Inserting Images in Novels

[ruanrunaruan]

I read that you could insert images in your novels? Like maps and illustrations?

How do you insert illustrations?

[Penni]

Here's how it works. 1.) Copy your illustration from Photoshop or whatever program you have it on. 2.) Go to Firefox Browser (for some reason, other browsers don't work with this) and get ready to write or post something. The same way you'd upload anything. 3.) Go to your browser's edit option, usually at the top of the screen and physically click "paste." Again, for reasons unknown, CTRL+V doesn't work. However once you do that...BOOM! You get an illustration just like the one below. …

This should help!

[lwflouisa]

Thank you thank you thank you. I meant to ask this same thing.

[ruanrunaruan]

Is there a MB limit? I seem to have trouble uploading all my images. It doesn't seem to accept more than a certain amount?

[Penni]

I usually have to play with it. I'm not sure what the size limit is, but it's not very large

[lwflouisa]

Ah so you can put images in your novels?

[ruanrunaruan]

It seems so! I was working on a visual novel but I can't publish it here, so I'm using the same assets for avatars!

[lwflouisa]

Looking in the editor for mine now. Most of what I see is for banners and cover art. I can keep a look out though.

On wattpad there was a function to add an image in the story itself, but I don't know if it works quite the same way here.

[Penni]

I use it for art that I acquire for my stories from time to time, but it's not capable of holding much.

[ruanrunaruan]

That's what I discovered. I had to shrink down my images to somehow get it to fit. I have multiple images on mine.

[Penni]

Ah. Yeah, I've done multiple images but it can be a pain. Sorry I didn't spare you that aggravation

[ruanrunaruan]

ne multiple images but it can be a pain. Sorry I didn't sp

It's NP Penni! If only we knew exactly how much MB...I suppose I could go to my first episode and literally add up all the image files to see what the maximum amount is...you know? I AM GOING TO DO IT.

[lwflouisa]

Is adding images a mobile only feature? Looking in the desktop version and not finding where to add them.;/

[ruanrunaruan]

I'm using PowerPoint and Firefox to get it done on desktop. Tapas hasn't explicitly put a button in yet...

[kaetana]

The image limit is 1.5 MB, assuming that it didn't change during the site update (I ran tests about a year ago to get that number).

[nostalgicroxas]

Sorry to revive this thread but I just found something that worked first try especially because you said you're using Firefox.

So
Open a tab in Firefox and -> File->Open->image
Now your image should be in the tab. If you mouse/highlight the image and hit CTRL+C, when you click Paste CTRL+V into Tapas novels, it'll give you the url link to the file - that's what happened to me. But if you right click the image, and click "Copy image", then Paste CTRL+V into Tapas novels, it'll appear right away, first try, without a single issue.

At most, it took 3 seconds to appear. So just be a wee bit patient.

Before this I was opening the image in a Word doc to try and copy / highlight ect chaos from that, and it'd take me like twenty tries for the image to paste in.
I think what's happening somehow is the image data is loading into Firefox directly and then copying from there, makes the Copy data transfer correctly the first time to pasting into Tapas novels.

I did this several times with different images and it worked first time every try

edit
So it worked on firefox but looking at it on Tapas on my chrome to see the chapter before it goes live.. It's not working

Odd cause it did work.

interestingly checking the "edit" in the firefox window, it shows the image. But in the "edit" of the Chrome window I usually operate in, it shows it broken there.

this is the weirdest bug!1??!?!?!

[surenlicious]

I actually just tested it on Chrome (I'm on a MAC) and this...works. Holy shit. XD Now I can FINALLY add my chapter covers I worked so hard on. Gotta still check the image size though, still poking around with it.

It would save us the trouble if we could get the feature for us novelists to also upload our artwork, yes there are writers that can draw imagine that. XD