Picture posting woes

[Scot]

Steven / Phil:

What size images? And, were they .jpg's?

I tested with a 230k image and it posted... and it converted it to about 30k.

-Scot

[Breakaway]

Tapatalk in my iPhone is working well for me. Very simple to post pics straight from the phone. The 3rd party hosting must all be done by magic. Here's my newly tidied workbench on board

Works great for iPhone and iPad.

BTW--great shot!

Kevin

[Scot]

WBWaterfront-2017catcov.jpg

That's a .png, started as an 1167 x 733, 1.5mb image, and posting converted it 800 x 500, 82k.

[Robert W. Long]

Doesn't work for me. I tried uploading from my desktop and got a message that the file exceeded the limit. I thought Scot just said that the forum would resize the image?

[Scot]

Robert:
What size/type image? Want to send it to me? I'd be interested in testing it.

-Scot

[Robert W. Long]

Hi Scot the image is a 2550X1702 jpeg. I tried to send it to you but can't without an email address to send it to.

[Phil Y]

Scot, thanks for getting to work on this. I hope you get there without too many headaches.

[Scot]

20170531-_RWL0187.jpg

Robt's nice photo...

[Scot]

IMG_0110.jpg
This is Phil's image, at 2.1mb prior to upload, automatically skinnier down to 53k.

[RFNK]

Great, Scot - thanks! So if I post a big file stored on my hard drive, the WBF will automatically reduce the file size to something suitable?

Rick

[Phil Y]

Except that it wont do it for me

[Phil Y]

Great, Scot - thanks! So if I post a big file stored on my hard drive, the WBF will automatically reduce the file size to something suitable?

Rick

Thats the idea, but theres a bug somewhere.

[RFNK]

Yes, I tried to post a jpeg of 168 kb and was told I exceeded my quota by 24 kb.

Rick

[Phil Y]

IMG_0110.jpg

cured.

[Scot]

RFNK... NOW try it.

-Scot

[Rich Jones]

IMG_3570.jpgHey! It works! This is fantastic!

[RFNK]

RFNK... NOW try it.

-Scot

I will - when I'm at home with the computer again!

Rick

[Phil Y]

WooHoo! Thanks Scot!
P1030443.jpg

[Canoeyawl]

test

IMG_2020.jpg

[RFNK]

Bruce entry.jpg

Yes, it works!

Thank you Scot - greatly appreciated!

Rick

[Hull Speed]

It's great that photo posting has been simplified, but I don't understand why it is necessary to log in to see the images. I have no doubt there are many casual and even regular visitors to this forum who won't want to go to the trouble of registering just to see a photograph.

Ken

[jpatrick]

For some unfathomable reason, the photos that I've posted here (hosted on photobucket) are still visible. Perhaps I'm blessed. More likely it's because I have so few photos on photobucket that they don't care. Nevertheless this new manner of posting photos seems a lot more convenient so I am joining the chorus in giving thanks to the WoodenBoat folks, in particular to Scot!

My first photo under this new system:

First Solo & on the mooring 2.jpg

Jeff

[Sailor]

kubota.jpg
Test image of me on my new tractor.

[Sailor]

Well I'll be....... Thanks Scot. This is awesome.

[cracked lid]

Test image
20170729_132533.jpg

[OliverBendix]

It's great that photo posting has been simplified, but I don't understand why it is necessary to log in to see the images. I have no doubt there are many casual and even regular visitors to this forum who won't want to go to the trouble of registering just to see a photograph.

Ken

Presumably it prevents hotlinking from here to elsewhere, so that the WBF doesn't become an all-purpose free photoserver and go bust like other free photo services.

[andrewpatrol]

I used this new photo posting method and I think I'm doing right. But how do you rotate images Scot?
thanks for making the process a lot easier too. I don't understand it but that's pretty normal

[Scot]

The "quick" way to have vertical images show correctly is to crop to horizontal (or make the 'canvas' horizontal).

At this point the software won't keep the orientation... instead the longest side will be the width.

-Scot

[Steve W (NY)]

Testing......that is awesome!
2014-10-01 MASCF (14).jpg

[Oldad]

P1010001.jpg

[WI-Tom]

Now on the Forum FAQ page http://forum.woodenboat.com/faq.php

POSTING PICTURES


...Click the image icon when you are in the posting section
...Select From My Computer unless linking from a URL
...Click Select Files (you need to know where you stashed them)
...Click Upload Files. You'll then see a thumbnail of the image
...Click Post Quick Reply and it will post in a bigger size.

For a "how-to post images" series of screenshots, click Posting Images.

REMEMBER: if you post inappropriate images, you lose your posting privileges.

DSCN3310.jpg

Scot,

thanks so much for working something out! I really appreciate it, having just restored some fairly big threads after losing all my photos to Photobucket.

Tom

[seadog99]

I just checked back on this and it works...so easy! Here is a pic from the beginning of the 16 LYS build...two dreamers

fullsizeoutput_aa2.jpg

[donald branscom]

The distractor for me is the picture hosting websites. Sony closed Imagestation some years ago and thousands of photos I had on this and other forums disappeared. I found that somewhat annoying and, ten or more years on, still avoid buying anything made by Sony (with some minor exceptions... eg some movies).

Photobucket was good... and I purchased their extra bandwidth option - about $30 a year because I had around 10,000 photos hosted there. Then their IT went to ****. I still pull some of my images from there, but almost prefer to re-host them, the Photobucket experience is so bad. Their ads slow things down.

I now use Smugmug - and pay about US$60 a year from memory. Great site. Easy uploads. Easy to bring here, or elsewhere. Right click - copy image. Bring here - paste.

Youtube is pretty easy too. I've got plenty of material on there.

Or you might like Tinypic.com

If you have Photoshop that works too.

[pcford]

Most ISPs furnish web space for personal web pages...

[Phil Y]

You guys have read the memo haven't you? You can post here direct from your device. No need for third party hosting these days.