Uploading photos with Photobucket

[mbird]

One of the biggest costs to the forum is storage space, and one of the biggest users of this storage are uploaded images.

Using an image hosting site for your photos is easy, quicker that uploading directly to the forum, and takes up no space therefore making the forum cheaper to run!

One I have been using of late is Photobucket http://www.photobucket.com . Opening an account is free, and uploading photos is very easy indeed, meaning you don't even have to resize your pictures for the forum. Once uploaded, you simply copy the image link from photobucket which looks like this "http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s668/Mark-Bird/83a3bc6620c7137ca303c3a72e1cca88_zps06144f0b.jpg" and paste it into your post. Your pictures will appear in your post as normal. There is also a Photobucket app for iPads etc, making it simple to post your pictures in the same way if you do not use Tapatalk.

We would like to encourage all members to give this a go, which will help a lot to conserve valuable (and expensive!) disk space for the forum and make future forum maintenance easier.

Any problems, please ask, and I am sure we can sort them out

[diesel falcon]

This is what you can do this one,s stored on Flicker

[quo vadis]

I think that may be one of my photos Trev did you ask permission

[diesel falcon]

no!!

[quo vadis]

Good antares 9 may have something to say

[diesel falcon]

Good antares 9 may have something to say

Who??

[mbird]

Hi Trev,

Yes, Flickr is another alternative, but they do limit the amount of photos you can upload on a free account I think. I use both, but find Photobucket easier to use for simple uploads.

[diesel falcon]

Thanks mark for reminding me of Photobucket, i ve just found some long lost pics from a crashed pc including this jem...as you say it,s easier than flicker.

[quo vadis]

I would'nt have bothered putting that pic up Trev

[diesel falcon]

There,s no pleasing some people!! last one ...promise!

[Hockham Admiral]

Mark, Hi

Joined photobucket and am now going to try...........

http://s1282.photobucket.com/user/johnr ... sort=3&o=1

[Hockham Admiral]

Well that was wrong.............

Ah that's it!

[Hockham Admiral]

And how much disc space does it take up compared with a normal 1600 x 1200 pic, Mark?

[mbird]

You'd have to ask the tech expert that John, but instead of storing the photograph on the forum server, the only thing being stored is the link you pasted, so just a few text characters. The, picture is downloaded from Photobucket every time you read the thread. The one downside is if someone deletes their picture from Photobucket, the link will no longer be able to find the picture and so the post will have a blank instead of the photo.

Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD

[Hockham Admiral]

OK, folks.

If, with my IT skills, it can be done......... then let's all try to do it!

[mbird]

Mark, Hi

Joined photobucket and am now going to try...........

http://s1282.photobucket.com/user/johnr ... sort=3&o=1

Glad you sussed it John. The mistake in this one was to copy the URL code instead of the IMG code, as I guess you've figured out.