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Originally Posted by sbm12
For folks who don't want to find a 3rd party hosting source, FlyerTalk now offers photo album hosting as part of your user profile.
I've been using PBase for my image hosting & posting here on FT and elsewhere. I also notice that the "image" icon has disappeared from my message editing capabilities. The new syntax I find when clicking the IMG box thus far leaves me confused as I can only show a link and not an image using either command.
More important, I do not see anything about an album link when I click My Flyer Talk. If I click your "pictures and images" referred to in your message, I get a denial of permission message which seems to indicate that I'm not picutre album access enabled.
Kind of looks as if this thing is not yet rolling ( not a problem as I can check back in a few days ). It was more coincidental that today I sit down to post some images in a message and get myself entangled in a different posting syntax.
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Originally Posted by cheepneezy
I think the Flyertalk picture and album hosting feature is a benefit of Flyertalk Premium.
Good to know. Thanks. I updated the instructions above.
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Originally Posted by jerseyfinn
I've been using PBase for my image hosting & posting here on FT and elsewhere. I also notice that the "image" icon has disappeared from my message editing capabilities. The new syntax I find when clicking the IMG box thus far leaves me confused as I can only show a link and not an image using either command.
Are you seeing the images in this thread? If not then you need to edit your settings to enable pictures to show. The steps are at the end of the first post. That is usually why people see links instead of images inline in the posts.
As for the image button in post editing, what forum are you in that it isn't present? And are you creating a new post or editing an old one? You have to "go advanced" if you are editing to get the icon to show up.
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. . . Are you seeing the images in this thread? If not then you need to edit your settings to enable pictures to show. . . .
Yes, I can see the images in this thread just fine, so my settings are OK.
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. . . . As for the image button in post editing, what forum are you in that it isn't present? And are you creating a new post or editing an old one? You have to "go advanced" if you are editing to get the icon to show up.
Thanks for the hints.
When I reply to your message in this response ( hitting the quick reply button ) , the insert image icon is immediately visible, even before hitting the "go advanced button". The picture icon is also visible after I hit "go advanced".
Here's the interesting part, I can not get the picture icon to display in the US Airways forum, the Marriott forum, Hawaii forum, or UK forum ( I stop at this point ). This applies either starting a new thread, quick reply to a thread or a quote to reply. It is plain and simple not there.
So . . . . it looks like images may not be enabled in many of the forums reply/new thread actions, save this, the travel photography forum. At least that is how it is beginning to look.
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So . . . . it looks like images may not be enabled in many of the forums reply/new thread actions, save this, the travel photography forum. At least that is how it is beginning to look.
You figured it out. Currently there are six fora that support images. They are Travel Photography, Trip Reports, FlyingBlue, CommunityBuzz, Starwood and Luxury Hotels.
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ImageShack
Posting images from ImageShack is pretty easy. They actually have a box on the page when viewing an image that has all the code you need. The problem is that they have too much code there.
On this page you see the image and then below it you'll see four boxes with code in them. When you click in the top box ("Forum") it will automatically highlight all the text. Right-click and choose copy. Then come back over to FlyerTalk and choose paste. That will give you this:
As you can see, there are two entries there. The first one is actually the picture. The second one is an advertising bit that we don't really need. So you can delete that second bit and be left with this:
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FlyerTalk Gallery
FlyerTalk Galleries is another photo sharing venue that is available. I don't really know much about the rules for posting there, but they support a lot of file formats (jpg, jpeg, gif, png, asx, asf, avi, mpg, mpeg, mp2, wmv, mov, qt, swf, mp4, rm, ram) and apparently images can be uploaded in a ZIP archive to create a gallery, among other methods.
The main page of a gallery has all the thumbnails. If you right click on one of those images and choose properties you'll get something like this:
http://gallery.flyertalk.com/gallery/albums/DCA-CBRthelongway/IMG_1623.thumb.jpg
The URL is the gallery name, the IMG_1623 part is the picture name and then there is the .thumb part and the .jpg part. In addition to ".thumb" there is also a ".sized" option that will give a larger image and one that is more conducive to viewing in a trip report.
So basically you can construct the path to the image that you want to embed by using the path to the gallery ([noparse]http://gallery.flyertalk.com/gallery/albums/DCA-CBRthelongway[noparse]) the image name (IMG_NNNN), .sized for a normal sized image and .jpg at the end. If you put all that together and paste it in the box that pops up when you click on the insert picture button it should work out for you. Obviously you'll need to change the picture file name depending on which one you want to show.
In this case, the image put inside the [I MG]...[/IMG] tags looks like this:
Pictures by, and instructions produced with the help of, [b]Fly'nAAgain[/b]
I use this all the time. Rather than embed large images directly into the post, I use smaller image sizes from which the larger images can be loaded if desired simply by clicking on them.
Note that FlyerTalk galleries automatically generates three images of different sizes, from thumbnails to large.
Generally I use the "Thumbnails" as centred image < 10Kb, with embedded links to the larger versions.
e.g.
"[center][url="http://gallery.flyertalk.com/gallery/album28/065_sun_morning"][IMG]http://gallery.flyertalk.com/gallery/albums/album28/065_sun_morning.thumb.jpg[/IMG]
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Sunday Morning[/url][/center]"
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Originally Posted by sbm12
FlyerTalk Galleries is another photo sharing venue that is available. I don't really know much about the rules for posting there, but they support a lot of file formats (jpg, jpeg, gif, png, asx, asf, avi, mpg, mpeg, mp2, wmv, mov, qt, swf, mp4, rm, ram) and apparently images can be uploaded in a ZIP archive to create a gallery, among other methods.
I'd keep this in mind before posting your photos to any kind of hosting provided by FlyerTalk:
Personally, I'm pretty sure that the aforementioned policy wouldn't hold up if someone mounted a legal challenge, but I'd just as soon not go there in the first place.
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I could not find the option for Message board on Photobucket. 15" screen option seems to work though.
Indeed, they've changed the options there. The Large option (640x480) or the 15" Screen option (800x600) are both reasonable for use here. I've updated the instructions.
I'm also going through and updating the instructions for all the services to leverage the noparse tag. Thanks, serfty!!
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