Trying out posting images
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January 12, 2015 at 9:14 am #75760Graham DavisParticipant
Here’s my first try at posting on this new forum.
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January 12, 2015 at 10:39 am #75765Gavin Pretor-PinneyKeymaster
All looks good to me, Graham.
By the way, you can add a photo to your profile (could be anything) by clicking on your name and using the Change Profile Photo link. -
January 13, 2015 at 4:47 pm #75798Gini WellsParticipant
Testing, testing……….
I had no problem going straight into this page from the link you posted, Gavin, on the old Forum (I had logged in first) – hooray! Fingers crossed things continue to go smoothly from now on. I will have a go at uploading a picture in another post.
Gini
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January 13, 2015 at 5:24 pm #75799Graham DavisParticipant
Works for me too. I tried another different browser (Qupzilla) so as to start from scratch and avoid any possible hangovers. Thanks, Gavin.
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January 13, 2015 at 8:52 pm #75803Gavin Pretor-PinneyKeymaster
That’s great news, Gini, and I’m glad that it worked in a different browser, Graham. It looks as if things are coming together. Gini, I see that you have successfully uploaded a profile photo. Let me know if you have any difficulties uploading a photo to your Album and posting it. I am still investigating whether this is going to be the best way forward for posting images.
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January 13, 2015 at 10:39 pm #75804Gini WellsParticipant
Hi Gavin,
I had no problem uploading a photo for my profile, using my Samsung tablet gallery, but when I tried to upload a photo to my Album, the tablet went straight to the camera instead of the gallery when I touched ‘Choose file’. I will try the same thing on my laptop to see if this is a general problem or one confined to the tablet and get back to you. Gini-
January 13, 2015 at 10:43 pm #75805Andrew PothecaryModerator
Works for me! I’ll try a photo upload later…
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January 13, 2015 at 10:54 pm #75806Gini WellsParticipant
Am trying to post a picture from my laptop – it appears the problem uploading to my Album was a tablet issue: it worked fine from the laptop.
Ah-ha! It’s worked – good. But the URL copying is a bit long-winded – will there be an easier way of putting photos into a post as this site develops? Would it work simply to paste the URL straight into the post?
http://cloudappsoc.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/album/263/Card-cloud-600×504.jpgAh – interesting. The picture doesn’t display but the URL does link to the picture.
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January 14, 2015 at 8:00 am #75809Graham DavisParticipant
Gini, one of the problems with the old forum was that in some circumstances, such as when we wanted to point to a large hi-res picture, we needed to post a URL that wouldn’t immediately show as an embedded picture. At least you’ve proved that the new system solves that problem.
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January 14, 2015 at 10:19 am #75810Gavin Pretor-PinneyKeymaster
Well that’s a good development then. There is currently a file-size restriction of 2MB per photo uploaded to the system. I am going to have to see how this side of things pans out because if we have a lot of people uploading a lot of images the server costs might become an issue.
I’m currently looking into getting these user images stored on a different server that it is scalable as the membership numbers increase. I’m hoping that I can get a clearer idea on this by the end of the week.
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February 1, 2015 at 5:06 pm #76451Keith ColdronParticipant
I see that this has been going a couple of weeks now, one solution which I found to limit download size is to use the “Free” Windows “Image Resizer” It is a quick download and really does work very simply.
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January 15, 2015 at 12:54 am #75847Michael LerchParticipant
Here is my go at it..see which works
[IMG]http://i59.tinypic.com/28tjo.jpg[/IMG]
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January 15, 2015 at 12:57 am #75848Michael LerchParticipant
http://i59.tinypic.com/28tjo.jpg
okay..for Tinypic users, the successful address is the one that is labeled..HTML for Websites ( the first choice)
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January 15, 2015 at 9:55 am #75853Gavin Pretor-PinneyKeymaster
Great. Thanks for the clarification, Mike.
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January 15, 2015 at 5:38 pm #75878Gini WellsParticipant
Hey, Mike – nice to see you on the new Forum! And as ever, posting a wonderful image.
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January 17, 2015 at 11:11 am #75919Graham DavisParticipant
And here’s another one that I took this morning whilst going to get my morning paper.
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January 17, 2015 at 5:44 pm #75931Michael LerchParticipant
A nice sunrise there Graham. Makes getting up early worth it. Below is sunset close up from backyard here in Phoenix:
ps..this time the 2nd ” choice”,, IMG code for Forums and Message Boards,, worked when address was copied and pasted into IMG field,,from Tinypic.
