Images from the internet
There's an image button in the bottom line of the text field where you're typing your message in. If you click on "image" an additional field will appear below the text field where you can paste the image URL. Be careful: The "https://" part of the URL is already there. When you paste the image URL, you've to replace it. If it's doubled, the image won't appear.
Alternatively you can just type:
[img][/img]
and put the image URL in between:
[img]image URL[/img]
Images from your PC
You need an image hosting service to post images from your harddisc. An image host is a server which allows you to store your image online thus providing you with an image URL which you can use to post the image on a message board.
There are several free and paid solutions. The only one I've ever used is postimage and I've never experienced any problems with it. But there are others like Photobucket or freeimage.host.
You can use postimage without creating a free account, but I'd advise to create an account in order to be able to organize your photos. Comes in handy as soon as you've uploaded a larger number of images.
This is how the upload page looks like:
"No expiration" makes sense at least for this board, where archived messages are a valuable source of information. Resizing the image without apparent loss of quality is better achieved in the photo editing program of your choice before uploading the image.
Once you've uploaded the image you get to a page with several links:
The link you need for posting images is the penultimate one: "Hotlink for forums" You click on the button on the right of the URL to copy the link and paste it into your message. That's it.
Postimage will add a link to its website (the outer part of the links in the screenshot above: (url=https://postimages.org/) and (/url)) which I usually remove, but it doesn't harm to leave it. The first photo has the link removed, the second is still linked to postimage:
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