Admin: Posting Pictures on this Forum

[JoeS]

2024 UPDATE: GO TO POST #44

A question was asked as to how to post pictures on this forum. It's been discussed before, but I couldn't find it...

The way I do it is first compose the photo and typically size it down so the width is only around 600 pixels at 72dpi. Large photos overwhelm the posts.

Edit, September 2015: I now size them to a width of 640dpi, as that seems to work well with tablets.

I then put the picture on an accessible website (I happen to have my own). I believe some have successfully used some of the photo-sharing websites.

In the text of my post I then create the link to that picture and surround the link with

.

If someone has a more refined description, I'd sure appreciate your posting it here.

Thank you.

 

[bruisepristine]

photobucket.com

Drag and drop to upload pics, pluss generates all the link codes you need, that includes

, it's simply brilliant! Been using it since the myspace era (lol!) approx 2005.

 

[misterbleepy]

for flickr users:

When you have uploaded your picture to flickr, go to that picture's page in your photostream, click Share This, select "Grab the HTML", change the selection box to BBCode (which is what this forum runs on) and copy the code it gives you. Then just paste that into your post.
The code will look like this:

[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/misterbleepy/4457100318/][img]http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2801/4457100318_27bd6352c3_z.jpg?zz=1[/img][/url]
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/misterbleepy/4457100318/]Dynohub[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/misterbleepy/]misterbleepy[/url], on Flickr

and the result will look like this:

Dynohub by misterbleepy, on Flickr

for imgur users:

When you upload a picture to imgur, you should see a column of sharing links to the right of your image. Copy either the BBCode one or the Linked BBCode one. The LinkedBBCode also embeds a link back to the picture's page on the imgur site.
The code will look like this (BBCode):

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/UqL8Ztl.jpg[/IMG]

or this (Linked BBCode):

[URL=http://imgur.com/UqL8Ztl][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/UqL8Ztl.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

and the result will look like this (BBCode):

or this (Linked BBCode):


hat tip to Andy S on Fractured Axel kite forum whose post I shamelessly plagiarised for this one.

 

[MLucas]

for Facebook users:

• 
  1. select the photo,
  2. right click on the photo
  3. select 'properties' on the popup menu
  4. highlight the Address field on the general tab.
  5. close the properties window.
  6. use the pasted address in Img tag of your post.

 

[PV1]

I personally use DropBox. It's free and provides a backup to your smartphone's photo folder with the camera upload feature. To share a picture on DB,

1. Log into your Dropbox through the web browser.
2. Navigate to the photo.
3. Click on the share link button on the right side of the screen next to your selected photo.
4. Come back here and paste the link inside the HTML tags, like such:

[img]https://photos-4.dropbox.com/t/0/AACoTli4wJHrpmlom2x7a1YgUSf82ENLEPvNE1P-VaM_Nw/12/130438852/jpeg/1024x768/3/1371873600/0/2/20130604_194416.jpg/FKhKe6wrWSjf8icJa52w-JYgrbRCrq8mEyxZkTVFLnI[/img]

The result:

 

[JoeS]

PV1, the "Result" I see is a question mark on a blue background :roll:
I'll remove my post if you're able to fix it

 

[peterdambier]

interestingly enough, pasting the code into my browser gets me a 404.

Something like "http://www.piraten-fraktion-bergstrasse.de/AETC/ART/Gimp-8013.jpg" ought to work, I hope.

This is a blue CEE 230V/16A caravan socket or blue command socket and they work great for 16A. I just smoldered my third Schuko in my first year of ownership.

 

[PV1]

PV1, the "Result" I see is a question mark on a blue background :roll:

Interesting, I noticed it doesn't work on my Galaxy S3 either.

How's this?

(work in progress)

 

[misterbleepy]

How's this?

(work in progress)

Still a small blue square with a question mark in it for me.
Are the photos you're linking to in a public folder of your dropbox account?

 

[marta]

Alternatively, you could create a blog at http://www.myevblog.com and upload your pictures there - plus you can blog about your awesome iMiev

 

[PV1]

The links must be timing out. Now neither picture is showing. :evil:

They're shared links, so they should work.

Scratch Dropbox photo sharing for now.

 

[aarond12]

Dropbox doesn't seem to be a good choice for photo sharing. Seems there are always access errors or something.

I still prefer and recommend IMGUR.COM for uploading and posting public photos.

 

[JoeS]

I was recently asked about picture size for embedding within our posts. I usually reduce my photos to a width of 640 pixels at a resolution of 72dpi, which produces a usable size on both a computer and tablet. You embed the photo on a server and then enclose the link to that photo with the bracketed Img BBCode where you want to insert the photo into your text. We have a couple of associated threads on this topic:

Flickr (also discussed in this thread): http://myimiev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2618

Picasa: http://myimiev.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=1251

Hope this helps.

 

[JoeS]

Have a question:
I'm about to sell my stable of vintage Saabs (one electric - yes, I'm cleaning house) and have maybe 100 photos I'd just like to put on some server and then provide a single link to that file collection, rather than individually place each file (photo) on my own website server and then laboriously link to each photo. Any recommendations for being able to do this painlessly? Of course, need a technique that would work with this forum as well.
Thanks, JoeS.

 

[misterbleepy]

If you upload them to your imgur account, and place them in an album, you can get a link to the album - like this:

http://imgur.com/a/VjXbs

 

[JoeS]

If you upload them to your imgur account, and place them in an album, you can get a link to the album ...

Well, I went to sign up with imgur and started reading their terms of service. What do I find in the early paragraphs but "Also, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network." Huh?

 

[misterbleepy]

If you upload them to your imgur account, and place them in an album, you can get a link to the album ...

Well, I went to sign up with imgur and started reading their terms of service. What do I find in the early paragraphs but "Also, don't use Imgur to host image libraries you link to from elsewhere, content for your website, advertising, avatars, or anything else that turns us into your content delivery network." Huh?

uh-oh - just goes to show how much attention I have paid to their ToS.
I hereby retract my recommendation - though in a puzzled manner as they provide tools to generate BBCode links to your images on their site...

 

[PV1]

Doesn't that statement more or less make their website legally unusable? Isn't Imgur's existence due to being a content delivery network?

 

[wmcbrine]

It wouldn't be the first time a site's Terms of Service excluded what seemed to be the site's primary use.

 

[Phximiev]

How about modifying this sites HTML to allow for an upload and store to this site's file?