Posting pictures

[aznighthiker]

I would like to post pictures of our trips, however the files of my pictures are 1.5 megs to three megs, but you are limited to 1 meg. I cannot determine how to reconfigure my picture files to less than 1 meg. I would appreciate if the limit could be raised from 1 meg I believe more folks would post pictures.

[billmoore]

If you have an account with a photo hosting service (I use a free Photobucket account), you can embed pictures that are hosted elsewhere without the size limitation. Photobucket works really well for this, because you can view any of your photos in Photobucket, click the "Share" option on that photo, and then there will be a list of share options. In that list is an option called "IMG" which will work on all forums.  Just click that option, and the share code is copied to your clipboard, and you then can paste the share code into a post on any forum. The photo then shows up inline in your post, sized propery for web browsing.

[billmoore]

BTW, the original uploaded photo was much larger than that, but Photobucket automatically resizes the photo for web viewing, but the original is still available full size. If you click on the photo above, it will take you to the photobucket page for that photo where you can hover over the photo and get options for things like downloading and viewing original.

[spot1]

Use Photobucket, too.

Also use an inexpensive Canon point & shoot camera and the menu option allows reduction of photo size from (3mb to 4mb) down to 640X480 (100kb to 200kb) allowing fast upload time & reduces data used on the pay per month Straight Talk Secure Hot-Spot used. Pay $15 monthly charge for 1GB of data used & only use/pay for Hot-Spot when camping for a week or more.

Here's a shot taken with the Canon point & shoot reduced to 640X480 uploaded to Photobucket of Table Rock SP SC during the camping trip last month:

[a href="http://s657.photobucket.com/user/vstromklr/media/2015/IMG_6336_zpssys7qg7g.jpg.html"]

[fasteddieb]

Every picture I've ever posted here was via a free Flickr account.

Some features and procedures can be a little clunky at times - grabbing the raw jpg link can be a ltitle convoluted - but the price is right!

Plus the iPhone and iPhoto both allow for pretty much one-click uploading to Flickr. I imagine the Android world has something similar.

[admin]

Currently we cant raise the limit on picture size (or any direct attachments) due to the space limitations on our forum. In fact we are almost out of the space that came with the original setup of the forum. I'm trying to avoid hosting fees if possible so using a service like Flickr or PhotoBucket are ideal.


Flickr is my service of choice considering its 1Tb of free storage.

[spot1]

I use the free Photobucket account.

Don't have a smart phone, so use a pay as you go secure Hot-Spot while camping for emails, reservations, & posting photos. Have two old pay as you go grandfathered cell phone accounts for calls & text, only cost $5 to $10 per month for both telephones depending on use. Have replaced worn out cell phones a couple times with $15 phones. It's a good deal and will use them as long as they let me.

Used to have a free Flickr account, but did not know you could post forum IMG photos when I had the accounts. Always liked using Flickr.   

[peislander]

I use the free service at Postimage.org --- it is very easy and doesn't require registration. From their website you browse your computer to find the file you want to upload. It allows you to specify the finished image size and will then upload & process the image. It refreshes with links you can use in the forum for your image. It provides links for both thumbnails & full-size images. They host the image so there is no impact on this forum.

[a href="http://postimage.org/"]Postimage.org[/a]

[admin]

On a general note about hosting services for photos or videos. Nothing in this world is free and often times we overlook the "cost" of services. I am very protective of my personal data rights and so I am picky about the sites where I will post pictures and video. I want to throw out this word of warning, be careful of what you post and where. Some sites with "host" your photos when in reality they are essentially taking ownership of the rights to them. I accept that the internet is forever (no matter how hard you might try), and I also accept that the only safe data is on an offline disk in a locked room. So all I'm trying to say is know what rights you are signing over when choosing to upload anything.

 

-SEan

[ammobob]

[p][a href="http://s304.photobucket.com/user/bvabob1/media/Our%20New%20Camper/IMG_0206_zpsvz7jctmm.jpg.html"]

[ammobob]

https://www.flickr.com/gp/133352110@N03/z3nQEG

Trying Flickr

think I like photobucket better

[spot1]

[quote source="/post/11526/thread" timestamp="1432731965" author="@ammobob"]https://www.flickr.com/gp/133352110@N03/z3nQEG

Trying Flickr

think I like photobucket better[/quote]OK, I'm currently using photobucket and was thinking about Flickr.

Here's another photobucket:

[ammobob]

Flickr just posts the link where Photobucket will show the picture. Flickr worked on my iPad and I would guess my I phone as well so it has possibilities.

[ammobob]

By the way nice pic. Beautiful sunset.

[david]

A picture posted directly to this site is rendered at 640x480x24bits no matter what the original uploaded file size is. A 100 Kb compressed jpeg file will render to essentially the same picture quality as a gazillion Mb uploaded file. So uploading a big picture file wastes bandwidth and storage capacity.

Cameras can be set to store their pictures in smaller files, but most can't go down to 100 Kb. I use a freeware program Irfanview (pc based) to resize my pictures before I upload. Just set the new size parameters to 640x480 and you will get about a 100K file when you save it. Go to irvanview.com and download it.

But I will admit that that bit of work is worse than simply saving the gazillion bit file to a Flickr account and posting the link. So I may do that contrary to what I said in the thread that started this discussion. Linking to an outside picture storage service seems to be a reasonable solution to our file storage problem.

David