For my non-Blog sites, it’s not even an issue of how to upload images since I use XSitePro, so everything is uploaded seamlessly including images, and I don’t have to bother with FTP programs whatsoever, or opening explorer windows.

However, when adding images to this blog, I wanted to avoid having to do all of this:

Printscreen key
Paste into paintbrush
Saving as jpg from paintbrush
Open Ftp Program
In the ftp program, taking the time to navigate to the correct directory on the local side of the ftp program’s screen.

So I’ve had to come up something like the following

This utility pictured below, Capture Express, pops up with Ctrl-F11. After clicking on the “Capture” button, your mouse turns into a drawing cursor, and you simply draw around the image you want to capture

It gives you a standard file dialog to save the file.

Now that it is saved as a JPG file, go ahead and click Save again, even though you are not actually saving this time. You just want the dialog box to appear so that you could right click and make a selection (WS_FTP puts an option on your right click menu, as a quick alternative to opening up the full Interface)

WS_ftp holds the recently used ftp locations, so it’s easy to select it with one click, and the image is uploaded.This whole process probably takes less than a minute.
Note: There are several FTP programs available that make the upload available directly from the Right-Click menu when in explorer. Just Google for “Right Click FTp Upload” or click google search

When it comes to actually adding the link to the image in your blog post, there are a couple of ways of doing it. In WP 2.0, there is an improved way of doing this as described in step 5 of Problogger’s blog entry: http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/12/26/10-things-you-should-know-about-wordpress-20/

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