Posting Photos

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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With the “upgrade ???” of the Trains.com/Forum format,they have changed th way that one Posts Photos. Following is are the 15 steps required to transfer a photo and text from Photobucket to Trains.com Forum. Ugh! It is assumed that one has photos in a dedicated Model Railroad Album in Photo bucket. 1. Type “Photobucket.com login” 2. Click on “Image Hosting free Photos & Videos shared at Photobucket” 3. Click on “Share with Friends” 4. Scroll down and click on desired photo. 5. The word “Share” appears in the photo frame 6. Click on it and a new message appears. Click on “Links” at the upper right. 7. Click on “[IMG] thumb code” at the bottom. 8. The word “Copied” appears momentarily 9. Go to Internet Google and type “trains.com/forums” 10.Click on Model Railroader 11.Go to the desired Forum to start a new Thread or to Reply 12.For a Reply, click on the “pencil icon” at bottom left of page. 13.Type in Text and then click “Enter” (to leave a space) 14.Click on “ctrl V” and a lengthy Photo code will appear. 15.Scroll down and click on “Post” The Text and Photo will appear at the end of the Thread! How is this an “improvement” over the old method of Posting Photos ??? Bob Hahn

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I’m logged into my active Photobucket account (I have nearly a dozen) all the time. I have it on a tab in Firefox (one of eleven tabs I keep active at all times). So I don’t have to bring it up or log in. It’s already on the ‘Album’ page with the photo thumbnails displayed. I find the thumbnail I want, hover over it and the four selections appear. I click on the IMG tag selection and it’s copied to my clipboard. I click the tab for site I want to post in, position my pointer over the reply box, press Ctrl-V and the IMG tag line is pasted into my post.

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Bob!

So what is wrong with the process? Surely you haven’t got anything better to do than push a whole bunch of buttons and curse under your breath?[}:)][swg]

Seriously, I agree that the process is a PITA! I am further impeded by my lack of understanding of my Olympus camera’s ‘upgraded’ photo processing software. The old one was easy. The new one is not! To speak quite plainly - Olympus current software sucks! I am in the market for a new camera and it will definately NOT be an Olympus product.

Dave

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I use the same procedure as Jeff, and it’s the same procedure I’ve used since I joined this Forum many years ago. Find the picture at photobucket, click on the img tag line, then “Paste” where you want it to appear in the composition window.

Wayne

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Wayne!

Stop interfering with our bitching!![swg][}:)][(-D][(-D].

Since I am a computer dinosaur I am personally amazed every time I can actually make the process work!

Seriously, I will have to study your and Jeffs’ methods.

Thanks for the insight.

Dave

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Hey, Dave! I pre-date the dinosaurs, and if I can figure it out, it’s gotta be pretty simple. [swg]

My problem is usually finding the photo I want from among the 4.000-or-so stored there. [banghead]

Wayne

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Eh? LION puts them on his Q:\ Drive. (It is located on computer Scribe-3), and since this machine is a web-server that is that.

All windows computers have IIS (web servers) built into them, but of course they are not turned on since they are a big security risk. If you know what you are doing, and maybe have a static IP number, that is all you really need to run your own server.

Oh well, not everybody is a LION.

ROAR

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You can do all that if you want to. I still do it the way I always have. I sign into my Photobucket account, click on the picture I want to post, click on the IMG code then paste that into this box.

Quick, easy, and simple.

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Uh, Bob???

What are you using for a computer and your browser? still playing with DOS? Are you aware that you don’t have to close the web page you are in to open up another webpage… Something called tabs? So by the numbers:

  1. Why are you typing in the url? Save it as a bookmark. I stay logged in and only have to log in once or twice a year…

  2. Why don’t you open a new tab? Click on the bookmark! There you are at photobucket! Stay logged in and you can avoid having to sign in there.

  3. Share with friends? Set up your account and you won’t have to ever click on “share with friends”. Just use the (img) thing over on the right of the page. It is a lot more work to get to the page at photobucket if you have a few thousand photos there.

  4. Yep have to find the photo…

  5. You need to learn how to set up your photobucket account…

  6. See #5

  7. If you set up the account right that will be #3

  8. Well yeah?

  9. Or you could just click the tab where the forum is already there waiting for you?

  10. See above.

  11. See above! It will still be right where you left it in the other tab all ready for you to do #13 if you didn’t do that before.

  12. yep, but this would be step 5 I think if you did it right.

  13. You already would have clicked on “post” about 2 or 3 minutes ago…

Do what Jeffrey and others have said and all the rest do and have been doing for the last couple decades… Nothing at all has changed in how to do this in the forum up-(down or sideways)-grade…

73

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I admit I haven’t thoroughly read all that’s above but agree with Dave it’s not all that hard once figured out. I had been using ImageShack but found the photo size (perhaps I wasn’t using it the best way) that showed in a posting was rather small, so I tried PhotoBucket instead, which fixed that nicely. The only hard part for me was which particluar (i.e., IMG) link option to copy & paste from PhotoBucket into a thread, since the terminology was not obvious to me.

I think it’s mainly a matter of getting used to it and/or finer points; harder in my case since the use is occasional.

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Bumping this to page one.