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January 22, 2015 at 3:30 am #76084Helen MillsParticipant
Gini, Mike and Graham, a delight and relief to see your photos, wonderful. I’ll have a go at posting here as it didn’t work on my first try in the test pic topic.
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January 22, 2015 at 3:32 am #76085Helen MillsParticipant
Nup, ah well… at least I can see yours. I’m using a MacBook Pro, Safari server. When I hit the Submit button it doesn’t respond. Is this a computer thing or something I’m missing?
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January 24, 2015 at 12:32 pm #76176Gavin Pretor-PinneyKeymaster
Helen, you might want to try the other method of including an image in your post. I have added a topic explaining how to upload images, which might help. Let us know!
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January 24, 2015 at 8:13 pm #76182Helen MillsParticipant
Gavin, I uploaded a picture into Album , but when I clicked on thumbnail, no response and there’s no URL appearing. I tried copying image location but that didn’t work.
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January 24, 2015 at 8:33 pm #76184Helen MillsParticipant
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Here’s hoping..
No, I am still missing something, but I’ll persist. Can’t seem to generate a valid URL.
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January 24, 2015 at 11:09 pm #76186Gavin Pretor-PinneyKeymaster
I can see the image that you added to your Album. In order to get the url of this image, you need to click on the right button of your mouse to make a menu appear that has an option to copy the url, or the ‘address’, of the image. A normal mouse click will not make the menu appear.
This allowed me to add your image:
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January 26, 2015 at 12:07 am #76230Helen MillsParticipant
Thank you Gavin. My MacBook Pro doesn’t have a mouse, just a touchpad, so I purchased an Apple Magic Mouse, but no matter whether I click on the right or left, or once or twice or any combination of the above, I cannot get a URL. (I’ve enabled right click in system preferences). I have a computer – savvy friend who may be able to sort this out for me.
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January 26, 2015 at 11:32 am #76236Gavin Pretor-PinneyKeymaster
Helen, oh no – I didn’t want you have to go and get a mouse! There is always one way of doing it even if you don’t have one. Since you are on a Mac, you can do it by holding the ‘ctrl’ button (bottom left of keyboard) as you click on the photo in your Album using your trackpad (or your new mouse). This should show you the little drop-down window that will give you the option to copy the url or the address of the image. Does that work?
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January 26, 2015 at 8:14 pm #76263Helen MillsParticipant
Thanks for your persistence Gavin. Here goes….
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January 23, 2015 at 1:51 pm #76142Photo EditorKeymaster
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January 23, 2015 at 2:15 pm #76146Photo EditorKeymaster
Further to upload details, for windows 8 and mozilla firefox users, when you are selecting an image from your album, left click on the image you require, then right click on the image and select ‘copy image location’ from the menu that opens, then return to the post and click on ‘img’
clear http from the box that opens and paste in the url this will appear as text until you click ‘submit’, image will then appear in the post ….IanL..
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January 23, 2015 at 2:21 pm #76147Gavin Pretor-PinneyKeymaster
Thanks for this, Ian. I will add something to the instructions.
Since you use the Photo Editor login for updating the gallery, rather than you own member login, you are appearing on the post author as just a “Cloud shop customer”. Would it be better to login as yourself, with your actual membership login, rather than in the generic Photo Editor role? Email me if you need to be reminded of login details…
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January 23, 2015 at 11:26 pm #76172Michael LerchParticipant
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January 26, 2015 at 1:07 pm #76238Søren HaugeModerator
Works ;) A somewhat slow procedure compared to Facebook, but it works…
Lenticularis Hat, Tenerife, 26 january 2015, Ellen Borkus, Denmark.
Danish source: http://vejret.tv2.dk/2015-01-25-imponerende-sky-over-populaer-ferieoe
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February 1, 2015 at 7:25 pm #76501Paul JonesParticipant
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February 1, 2015 at 11:35 pm #76535Jim ThalassoudisParticipant
A recent oil painting; The Summit, 2014, oil on linen, 76 x 76 cm Just testing the posting of images
Well that didin’t work :(
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February 1, 2015 at 11:44 pm #76537Jim ThalassoudisParticipant
ok, that worked, finally defogged my brain to work it out
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