posting pictures - question

[JPSmit]

I have a bunch of pictures I want to post - somehow, some people can post a picture with a caption (ie separated by text) - can someone tell me how?

thanks

 

[DNK]

You mean like this:

My daughter

Says she looks good in this

 

[NutmegCT]

Hi JP -

Two ways to do it.

1) if you're uploading a picture from your own computer directly to BCF, use the File Manager option. File manager is where you choose the picture, and then give it a caption. Filesize limit is 200k.

2) if you're using pictures already on a website, put the location of the picture (the picture, not the webpage) between "image" brackets, directly into your post like text. Example:

<img>mypictures.com/photo.jpg</img>

But use the [ or ] sign instead of the < or > sign.

Before (or after) each image, just write the caption you want, using standard text entry just like a post.

Give it a try. Can't hurt anything (famous last words ...)

Tom

 

[aerog]

To clarify what Tom said, you put the link to the image in brackets like this:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Code:</div><div class="ubbcode-body ubbcode-pre" ><pre>

</pre>[/QUOTE]

Which shows up as:

The forum can do that for you too, if you use the insert-image button on over top of the editor window (the 4th button from the left).

You can add text of course - and I usually link the image to a larger size, forcing a smaller version to show up in the message while allowing viewers to look a larger one if they want to (without wasting screen space or bandwidth).

This:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Code:</div><div class="ubbcode-body ubbcode-pre" ><pre>
Click to enlarge...



</pre>[/QUOTE]

becomes this:

Click to enlarge...
<a href="https://pix.aerog.com/photos/i-8RfZRtL/0/X3/i-8RfZRtL-X3.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">

</a>

Flickr folks can do that automatically by clicking the last share button on the tool bar above their image(s) (the bar that says "actions" on it). A window will pop up with preformatted code that will drop right into the forum. Like this:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Code:</div><div class="ubbcode-body ubbcode-pre" ><pre>



PBY-5A N9521C
by aerog-pix, on Flickr</pre>[/QUOTE]

Turns into this:

PBY-5A N9521C by aerog-pix, on Flickr


Have fun

 

[NutmegCT]

PBY "Catalina" - great aircraft!

and a "larger version", the PB2Y "Coronado" -

Thanks Scott!

T.

 

[aerog]

They were all neat airplanes The guys in the PBY were doing pattern work - fun to watch

 

[DNK]

Jimmy 's got a PBY

 

[NutmegCT]

JP - that one you just deleted didn't end with ".jpg".

Most pictures on websites are jpg format. I think you posted a link to an entire webpage between the img brackets.

Find the picture you want. Right click on the picture, and choose Properties, or maybe "copy image location". You're looking for the url of the picture, not the webpage it's on.

Whatever you put between the img brackets should end with .jpg. You had it right otherwise.

Tom

 

[DNK]

Not all images work. Even if they end in .jpg.
Don't know why.

 

[JPSmit]

JP - that one you just deleted didn't end with ".jpg".

Most pictures on websites are jpg format. I think you posted a link to an entire webpage between the img brackets.

Find the picture you want. Right click on the picture, and choose Properties, or maybe "copy image location". You're looking for the url of the picture, not the webpage it's on.

Whatever you put between the img brackets should end with .jpg. You had it right otherwise.

Tom

OK, was trying for Nelson - and just looked, it doesn't end in jpg.

 

[DrEntropy]

The *.jpg image extension is not the only one that works, BTW. Formats like *.gif, *.png and *.bmp work too.

Scott's images are on a "remote" server and linked, so no size problem. Attaching an image <span style="font-style: italic">to</span> a post is when size limits play a part.

I have a 100Kb limit (size limits are determined by the forum warez/membership level/Da Boss) and resize pix with whatever photo warez are to hand.

What ~is~ the extension on the photo you're trying to post, JP?

 

[JPSmit]

What ~is~ the extension on the photo you're trying to post, JP?

but, to get this straight, to my original question - you can type in between them when posting from another site - correct? but not when uploading from your own computer?

 

[NutmegCT]

JP - see my first (or Aerog's first) post above.

If I understand your question about "type in between them" -

1. If the picture is on a website, you put the location of the picture between the img brackets. The "location" is the complete url of the picture itself, not the webpage that the picture is seen on.

2. If the picture is just a file stored on your computer, you use the File Manager option, which is just below the BCF "box" where you write your message. (If the picture is on your computer, you do *not* use the img brackets.)

Tom

 

[GregW]

What ~is~ the extension on the photo you're trying to post, JP?

As noted above, this link is to a webpage, the photo link is https://thumb13.webshots.net/t/82/482/7/32/41/2082732410034015213gTBlAh_th.jpg . This would be the URL you'd put between the IMG brackets. I got that URL by clicking the photo from your webpage, choosing "Link to it", then selecting "Direct link to image" and copy.

 

[JPSmit]

JP - see my first (or Aerog's first) post above.

If I understand your question about "type in between them" -

1. If the picture is on a website, you put the location of the picture between the img brackets. The "location" is the complete url of the picture itself, not the webpage that the picture is seen on.

2. If the picture is just a file stored on your computer, you use the File Manager option, which is just below the BCF "box" where you write your message. (If the picture is on your computer, you do *not* use the img brackets.)

Tom

I do understand that Tom, and I do use the file manager, but with that option can't insert lines between the text - have others had a different experience?

 

[NutmegCT]

It's not easy to add text captions between "File Manager" uploaded pictures. You can however add text captions directly into the File Manager box itself. When you click File Manager, you'll see a big window called File Caption.

I use the img bracket technique 99% of the time:

In your Message window, write your usual text.

Write a text caption. Then below it use the img bracket [] technique.

Then write another text caption. Then below it, another img bracket technique.

Remember, the img bracket technique works only with pictures already on a website. And only works with the URL of the picture itself - not the page the picture is on.

T.

 

[aerog]

Trying the file manager...

 

[aerog]

Interesting! I've never attached a picture that way. Enter a caption when you upload the file, or not at all it seems. You can't even go back and edit anything in.

 

[JPSmit]

attempt:

 

[JPSmit]

ta da!!!