Locate the URL of the GIF you want to insert into the description. If the GIF is not on the Internet, you must upload it to an image sharing website, and then copy its URL to the clipboard. After you select the URL of the image, press “Ctrl-C” to copy it to the clipboard.
Log in to your Tumblr account, and then click the “Customize” button on the Dashboard. Locate the Description box in the toolbox to the left.
Click inside the Description box, and then type “<img src=” (without the quotation marks) in the spot where you want the image to appear.
Insert a quotation mark, and then press “Ctrl-V” to paste the image URL from the clipboard. Insert another quotation mark immediately after the URL, and end the tag with the “>” symbol:
Click the “Save” button to save and apply the changes. You can preview the changes in the right pane.
To change the width and height of the image, add the “width=Size_in_Pixels” and “height=Size_in_Pixels” parameters to the IMG tag. For example, to change the size of the image to 100 by 100 pixels, the IMG tag must look like this:
There are dozens of image sharing websites on the Internet that you can use to insert a GIF image from your hard drive into your Tumblr blog.
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