How do I leave a picture as a myspace comment?

Actually, this isn't as hard as it seems. The trick is to realize that you have to upload your picture somewhere onto the Internet other than MySpace before you begin the process of leaving that picture as a comment. Why? Because MySpace doesn't offer up photo / picture / image storage space and having the picture on your own computer doesn't mean that it's accessible to the rest of the Internet traveling world.

There are a variety of different picture services you can use for this task, notably including Flickr (a Yahoo company) and Photobucket (a News, Inc. company, the same company that now owns MySpace). I have tutorials on how to use both services too: How to upload images to Flickr and How to host images on Photobucket.

The article that's going to be most useful as a starting point for you, however, is a different one here: How do I add pictures to my MySpace Blog?

Using that as a starting point, let's look at how to leave a comment for someone with an image therein. One important caveat, though: most hosting services have a finite bandwidth allocated for external image display, which means that if you use the same image to leave thousands of comments, it's entirely possible that what people will see is a generic "bandwidth exceeded" error instead. Don't abuse the service, however, and you should be fine.

I log in to Photobucket, where I already have some images conveniently uploaded, and see this:

I'll work with the photo of the Hawaiian Flowers, which you can see is called "hawaiian-flowers.png", ingeniously enough.

In another window, I'm going to log in to my MySpace account and find someone's profile onto which I want to leave a comment. Leave the Photobucket page displaying your album of images and we'll return to it shortly.

To leave a comment on someone's MySpace profile, view their profile and scroll down to the comments section on the lower right. On the top of that section it'll say something like:

It should be no surprise that you want to click on the "Add Comment" link, which then brings you here:

The key to realize is that you can drop just about any fancy HTML into the comment box, you aren't just limited to text only. Let's add the picture here and brighten up Jodie's profile a bit by popping back to PhotoBucket and clicking on the "HTML Tag" immediately below the Plumeria photo.

Click on the displayed URL fragment and it'll automatically load the full photo address into your copy/paste buffer. That's what you want to copy and paste into the MySpace comment box. Now it's just a matter of putting it all together nicely in the (tiny) MySpace comment box. Here's what I ended up with:

As you can see, the HTML here is a <center> tag, followed by the image, followed by a line break <br />, followed by some text and, finally, the closing </center> tag. Not too hard. The end result:

Hope that helps you spread some visual joy to your friends on MySpace!

And while we're here, don't forget that I offer up lots of MySpace Help and also invite you to check out my own MySpace Profile while you're surfing around too. :-)