liked: Candelabra and Grave Dirt
  

• I right clicked on the text "Candelabra and Grave Dirt " below my new pic, and got to this page:
  

• I now right click on the pic and "Open in a new tab" (This avoids some linking issues)

• Then I copy the address of the file, and paste into my post, giving me
  

• I check to make sure that the pic loaded correctly into the page. a JPG should work with no problems. There are other formats such as SVG which will not. You'll need to use a pic that works.

• Use this file on the web button
  

• That gives me the popup window
  

• I copy the information from the Attribution: box (in red, last pic), and paste it under the filename of the pic.

By Jere Keys from San Francisco, USA [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

• I now change that attribution to italics (see below)

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• Here is what the posting AND crediting line commands should look like with the information for this pic
  

• And here is what your pic should look like with full credit/attribution to the creator
  
  By Jere Keys from San Francisco, USA [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

• Thanks for reading, and let me know if you have any questions about doing this