I tried all the link to an image options in Dropbox but images don’t appear. Just see a placeholder.
I know in the latest TW5 I can just drag and drop which is brilliant but I want to keep the file size down if possible…
Or is there another way? I used to subscribe to web host space and that worked. But I don’t need the space now.
I use Cloudinary. They have a free tier. I have many many images in my work and this has worked flawlessly for me. Hope that helps.
Will take a look thanks. I won’t even have hundreds.
Have a closer look at: https://tiddlywiki.com/#ExternalImages and search this forum for _canonical_uri
Referencing external images from Tiddlywiki classic doesn’t work either. Hosted on Tiddlyhost if that is relevant.
That might be CORS thing.
Re: Dropbox, are you talking a free or paid account?
Free account. Does it matter if the code link does not have a jpg ending? As the code doesn’t.
(@cld/asset-share)
If you paste the link into a browser it opens - had to use brackets as when posted here it just shows the company. Odd.
Use this address in field _canonical_uri
Set the type to image/jpeg .
I got the address by opening up your address, right-clicking, and copying image address.
It’s nice cloudinary offers a free tier. But I would worry about a service who’s very next step after free is $89/month.
In Cloudinary you need to use the URL of the image. Click on <>, top right on any image in the media library to copy it to the clipboard. Then use html <img src="..."> syntax to put the image where you want it if you don’t need to reuse it elsewhere. Otherwise put it in its own tiddler and transclude to multiple places. The URL will start with res.cloudinary.com and finish with an image extension like .png or .jpeg depending on prefs.
<img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/dspnxldi8/image/upload/v1730213035/a5zrqxyyp9ushq6c9fbx.png"> for example.
Hope that helps.
Thanks both. So just use the url link. I didn’t select the correct type of link.
It doesn’t work using a Dropbox url but both methods work using Cloudinary. 
Works from Imgur as well as it’s easy to get an url. Google Drive also makes it difficult!
Yep I wouldn’t go for that - for professionals only.
