This is the first way I learned how to upload a picture. Essentially, you surround the path to your file with square brackets like so:

#+CAPTION: Attribution: By ~~helix84 (2007), Philverney (9 November 2005), David Vignoni (December 6, 2005) LGPL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html or Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (search for "Icon - upload photo 2.svg")
#+ATTR_HTML: :alt Upload icon of a sunset photograph :title Upload icon of a sunset photograph :align center
[[./img/512px-Icon_-_upload_photo_2.svg.png]]

This is basically how I created the the header image on this post. You’ll also note that you can add a caption that appears under the picture as well as include attributes that will affect the alignment and other aspects of the image.

This is something new I just figured out. You can create an image that also has a URL embedded in it. This is useful if you want to link to the image’s source on the Internet:

The org code looks like this:

[[https://imgflip.com/i/10xbet][file:./img/coffee_vader_faith.jpg]]

Another new thing I learned today is that you can even link to a video and use an image as the link to it:

The org code for the above image and link are as follows:

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM][file:./img/screen.png]]

I hope this has been helpful. Please check out Fabrice Niessen’s Github Reference Card for Org-mode. It’s really useful and terse so you’re not hunting through paragraphs of information to find what you need.

• Discussion of Org-Mode Image Upload on Fabrice Niessen’s Github Reference Card for Org-mode: https://github.com/fniessen/refcard-org-mode#images
• Discussion on Image Links: https://github.com/fniessen/refcard-org-mode#image-links
• Emacs Org-mode – a system for note-taking and project planning by GoogleTechTalks (YouTube): https://youtu.be/oJTwQvgfgMM