Re: Important notice regarding posting pictures
you wrote: "I mean to upload to your own hosting provider or website. As Eddie mentioned and as you discovered, there is a small size limit for attachments added directly to TZ-UK posts. The solution is to link to one's own web-accessible pictures."
So I have around 7,000 photos and other images of the vintage Heuers on my own website and now I should begin to create a parallel universe of images that have been (a) edited, to reduce the size to come within TZ-UK paramenters, and then (b) uploaded to another location on the internet (or perhaps some area of my website for the TZ-UK photos).
I appreciate the suggestion, but this is does not seem workable; massive waste of time and bandwidth.
Jeff
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Originally Posted by OnTheDash
you wrote: "I mean to upload to your own hosting provider or website. As Eddie mentioned and as you discovered, there is a small size limit for attachments added directly to TZ-UK posts. The solution is to link to one's own web-accessible pictures."
So I have around 7,000 photos and other images of the vintage Heuers on my own website and now I should begin to create a parallel universe of images that have been (a) edited, to reduce the size to come within TZ-UK paramenters, and then (b) uploaded to another location on the internet (or perhaps some area of my website for the TZ-UK photos).
I appreciate the suggestion, but this is does not seem workable; massive waste of time and bandwidth.
Jeff
The forum limit for images is now 1024 pixels wide, which is the maximum resolution for 40% of this forum's users (I can see this info from the stats program I use). If you are already hosting these images on your own website, there is no reason why you can't simply link to those images. If you think it's all a waste of time and bandwidth, then you're not really a team player on this forum, are you?
Eddie
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Originally Posted by swanbourne
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Originally Posted by OnTheDash
you wrote: "I mean to upload to your own hosting provider or website. As Eddie mentioned and as you discovered, there is a small size limit for attachments added directly to TZ-UK posts. The solution is to link to one's own web-accessible pictures."
So I have around 7,000 photos and other images of the vintage Heuers on my own website and now I should begin to create a parallel universe of images that have been (a) edited, to reduce the size to come within TZ-UK paramenters, and then (b) uploaded to another location on the internet (or perhaps some area of my website for the TZ-UK photos).
I appreciate the suggestion, but this is does not seem workable; massive waste of time and bandwidth.
Jeff
The forum limit for images is now 1024 pixels wide, which is the maximum resolution for 40% of this forum's users (I can see this info from the stats program I use). If you are already hosting these images on your own website, there is no reason why you can't simply link to those images. If you think it's all a waste of time and bandwidth, then you're not really a team player on this forum, are you?
Eddie
What a bizarre response!! You've missed the whole point of the discussion. I suggested that it was a waste of time and bandwidth to be resizing images and hosting a parallel set of images -- an original set on my website and another set for use on TZ-UK. It's not "all" a waste of time, but that approach certainly would be.
I'll stand on my record as a team player in the community of vintage watch collectors, your suggestion to the contrary notwithstanding. I've also enjoyed this forum, other than the rudeness shown in your response.
Jeff
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Originally Posted by OnTheDash
you wrote: "I mean to upload to your own hosting provider or website. As Eddie mentioned and as you discovered, there is a small size limit for attachments added directly to TZ-UK posts. The solution is to link to one's own web-accessible pictures."
So I have around 7,000 photos and other images of the vintage Heuers on my own website and now I should begin to create a parallel universe of images
This seems to imply that you want to post all 7000 images (or a large number of them) to TZ-UK in some form! I'm sure this is not really the case, is it? If you already have your images accessible online you can just tell people to go directly to your site and you need only post a few 'taster' images to TZ-UK.
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that have been (a) edited, to reduce the size to come within TZ-UK paramenters, and then (b) uploaded to another location on the internet (or perhaps some area of my website for the TZ-UK photos).
Addressing each of your points in turn:
a) As I said, why not create 'thumbnails' for the images that you wish to share on TZ-UK. It's what I do. This is most certainly not a "parallel universe", as you put it. Afterall, you'll only need to do it for images you intend to post on TZ-UK which is likely, on the whole I would have thought, to only be a few.
I write 'thumbnail' in quotes here because in fact I size the 'thumbnail' right up to TZ-UK's 1024x1000 pixel limit for externally hosted images and then, in the forum post, I make the image a link to the full size image. You can see an example here: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=186679 . (Click the Quote button on the post to see how I did it in the soure code, in case you're not familiar with BBCode).
I usually create my 'thumbnails' manually using Paint.net but if you really do need to create them en masse just use an automated thumbnail generator. I occasionally use RightThumb ( http://www.snapfiles.com/get/rightthumb.html ) but there are others you could use.
b) No need to use another location on the Internet. As you say, why not simply use an area of your existing website. It's what I do and it works fine. It's simple and straightforward. You can see the directory layout I use in the example I linked above.
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I appreciate the suggestion, but this is does not seem workable; massive waste of time and bandwidth.
I can tell you that it's entirely workable since it's exactly what I do. It's not a waste of time because it doesn't take very much time and it's not a waste of bandwidth. If anything, it saves bandwidth since most people never bother to click on the full size images if you make the 'thumbnails' big enough (and 1024x1000 max size is usually big enough for most people).
