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Using "Use.com" for Image Hosting (Instructions)

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  • Member since
    January 2015
  • From: Tumwater, WA.
Using "Use.com" for Image Hosting (Instructions)
Posted by M. Brindos on Monday, July 3, 2017 10:16 PM

For those of you whom are still getting frustrated with Google images or Flikr or whatever, here is what I do to post pictures.

Go to Use.com and sign up. There is no payment information required.

Once you have an account started you should be looking at this page;

Once you select the images you want to upload you just click "upload" at the bottom of the box.

Once your images are uploaded you will see a space under the upload box with your newly uploaded pictures. It may say that you will have to wait while they process. Simply refresh your screen until they are shown.

Next you will click on the "Generate HTML & Image Code" and  new page will pop up.

Click on the last option at the bottom. "IMG Images for message boards and forums"

Then paste (CTRL+V) the code into the text box here.

The highlighted bits of code are not really necessary for our purposes here, but if you choose not to edit them out it really won't make much of a difference. It will simply say "click here to enlarge" under each picture. The same function happens if you click on the picture itself so I don't understand why it is included. The [/CENTER] bit of code simply centers your picture in the allotted space. I like mine to stay to the left so I choose to edit that out. Besides it doesn't always work, depending on which forum you're on.

 

Anyways, it's that simple to "Use" this Image Hosting site. For Android users there doesn't seem to be any app, you just go to the same web page and the instructions are exactly the same. For iPhone users there is an app and you just follow the on screen prompt to upload. Just search for "Use.com" in the app store. It's free.

So once that's all done you just copy and paste right here in the text box. No extra steps to it.

- Mike Brindos "Lost Boy"

  • Member since
    June 2017
  • From: Winter Park, FL
Posted by fotofrank on Tuesday, July 4, 2017 9:16 AM

Thanks for the tutorial, Mike. This may just be the way I go so I can post images.

OK. In the stash: Way too much to build in one lifetime...

  • Member since
    April 2012
  • From: USA
Posted by Striker8241 on Tuesday, July 4, 2017 12:04 PM

Thanks, Mike! I've got an account there now. BTW, we can almost be sure that the days of free hosting are numbered (unless FSM decides to do it). So, I'm gambling (as in re-linking all the images in my posts) that Use.Com's future fees will be more moderate than Flickr's. Que Sara Sara Smile

Cheers,

Russ

 

 

  • Member since
    January 2015
  • From: Tumwater, WA.
Posted by M. Brindos on Tuesday, July 4, 2017 12:14 PM

I'm sure there will always be a way to host your images for free. But I'm also confident that there will be reasonable prices as well for more reliable hosting sites. 

Somebody always figures it out with a happy medium. Eventually we may even be able to link from our fb albums lol.

But until then we still have free hosting options.

 

- Mike Brindos "Lost Boy"

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