Thanks to America Online's amazing You've Got Pictures system (keyword YGP), including a picture in your AOL journal entry only takes a couple of clicks. In fact, the AOL programmers automated just about everything in the process.

You can include any digital picture stored on your computer (even on a CD) or images that you already uploaded to You've Got Pictures. If the picture currently lives on your computer, then the You've Got Pictures system automatically uploads and stores it online for you.

To add a picture to one of your journal entries, follow these steps:

1. Open the entry by clicking the Edit Entry button (or simply add a new entry), and then click the Add Pictures button. The You've Got Pictures window launches. The tabs across the top of the window let you switch between pictures on your computer, images you already sent to You've Got Pictures, and items sent to you by other people.

2. Click the check box next to the photo you want to include. You can include up to eight photos.

3. Click the Add Pictures button. You've Got Pictures takes care of the rest automatically, by uploading, copying, and generally reorganizing things until your journal entry photo gallery is done.

You can add up to eight photos to a single journal entry, so don't go hog wild with the photos. Adding pictures also slows down the journal loading time for people using a dialup connection, so take that into consideration before stuffing tons of full-color images into your journal.