How to link from Flickr to Gallery?

[ChrisP]

I can't figure out how to link from Flickr to the RFF gallery and get some decent sized images...
Can anyone explain how to do this? Is it even possible.

Also, is it possible to delete all the images in my gallery at once (I don't want 50 tiny images from my original attempt in my gallery. It seems unneccessary).

Thanks,
Chris

 

[ChrisP]

Some on admins help me out! (Best of the week ending... got me pumped about having a gallery!)

 

[jordan.dickinson]

Go to the image you want on your FLICKR page...
Next to the little facebook, twitter icon, there is a little drop down arrow...
At the bottom is a little link that says "Grab the HTML/BBCode...
You want the BBcode, so check that little button on the bottom....
Then just choose your size, copy the link, and paste it into your quick reply box on RFF...

That's it ENJOY!

 

[ChrisP]

Well thats cool for posting to threads! But what about for posting in the RFF gallery? Any tips on that?

 

[peterm1]

Also you can navigate to the correct sized photo that you want to post and then right click. Depending on which version of Windows you are using you will either be presented with a Properties box - the older versions - and this will show you the location of the file to post into the forum thread. Copy this.

Or with later versions of windows simply right clicking on the photo will result in an option to "copy image location". Select that and return to the forum text box.

The easiest way from here is to go to the little box / image at the top of the text box that looks like a fried egg or a sun peering or a hill and click that - paste the address into the box that pops up. Sounds complicated but its not.

 

[peterm1]

Actually I see his point about the gallery - I cannot even see how to create a gallery for myself, let alone post images to it . Ideas?

 

[mto'brien]

I am pretty sure gallery images have to be hosted on RFF's server. So, to get an image into a gallery you have to upload it from your computer to RFF. There is an option on the upload page called 'retrieve all images from url', but I haven't tried that out. Also, there is a size limit of 200kb per image, anything larger gets rejected by the RFF server.
My method for <200k images:
Lightroom = Export... > jpeg > set image size to desired width/height (usually 800x800 for me) and then check the 'limit file size' box, enter 200k.
Photoshop = Set desired width/height > Save As... > jpeg > tweak the jpeg image quality slider until it's under 200k.

Hope this helps. A mod will of course be of greater help on this...