mbird Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diesel falcon Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 This is what you can do this one,s stored on Flicker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quo vadis Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 I think that may be one of my photos Trev did you ask permission Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diesel falcon Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 no!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quo vadis Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Good antares 9 may have something to say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diesel falcon Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Good antares 9 may have something to say Who?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbird Posted April 4, 2013 Author Share Posted April 4, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diesel falcon Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quo vadis Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 I would'nt have bothered putting that pic up Trev Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diesel falcon Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 There,s no pleasing some people!! last one ...promise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockham Admiral Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Mark, Hi Joined photobucket and am now going to try........... http://s1282.photobucket.com/user/johnr ... sort=3&o=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockham Admiral Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 Well that was wrong............. Ah that's it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockham Admiral Posted April 5, 2013 Share Posted April 5, 2013 And how much disc space does it take up compared with a normal 1600 x 1200 pic, Mark? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbird Posted April 6, 2013 Author Share Posted April 6, 2013 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hockham Admiral Posted April 7, 2013 Share Posted April 7, 2013 OK, folks. If, with my IT skills, it can be done......... then let's all try to do it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbird Posted April 8, 2013 Author Share Posted April 8, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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