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How to Place That Clickable Image We’ve Been Pestering You About

Audience development links, three box-linked MuddyUm stories, and now this?!?!?

If you dropped a story on MuddyUm recently, and especially if I was your editor, you may have found a clickable image at the end of your story, accompanied by a sheepish little note admitting I put it there. It probably looked similar to the image above except clickable.

My purpose here is to bring you up to the task of complying with this latest in the series of endless demands we make on our beleaguered writers. But don’t worry. This is super simple. Almost fun. I’m going to make it even simpler and more fun by including the Three Images Deemed Legitimate for This Purpose. Who deemed these deemed images legitimate? That would be telling, but her name rhymes with “nearly.”

Step one:

Go to the website linked below. It contains images you can use in convenient, downloadable form. It contains all the other information too but it’s not as entertaining.

It also doesn’t have the following two images. I used to have all the images here in this article but Medium changed something so now when you try to right click on them and save, it saves them as .webp images which you can’t load into a medium article. That is, last time I checked you couldn’t. So if you want to use one of them you will have to create a screen shot, load it into MS Paint or whatever Macs have in place of MS Paint, then crap around with it until you have something you can use.

Oh wait! I just discovered that if you right click, choose “Save image as” and when you rename it something that makes sense you also change the extension to .png, it will save it as a PNG image, which you can then use in your article. So there’s that.

Step two:

Drag and drop one of the images into the very end of your funny story.

Step three:

Open the MuddyUm main page in a new tab, highlight https://medium.com/muddyum in the search bar and hit CTRL-C to add it to the clipboard. You snooty Mac users were on your own but Andrew Rodwin stepped in and informed me that bit’s Command-C on Mac. So Mac users, just think “Command” wherever it says CTRL. Command and Control, bucko!

Step four:

Caution: this is the tricky part! Click on the image you just placed, and while it still has the green border surrounding it — which may be hard to see — hit CTRL-K. A little pop-up text box will appear that says “Paste a link…” in it. Now, without letting go of the CTRL key, hit “V”. The MuddyUm URL will appear in the little box.

Step five:

CTRL-C the following:¹ Brand art courtesy of David Todd McCarty and use it as the caption.

Simple, huh? Don’t say I never helped you out with anything,

Cheers, Your old buddy and favorite editor, BOFace

Special thanks to Andrew Rodwin

¹ “Command-C the following:” if you are one of those people.

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