You can use the buttons above the text-input box you type in when posting; click the first button on the second row that looks like a little Mona Lisa and then in between the img tags put your image url.
Example code:
[img]https://i.ibb.co/bJNW2fC/DSC-1032.jpg[/img]Now, you also need an image host to host your image, whether it be an photo you took yourself, or an image from another website you'd like to show here. "Hot-linking" is the practice of using a site's image address as your image link when posting in forums and is bad form for many reasons I'll not go into right now (do a search for more details), so if you are going to use someone else's image, best to re-upload it to an image host.
As for which image host to use, I like imgbb (
https://imgbb.com/). It, like most image hosts, provide the code for posting in forums, but I tend to click my uploaded image then copy the direct address so to avoid them adding a link to their service (a bit rude of me to do so considering they are providing a free service, but like to be able to change the size of images to fit the forum layout better).
Speaking of sizing, a photo taken with a phone will tend to be a very large image and really blow-out a forum page at times. I get around this by adding dimensions to my img tags like this:
[img width=800]https://i.ibb.co/bJNW2fC/DSC-1032.jpg[/img]This restricts the image width to 800px, stopping it from pushing some forum frames off the screen and all the contents with it. You end up with a nice and easy image to view with no horizontal scrolling required. 800px is a good size for most images as they are usually in landscape aspect, though when posting a portrait aspect image, it might not stop the image from extending past the bottom of the screen. It's good practise to preview your post before submitting just to check exactly what will be displayed. It's not really an issue in this forum, but others forums can really suffer if no image constriction is used when tagging.
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