Hello,
Being that I'm not much of a image poster, what is the best way to link to or post direct images on the blog?
Thanks in advance,
JLM
Add images at attachments, post comment, go back to your comment, click on pictures in the attachment section to see them full size, copy the address for each image (right click on picture, copy image location). Then click on modify to edit your post and add those urls wherever you want them to show up.
Franken,
I think I dropped the technology on my big toe as well. I tried the attach method but I failed to use the 'Post' button.. only the 'Preview' button. The attachments only show up when you actually Post the message. For a true-noob.. I was a bit confused .. |O
[img]http://s9.postimg.org/5wwmu8eyn/IMG_1740.jpg[/img]I usually either just use attachments, or upload to imgur.com and then copy the links.
http://i.imgur.com/kMT9xpn.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/kMT9xpn.jpg) // good
http://imgur.com/gallery/kMT9xpn (http://imgur.com/gallery/kMT9xpn) // bad
Better:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/kMT9xpn.jpg[/img]
Can I use images I find here on my TV show, blog, news article, etc.?
If you'd like to use public images from our site for noncommercial purposes, please cite imgur.com as the source, and, if possible, cite the original content creator as well.
Imgur does not own the copyright to images uploaded to our site, thus cannot grant permissions for their commercial use. You are welcome to use the messaging system to contact the original user, if a username is available.
How many images can I upload?
Infinity images can be uploaded from a single user, but only 225 will be associated with a standard account. After 225, older images will be hidden, meaning you can no longer manage or delete them from within your account until you remove other images or upgrade to Pro.
How do I download an image in full resolution?
When you hover over an image, you will see an icon in the top right hand corner. Click it for the option to download the full resolution version.
How long do you keep the images?
As long as images are getting at least 1 view per 6 months, they will stick around forever. If an image does not receive even 1 view in 6 months, it may be removed to make room for new images. Images uploaded from Pro accounts will never be removed.
What counts as an image view?
An image view is counted each time the image is loaded. This includes images that are hot-linked or embedded on third-party sites. Views are not unique and count even if you refresh the page.
What file types are allowed?
JPEG, PNG, GIF, APNG, TIFF, BMP, PDF, XCF (GIMP). Please note that TIFF, BMP, PDF and XCF (GIMP) will be converted to PNG on upload.
How does Imgur compress my images?
There are two types of compression for images: lossless and lossy. Lossless compression will reduce the file size without making any visible changes at all. It simply gets rid of unnecessary data that's causing the image to be bigger, but the image will look exactly the same. Lossy compression reduces the size of the image much more than lossless, but it can also change the appearance of the image.
Imgur uses both types of compression. Every image that goes in (including images from pro accounts) is compressed by lossless compression--it reduces the size of the images without loss in quality. Lossy compression is only used when the image is above a certain file size (10MB for pro, 5MB for standard, 1MB for anonymous).
Uploaded images are not exactly the same (in terms of bytes) because of the lossless compression, but they will look exactly the same as when you uploaded them.
Better:
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Wow! you can copy direct the BBCode, so I don´t need to press the button insert picture anymore. Moreover the 5MB size limitation of postimg.org is gone... but... keep reading...
Well, "better" is a matter of opinion. Inserting images as images is great as long as they are small, but filling a thread with huge ones makes reading it a pain. IMHO. (Not a big problem here, fortunately.)
[imgur]
I typically resize them to 800 pixel width before uploading to imgur and publishing. Inline pictures are more reader friendly IMO than just urls.
Make an effort and attach the images here. This way they'll be permanent (yes, imgur or other sites may claim to be permanent but there's no guarantee, they may be bought or change their business strategy and then your pictures are gone)+1, still don't understand why certain people prefer not to use the forum attachment feature, I guess this has something to do with not fully trusting Dave as the owner of this forum ? Fortunately, most major excellent contributors here are using the forum attachment for their pictures in their posts. :-+
You just have to click on Attachments and other options, load the pictures there and post.
After you post, you can go back to your post and click on the small images at the bottom of the post to expand the images to full size and right click on them to select "copy image location" or something like that (depends on your browser). Next, you can simply click edit and paste those links where you want them to be in the post between img tags.
+1, still don't understand why certain people prefer not to use the forum attachment feature, I guess this has something to do with not fully trusting Dave as the owner of this forum ?
Well, "better" is a matter of opinion. Inserting images as images is great as long as they are small, but filling a thread with huge ones makes reading it a pain. IMHO. (Not a big problem here, fortunately.)
<iframe src="http://extrazoom.com/image-1716.html" height="500px" width="500px" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen>Do you really have a need for posting images that are larger than 5 MB? (On an electronics forum?)
Allowed file types: doc, gif, jpg, pdf, png, txt, zip, tar, c, h, hex, bas, xls, odt, asm, wav, aiff, wma, mp3, flac
Restrictions: 25 per post, maximum total size 2000KB, maximum individual size 1000KB
Has nothing to do with trusting in Dave. Has a lot todo with poor UI for adding uploading inlined images in post. Imgur has better UI.
