Mike Posted September 28, 2017 Author Posted September 28, 2017 Time to bump this to the top as a few people have asked the question lately
Lord Riot Posted September 29, 2017 Posted September 29, 2017 Hello I'm new and I don't even know how to give my photos a URL, please could someone post an idiot proof (it needs to be!) guide on how I can go from this: A photo taken with my iPad camera and saved in My Pictures on the iPad to giving that picture a URL and subsequently uploading it to a thread in this forum? Thanks!
Max Headroom Posted September 29, 2017 Posted September 29, 2017 ⬆️ Simple answer is you can't post photos directly. It chews up server capacity and has security/virus implications. You need to upload to a third party hosting site like Flickr or similar. You then embed a link from that site in your post and then software takes care of the rest. There is an FAQ area here to guide you on the technicalities as each hosting site differs. Good luck Trevor
Bullbasket Posted September 30, 2017 Posted September 30, 2017 If you look in FAQ's, you'll see an "idiot's guide" to posting photos on BM using Village Photos. It walks you through the whole procedure from your computer to wherever on BM. John.
franky boy Posted October 31, 2017 Posted October 31, 2017 Hi All Can someone help please. So it's been about 3 months since I posted a photo from my Flickr account. Tonight I started a new topic and posted in a picture of the box top no problems. I then went onto the next photo to be posted and as usual went to the BB code part and pressed control c to copy the URL to the computer. Then went back to my post put the cursor in the right place and pressed control v to paste in the URL. All that came up was the long URL code in plain text which wouldn't convert into a picture. This happened a few times. I also tried the insert other media option but the URL bar just turned a shade of red and nothing happened there either. Im probably making some kind of simple error but can someone help or advise please. Thanks James
dogsbody Posted October 31, 2017 Posted October 31, 2017 I use the EMBED option to post here. I just right-click on the code bar, choose COPY, then PASTE it here. Easy-peasy. Chris 1
John Aero Posted November 1, 2017 Posted November 1, 2017 James: It will depend on the privacy setting. To get the short URL up you need it to be public. John 2
franky boy Posted November 1, 2017 Posted November 1, 2017 14 hours ago, dogsbody said: I use the EMBED option to post here. I just right-click on the code bar, choose COPY, then PASTE it here. Easy-peasy. Chris 5 hours ago, John Aero said: James: It will depend on the privacy setting. To get the short URL up you need it to be public. John Thanks Chris and John Ill give it another try tonight. James
StevSmar Posted November 19, 2017 Posted November 19, 2017 (edited) Very frustrating.... Google Drive doesn't work... I was able to once Facebook a month ago but it's not allowing 3rd party hosting. My Flickr account wouldn't open because it was linked to a Yahoo account... This is OneDrive where I've uploaded an image and generated an "</> Embed" tag Edited November 19, 2017 by StevSmar Testing and not having any fun... 1
Gav G Posted November 24, 2017 Posted November 24, 2017 (edited) Just a heads up, you can also use imgur for hosting (apologies if this has already been mentioned). It's fairly easy to use, no fees and Ive used them for years: https://imgur.com/ Edited November 24, 2017 by Gav G
bootneck Posted November 24, 2017 Posted November 24, 2017 Hi Gav, I've just joined Imgur, started an album and upload a photo as a test, but cannot see how I then link it to show here. Any advice? Mike
Gav G Posted November 24, 2017 Posted November 24, 2017 (edited) 24 minutes ago, bootneck said: Hi Gav, I've just joined Imgur, started an album and upload a photo as a test, but cannot see how I then link it to show here. Any advice? Mike Sure, Sign in! Click on your user name on the top right hand side and then click on "images". This should take you to a gallery of all of your uploads. Click on the image you would like to post: And this should take you to a page showing that image + a list of link options on the right; click on the second one down: The link for the image is now in your clipboard and you can just paste that straight into a post here. HTH Edited November 24, 2017 by Gav G
bootneck Posted November 24, 2017 Posted November 24, 2017 Well that was fairly easy! Thanks for the assistance Gav. Mike 1
Bear Paw Posted November 29, 2017 Posted November 29, 2017 (edited) https://www.flickr.com/gp/136052112@N07/y4R606 can someone please tell me what they see on this post please? Edited November 29, 2017 by Bear Paw
Max Headroom Posted November 29, 2017 Posted November 29, 2017 18 minutes ago, Bear Paw said: https://www.flickr.com/gp/136052112@N07/y4R606 can someone please tell me what they see on this post please? The wing of a German biplane and a lozenge pattern being applied. Trevor 1
Vinnie Posted November 30, 2017 Posted November 30, 2017 (edited) 11 hours ago, Crimea River said: Test from Dropbox Sorry, doesn't do anything. Tried copy and paste still nothing. Edited November 30, 2017 by Vinnie 1
Vinnie Posted November 30, 2017 Posted November 30, 2017 21 hours ago, Bear Paw said: https://flic.kr/p/21Xj11U Hi, Bear. What were you trying to do? Your link is clickable but were you trying to display your picture in the thread?
Bear Paw Posted November 30, 2017 Posted November 30, 2017 Yes I was trying to get the picture to appear in the thread. With very little success.
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