Photos, Not Thumbnails, in Thread

[OldNick]

I have noted that some members are posting photos as a part of their thread responses, not as thumbnails. What is the policy on this and how is it done?

Jim N.

 

[Dale Cook]

I'm not sure what the policy is. I post images instead of thumbs because I'm not sure how to do the thumbnail postings.

 

[lynn]

The policy seems to dither, but you actually DO it this way:
Post your image to an independent URL. I use Flickr; my own website doesn't work. I grab the URL from the "all sizes" option at Flickr (the bottom one), and then, using the "go advanced" option here, I click on "Insert Image"- the sun-and-mountain icon - paste the Flickr URL in, and voilà.
I really like seeing the images full-size in the posts; not everyone does, though, I gather.
Good luck!

 

[OldNick]

Thanks, Lynn. I may give it a try just out of curiosity to see if I can get it to work for me. Normally, I use thumbnails because the thread loads a lot faster that way.

Jim N.

 

[Nachkebia]

I post images because I host them throuh my web host and put link here, if you do attachment it becomes thumbnail..

 

[OldNick]

Here is a flower image that I would like to try to insert into the response.

Jim N.

 

[Biber]

If you don't have another server to upload your photos to but still want to display full sized images you can attach the files to your post and then link to the attachments with a normal -tag. This trick works on most forums.


Once the files are uploaded to the forum just copy the links, they look like this:
[url]http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=29829[/url]

Then edit your post and add this where you want the image:
[.img]http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=29829[./img]

edit: I just copied an attachment from [url=http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25939]this[/url] thread in order to demonstrate.

 

[OldNick]

I have used typed-in links successfully, but the images only appear if one clicks on the link. My attempt at using the Insert Image box did not produce an image. I will try once more, but perhaps it will not work with my gallery.

Jim N.

 

[OldNick]

I give up. I will try to type in the URL.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/Musings/Fuchsia_Smalledit

 

[OldNick]

Thanks, Lynn and ferider. I see the word "albums" has been inserted by some means in the URL that I normally use. I will try some more.

 

[OldNick]

One more.

 

[OldNick]

Didn't work without the word "albums", but with .jpg ending.

 

[OldNick]

Final try.

 

[OldNick]

Thanks, everyone. I've learned a few things.

Jim N.

 

[mike goldberg]

Hi...
Thanks for opening this thread.

I'm going to try lynn's method via fickr.

I'd like to call attention to GregB's newly scanned images in the Photoshop - Darkroom forum. The pix are all b & w, not to big and flow from one to the next, nicely.

Ciao,
Mike

 

[peterc]

I really like seeing the images full-size in the posts; not everyone does, though, I gather.

I put thumbs in whenever possible since it makes the board easier to read for those on dialup connections.
While on the road for a couple of weeks, I got stuck with really poor dialup connections (28800 was about tops) and RFF threads with full-size images were nearly impossible to read. Thumbs made opening other threads much less of a chore.

Peter