Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-25980608-20150522212203/@comment-25980608-20150815025514

Andrewds1021 wrote:

It looks like to me the only way to get credit for an image is to have the image already on the site, whether placed by you or someone else,... No disagreement about that. I think I might be starting to understand you question. Let me know if the following order of events is correct for you situation.

That's one way to get badge credit, yes. You can also do them in the order 2, 1, 3. But it's step 3 that gives you badge credit.
 * 1) Create article without an actual image but with a placeholder.
 * 2) Upload the image to the site.
 * 3) Replace the placeholder with the actual file.

But if you add an image to the website by using the placeholder, you don't get credit.