Photo posting walkthrough

[kiwistiller]

We get asked this a lot . The best way to but images in your post is to upload the images from your computer directly to Homedistiller. That way they won't disappear later on if the site you upload them to changes. Here is a click by click, made during the construction of this post. You'll have to click on the images to see them full size.
Click 'Upload attachment"

Step 1

Click 'Browse'

Step 2

Browse to the image you want, select it, and click open. Note this might look slightly different on your own computer, I use firefox and win7.

Step 3

Type in a caption if wanted under 'File Comment' and click 'Add the file'

Step 4

The image will upload to homedistiller, and you will see the posted attachments box appear. If you submit the post now it will be chucked in at the bottom, but we might as well go one step further and make the post look good by having the images inline, right? Right. Make a new line where you want the image to go, and click to place the cursor there. Then click the 'place inline' button. Something like this will appear there: "

Untitled-1.jpg[/atachment]". You're done! you can preview the post with pics before submitting by clicking 'preview', next to submit. [attachment=0]Untitled-6.jpg

Hope this helps.

[HookLine]

Might be worth mentioning that if you go to 'Manage Attachments', in the User Control Panel, you can get the actual link address for each attachment, so you can reuse your attachments in other posts without having to re-upload the image again.

Copy highlighted link:

However, it does show up only as a link to the image, not the actual image like it in the original post. So it looks like this:

http://homedistiller.org/forum/download ... hp?id=4607

So viewers still have to click on the link to see the image.

[LWTCS]

Might be worth mentioning that if you go to 'Manage Attachments', in the User Control Panel, you can get the actual link address for each attachment, so you can reuse your attachments in other posts without having to re-upload the image again.

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[kiwistiller]

he can't help himself.

[Joshee]

testing if i can post, sorry wasnt working before

[Bull Rider]

Thanks Kiwi:

I didn't know about the "In Line" feature. Nice...

[xjrockstomper]

what forms of files are supported by the uploader? i tried uploading a few differant file types and none would work.

[rad14701]

what forms of files are supported by the uploader? i tried uploading a few differant file types and none would work.

What are you attempting to upload...??? JPG and PDF definitely work... As of right now the size limit is 2M, regardless of file type, but images don't need to be larger than ~100K or 800px for the largest dimension...

[xjrockstomper]

i was attempting to post what i wanted SC to build in my other thread. i had used paint to alter it and then saved it as a jpg. i think it was just too big.

[ozone39]

I found that skewing the picture on paint helps keep the picture from loading up like an over sized blimp on your screen. I usually cut by %40.....

[RedMick]

Photo posting test.

[Bushman]

With the upgrade in software for the forum we probably should update the steps in posting a picture.

[Butch27]

I successfully just pasted one into a post. I thought it would not likely work but figured "what have I got to lose?". I used the snipping tool and just hit copy and then pasted into my post. Seemed to work and could not have been easier.

[stillness]

Also, I remember reading how to rotate images, but can't remember where I saw it. Anybody know and want to add to this?

Also curious how others compress/shrink their photos. I often text to myself to resize. Works. But probably not the best.

[tiramisu]

In addition to the problem of rotating images, I regularly get your image is too big.
Welcome to 4k. Posting small grainy images sucks.

[Butch27]

In addition to the problem of rotating images, I regularly get your image is too big.
Welcome to 4k. Posting small grainy images sucks.

I don't believe that the image size restrictions have anything to do with bandwidth to upload them. Storing all those images from the last 14 plus years would take a fair bit of memory. I also am not sure what costs may be incurred due to bandwidth usage when we all look at those photos.

[tiramisu]

In addition to the problem of rotating images, I regularly get your image is too big.
Welcome to 4k. Posting small grainy images sucks.

I don't believe that the image size restrictions have anything to do with bandwidth to upload them. Storing all those images from the last 14 plus years would take a fair bit of memory. I also am not sure what costs may be incurred due to bandwidth usage when we all look at those photos.

True but the advice to upload an image to the forum comes with the constraint that it has to be a crappy image.
If you want to present an image where you can magnify and share detail uploading your image as an attachment is a fruitless endeavor.

[Winnipeg204]

On Android, I use an app called 'compress photo puma'. Works pretty well if you click the pic, I think this one was 5.5mb orig and now 488kb

[Bushman]

On iPad I use an app called image size.

[Windy City]

I just email the picture to myself and when it asks what size I pick medium

[Mashable]

I just email the picture to myself and when it asks what size I pick medium

+1

[contrahead]

I am no novice to image compression. I came to this particular thread to express my justifiable aggravation that some images being uploaded now, should have been over-sized. How did someone upload pictures to HD that are larger than the established max dimensions of 800 x 800 ?

Case in point: an image 1600 x 800.
thread = (No sugar added peach brandy)
https://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtop ... 7#p7679537

--------------------------------->
So I downloaded that picture and re-posted it here in this thread. It still works. I then uploaded
one of my own pictures that should be oversized; and it too, works.

What is going on. What are the true maximum image dimensions now, following the recent HD software updates ?

[Yummyrum]

Testing

Hmmm , see your point Contra , this one has scaled to 1600x1200.

Was 4032 x 3024 before I uploaded it . ( it also rotated it )

Not sure . Just be happy we can see higher resolution pictures now .

[contrahead]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... orbits.svg

Here is a probable look into the future. This is proportedly an ".svg" image file, but it acts more like interactive HTML code. (SVG is short for “Scalable Vector Graphics”. It's a XML based two-dimensional graphic file format).

The image is comparing the orbits and velocities of comparable sattelite positioning systems (except for the Iridium/ phone, and Hubble/telescope and ISS links). Click on the word "BeiDou" to see what the Chinese have been up to for the last 20 years. Some craftyness was used to create this interactive graphic...

[Windy City]

My question isn't about pics but videos. I read a post today that had a video in it.

https://homedistiller.org/forum/viewtop ... 16&t=85116

Is this something new? How do you do it? I typed several different ways in the search bar and google search but both were dead ends for me.
Any help would be appreciated.

[Twisted Brick]

Tap the Full Editor & Preview box just to the left of of the Submit button. The bottom-most box says utube.
Click on it and you get this:

[utube][/utube]

Insert the link to your YouTube video and you’re good.

[Bushman]

Not sure with our new platform if it’s easier to in bead videos but these are the steps we used to use.

In bedding youtube videos
Hit the youtube button in reply to post it will bring up something like this..

[youtube)(/youtube] (note I changed the brackets so it would show.)

Then go to the address bar on the youtube page and copy everything after the ='s sign..

Before:


After:
You only want the bit 9Q8atYd-jDO

Paste that in between the middle brackets (or type it in) and hit submit..

(youtube]9Q8atYd-jD0[/youtube)



After the explanation looks like either method works!

[Windy City]

Thanks Twisted Brick and Bushman for the quick response. I have seen the button for the utube link before but have never used it. The video I referenced in the above thread does not look like a tube link. Was hoping with the new setup I could take a video from my phone and post it. I have never posted on utube before and it would be great to bypass utube to be able to post a video here

[Yummyrum]

I agree windy .
I do recall Scarecrow on another forum manages to do . I think he uses links to google docs or something .But from memory it still shows like a youtube rather than a link address .
Might see if I can find out fir you

[ShineonCrazyDiamond]

I'd love to figure out those gifs. Crafty people pop around here for sure.