HowTo: Adding pictures to posts

Thanks Rufusbduck. I saw that in time, clicked on it, and then did a face plant ….duh!

I am doing more reviews, and it really takes a LONG time to do each individual pic. :Sp

Is there a way to bulk upload photos on a thread :quest:

Thanks - this will make posting easier and better - no more super size or micro size photos.

I keep a .txt file in my My Documents folder where I keep the “tricks” like mouseover stored. I also store URLs there, since a couple of the online storage sites I use like to move my pictures about without telling me.

It’s easier for me to copy & paste URLs into the .txt file, then copy & paste the works into this BLF Comment: box. Of course, I still Preview a thousand times to get everything perfect, but the initial load is easier (for me) this way.

If you’re just doing a string of pictures, one file should do, but if you wanted to have a caption (above or below), you could just have one .txt file & get each picture “right” in it, then copy & paste it into its place in the Comment: box.

Oh, and the mouse isn’t your friend in any of this!! I’d suggest you learn and use keyboard shortcuts for jumping to the Address bar of your browser, for switching between programs, and for Copy & Paste…

Just thinking out loud here, mostly. Is there any specific part of the process that seems more onerous than the rest?

All questions help everyone learn and teach, and I (for one) would love to see what you’ve done!

Dimbo

I create reviews and many GB posts in a spam thread I created, edit them, then cut and paste into my online post. Do you do the same thing, but just in a .txt file?

Anyway, the tedious part is:

  1. Uploading all photos to photobucket.
  2. Copying URL/photo location.
  3. Opening photo icon on post editor and pasting URL at top. Selecting %/size and adding link URL if necessary.
  4. Add it to post.
  5. Add any caption info for photo underneath.
  6. Rinse/repeat for dozens of times :~

This is very tedious. Am I doing it wrong?

that’s my ‘express’ methodology too!

“Tedious” sums it up nicely. IMNERHO the PhotoBucket part would have to be the worst. Clicking through until you get to the actual picture so you can use the actual URL…

Yes I build out the pic-heavy posts in a .txt, then Select All, Copy, & Paste into the Comment: box.

You can make a “generic” .txt file with keywords to be replaced. E.g. you could use “PICURL” for the picture URL (i.e. the URL from PhotoBucket) and “THISCAPTION” for the Caption part, then use the Edit menu Find & Replace function. This way all the little markers and size % and delimiters are left intact. After you’ve first Pasted the bulk into the Comment: box, touch-ups and edits aren’t so hard to do.

It’s not like anyone in the 21st Century is ever going to make this “easy”…

You can avoid all of that by going into Photobucket > Settings > Privacy and unchecking File Name Scrambling. Then you can predict the URLs based on the filenames that you upload. Another useful option under Settings > Albums is to turn on Easy Linking Mode. If you go that route, I would also suggest setting the sort order for Albums to Alphabetical by Filename.

No wonder my pics won't turn up, I've been using the button with sunset picture to post pics when I'm in Advanced mode...

For advanced mode, you have to press the "tree" icon(beside anchor) on the second menu bar instead.

Hey thanks for the tip. I was re-sizing my pictures before posting them here. I didn’t realize I could just do it here. Saves me a step!
:slight_smile:

The very first post. Where he shows how to put a picture into a post.

It can be done.

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I don't see the pic. Looks like your image link is taking me to an entire gallery and not directly to an image.

Edit-I've quoted your post 2 posts back and it's not showing up in my post.

-Garry

I love it!

In the gallery I saw pics of mangled batteries. Might have been more, but that's what I remember.

-Garry

Nope, no pics showing up.

-Garry

No.

What is the URL of the photo? I can’t get “dropbox” to reveal it. Not a dropbox customer/fan, so IDK how they work on your end.

It only matters what the URL of the photograph itself is, not which Server is holding it, nor on what “gallery” or other page that Server shows it to you. It won’t work if that Server is trying to use its “free” Service to make ‘click-money’ & has some krufty kode to prevent showing the actual URL of the photo. Some of the “popular” image hosting sites make it quite difficult to get the address of the image itself and if you’re not willing to dig into their middleware to find Just The URL For Your Image, it’s not likely that anyone else will be either (that includes the authors of the middleware used to run this forum). Sorry, Real Life crashes down in a flash sometimes.

There’s nothing odd about it. It’s how the WWWeb works. Sorry if no one told you that already.

When you add an image to a post here on BLF, the ONLY thing you need is the URL of the actual image itself, not the host’s “doorway” to it, nor any other “gallery” nor “album” nor page nor whatever else the host throws up in your way. If that URL doesn’t end in “.jpg”, “.jpeg”, “.gif”, “.png”, or maybe “.bmp”, it cannot possibly be made to work (unless you’re willing to code up some Forum Middleware for the Admin to use…)

Not to be snooty, but this has already been covered pretty thoroughly in this very thread, BTW…

The code for displaying an image depends on which input format is used. For example, when using the “Simple Post Editor”…

!http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412DA2FE2NL.jpg!

…displays this:

But when using the “Advanced Post Editor”…

<img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412DA2FE2NL.jpg">

…displays the image.

So when quoting a user who posted an image using a different input format that yours, unfortunately the image won’t show up unless you adapt the quoted code to display the image.

Lynyrd Skynyrd said it best: “If we’d stick to the simple, there’d be much less abuse”…

Does the Advanced Editor allow for “Width=###%”? That seems to be a greater problem in image posting, AFAIK…

Both methods require the specific Image URL (as the prompt states quite clearly), not the address of the gallery.

(from looking at the questioner’s posts, that seemed — to me — to be his Root Cause…)