Has nothing to do with trusting in Dave. Has a lot todo with poor UI for adding uploading inlined images in post. Imgur has better UI.When asking for help on a forum, you want to make it easy for people to understand what you're asking about. Making your question *look* nice means you'll get more/better responses. IMO, in-line images (appropriately sized) are much more clear than thumbnails stuck at the end of a post.
Flickr has very good BBcode support, you just copy it and paste where needed. Then you can edit it to remove the link to the original and the self referencing ad.
Yes, if I take a large board shot with my 18MP Canon 60D you have all the details to read the chip code. Anyway with the right compression 5MB are not bad at all, unfortunately in this blog:
1MB? I feel like back in 1999.Because there's no need for more than 1 MB for a single picture. Learn to compress a picture for online viewing.
Stick to the forum upload form, even though it's ugly.
...and at the end with no hope or future plan to improve it?
Also, be considerate. You may have high speed Internet, I may have high speed Internet... but lots of people don't. Some people even have their Internet connection metered, so it's not nice to have 3-5 x 5 MB pictures on a page, to stay a few minutes to have the pictures shown.+1
Feel free to learn PHP and program an SMF Forums plugin/extension to improve the file upload mechanism
Stick to the forum upload form, even though it's ugly.
they claim to save bandwidth for the Blog... Is Dave paying for how much we download or upload to/from the Forum? Or it is just a technical thing?
Do you really have a need for posting images that are larger than 5 MB? (On an electronics forum?)
Yes, if I take a large board shot with my 18MP Canon 60D you have all the details to read the chip code.
My only gripe is really with having huge in-line images, your scenario seems more like the small thumbnail + link to full image approach, correct? That of course should work for everyone.
Like this:That's a nice way to do it. I notice the images are pretty small (in bytes) too.
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/tek-ths720a-thinks-there-are-110v-on-the-input-but-there-is-just-a-50-ohm-r/1 (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/tek-ths720a-thinks-there-are-110v-on-the-input-but-there-is-just-a-50-ohm-r/1)
they claim to save bandwidth for the Blog... Is Dave paying for how much we download or upload to/from the Forum? Or it is just a technical thing?
Like this:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/tek-ths720a-thinks-there-are-110v-on-the-input-but-there-is-just-a-50-ohm-r/1 (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/tek-ths720a-thinks-there-are-110v-on-the-input-but-there-is-just-a-50-ohm-r/1)
you can check the first picture, maybe thumbnail too small but for the low speed internet user just a blessing. The beautiful part it was just a copy button in postimage.org to get the code. The next step was just to paste in the blog post.
Not everyone will be happy... I am sure about that, just trying to make happy the majority.
The best tip I can add is to first open your image in MS Paint, then save it as a png and upload the png.
Some jpg's I have uploaded recently changed from 1.1 Mb to 30 Kb as a png.
So just add that extra 10-15s to resave the picture with about 70-75% quality and everyone will probably be none the wiser.+1 :-+
Anyway those thumbnails are too small, here my new concept:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/mastech-dc-power-supply-hy3005dx-cheap-and-very-impressing!/msg493821/ (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/mastech-dc-power-supply-hy3005dx-cheap-and-very-impressing!/msg493821/)
Is a 800x600 picture too big?
Hi maurish, you are right in everything but you missed the point I was trying to provide a low profile and more readable post (only small thumbnails, no huge images) without preventing a fast speed user the possibility to take a look at full resolution pictures.
Anyway those thumbnails are too small, here my new concept:
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Is a 800x600 picture too big?
You can compress photos with high compression to get much smaller size and still able to catch the details reasonably well.
Just watch the attached picture's size at below example, imo, the details are still good enough while they're compressed most of them are < 500K bytes, even for non resized but cropped photos. ;)
[IMG width= WIDTH] URL TO IMAGE [/img][IMG width=800]http://s26.postimg.org/i8fjaqog9/IMG_1806.jpg[/img][IMG width=200]http://s26.postimg.org/i8fjaqog9/IMG_1806.jpg[/img][url=http://s26.postimg.org/i8fjaqog9/IMG_1806.jpg][IMG width=800]http://s26.postimg.org/i8fjaqog9/IMG_1806.jpg[/img][/url][url=http://postimg.org/image/yjfn720xx/full][img width=800 alt="Alternative Text"]http://s26.postimg.org/i8fjaqog9/IMG_1806.jpg[/img][/url]But I don't want to make too many rules that will often be ignored and for a problem that isn't all that big.
But I don't want to make too many rules that will often be ignored and for a problem that isn't all that big.The polite thing to do is to keep image size (KB) to the minimum to suit the task.
I find MS Office Picture Manager and Paint give me all the tools I need for compression and editing.