How (and where) to embed your pictures in the Travel Photography forum

[sbm12]

Originally Posted by semsem

C:\Documents and Settings\....\My Documents\My Pictures\Adobe\Digital Camera Photos\2008-12-25-1217-50

semsem:

Welcome to FlyerTalk!

I noticed your troubles here and in the TripReports thread where you tried to put the pictures in your post. I just took a look at the Shutterfly interface to see if it is one that we could add to this tutorial. Unfortunately it seems that Shutterfly is much more focused on hosting images in order to make money selling prints than they are on allowing images to be hosted and shared. Based on that it seems that they do not really have a reasonable means for being a source for embedding your photos to share here. If you use one of the other services noted in the first post on this thread you should have better success.

S.

[semsem]

Thank you. I will check the other sites. I tried to indent but my addresses started with a C: not HTTP and it did not work.

At least I figured out Shutterfly. But it is much nicer to put the pictures in the report itself.

[sbm12]

Originally Posted by semsem

But it is much nicer to put the pictures in the report itself.

Agreed. Which is why I'd suggest you pick one of the many other services that make publishing your images free and easy. You got some pretty good photos in your collection from the trip that I saw on Shutterfly; no good reason to settle for the limited publishing options that they present to you.

[JHIN]

I'm using shutterfly currently for my UAL F class trip report and it works fine however I don't know how to make the pictures larger than thumbnails?

[sbm12]

Originally Posted by JHIN

I'm using shutterfly currently for my UAL F class trip report and it works fine however I don't know how to make the pictures larger than thumbnails?

As noted above, I have not found a good way to leverage Shutterfly as a host for third-party sharing of images. Sorry.

[sbm12]

I got sick of copy/pasting to "assemble" a link from my smugmug gallery, so I spent a bit of time over the past day and managed to cobble together a Grease Monkey script that will put together the UBB code for a particular picture when you click on the Share | Get a link option for any image. It will add a text box at the top of the page. The default code will have the link to the LightBox of the image and will show the medium sized image. Those options can be edited in the script towards the top; there is some documentation in the comments for how to do it.

The code looks like this:
[url="http://gallery.millerworks.net/gallery/7770679_V8fYm/1/#502752747_KJN8q-A-LB"][IMG]http://gallery.millerworks.net/photos/502752747_KJN8q-M.jpg[/IMG][/url]
and results in this being displayed:



You can get a copy of the GreaseMonkey script here:
http://old.wanderingaramean.com/smugmug-UBB.user.js

Once you've installed the script you'll need to manage the included sites bit through the GreaseMonkey interface to reflect your personal smugmug account.

ETA: This was all well and good, and the original script is still online, but it turns out that it no longer works and it is wholly unnecessary. SmugMug has updated their systems to now essentially provide the results that my script does and they do it natively. Just chose the BBCode-Medium line on the Embeddable Links page when you go to share an image.

[CMV]

Fixed. Thanks.

[Italy98]

Thank you sbm12 for all your work over the past 22 months. In the time that has elapsed is there one online photo storage service that seems to stand above the others for ease of use and security?

[thor17]

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