In short, it's honestly not that big a deal. Unless you really are intending to post all 7000 of your full size images (or a significant part of them) to TZ-UK (which would make no sense since I understand you already have them displayed on your own site) then you just don't need to do all that much editing/thumbnailing. You only need to do it for the comparatively few images you will post to TZ-UK. If people want to see the bulk of your images then they'll simply click on the link(s) to your site and come look at them there.
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I think there has been a bit of a mix up here, all Jeff was trying to do was find out what the parameters were.
He was vexed by the message that sometimes pops up saying something like "Unable to determine image size" (for an image within the limit). I get this occasionally, then if I hit the 'post' button again it uploads the post just fine. Maybe it's just a bug, who knows.
When he said about having to re-create another set of images, he simply meant on his own server not this one.
PS. Has Jeffs account been wiped - I'm getting nothing when I hit 'profile'?
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Originally Posted by europa
When he said about having to re-create another set of images, he simply meant on his own server not this one.
That is what I understood him to be saying. My comments were in that context.
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Originally Posted by europa
When he said about having to re-create another set of images, he simply meant on his own server not this one.
That is what I understood him to be saying. My comments were in that context.
Oh righto - sorry, my mistake.
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Originally Posted by europa
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Originally Posted by markrlondon
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Originally Posted by europa
When he said about having to re-create another set of images, he simply meant on his own server not this one.
That is what I understood him to be saying. My comments were in that context.
Oh righto - sorry, my mistake.
No need to apologise. That is what I understood him to be saying if I understood what you were saying correctly. ;-)
It seemed to me that Jeff was vexed not only because of the spurious(?) error messages but also (latterly) because he would have to resize his huge collection of hires images to display them on TZ-UK. I was pointing out to him that unless he was seriously intending to post every single image on TZ-UK(!) then it wouldn't be such a big deal as he seemed to think it would be (i.e. he'd only be posting some of his images as he went along, so to speak). According to what he said he clearly already had the resources needed to be able to display a reasonable number of his images on TZ-UK (linking back to his own site for the full hires versions) without having to go to significant extra effort to do so. His concerns (i.e. time and effort to resize images) could all be addressed in a reasonable and practicable manner by technical means available to him for free.
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Thanks to everyone for the good dialog on this issue. I look forward to continued participation on TZ-UK, using primarily the images that I have on my website.
Thanks again,
Jeff
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Sure thing. No Problem :)
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Thanks for the heads-up! :bounce:
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How about this, Eddie. A new BBCode snippet, which will auto-scale images to max 800px wide. Width will scale proportionally on all recent browsers - if the image is already smaller it won't be enlarged. I've tested it on Safari, Chrome, Firefox, IE7,8,9
because the max-width is not specified in the bbcode snippet, but is instead in the replacement html, you can change that max globally without having to update any post content.
http://gallery.seloc.org/albums/user.../scaledimg.png
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Can you please restrict the width of any picture you post to not more than 500 pixels wide. Any wider than this and it affects the formatting of the page.
If you keep a high res image on your computer and upload it to Photobucket as a copy. . . Photobucket lets you cut down the size as required.
It's quite easy and other people have covered it in other posts . . .
Newbie need advice please!
Hello all/Eddie,
I have struggled to post any images. Can't work it out, which I know makes me a wally as you all seem to manage! I have a SmugMug account where I keep my photos. I can grab the url from there but I can't seem to get the image to work here. Can anyone please help?
Thanks, Tom
Important notice regarding posting pictures
Photobucket is acting up. See the Friday thread today, everyone is hitting "third party hosting" limits and being asked to subscribe to a paid plan. Is imgur the next best thing?
http://i1223.photobucket.com/albums/...psvcsjlja0.jpg
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Glen Goyne
Photobucket is acting up. See the Friday thread today, everyone is hitting "third party hosting" limits and being asked to subscribe to a paid plan. Is imgur the next best thing?
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In a word …*YES.
Imgur has little text boxes to copy and paste BBcode for a variety of types of forums and web sites. There's even a trick with the mobile app that if you copy the link to the image itself (tap photo to show full screen, the tap/hold to get "share/copy link" URL), then paste into a forum editor, if you append "l" or "m" to the filename, the image will be a "large" or "medium" version of your image, resized at the server. E.g. MYIMAGE.JPG becomes MYIMAGEl.jpg or MYIMAGEm.jpg.
Photobucket can go bucket themselves. Recnetly when I click a URL link to view an image on the Photophucket site, I've gotten a popup ad that obscures the image, then redirect to a new page for another ad, and then a third popup ad appears on top of that. I never get to see the image! Their advertising has completely overwhelmed and ruined their primary purpose for existing. Screw them. I don't even click the links anymore.
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seffrican
Um, are you quite sure about that? It was there last time I looked.
I will check again. Pretty sure I googled it and found that the feature was removed.
Update: this is what I get. Max two pics in view allowing me to scroll. A pain with bigger albums.
https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...53089c0d79.jpg