How to post pictures in threads

Whats going on with RFF?

A while back I posted how to embed an image from Flickr in response to a question about that (see my couple of posts below).

I tried to do just this a few moments ago on another thread and it refuses to use the Flickr HTML. In fact after I click "save" on my post I notice that the Flickr provided HTML that I had copied and pasted into the text box changes into something else. Clearly this RFF site is doing something new to the links provided. The new HTML provides a clickable link to the image in Flickr but does not embed the actual image in my post. Likewise using the "attach image" option above the text box does not work.

Does anyone know what on earth is happening? If people can no longer post images from Flickr on threads in RFF its traffic will fall pretty disastrously given Flickrs role as the preeminent image hosting site.
 
I posted some Flickr photos earlier today without any problems. Are you trying to post photos in a forum that doesn't allow photo posting?Most forums allow it but some don't. No idea why though.
 
jonmanjiro said:
I posted some Flickr photos earlier today without any problems. Are you trying to post photos in a forum that doesn't allow photo posting?Most forums allow it but some don't. No idea why though.
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I did not realize that despite being a looooooooooooooooong time RFF user who always posts from Flickr. I suppose it would have to be the answer.

thanks
 
peterm1 said:
Whats going on with RFF?

A while back I posted how to embed an image from Flickr in response to a question about that (see my couple of posts below).

I tried to do just this a few moments ago on another thread and it refuses to use the Flickr HTML. In fact after I click "save" on my post I notice that the Flickr provided HTML that I had copied and pasted into the text box changes into something else. Clearly this RFF site is doing something new to the links provided. The new HTML provides a clickable link to the image in Flickr but does not embed the actual image in my post. Likewise using the "attach image" option above the text box does not work.

Does anyone know what on earth is happening? If people can no longer post images from Flickr on threads in RFF its traffic will fall pretty disastrously given Flickrs role as the preeminent image hosting site.
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I think the reason why you can't embed an image - because Flickr isn't providing a URL with a .jpg at the end? If that is the case, then you cannot embed...correct me if I'm wrong as I haven't used Flickr for ages.
 
peterm1 said:
I did not realize that despite being a looooooooooooooooong time RFF user who always posts from Flickr. I suppose it would have to be the answer.

thanks
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You can tell if you can post photos in a particular forum by whether or not there's an Insert Image icon among the post editing options directly above the box you type your post into.

btw its BBCODE for the vbulletin software on which the forum runs that you copy from flickr and paste into a post, not actually HTML.
 
rybolt said:
Has anyone else had trouble posting a picture from the Safari browser using the image location method? I can go to my website, open an image, click Copy Image Location and then try to paste it into the proper forum box. Nothing happens except I get a broken link symbol. If I do the same things with Firefox it works fine.
Thanks for any help.
Paul
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Yes, since the last update of Safari to MAC OS Sierra the image location method seems to work no longer.
Why it's so complicated to show some pictures here?
Won't show anything until copy and paste will work safely.🙁
 
Here is another only 8 years old

This is 16mm Imagelink HQ at ISO 25 in a Kiev and developed with Studional 1:80 stand.
Film taped to glass of flatbed Microtek scanner and max dpi.

To be honest, I had so many RFF windows open it got put in the wrong forum. It was meant to be "Chairs" or "subminiature" but ended up here.

Mind you, the posting of a full size picture is still an arcane mystery to me.
 

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I mainly just use imgur, then copy the image url from there and place it inside img tags here. Free and pretty straight forward. But I usually make sure to resize the picture for web (usually no bigger than 1,920 pixels on the long side) before embedding in a thread).

Example :

(remove space surrounding img and /img)
[ img ]http://i.imgur.com/n2Bh6Hz.jpg[ /img ]

produces :

n2Bh6Hz.jpg


Clicking as a result would open the link in a new tab which should be the "full" size as the hosting provides.
 
Joao said:
I have a persisting problem with posting in the Gallery. I've posted some pictures soon after becoming a member of the RFF. Later, all my atempts at posting in the Gallery were unsucessfull. I get messages stating that the picture exceeds the allowed space - I've tried to upload shrinked photos of 5kb and the message is the same...
Two messages to the webmaster - no reply. Two posts complaining about this - no answers.
I wonder if there is the need of any sort of registration/subscribing to post in the Gallery, or if I should delete my old photos there to upload new ones...
Any tips would be apreciated.
Thanks in advance
Joao
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Same here ... gave up long ago I`m afraid.
 
I too simply gave up. Too much hassle for the second decade of the 21st century.

Maybe I need to revisit posting photos here via IMGUR.

Thanks kb244
 
Shooting digital or scanning film. Importing in LR to make necessary adjustment. Export with a preset (size) correct for RFF. Upload to gallery. Insert in a thread via the image button.

It does not seems too difficult...

robert
 
I do not know html. To expect users to translate from a request to post to a simple line of that code sounds so easy - unless you never use it otherwise. It's not as tho RFF actually has the large image, merely a link to some other poor sod that keeps your web images.
Then there is the hassle with almost meaningless boxes to click.
I can appreciate the need to conserve space but please make it easier! Can't the site make the translation to html simpler?

Robert, sorry but that was all gibberish to me.
 
I'm with the others. Computers often just cause frustration because they require you to learn a complicated task to accomplish something simple. If I can't just click on something and make it happen, I don't need to do it anyway. Besides, I like prints and I don't think there's any way to show the depth, tonality and overall quality of a nice printed photograph on computer screens.
 
Murray Kelly said:
I do not know html. To expect users to translate from a request to post to a simple line of that code sounds so easy - unless you never use it otherwise. It's not as tho RFF actually has the large image, merely a link to some other poor sod that keeps your web images.
Then there is the hassle with almost meaningless boxes to click.
I can appreciate the need to conserve space but please make it easier! Can't the site make the translation to html simpler?

Robert, sorry but that was all gibberish to me.
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As a fellow computing simpleton, I found the whole process easier when I looked at it as two separate steps:

Step one was to post the image to the RFF gallery. Simply select [Gallery] from the menu at the top of RFF and, once there, select [Upload] and [Upload from File]. Following the steps from there are pretty simple - just ignore all the boxes except for the one that says [choose file]. Clicking that will allow you to browse your own machine and select the image you want to post. Step one is done!

Once you've completed step one, you no longer have to worry about finding a place on the web to host that photo, because the RFF gallery is doing that for you. Step two is to right-click on the photo you've just posted in the gallery and select [copy image address]. From there, you can post the image into a forum thread by right clicking in the field where you would normally post text and simply select [paste]. I find it easiest to have the forum thread and the gallery open in two separate windows so I can copy from one and paste to the other quickly and easily.

While it's true the process is just a bit byzantine, having to post it twice and all, it's not too difficult. I hope this helped.
 
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