===== Alternatives =====
Before you consider whether to embed images into your forum post, alternatives are\\

in posting a reply or new topic, attach images\\
--provide web links to images

=====My way of embedding=====
Either join a permanent site for hosting images or look for sites that offer some number of days where the image can be viewed by forum users

I chose tinypic.com

You can create folders to organise your photos from friends to forums etc.

After creating an appropriate folder and uploading an image, I prefer jpg to condense size
click on it to get the larger image

Next right hand click (for a right handed user) the actual image and grab the url for the actual image\\
This is likely to differ from the link showing in your address bar.

{{wiki:twid_75_url.jpg}}

Next in the forum post in the normal text area I write, with a tweak to help those with smaller resolutions

<code>
[img width=128 height=80]
the copied url to image
[/img]
</code>