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Figuring out new photobucket....

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Posted by the Baron on Thursday, January 3, 2013 11:49 AM

DoogsATX

the Baron

Actually, in Photobucket, if you hover your cursor over the photo, you should get a popup window with the image tags for each kind of linking.  At the bottom of the popup is the text of the "image tag".  Just click in that to copy the text you need to include in a post in a forum, and then paste that text into your post.  When you save your post, the link will retrieve the image from Photobucket.  Fewer clicks.

The new Photobucket does away with the rollover links. Fortunately you can still force it back to the old style...for now.


 
Ah, thanks, Doogs!  Duh!  My reading comprehension decreases with each passing day on the 'Net, I missed that detail.
 
In that case, as Emily Litella used to say, "Never mind."
 
For the record, I click to toggle back to the old format, too.  I can't stand short-attention-span software development.

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Posted by DoogsATX on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 12:18 PM

the Baron

Actually, in Photobucket, if you hover your cursor over the photo, you should get a popup window with the image tags for each kind of linking.  At the bottom of the popup is the text of the "image tag".  Just click in that to copy the text you need to include in a post in a forum, and then paste that text into your post.  When you save your post, the link will retrieve the image from Photobucket.  Fewer clicks.

The new Photobucket does away with the rollover links. Fortunately you can still force it back to the old style...for now.

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  • From: Bethlehem PA
Posted by the Baron on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 11:57 AM

Actually, in Photobucket, if you hover your cursor over the photo, you should get a popup window with the image tags for each kind of linking.  At the bottom of the popup is the text of the "image tag".  Just click in that to copy the text you need to include in a post in a forum, and then paste that text into your post.  When you save your post, the link will retrieve the image from Photobucket.  Fewer clicks.

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Posted by checkmateking02 on Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:15 PM

You're welcome.  Saw your test post, and it looks like you've got the hang of it already.

 

 

 

 

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  • From: Chantilly, Virginia
Posted by CNicoll on Sunday, December 30, 2012 3:05 PM

Thank you!  I tried cutting and posting all sorts of links, went back to the 'old' photobucket, etc.  Thanks for this, much appreciated.  Will try it out a few times here in the test area.

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  • From: AandF in the Badger State
Posted by checkmateking02 on Sunday, December 30, 2012 2:34 PM

No bother.  If anything's a bother, it's getting used to the new photobucket layout.

To begin with, you have to use click the "use rich formatting" option here at FSM, then you have to have a second browser window open to your photobucket.  Hover your cursor over the photo you want, and a little cogwheel icon should appear in the upper left hand corner.  This should open a box with several choices, including "get media links."  This is what you want.

Copy the option called "direct link."  Sometimes you can do this with a left click, but only when the little "finger pointing" icon appears.  It doesn't always.  A glitch, I think.  Then, you'd have to highlight and copy.

After that, return to the FSM site.  In the menu box, you'll see a photo icon in the lower row, about the middle.  Click this and a window will open.  Paste the copied "direct link" where indicated, and click "insert."

Your photo should come through, and you should be able to see it almost immediately in your posting, before you hit the "post" button.

Sound complicated, until you use it a few times.  I don't like the new format for photobucket very well either, but I've stuck to it anyhow.

Give it a try, and good luck.  As Admiral Kirk once said to Lt. Saavik:  "We learn by doing."

And sometimes it takes a lot of doing!

 

 

 

 

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  • From: Chantilly, Virginia
Posted by CNicoll on Sunday, December 30, 2012 2:19 PM

Hi, sorry to bother, but how did you get the photo IN the post, rather than just a link?  Thanks!

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Posted by Bish on Monday, December 17, 2012 11:08 AM

You can go back to the old version. I didn't like the new one so swicthed back.

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  • From: Dripping Springs, TX, USA
Figuring out new photobucket....
Posted by RBaer on Monday, December 17, 2012 11:07 AM

Hmmm......

Should be Tamiya's KT and M51.

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