How to Choose a Main Image for a Steemit Post
This is a question I am hoping someone out there can answer. Does anyone know how to choose what image gets displayed in a post? In my last post https://steemit.com/learntocode/@veryscience/learn-how-to-code-how-to-create-a-decimal-to-binary-conversion-function-in-c I was hoping to display the image below as my main image, but instead when I submitted my post, my main image was a picture from within the post that I never would have selected to be displayed alongside my post.
Does anyone know how to choose the main image that gets displayed next to a post when there is more than one image in the post?
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I'm fairly certain it just takes the first available image in the post. I could see your image just fine this time.
I agree with you
I looked at your last post though and your right, it didn't use the first image it used the second from last one which is odd. I would of assumed it would be the first image as well, maybe they can make it work that way.
That is kind of what I was hoping, but the main image displayed along my post here was is not the first image. It is the second image that gets displayed alongside that article.
I've seen some posts with article thumbnail image that is not the first one in the post, but haven't figured out if we actually have control over this in any way...
Personally I am researching steemit and postings in general. To me pictures are not good.
To my thinking people mainly click on your baited subject line; sure a picture helps but it also distracts...
The internet is very visual, but things like twitter work because you can only have short punchy sentences that grab people but do not consume a huge impact of time.
Longer articles simply do not get read, so while pictures might break them up or increase interest; simply I think longer articles sort of fail unless well written and needed on a specific topic.
I want short powerful words that convey meaning not additional pictures that clutter up the BC (blockchain)...
/hugz... just IMHO :)
This probably depends a lot on the audience interested in the post too. For my topic, I feel like it is important for me to display some image of code, since that is what my target audience is looking for.
I would think if you were going to place something fairly abstract as a picture, something like computer coding. Then why not have it either be instantly meaningful to some coder as something that jumps out and grabs them, or else some code written in the shape of Yoda, a Squirrel or appears to depict a Cat or something noteworthy.
If it just looks like 'code' how many people are just going to get into it, I think pictures need to bait the story and add impact; and of course images should not be used without permissions...
good luck out there,
c u on the BC ;)
/hugz...
Ok so let's say that I include some pictures of squirrels wearing Yoda costumes. I still need to take some screenshots of my the program running for clarity. I would still need a way to choose my Yoda-squirrels as the main picture.
I am wondering if the main picture is the one that is closest to some predefined aspect ratio.
My introductory post had no picture at all, but my article contained 3, including one at the very top...
Thanks for the post!!