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Post by Original Admin on Jan 3, 2016 13:54:09 GMT -5
All,
Time to settle on a favorite place for all your photos, one which everyone can use (if they need/want to).
Primarily though, one which I can write a tutorial for and sticky it on here somewhere.
If you have a photo storage facility online, which allows you to link to images from other sites (like this), is easier than photobucket (which people seem to have probs with) - please post it here.
Once we are up and running with ad free (not long now) - maybe I could buy some space somewhere if there is anything left to spend. Its fairly cheap - but we need reliable.
Thats for down the line though - for now - if you have a favorite photo site - pls share here.
(Im looking at imgur.com at the mo).
Thanks
Mark
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Post by Peruano on Jan 3, 2016 14:41:00 GMT -5
Photo storage sites are like airlines. Everyone has had a bad experience on one or the other, but we just can't agree on which we should hate worse. Please don't make us all march in a straight line. Some here might have problems abiding by rules. Having a well written sticky on the basic startup is certainly desirable. Thanks. Tom
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 3, 2016 16:12:15 GMT -5
I have to say that I prefer PB to Flickr. Flickr makes you get a yahoo mail account. Plus it is a little more like an art sight rather a straight up hosting site.
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Post by parfive on Jan 3, 2016 16:26:25 GMT -5
Photobucket’s done just fine for the last ten years. Damn sight more’n I can say for Proboards.
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Post by krazydiamond on Jan 3, 2016 16:51:13 GMT -5
What Mark was trying address was the old out dated thread about posting photos...some members were complaining and having trouble posting photos to the board. Nobody is trying to make you switch your favorite photo posting site, for petrified wood's sake! Just wanted input for what everyone out there found easy to use and he was going to do a new tutorial for it.
So, maybe it would be better for expert photo posting members to do a tutorial on the site THEY prefer for the benefit of other members looking for a service to use. If it is a good tutorial, we'll sticky the thread to a convenient location on the board, TBD. Thoughts on that would be welcome as well.
Just trying to be helpful here.
KD
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Post by Pat on Jan 3, 2016 17:13:46 GMT -5
I use Flickr exclusively now. Had PB until I had too much trouble with it. I need a third party photo host just for this forum, which is my only forum. Thanks for doing this. I look forward to not needing a third party host.
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jan 3, 2016 17:46:01 GMT -5
I use FB continuously,never had problems with it and I'm very fast with taking and adding photos on the site,to other sites....
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Post by krazydiamond on Jan 3, 2016 18:20:05 GMT -5
tell us how you do this, fossilman, as I struggle with photobucket these days.
K
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Post by Rockoonz on Jan 3, 2016 19:16:03 GMT -5
I haven't had a problem with PB either. When they did their big makeover not so long ago it was kinda dicey for a minute or two, but it's all good now. I think that my saving grace is possibly that I keep a folder on my PC for a temporary photo dump. I do any editing on them in the folder then just drag them out to the appropriate folder in P-bucket. Like so...   |
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Post by mohs on Jan 3, 2016 19:31:37 GMT -5
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Post by mohs on Jan 3, 2016 19:37:21 GMT -5
cool picture Lee
PB works for me
its got its bug & is excruciatly slow at times
but when it working-- its hard to beat
I would imagine
really haven't messed with any others sites
I mean... I'm trying to grind rocks here
mostly
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Post by krazydiamond on Jan 3, 2016 20:49:15 GMT -5
ok, guys-that-don't-have-a-problem, give us a step by step on how you take a photobucket upload and post it on RTH. I had an old photobucket account, learned how to post here before, but am struggling now with preview and editing stuff with my new account. Any tutorial for ANY photo hosting site would be appreciated!
Thanks!
KD
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Post by mohs on Jan 3, 2016 21:18:25 GMT -5
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indiana
spending too much on rocks
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Post by indiana on Jan 4, 2016 15:29:16 GMT -5
I use imgur, it's super easy.
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Post by vegasjames on Jan 4, 2016 17:38:40 GMT -5
My only problem with Photobucket is that every time I go to upload photos my computer gets slowed down as they hit me with a pop up ad in another page. There are plenty of other ads on the site so the pop up ad really irritates me.
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Post by Rockoonz on Jan 5, 2016 0:33:31 GMT -5
That's what pop up blockers are for.
Works every time.
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Post by vegasjames on Jan 5, 2016 2:48:02 GMT -5
That's what pop up blockers are for. Works every time. My pop up blocker is on. It has yet to stop these pop up ads from Photobucket. They don't simply pop up on the screen, they open a whole new page. |
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herchenx
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Post by herchenx on Jan 5, 2016 10:35:52 GMT -5
The fastest way to post pics from a PC is DropBox - IMHO.
You right click a photo you want to share on your computer (you don't have to see what it's source URL is on a web page) and select "Share DropBox link"
In the BBEdit editor thing (the WYSIWYG editor you use to write a post) you just click the add image button and paste in the address that DropBox gave you and you're done.
An added benefit is that you can have your phone auto-backup to DropBox so the photos are already synced to your PC and the cloud by the time you're home (if you use your cell for photos) and you can post as soon as you walk in the door.
I *suspect* that OneDrive might have a similar option although I haven't tested it, I really wish Google Plus Photos (now Picasa again, I think) had this feature. THey have unlimited photo backup if you let Google resize your photos, but I've had permission issues sharing with Google Photos/Picasa more recently.
Down side of DropBox is you are limited on your storage if you don't pay for storage, but it is the simplest on a PC at least in my experience.
Personally anymore I host the photos myself and don't worry about it. I have things pretty well streamlined to share photos online and I can keep the URLs fairly short so it is easy to copy/paste image links into posts.
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