Picture hosting

[Excavatoree]

Hello everyone.

I know this has been discussed, but I must be really bad at searching - I can't find a good recommendation for a picture host.

I'd like to post some pictures of old Fluke 8025 meters, and some older 27s to compare with the newest (I believe) one that Dave did the video of.

I know several can't see the photobucket pictures, so I don't want to use them.  Any suggestions?

[robrenz]

Attach them to your post, they are hosted on the forum.

[firewalker]

Alexander.

[ablacon64]

I use http://imageshack.us
Had no problems so far.

[mariush]

I'll second http://imgur.com  it's fast and clean. You can also create galleries easily.

Imageshack ... I hate it, they screw around with the embed codes for pictures and if I want to view the full size I have to go to their websites where I'm guaranteed to get popups and excessive ads.

[steve30]

I used to use Imageshack and liked it but I have my own web hosting and domain now so just use that. That is definitely the best way if you can but will not be suitable for everyone.

Not sure how imageshack are these days.

[ablacon64]

Imageshack ... I hate it, they screw around with the embed codes for pictures and if I want to view the full size I have to go to their websites where I'm guaranteed to get popups and excessive ads.

That's optional, you can disable resizing and the codes. I always use the direct link and sometimes the forum thumbs.

[peter.mitchell]

This will probably sound like a bit of a plug but whatever;

I use dropbox, you just stick the files into your Public folder^1,3, right click the file and then click "copy public link", and that link is a direct web accessible link to the file on dropbox servers².

¹You need to make an account first.
²As soon as you put anything in your dropbox it gets uploaded to their servers.
³Everything in this folder is public, people say its a security issue, but isn't not like you don't have fair warning with a folder named "Public", your other folders are only available to the people assigned to them.

[GeoffS]

Another vote for just putting  them as attachments and having the forum host them.
Less chance of broken links when the photos go missing from photobucket or where ever.

It's easier for you  to control the size of images too (unnecessarily large images are a pet hate of mine)

[LEECH666]

I vote for imgur.com too (for an external host), but uploading the pics to the forum works fine too.

One of the advantages of imgur.com is that you don't have any filesize restirctions.

About Dropbox, for some reason these links seem to be dead all the time, or at least more frequently than any other picture host.

My 2 cents.

Cheers,
Florian

[ablacon64]

I prefer linking from an outside source since I may need the picture in another situation and will always know where it is. Forum hosting is nice but subject to failure as well. Despite seen much complaints about imageshack I've been using it for quite some time and never had a single problem. I know that if the image is not accessed in X months (or days, I don't know) it is erased but never had that problem yet.

[Zero999]

http://tinypic.com/

[SeanB]

Register your own domain and host them yourself ( or in a server farm) and upload via FTP. Works for me.

[BravoV]

Another vote for just putting  them as attachments and having the forum host them.
Less chance of broken links when the photos go missing from photobucket or where ever.

It's easier for you  to control the size of images too (unnecessarily large images are a pet hate of mine)

+1 , some people just never get it and keep thinking those free hosting companies are owned by their dad, and prolly just too young to experience that those external hosting might change their policy in the future, like banning external linking or worst turned those images into nasty porn ad. 

Actually there are tons of good examples at this forum, here I got one and look what happened to the 1st photo posted by "_Sync_"  -> https://www.eevblog.com/forum/general-chat/whats-your-work-benchlab-look-like-post-some-pictures-of-your-lab/msg1874/#msg1874

[george graves]

All those image hosting service are great - but.....they don't support files.

Do your self a favor and get a dropbox account:  http://db.tt/atPhD6o

Sign up at the link above and you'll get extra storage.  You can share any type of file, not just images.

[BravoV]

All those image hosting service are great - but.....they don't support files.

Do your self a favor and get a dropbox account:  http://db.tt/atPhD6o

Sign up at the link above and you'll get extra storage.  You can share any type of file, not just images.

This forum capable of attaching file in zipped form apart from pictures in your posting, of course we're not talking giga bytes sized file, I believe Dave wouldn't mind at people are attaching files at reasonable size, maybe < 1 MB zipped.

Here, an example on how easy and practically no brainer to attach picture and zipped files in a single post, look at 1st post -> https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog-specific/eevblog-260-tracking-pre-regulator-simulation-in-ltspice/