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I have copied the first post in this thread to this wiki so anyone can edit it.
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A few people have asked in various threads, and I though that this might be a good opportunity to have some instructions for the various image hosting services out there on how to present their images on the TPF forum. I'm going to include the couple responses I've already drafted, but if people have info for ones I haven't included feel free to suggest the provider to me and/or write up the instructions.
S.
If you're having trouble posting images and cannot seem to figure out why they aren't showing up in the post, make sure to check your profile settings. There is an option to display images or not, and that may be the source of the problems. To get to the setting, click on the My FlyerTalk link, then on the Edit Options link. On that page scroll down and make sure that the check box is selected next to the option "Show Images (including attached images and images in [IMG] code)" and save the settings. Hopefully that will fix things.
Update:
Just wanted to add a welcome to folks who are coming over to this thread from some of the other fora that recently had photo embedding enabled. If you're having any problems or want to include details about a new hosting service please feel free to post in this thread and/or PM me.
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A few people have asked in various threads, and I though that this might be a good opportunity to have some instructions for the various image hosting services out there on how to present their images on the TPF forum. I'm going to include the couple responses I've already drafted, but if people have info for ones I haven't included feel free to suggest the provider to me and/or write up the instructions.
S.
- Upload directly to FlyerTalk
- flickr
- FlyerTalk Gallery
- FlyerTalk Photo Albums
- fotiki
- Generic Hosting
- ImageShack
- PhotoBucket
- Photoshop Express
- Picassa Web Albums
- SmugMug
- WebShots
- Zenfolio
- Why I love flying, in an image...
- View from Your Hotel Room
Folks Still Taking Photos Just After Takeoff or Before Landing?- Takeoff and Landing Photos/Videos
- Post your golfscapes here...
- HDR Photos
- Planespotting
- Wildlife
- You and your Camera
- Under the sea (underwater images)
- http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...interiors.html
If you're having trouble posting images and cannot seem to figure out why they aren't showing up in the post, make sure to check your profile settings. There is an option to display images or not, and that may be the source of the problems. To get to the setting, click on the My FlyerTalk link, then on the Edit Options link. On that page scroll down and make sure that the check box is selected next to the option "Show Images (including attached images and images in [IMG] code)" and save the settings. Hopefully that will fix things.
Update:
Just wanted to add a welcome to folks who are coming over to this thread from some of the other fora that recently had photo embedding enabled. If you're having any problems or want to include details about a new hosting service please feel free to post in this thread and/or PM me.
How (and where) to embed your pictures in the Travel Photography forum
#46
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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.
#48
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#49
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A smugmug Update!
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.
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.
Last edited by sbm12; Sep 17, 2009 at 5:00 pm
#50
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: WAS
Programs: No Longer Anything
Posts: 478
preventing downloads
I don't think I saw this addressed in this thread; can anyone tell me if there is a way to stop photos from being saved off a FT post? I am using Picassa to host. I didn't think I could save photos from these threads before, but definitely can now.
Not that big of a deal for what photos I have posted (not many), but it would limit my use of some others I have.
Is the solution using watermarks or other photo labeling?
Not that big of a deal for what photos I have posted (not many), but it would limit my use of some others I have.
Is the solution using watermarks or other photo labeling?
#51
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I don't think I saw this addressed in this thread; can anyone tell me if there is a way to stop photos from being saved off a FT post? I am using Picassa to host. I didn't think I could save photos from these threads before, but definitely can now.
Not that big of a deal for what photos I have posted (not many), but it would limit my use of some others I have.
Is the solution using watermarks or other photo labeling?
Not that big of a deal for what photos I have posted (not many), but it would limit my use of some others I have.
Is the solution using watermarks or other photo labeling?
#52
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: WAS
Programs: No Longer Anything
Posts: 478
Thanks sbm12. I'll have to look into that. My picasa webpage is not public, but that has no influence. I'm not a big poster of anything on the internet (FT is the only website I have ever participate in), and don't think anyone would make money off my photos; but only want to share some photos for people to view. thanks, learn something every day!
#53
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Central California
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I think this is a key. I have a pretty extensive Facebook album that I share with my friends. None of them would rip me off but I don't know that others can't get to it. I just make sure I post only in "e-mail" resolution - usually 800x600 - and figure nobody is going to make anything on such low-res images. They look fine on the web but would not reproduce worth a hoot.
#55
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Location: NYC
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Help
Need help with using Photobucket to post photos. I've been posting a bunch of aircraft interior photos to that thread in this forum; this is the first time I've been posting photos to Flyertalk.
It seems straightforward, but what seems to be happening is that if I upload several pictures, resize them, and then post them, the last of the pictures does not show properly when linked to from FT. On Photobucket it is showing the photo has been re-sized to 640x480, but the image that actually loads into Flyertalk is still 1024x768. And heaven forbid I need to rotate the last photo, that doesn't show up properly either (it's weird that I even need to rotate a photo in PB, since it's always properly oriented on my hard drive before I upload it).
Any hits or suggestions?
It seems straightforward, but what seems to be happening is that if I upload several pictures, resize them, and then post them, the last of the pictures does not show properly when linked to from FT. On Photobucket it is showing the photo has been re-sized to 640x480, but the image that actually loads into Flyertalk is still 1024x768. And heaven forbid I need to rotate the last photo, that doesn't show up properly either (it's weird that I even need to rotate a photo in PB, since it's always properly oriented on my hard drive before I upload it).
Any hits or suggestions?
#56
Join Date: Jan 2002
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Embeding photo from Facebook into OMNI
Greetings.
I tried to embed in a post in OMNI forum a photo out of my Facebook page.
My IMG setting seem to me to be enabled.
I copied the URL of my photo in Facebook from the "properties" of the photo.
When I published the post on FT, I got back the URL in blue fonts. I clicked on the URL and got a 404 message (or was it 401?)...
What's your advice?
Thanks for your dedicated work on this PF.
Mandy
p.s. I assume that I can't copy and paste the digital photo from my computer, am I right?
I tried to embed in a post in OMNI forum a photo out of my Facebook page.
My IMG setting seem to me to be enabled.
I copied the URL of my photo in Facebook from the "properties" of the photo.
When I published the post on FT, I got back the URL in blue fonts. I clicked on the URL and got a 404 message (or was it 401?)...
What's your advice?
Thanks for your dedicated work on this PF.
Mandy
p.s. I assume that I can't copy and paste the digital photo from my computer, am I right?
#57
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#58
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: ORD, MBS
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#59
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Upstate NY
Programs: IHG Plat, HH Gold, EZ Pass Plat, Starbucks Gold, Whatever flight is cheapest
Posts: 7,035
#60
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Home
Programs: AA, Delta, UA & thanks to FTers for my PC Gold!
Posts: 7,676
Another fellow FTer was able to share some pictures of the new dog in OMNI from his Facebook page. Check out this thread and see how he did it.
p.s. I assume that I can't copy and paste the digital photo from my computer, am I right?