Please ignore this

Thanks for the offer. I think I've figured out something that will work after a fashion, but if it's not good, I may still take you up on it later. Why on earth they don't allow you to simply copy in photo's directly from your computer I don't know. This is definitely not user-friendly!

ChrisJH666

Thanks for the offer. I think I've figured out something that will work after a fashion, but if it's not good, I may still take you up on it later. Why on earth they don't allow you to simply copy in photo's directly from your computer I don't know. This is definitely not user-friendly!

 

No forum i have come across allows that, they all need hosting sites. And most have a more complicated way of posting them than this one. Some of the hosting sites are easier to use than others.

Bish

 

 

ChrisJH666

Thanks for the offer. I think I've figured out something that will work after a fashion, but if it's not good, I may still take you up on it later. Why on earth they don't allow you to simply copy in photo's directly from your computer I don't know. This is definitely not user-friendly!

 

 

 

 

No forum i have come across allows that, they all need hosting sites. And most have a more complicated way of posting them than this one. Some of the hosting sites are easier to use than others.

 

It is a cost of memory thing.  Pictures take up far more memory than words.  The magazine business is not a big money maker.  Several model magazines I used to subscribe to have gone belly up in the last decade or so.  So the cost of memory, although getting cheaper with time, is still significant for mags like FSM.

Ok, I guess that explains a couple of things. I still think all these sites should have a basic noddy guide that takes these things step by step for the computer morons among us, such as me!

Incidentally, I change the title of my failed post to "Please ignore this", and it gets over 100 views!!!!!!!

I agree Chris. Of course, that could only go so far as each hosting site will be different. Putting the info on here to show the pics is the easy part, took me a while to work out Flickr, and then only with help.

ChrisJH666

Incidentally, I change the title of my failed post to "Please ignore this", and it gets over 100 views!!!!!!!

It's a lot like putting up a "wet paint" sign. You HAVE to touch it....  the sign could be lying!

Incidentally, I once had a dog who could read..... he saw a wet paint sign, so he did.

I don't think we can delete posts ourselves, but the next best thing would be to send a private message to one of the moderators and ask him to delete it.  Of course, sending a private message is not a simple, intuitive procedure in this forum, either.  If you go to your Messages area of your profile, you'd think there'd be a link, a button or something else that says, "Send New Message".  The only way I know to send a new message to someone is to click his name in the heading to a post, which gets me to a page where there is a "Send Message" button.

A far as sharing images from Google goes, I don't use it to store my photos.  But just now, I went to Google Images and ran a search on "p-51".  The search returned a bunch of photos.  I clicked on one of the photos, and Google Images presented several of buttons for various functions, including Sharing.  I clicked this and got the menu shown below.  The last item in the menu is "Share Link", and I suspect that this link is what you can copy and then paste into a post here in the forum.

Also, most photo hosts will have something similar, even if they differ in detail from one another.  That is, most, if not all photo hosts will have a feature to share the image to other webpages.  Most of the ones I have seen call it "Share".  The feature will give you links, which contain the appropriate text (we InfoTech people call this "syntax") for different kinds of links.  So, you can link a thumbnail of your photo, you can link a full-size image, you can paste a link and readers would click it to open the image, etc.

You're not really posting a new copy of your photo, but rather, you're putting in a link, an address, which the forum's software uses to go out over the Web to the hosting site, and return with info to present the photo to the reader.  This is different from actually having another copy of the photo stored at the forum, and as Don and others noted, this saves the forum the cost of having to have space to store the images.  That's why many forums like this don't have a feature for members to attach photos-an attachment is a file that takes up space and has to be stored.  A linked image takes up no such storage space.

I hope that helps understand the process a little more.

Makes sense, even if it makes the whole thing a pain in the backside

A pain in the backside ? To get something for free? 

ChrisJH666

Makes sense, even if it makes the whole thing a pain in the backside

 

After you do it a couple of times, you'll get the hang of it.  I think airbrushing is far more difficult and I still haven't mastered it.   Practice, practice, practice

GMorrison

A pain in the backside ? To get something for free?