Photobucket is A Pain In My Butt

As long as you add a space between each image code, you should be able to post as many pics as you want.

I don't know if this will help, but I use Microsoft picture manager before I upload to photobucket. That way I can crop and resize before uploading and it is so much faster! I tend to use the auto set of large web when resizing after I have edited the picture. They load onto photobucket much faster!
Just keep two windows open, one here and one on photobucket and just switch back and forth. The space is the key, as Randy said.
Fran

Hi Mynewhobby,

I Found a interesting way yesterday

I opened up Photo bucket then Mininised it

then opened up another window with RTH , did a repley minimised it

opened up the Minimised Photo bucket copied the photo link I wanted then Minisied PB

opend up RTH and Pasted

I did 5 links this way went ok.

The same as 2 windows open but in full screen size (I wanted to see the polished detail on a full screen before getting the http link)

this way (minimising ) you dont loose data on a open RTH thread

Jack
Yorkshire UK

Sheesh ... u guys do it the hard way!

Use the Firefox browser, go into "options", and drag and drop the "copy" and "paste" buttons to the top of the browser. Open RTH in one tab, Photobucket in another tab. Going back-and-forth between the tabs is fast.

Okay ... first of all, download the Microsoft Image Resizer Powertoy and install it. Here's the link:

www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/powertoys/Xppowertoys.mspx

After installation, restart your puter.

Upload your pics from your camera into a folder on your desktop. Open the folder, then at the top of your screen, click "Edit", then "Select All". Now click "File", then "Resize Pictures". In the popup, tick "Small" (640x480), click "Advanced", and check "Resize the original pictures". Click "OK". There ya go ... all pics in the folder are resized at once! The pics are now small enough to upload quickly, but large enough to show good detail.

If you want to further enhance your pics (brightness, contrast, etc), you can use any decent graphics proggy such as Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, or GIMP (which is open-source freeware). However, this must be done one pic at a time (very time consuming), so if you have a lot of pics and they're "good enough", don't do it.

Your pics should be in .jpg format. If they're bitmaps (.bmp), they're much larger files, will upload much more slowly, and will be automatically converted to JPGs when you upload them to Photobucket anyway (VERY slowly).

Now that your pics are "ready", divide them into category folders as they will go into Photobucket folders. If you don't organize into folders, finding pics later will be a pain in the butt. Once the pics are in those folders, open each folder and rename the pics numerically, starting with "1" in each folder. You'll see why in a minute...

Now go to Photobucket. Create folders for the pic categories, just like the ones you just created in your puter.

Now open your first Photobucket folder, and in the upload section, click the blue text which says "old uploader" ... using the old uploader is THE key to fast uploading! Upload the pics from the first folder on your puter into this Photobucket folder. Then, of course, do this with each corresponding folder from your puter to Photobucket. VOILA ... your pics are now all online, in organized folders, just like they were in the parent folder on your desktop.

NOW ... you want to put your pics in a post on RTH, right? K ... open a "Post Message" on RTH. Ready to add your pics? Click the Photobucket tab, go to the folder full of pics you want to put on RTH, highlight the "IMG Code" for the pic named "1", then click the "copy" button that I had you put at the top of your browser. Now, click the RTH tab, make sure your blinking cursor is where you want to insert the pic url (presumably at the start of a new line), and click the "paste" button I had you put at the top of your browser. VOILA, the url to your first pic is in the post you're creating ... BUT ... you wanna put the rest of the pics in that Photobucket folder into your post ... OMG, going between tabs, copying and pasting all of those IMG Codes is gonna take forever ... right? Wrong!

Remember when I had you rename all of the pics in each folder numerically and said I would tell you "why" later? Hehehe you're gonna luv this...

After you click the "paste" button to insert that first url, put the cursor at the end of the line, hit your enter key on your keyboard, click the "paste" button again, then hit the enter key again. Keep doing this, pasting as many url links as pics you want in the post. For instance, if there are 20 pics in the folder that you wanna post, make 20 url links ... it'll take you less than a minute to make them. Now look at the first url link ... see right near the end of the code where it says "1.jpg"? Kewl ... go to your second url code, and change that "1" to a "2" ... go to the third url code, and change the "1" to a "3" ... go to the fourth url code, and change the "1" to a "4" ... do that to each code until you get to the last one ("20"). It'll take you less than a minute to change those numbers. VOILA, you just saved the time and aggravation of switching between tabs, copying and pasting all of those url codes!

So, there ya have it. My little secrets to greatly speeding-up the arduous task of posting lots of pics online, and being more organized in the process. Between mass resizing, mass uploading using the old uploader, and mass url link creation, you've greatly reduced the total time spent for this otherwise tedious task.

You're very welcome.

Since I rely heavily on pics to show my materials, I've had to find every means possible to speed-up the process. It used to take me forever to do, and now it's pretty quick and painless.

Jack, that Image Resizer is a great time-saver ... a few clicks and all pics in a folder are resized at once. Even if you're otherwise editing all of the pics, resizing them all at once saves you a step for each pic.

For posting on the web, I like the 640x480 size. They're small enough to load within reasonable time, but large enough to show decent detail.

You can do slideshows and clickable thumbnails with Photobucket, too. Personally, I don't like having to do extra steps, so I figure other folks don't like it either, so I just post the 640x480 pics.