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How do I leave a picture as a MySpace comment?

I'm just getting started with MySpace and see all these people leaving comments on my profile that include cool pictures. I want to do that too. How do I add pictures or photographs as comments on other people's MySpace profiles?


Dave's Answer:

It's not too hard to add pictures (or a picture, at least) to a comment you leave someone else on MySpace, but there's one critical thing you need to know: you can't host the picture itself on MySpace, you need to use a different server or services to actually serve up the graphical file. You just "point to it" in the comment you leave on MySpace.

There is a way you can sidestep this a bit, however, and I'll show you how to do that because it's pretty fun. Basically, you do an image search and find an image you like, figure out the URL (fully qualified Web address) of the image file, and use that in your comment.

For example, if you went to Google Images and searched for Thanks for the Add, you'll find that there are over 130,000 matching images that Google knows about. Sweet!

Here's one that I thought was nice:

Google Images Match

Clicking on the image takes me to a page that has the key item we seek:

Google Images: See Fullsize

The link to right click on "See Fullsize Image":

Google Images: Rightclick

What you want to do is choose "Copy Link" or "Copy Image Address". Now you have the URL of the desired image in your copy and paste buffer. Next step, back to MySpace!

On MySpace, find the profile of someone for whom you want to leave a comment, and just above their existing comments you'll see:

MySpace Add Comment

No surprise here, click on "Add Comment" and now you'll be facing a blank entry box, a typical MySpace experience as a user, actually! To add your comment -- and image -- you need to delve into a little HTML, however. The trick is to know that the img src tag lets you reference a graphic and have the actual graphic displayed rather than the HTML. Since we know the image address from Google Images, we'll paste that into the img tag, so that it ends up looking like this:

<img src="url we got from Google">

To be specific to this graphic, it looks like this:

<img src="http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h197/purdymoma/654175321_m.jpg">

Adding that, and a few words, to the comment box, it ends up looking like this:

MySpace Add Comment to Jodie

To actually add the comment (well, to submit the comment and hope it's approved) just click on the "Post a Comment" button and you're done.

Hope that clarifies things, and feel free to add a comment to my own MySpace Profile if you want to practice! :-)

One caveat: just because you can find the URL or address of an image, doesn't mean that you have the legal right to use it on the Web. I would be particularly careful of images that are hosted by commercial firms like Starbucks or McDonalds.


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Reader Comments To Date: 23

Gaurav said, on January 14, 2007 2:02 AM:

Thanks alot Dave, your tips on adding backgrounds and images to myspace via html really help.

mila said, on February 4, 2007 10:32 AM:

Yes it is verycool to have a photo in the message

Karl Sultana said, on March 25, 2007 10:25 AM:

Very useful stuff... thanks. Perfect instructions.

Ca center said, on April 11, 2007 7:15 AM:


Thanks for your help guys. Made me feel allot more confident

Jessie Galante said, on August 6, 2007 4:32 PM:

Hi Dave,
I'm looking for a reputable site where I can put up a mailing list
signup boxes. There are a few like www.eliteemail.com/myspace.
Any ideas?
thanks
Jessie Galante

Jason Mansfield said, on August 20, 2007 4:44 PM:

Hey Jessie,

I use EliteEmail.com for my MySpace mailing list and I love it. While other artists are only sending myspace msgs, I get to send everyone an awesome looking email w/ pics!

Cheers!

Jason

Cristin said, on September 23, 2007 5:06 PM:

I'm trying to send pictures as comments and I keep getting the comment ".." I'm copying and pasting everything so I know that I haven't copied the URL wrong. Is there anyway you can help? Thanks!

Marco said, on October 26, 2007 2:12 PM:

yo man how come it dont work

Tyson said, on December 14, 2007 10:59 AM:

i made birthday card on my paint program and i'm trying to send it to a girls comments. why can't i just copy and past it?

Ryan Quinn said, on October 3, 2008 8:05 PM:

Excellent instruction!

Roman said, on November 18, 2008 10:28 AM:

Thank you very much for this guide!

deborah hage said, on May 9, 2009 4:43 PM:

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lombokwedding said, on March 18, 2010 9:00 PM:

do you able to sharing how to download music on myspace directly?

Ulus Bayrak said, on April 23, 2010 12:25 AM:

Thank you for this useful instruction.

Torro 49 said, on April 26, 2010 5:15 AM:

Good instructions, that's just what I've been looking for. Everything works great

糖尿病 said, on April 29, 2010 8:15 PM:

Thank you very much for this guide!

mary said, on May 3, 2010 7:52 AM:

Thank you, I was just looking to do that, you saved me hours of work.
Thank you for sharing.

bangfa said, on June 7, 2010 9:16 AM:

very good dasfas

cadee said, on June 12, 2010 12:52 AM:

I just wanted to leave a quick comment to say thank you for sharing the information. I found reading it to be both fun and informative.

Alex said, on July 18, 2010 9:52 AM:

Thank you for a wonderful post.

dora said, on August 28, 2010 8:43 AM:

Good guide,i will try to add picture .

koorchik said, on August 28, 2010 8:58 AM:

I wish I have a same function on my blogger.com blog. It's a pity that Blogger is very inconvinient even for posting pictures.

Ms Pacman said, on June 19, 2011 5:17 AM:

That was really helpful! I was looking for this for months!

Starbucks coffee cup I do have a lot to say, and questions of my own for that matter, but first I'd like to say thank you, Dave, for all your helpful information by buying you a cup of coffee!

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