Inserting Images

Inserting images

2) A toolbar appears on top of your knol. Place your cursor at the location in the text where you would like the image to be inserted and click on the [Insert] button on this toolbar, then choose "Images". Your screen will look something like this:

3) You can choose to add images from your computer, or from the web if you can provide the URL of a particular picture that you have the rights to use. If there are images that we’ve obtained for your use from a third party (such as The Cartoon Bank), that option will be shown here. If you have uploaded pictures to Knol previously, they will be displayed here.

4) Select an image by clicking on it, then click [Add Image] to insert the selected image into your knol.

 5) You can now drag the image around and position it the way you want within your text. Your text should smoothly flow and wrap around the figure when displacing it. You can also move an image by cut-and-paste.

Resizing images

You can resize the image by clicking on it. A blue toolbar appears on the top (or the bottom) of the figure, and allows you to select "small", "medium", "large" or "original size".

Advanced tip: If none of those sizes proves adequate for you, you have two choices:

1. You can go into edit mode and directly set the width and height properties of the HTML img tag. For example, here is the first image in this document with its height set to 23 pixels and its width set to 42.
   
   <img src="http://knol.google.com/k/-/-/Mgi1e8vi/lEwmCg/Image2.png" style="border: 0pt none ;" height="23" width="42">
   
   
2. Alternatively, you can use a separate Paint program to manually resize your image. Save it, then upload it again into knol.
   

No matter what size picture you choose when inserting a new image, your readers will always be able to see the full-size image by clicking on it.

Controlling Alignment and Text Flow

You can align an image to the left, center or right, by clicking on it and selecting the alignment option.

You can turn "Text Wrap" on, to cause text to flow around your image, or off, to cause your image to appear exclusively on a line by itself, without text to either side of it.

Inserting Captions

You can add a caption to your image by selecting it and clicking add caption. Once you have a caption, you can remove it by reselecting the image and clicking remove caption.

Inserting New Yorker Cartoons

Go into the edit mode on your knol. Look for the image icon to the left of the "Link". The tool tip is "Insert Image". See this help knol for more instructions.

Removing Images

There are two steps to removing an image from your document:

1. Remove the image from your knol. To delete a picture, click on it and choose "remove" on the picture toolbar (the blue bar at the bottom (or the top) of the picture frame. Removing an image in this fashion simply causes the image to not be shown. It does not reclaiming the storage quota consumed when the image was original uploaded.
   
   
2. Free up the quota. You are a limited to a 10 MB quota of images per knol. Once you have attached an image to your knol, it is stored as part of your knol even if the image is not visible within your page. To permanently remove an image and reclaim the quota spent on it, follow the instructions on Removing Images from Knols.
   

Q: Why is image remove a two-step process, first removing the HTML img tag, then deleting the uploaded image document (Removing Images from Knols)? Wouldn't it be simpler to have "remove" both get rid of the HTML and the uploaded data?

A: We chose to make it a two step process to give authors more control. If you remove a image from the knol's HTML without deleting the uploaded data, you can still go back in the revision history for the document and accurately see its past state, without the "img" tags being broken.

So, for example, suppose you uploaded an image of a samoyed dog in version #10 of your document, but then replaced it with a greyhound in version #15 of your document. Then you have two choices:

1. Don't remove the samoyed image from your uploads. Visitors will still be able to accurately see versions #10 to #14 of your document, but the image will count against your quota. -- OR --
2. Do remove the samoyed image from you uploads. Visitors will see a broken image indicator if they go back to view versions #10 to #14, but you will have more image quota remaining.

Deleting a knol deletes the images attached to it

If you delete a knol, all of the images uploaded to it will be deleted. If you copy content from one knol to another, the HTML "img" tags in the new knol will be pointing back to the old knol, and if you delete or unpublish the old knol the images in the new knol will all be broken.

Troubleshooting

Q: When I click on an image in edit mode, I don't see the options you describe to align, size, wrap, or add captions. Instead, it says "Go to Link:", shows a URL, and asks me to change or remove the URL.

A: What you describe can happen if your image is wrapped inside a link.

To change the image settings, you can remove the link. Then you should be able to change the image settings to the correct size, alignment, wrapping, or captions. Then you can reapply the link.

Q: My image contains text, but it is always garbled when I upload it to Knol.

A: If your image contains text and you want it to be legible, make sure that your image is less than 640 pixels wide. Upload it, and then size the image to "Original" using the sizing bubble.

Q: My image upload failed. Why?

A: We have three forms of image quota that we enforce:

1. You can upload no more than 10 MB to any particular knol.
2. You can upload no more than 10 MB per day, total.
   
3. You can upload no more that 70 images per week, total.
   

Q: How can I choose the image that appears in the search with my knol?