Tutorial: How to use Cloudinary to post photos on the RTH forum

Cloudinary is a cloud based 3rd party file hosting program not directly affiliated with this Proboards forum. Cloudinary offers generous "free" level photo hosting accounts and all photos uploaded to them via the Cloudinary Photo Upload button found here on the RTH forum are stored in your Cloudinary account and can be easily managed by you and used anywhere on the internet by logging in to your Cloudinary account at www.cloudinary.com

In order to use this feature to upload photos into your posts here on the RTH Forum, each member will need to visit the Cloudinary website and sign up for an account. While creating your account on Cloudinary, you will automatically receive two pieces of information that eventually must be entered in your profile settings here on the forum. These two pieces of information are your Cloudinary Cloud Name and your Cloudinary Upload Preset, and the following tutorial where to find these and where to enter them on this forum.

What follows is a basic tutorial which should help you to achieve the goal of using Cloudinary to host your photos and insert them directly into your forum posts through the use of the Cloudinary Photo Upload buttons found on this forum.

Basic Tutorial

The summary of steps are as follows:

1. Visit your RTH forum profile and click on the "Edit Profile" button.

2. Click on the "Settings" tab.

3. Scroll down to the new area titled "Cloudinary Upload Settings."

4. If you do not already have a Cloudinary account, click on the link titled "Fill in the next two fields by clicking here to make a cloudinary account."

5. At the Cloudinary website, enter your basic information, and create an account. Make a note of your Cloudinary Cloud Name automatically assigned by the program. This is the first piece of information you will need to enter in your profile settings on RTH.

6. Verify your email address and log in.

8. Once your email is verified and you log on answer the "role" question as you desire.

9. Click on the gear icon near the top right for "Settings."

10. Click on the Upload tab.

11. Scroll down and click on "Enable unsigned uploading."

12. You're almost done!! At this point, make a note of your Cloudinary Upload Preset automatically assigned by the program. This is the second piece of information you must have to enter in your profile settings on RTH.

VERY IMPORTANT! The next step is highly recommended for everyone, especially if your camera or cell phone is set to take large high resolution photos. Please go in now and set your "Incoming Transformations" to reduce the size of images being stored on Cloudinary. Failure to do so will result in massive digital camera sized photos being stored on Cloudinary and served into your posts potentially thousands of times. From personal experience, this will result in rapid depletion of your allotted bandwidth.

If you have already exited the program and are coming back in to edit your "Incoming Transformations," the steps to reach this point of the tutorial from the Cloudinary dashboard are: click the gear icon in the upper right, then click upload tab and scroll down to 'Upload Presets" and click 'Edit'

13. Click 'edit' to make changes to your Cloudinary Upload Preset.

14. Scroll down to "Incoming Transformations" and click on "Edit."

15. Set the slider to your desired image width (we highly recommend 800 pixels or smaller) and click "OK" to close the dialog box.

16. Click "save."

17. Return to the Rock Tumbling Hobby forum and in the navigation bar click on Profile > Edit Profile > Settings tab - and enter your Cloudinary Cloud Name and Cloudinary Upload Preset into each respective field.

17. Choose which sources you want to be able to upload from by clicking the check boxes. At the very minimum you must check "local search" to be able to upload photos from your computer or devices.

18. Click "Save Cloudinary settings."

19. Click "Save Account Settings."

Once you have completed all of these steps correctly you will now be able to click on the Cloudinary Photo Upload button when creating a new thread, posting a reply, or posting using the quick reply box. Clicking the Cloudinary Photo Upload button will take you to the Cloudinary interface page where you can drag and drop photos directly into your posts, or follow the links to reach your device photo gallery.

Thanks for being and RTH Forum community member and enjoy this program. Any questions you have, or if you need help please post in the Technical help section of the forum.

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