It's simple if you know about it. Where did you get the info from the first time you used those image codes? You either saw it somewhere, asked someone and then memorized the code or saved it somewhere for future use. I am pretty sure not everyone knows about those image tags and just adds the images in their original size or uses another service for resizing like Imgur.
Same can be said about image upload on imgur (or anything else for that matter). I am pretty sure that not everyone knows about it, and that they probably had to ask someone, or saw it somewhere.
