Photographs - Method of posting regardless of size.

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Photographs - Method of posting regardless of size.

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When posting a Picture size is a problem, it's slow, has a transfer size limit, it takes up space on the Forums server, I assume we have a limit but there is way to over come this problem.

I have been experimenting (you may have noticed) with an Web Page product called PhotoBucket.

Its free to join, you get a 2gig storage area (can buy more).

You get a small app (if you like) to put on PC (Mac or Windows) and phone.

This app will allow you to set up a folder on your PC to which you dump pictures and videos (Videos limit is 500meg or what can be transferred in 10mins). This is automatically transfered to the Photobucket folder of your choice. The default folder is private, so if you want to publish your pictures set up a non private folder to transfer your photos to. You can also do a manual upload without an app.

This then enables you to post the URL instead of the Picture and saves time and space.

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All I posted was (by cut and paste (click on a little box next to the photo to copy URL)

[img]http:-//i780.photobucket.com/albums/yy83/georgelll/Fun%20stuf/imagesqtbnANd9GcTlUFdpqVtGr-rw5ekhP.jpg[/img]

I put a "-" in the code to stop it displaying

In Photobucket you can search for pictures made public and use them like my little example.

All make sense?

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Mr ADMIN we don't have a Computer Thingy forum to post techo crap like this! :D
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Re: Photographs - Method of posting regardless of size.

Post by BruceS »

Yes that is a good suggestion Russell but there are quite a few for who that is a very complicated procedure. Not everyone knows all the tricks and a lot don't really want to learn them.
I think it's up to me & the other Administrators to ensure that posting on the forum is so easy that the members are encouraged to seamlessly pop their pictures up.
We are fortunate that the server I installed this forum on is located in Canberra (fast?) & has unlimited bandwidth & a very large storage limit. One problem with an outside storage facility is that should that site crash or that person's account get cancelled, suddenly all the hyperlinks to the pictures fail. Looks terrible on a website when that happens.
Shortly there will be a mod that will auto resize photos & pictures BEFORE they are uploaded. Can't wait!!
This won't effect avatars though I believe.
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Re: Photographs - Method of posting regardless of size.

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