OK, so here's what you have to do:

- Do NOT click on the address bar for the website you're currently displaying. That is not the link to the image itself, that's the link to the page you're currently on. This forum can't insert "the page you're on" as an image.

- Instead, click on the upper right where it says "Share this photo." You have a couple of different choices that will work from there. The simplest is to click on the very bottom code option: IMG code. That will copy not only your direct link, but also the IMG and /IMG tags around it. Then you just have to paste into your response. (Don't use the buttons to insert a picture. Just paste it as text right into your message.)

Even better:
Go into your settings (I'll come back and edit to post instructions in a minute) so that one of your options in those list of code snippets will be "Thumbnail" and use THAT snipped to paste here into the board. Otherwise, the picture you insert here will be full size, probably larger than a regular message window. No matter what the size of your original picture, a small thumbnail version will show up in your post, then people can click it if they want to see it full size. (They'll be taken to that page that you're viewing the photo on in Photobucket.)

BRB with the instructions to add Thumbnail to your settings.

OK, here's what you want to do:

- get into your Account Settings by clicking on your username in the top right (it's clickable, with a downward pointing arrow. From there, you can choose Account Settings)
- you'll find yourself in the personal information tab by default, but click on the next one, Album Settings
- The last set of options in Album Settings is Link Options. You can play around with these as you like, but for sure you want to make sure "IMG Thumb" is enabled, for posting here. I personally have all of them checked except flash.

(And, it's a matter of preference, but I have "Link back to my albums" checked, so that people can click on my thumbnail and get to the full picture page. And I also have "Show links in my albums" set to "Only on mouse-over." Otherwise, your albums have more code than pictures on the page!)

Hope that helps.