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Mandy, to be able to post pictures without hotinking, I use Photobucket. (it's an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website.)
It is free, but since I've been using it a lot, I had to pay for more bandwidths and switch to Pro !
(1) click on the photo
(2) save as, create own file name
go to Photobucket, sign in
click My Home
click Upload to:
then click Upload Images and Videos
(select from your saved file on # (2) above
double-click on the picture that was uploaded by photobucket in .jpg format, etc
then right click at the photo. Choose "view image info"
copy the location: minus http:// . ... .. up to the extension .jpg
and go back to the thread and paste on the: image link
presto !!!