Posting photos

Please, can anyone tell me how to post a photo as an attachment on GC? My pics are transferred from the camera to MY Pictures, then moved to Photobucket, with the size set to 800 x 600. BUT, when I try to upload them to GC, I receive the message "Image is too large". Help! it's driving me mad.
Laurie.

 

Hi Laurie, you will have to resize to 640x480.large..

 

A message Attachment, rather than a Gallery photograph, can be 800 x 600 I believe, and I think the Forum software will automatically shrink anything larger.

I have only tried uploading from my local hard disk, not uploading from, say, photobucket (I mean as distinct from linking to a photograph already on Photobucket)

However, there are file size limits (depending on file type), and I don't know if the software automatically reduced file size (as per height / width size), or just rejects overly large files.

You can also embed an image directly from Photobucket (or anywhere else) using this syntax

Code:

[color=Blue][[/color][color=Blue]img][/color]http://www.example.com/MyImageName.jpg[color=Blue][[/color][color=Blue]/img][/color]

(Photobucket usually provides the suitable [img] syntax alongside the image on their site)

 

May I suggest you don't use photo bucket. Look through some old posts, if a photobucket account is inactive, photobucket remove the picture.
What is wrong with you creating an album here in GC? you do it via your user profile

 

Hi Laurie ... haven't seen you around for a while but pleased to see you back.

I agree with youngdaisydee and I put all of my photos (resized from my computer) onto Photobucket at 640x480 ... it seems a 'nice' not 'in your face' size.

I hate to disagree water-garden ... Photobucket DO NOT remove the images ... the holder of the account does so by purposely (or accidentally) eliminating the photo, hence the missing ones of times past. Some people actually believe once you have posted a picture you can remove it from the hosting site and the photo will stay put where they have posted it. I have thousands of photos on PB and one account is inactive ... but all of my photos are active and still here to view on GC and other forums.

I may be wrong ..... but I would think creating an album on GC (which I don't have) means you can only use those photos on GC and not elsewhere?

Not everyone is computer literate and a little patience goes a long way at times with those who are unsure of today's technology ... myself included! :hehe:

 

"I would think creating an album on GC (which I don't have) means you can only use those photos on GC and not elsewhere?"

I doubt that is the case, you can most probably put an [img] tag on another site, pointing to the image on GC, and it will display just fine. The relatively small size limitation of the Gallery here probably puts folk off doing that though.

Now ... it may be that GC don't want to provide the bandwidth for folk to do that, and could therefore disable any request from images from other / non-GC sites, but I suspect they haven't and thus are unlikely to bother to do so in the future.