How do I post images to my own gallery?

[print44]

I've just set up a test gallery space and tried to post an image to it from both photobucket, and then as a jpeg from my desktop. The URL link from Photobucket I've used is the full size on for forums, but it comes back with the message 'filesize too large'. That's what happens when I try to post directly from my pc. So I tried the thumbnail option on photobucket and got a long error message about not being able to add the thumbnail... I'm sure this is dead easy when you know how, but it's beating me today!

 

[tlitody]

I've just set up a test gallery space and tried to post an image to it from both photobucket, and then as a jpeg from my desktop. The URL link from Photobucket I've used is the full size on for forums, but it comes back with the message 'filesize too large'. That's what happens when I try to post directly from my pc. So I tried the thumbnail option on photobucket and got a long error message about not being able to add the thumbnail... I'm sure this is dead easy when you know how, but it's beating me today!

please just paste the link to your full size photobucket image here so I can see what it says.

Also, gallery here will upload the image to disk here and there is a 200KB size limit in the gallery.

You can just hotlink to photobucket images in posts. If you want to use gallery here then you must conform to size limit of 200KB.

 

[print44]

http://s1087.photobucket.com/albums/j479/print44/?action=view&current=Photo25_21.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j479/print44/Photo25_21.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

This is the copy/paste address I get when i click on the HTML code section of the image I was trying to post.

I read up on the filesize limits, but don't know how to compress the image coming out of photobucket - or indeed to link through to the hosted image via thumbnail.

 

[print44]

http://i1087.photobucket.com/albums/j479/print44/Photo25_21.jpg

And this is the address I get when I click on the direct link option.

 

[print44]

The privacy setting on the Photobucket album is set to private - which presumably affects the ability of other users to view any link?

 

[tlitody]

That image is 2MB. The gallery won't let you upload it. And its a bitmap file not a jpeg.
If you want to actually create a gallery here then you must use 200KB max file size and I think they must jpegs.

But you can show that image in posts using the image button which is just a hotlink to the image on photobucket. But its a bit big dimensions and will screw up thread viiewing for people who don't have big monitors. And consume lots of unecessary bandwidth.

 

[tlitody]

The privacy setting on the Photobucket album is set to private - which presumably affects the ability of other users to view any link?

Well I can see it so it can't be private for hotlinking.

 

[print44]

OK that's interesting - I assumed because both files are .jpg that that would be ok. I'd prefer to upload to RFF and see no great compression of the images that are posted on here. So I just need to be able to compress my images somehow before I post them. I suppose I wrongly assumed that the Photobucket software was doing all that when I uploaded via them. Hmm

 

[tlitody]

I think It may be the browser I was using to view it that shows it as a bmp image. I tried another browser and it shows it as a jpeg. Possibly because its interlaced. I was using an old browser.

 

[print44]

Just been reading up and what I haven't done is to export these images from PSE after I've saved them off the CD they're originally scanned onto... Presumably that will work and I can upload directly from my home pc.

 

[tlitody]

I just checked and from the browser which shows image as jpeg and saves as jpeg, the file size is 800KB so still too big.

yes if you have got images on local PC as jpeg then you can upload direct from there providing they are not bigger than 200KB. Some resizing to do I think.

Also note that if you are just adding an image as an upload attachment in a post the limit is currently 600x600 pixels and 196KB
There is no image dimension constrait in gallery, only 200KB size limit.

 

[print44]

OK thanks - will have to investigate over the weekend. Presumably as I post to my own gallery on RFF the image is automatically included in the Gallery recent posts section where all can look at it?

 

[tlitody]

OK thanks - will have to investigate over the weekend. Presumably as I post to my own gallery on RFF the image is automatically included in the Gallery recent posts section where all can look at it?

Yes that's correct. And if you are looking for a critique of any image then you can post in the critique forum and create a hotlink to your image in the gallery.

 

[print44]

OK great thanks