HowTo: Adding pictures to posts

You need to find your own image hosting site (e.g photobucket.com).

FYI, to post pictures from your Photobucket account, select the photo in your Photobucket account and you will see the following in descending order on the right side of the photo:

Email & IM
Direct
HTML
IMG (this one is the URL option)

Select “Direct” by clicking once on the word “Direct”. You will notice immediately that “Direct” is dithered and faded and the word “copied” shows up to the right of “Direct”. This means the Direct link has been copied and you can now go back to the BLF editor and paste it into the correct spot (the BLF editor will bring up an image maker when you click on the sunset picture icon as directed at the very beginning of this thread).

I made the mistake of selecting “IMG” since I thought we needed the URL link but that didn’t work for me so I started to click on the others and “Direct” worked for me.

Anyway, carry on…

Below the comment box for responses you’ll see the words “Input Format”. Click on it and pick “Advanced Post Editor”. Then you’ll see the term “Disable rick-text” that toggles when you click on it.

Boy, this is all well and good for all you tech savvy younger folks but it sure is convoluted for us older technically challenged people.

Why can’t BLF just have a button that says “add photo” and it accesses your photo library and you pick what pictures you want to include? Almost every forum nowadays has this simple way to post pictures.

(If you’re still breathing, you can’t be that much older than I am! Read this whole thread for a lot of good information about the topic.)

I think the main reason is the first word in this forum’s name: “Budget”. Uploaded pixtures cost disk space, which costs our Admin money. Which would require a lot more of those stupid billboard ads the other fori use.

Also, the freedom to choose your own picture host dovetails perfectly into the general philosophy that makes this forum so great.

Thanks JohnnyMac, for this very useful howto

Haha :bigsmile:

It’s not nice getting old. It’s only a number and you may look younger than you actually are, that’s what I hope at least. :wink:

I don’t know where the year’s have gone. :_(

I heard on the news a couple of year’s ago that the first person to live to 150 had already been born. It’s all relatively really, what was thought of being old ten or twenty year’s ago has increased significantly. You may be unlucky lucky enough to live to 120! :smiley:

Well said Andrew, excellent post!

Say I’ve scanned most of this thread however the question I’m about to ask might or might not have been in this conversation, that’s why I’m asking didn’t see any mention or it may be off topic.
When someone, Me, wants to take pics of a project and then post up to a thread here, is there a pixel preference ie: VGA upwards?
Which size would be the best for full graphics effect, is there a cut off, I hope I’m making since but have seen a similar problem somewhere else where I had to take each individual pic and resize in photoshop in order for that forum to post it, they were to many pixels, nice high definition but to high, does that make since and hopefully the answer to my question is that, “Dude your just old and stupid it doesn’t matter in the 21st century”
Thanks in advance…

This forum really doesn't care about photo resolution. However, I resize for bandwidth reasons (recommended if you use Photobucket, perhaps others). Smaller photos often load quicker too. I resize to make the longer side 1920 (which usually yields a standard monitor width of 1920x1080). Also a tip: opening the photo and simply doing a Save & overwriting generally reduces filesize tremendously.

Then post to BLF using a %width you'd like to display (I use 100% for beamshots and maybe 60 to 75% for general pics).

Another tip: the software "irfanview" is a great free photo editor which includes batch processing to handle multiple photos at once.

-Garry

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This forum really doesn’t care about photo resolution. However, I resize for bandwidth reasons (recommended if you use Photobucket, perhaps others). Smaller photos often load quicker too. I resize to make the longer side 1920 (which usually yields a standard monitor width of 1920x1080). Also a tip: opening the photo and simply doing a Save & overwriting generally reduces filesize tremendously.

Then post to BLF using a width you’d like to display (I use 100 for beamshots and maybe 60 to 75% for general pics).

Another tip: the software “irfanview” is a great free photo editor which includes batch processing to handle multiple photos at once.

-Garry

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That’s great info Garry, I just opened an account with Imgur and there was mention there about size, up/down load speeds and then with the great info you’ve given here I think I’m good to go, Thanks a lot pal…!!
This is a really great thread, from the person who did the instructional and all the commenters and yourself Garry I really appreciate the help, about to embark on a request that involves a lot of pictures, the roll over feature is exactly what I’m needing, I think might be even better than just a side by side comparison type, lets your eyeballs get a at first glance opinion, if that makes any sense? LOL

Gary

Yes the rollover or mouseover feature here at BLF is a great feature! I frequently link from my posts over at MTBR for those users to see them (can't post mouseovers nor fill a screen over there).

-Garry

Ya you know, the brain is a funny thing, if I posted two pics side by side and asked someone to tell me what they see is different I’ve seen where they couldn’t tell the difference at all, but if I then took the same pics and did it like flash card like for lack of a better way of explaining what I’m trying to say here, well the results were completely different for some reason which I really don’t know why but a roll over IMO MIGHT have the same effect?? We shall see, I’m just happy to have read here that this is possible, what a great write up and the answers I’ve gotten from you have really helped a lot, Thank You again…!!

G…

Yeah, IrfanView is pretty sweet.

I use it for just about everything image-wise, even though I have Adobe Photoshop. ;)

Just downed the app irfanview nice easy install and usually I can tell out the gate if this app is going to be a problem child or not hate the bloat that’s always thrown in, usually,
And right out the gate what do I spy with my quick scan through of current ver. changes which made me very happy
“Amazon 1Button App” offer removed” Nice… I hate that stuff, either it’s free or it’s a pest, like those Best Buy popups… argh
Nearly everything I use is open source, this package seems really light…
Thanks for the tuneup, this app is seemingly fantastic but only fiddled quickly and will get in deep later, thanks for the tip…!!

In addition to onmouseover= (action when the reader points at the picture), don’t forget onmouseout= (action after onmouseover=) and onclick= (left-click on the picture)…

There may be more, and this thread is The Place to report them.

HTH…

Here is an example. Quote this post for the details:

Is there a way to post .gifv? I played around with it for a while but I can't seem to make it work under video or picture.

I’ve been using Photobucket for over 8 years now. I used to like it. But now, it is laden with video ads that consume bandwidth and wonky Adobe Flash programming that thrashes the browser so badly that it crashes. I’m sick of it!

There are other photo sharing sites out there… so much choice, but hard to know what’s really good. Any recommendations? I recently started with imgur… It’s OK. I like the folder navigation provided by Photobucket. There are some very nice features… if only they the site didn’t have such horrible Flash problems.

postimg.org

No flashy ads or other garbage. I use it exclusively. Nothing more in life I hate than going to read a thread somewhere and finding most or all the images gone.

Quote:

"3) How long will images be left on the server?

You can upload unlimited images per post will never have to worry about your images being removed for inactivity."