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Pin a favorite photo on Pinterest from another site?

December 16, 2011 / Dave Taylor / Pinterest Help / 7 Comments

I’m just getting started on the fun site Pinterest and am wondering if you can advise me on the best way to add a photo of my own, rather than just “liking” other photos people have added to the site?

I’m a relative newbie to Pinterest too, so your n00b secret is safe with me. Well, with me and the people who read this blog now, right? 🙂
Pinterest is fun because it’s simple. Everyone who participates can “pin” images onto a thematic or topical “board” then others can “like” the images or even leave comments. Follow enough people and it’s quite a fascinating blend of what multiple people are finding interesting enough to pin, in a very visually oriented fashion. So to some extent, I suppose it’s like Digg and related, but way less geeky and way more fashionable and styling…
As with everything I do, I’ve been experimenting with Pinterest to see how it works and while I find the interface pleasantly uncluttered, I have to say that I cannot seem to get image uploading to work. I’ve tried multiple times and it invariably ends up with a broken image link on my board. Disappointing.
So for this, I’m going to kill the proverbial two birds with the same stone: I’ve uploaded an image to Flickr, and am going to “pin” the image to my Random board on Pinterest. If you found an image on another site that you wanted to pin, the process would basically be identical.
To get started, log in to your Pinterest account and locate the top navigational bar:

pinterest link to photo 1

Click on… wait for it… wait for it… “Add +” and a window pops up:
pinterest link to photo 2

To include a photo that’s elsewhere on the Web already (as we’ll have with the photo we uploaded to Flickr) click on “Add a Pin”. If you want to try your luck at uploading your own photographs or images, click on “Upload a Pin”. Want to create a new thematic or topical board? Click on … you guessed it… “Create a Board”.
I’ll click on “Add a Pin”, then, in a different browser window, pop over to Flickr and grab the URL of my image in its largest size by command-clicking (PC users should right click) on “Download the Large size of this photo” and choosing “Copy Image URL…” from the context menu:
pinterest link to photo 3

Now that the URL’s loaded into the copy and paste buffer, switch back to the Pinterest page and copy it into the appropriate field on the “Add a Pin” window:
pinterest link to photo 4

A click on “Find Images” and you’ll see a lot more, including a thumbnail of the image in question:
pinterest link to photo 5

Pick which Board you want — I’ll choose “Random” — and add a description of some sort. Done? Click on “Pin It” and it’s now part of the Pinterest image stream:
pinterest link to photo 6

Nice and easy.
As to uploading your own images? Lots of people tell me that they have no problems with it, but so far I haven’t been able to make it work for my Pinterest account. Perhaps I’m using bad image formats or a browser that’s not 100% compatible? I’ll keep digging…

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7 comments on “Pin a favorite photo on Pinterest from another site?”

  1. melissa says:
    January 11, 2015 at 3:06 pm

    As someone stated above, the uploader no longer looks like Dave describes. There is no add (+) button or “about” tab next to my name so I don’t see the three buttons you describe: add a pin, upload a pin or create a board. So i still cannot figure out how to add my own jpg photos to my pinterest account???

    Reply
    • Dave Taylor says:
      January 12, 2015 at 10:33 am

      On the lower right there’s a floating “+” button now. Easy enough! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Jolinda says:
    October 19, 2014 at 9:11 am

    Some months ago I was able to put some of my own photos on pinterest. For some odd reasons I am no longer able to do so. The pictures you show in this tutorial are not visible. Is there any other way to upload pictures? I have logged out and logged in again. That didn’t really help. I hope you can help me. Thanks in advance.

    Reply
    • Dave Taylor says:
      October 19, 2014 at 4:44 pm

      You can’t pin anything from any site, Jolinda? Try using a different browser – perhaps you have a plug-in or firewall or similar that’s blocking functionality?

      Reply
  3. Karen says:
    February 7, 2013 at 8:42 am

    New to Pinterest, your way of pinning much easier that theirs. Thanks
    Hope you know all other stuff, will be checking you out again

    Reply
  4. Dave Taylor says:
    December 22, 2011 at 12:05 am

    That’s odd, Mary, as it’s still what I see when I try to Pin something from another site. Are you on a new browser or something?

    Reply
  5. Mary says:
    December 21, 2011 at 10:45 am

    The Pinterest uploader no longer looks like this…there is no way to add a link. That I know of.

    Reply

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