Picking a larger version of a photo from the gallery

[Richard G]

I notice in the weekly Gallery Picks that some cleverer than me have managed to quote a full width version, when with the Click for URL I get a medium sized version. Just now I edited out the 'med_' from a url and got a bigger, but not a full width version. Naturally I was enormously pleased with myself, not knowing much about this. Anyone know how to take it one step further?

 

[John Bragg]

Hi Richard. I think the way I do it is to click on the thumbnail which opens the photo details then click on the image and that makes it go bigger, then right click and select open image. Finally copy and paste the url. As I say I "think" that's what I do as I am away from the computer.

Cheers, John.

 

[Richard G]

I hoped that would work John, but I don't get the right click options for the larger version: it shrinks back to the display (not tumbnail) version and then the right click menu options appear. But I am using a Mac. I will try quoting someone's clever contribution to last week's gallery picks and I may decipher the method from the text.

On the 18th of March Harry Teasley started the thread and he has removed the 'med_' from most of his quotes. J Scooter did this selectively. I think Harry might be a programmer. It was one of his large ones that struck me, and it is as large as any I can quote now, so maybe I have gone as large as is possible. Watch out for my gallery picks tomorrow......

 

[hteasley]

On the 18th of March Harry Teasley started the thread and he has removed the 'med_' from most of his quotes. J Scooter did this selectively. I think Harry might be a programmer. It was one of his large ones that struck me, and it is as large as any I can quote now, so maybe I have gone as large as is possible. Watch out for my gallery picks tomorrow......

I'm not a programmer, but I am in tech: I'm an Art Director at a computer game company. Decently tech savvy, having done this for a couple decades, though.

Really, I just noticed the new gallery can do something the old gallery could not: I can drag the image from the gallery into a text editor, and it pastes the URL for the image. The old gallery pasted the binary code of the actual image as text (which is never awesome).

So that's what I've been doing. Instead of right-clicking and choosing "Copy Image URL", I've just been dragging the image directly into the text editor. Evidently that results in the large-size URL, instead of the medium-size URL.

No secret sauce involved.

 

[Keith]

This must depend on what browser you use. When I enlarge (zoom) the gallery image I right click on it and a window opens ... one of the options is 'copy image location' which puts the URL on your clip board very simply with one click. This is how it works with Firefox at least!

 

[Greyscale]

If you are using Internet Explorer, right-click on the gallery image and choose either "open link in new window" or "open link in new tab". You can then copy the URL for the full-size image from the address bar. This might work in Safari on the Mac too, I have only ever used the Windows version of Safari.

 

[Greyscale]

On Safari for Windows, anyway, right-clicking on the expanded image allows me to copy the full-size image URL. Otherwise, the way that I did it on IE worked as well.

 

[Greyscale]

But the way that Harry does it is slick as snot 😀

 

[Richard G]

Thanks Harry. I should have realized that a mere programmer would not have cracked such a wizard manouevre. I hope I didn't offend you. My brother is an engineer in CA and writes software for a living. Took him years to come 'round to Mac and I have to give him credit for considering it. He's still very command line oriented of course. And interested in photography too. I'll experiment with dragging in two browsers on the Mac and even on my PC laptop if I have to.

 

[Richard G]

I tried dragging the standard gallery image to the generic text editor on the Mac and indeed the full version url is written. The same happens with the right click and Copy image location. My problem is that I would then have to write the square brackets IMG stuff again.

I used to keep a blank RFF text file with square-bracketIMGsquare-bracket space square-bracket/IMGsquare-bracket, repeated down the left of the page with a line in between each. I would type the name of the photographer and then paste the the image location between the two square brackets and close the remaining space. (The unnecessary space was to ensure I got the cursor location for the paste right.) It worked, but was a little tedious.

With the Click for url in the EXIF pane of the new gallery, the whole square bracket IMG thing comes supplied with the url. This made the weekly picks much quicker. But I was unhappy with the sizing of some.

My final method at this point will be to stick with the clicking for url and copying to my now blank text file, and then a search replace for all instances of 'med_'.

 

[ColSebastianMoran]

On a Mac in Safari:

- Click on thumbnail to go to Gallery page
- Control-Click on the medium sized image... Open LINK in new window/tab (not Open Image...)
- This gives the "full-sized" image

If you want to link to this, continue with:
- Cmd-L to highlight the URL for the image
- Cmd-C to copy the URL

... and now you can paste it anywhere.

On a Mac, I think pretty much the above will work with other browsers.

Yes, the URL for the medium sized image is the same as the URL for the large image, with "med_" appended at the right point.

 

[hteasley]

I tried dragging the standard gallery image to the generic text editor on the Mac and indeed the full version url is written. The same happens with the right click and Copy image location. My problem is that I would then have to write the square brackets IMG stuff again.

So, for that, I use a text editor that saves my recent search & replace edits. When I have the list of image URLs, I search for "http" and replace with "

". Those tend to hang around in my recent edit list, so it's ten seconds work to make those edits. Any broken images usually means I need to allcaps "jpg".

 

[Richard G]

I knew you had one more trick you weren't telling me about. That is very clever.

I've just done my picks, and left one image with the medium signifier in as it is with the iPhone and I think looks better small.