How to embed a picture in your post

[danmas]

This is how I embed a picture in my post. First, and not shown in the video, I take a photo with my phone camera and save it off to my google drive. I then download it to my iPad. Strictly speaking this isn’t necessary, but something about the software doesn’t like stock photos off of an iPhone. It rotates them. To get around this I have cropped the photo on my iPhone. Somehow editing the photo breaks the strange rotation. That can be hit or miss and so this method works for me. You can also save the photo in Microsoft paint and that does it as well. Either way, transform the photo.

Then you upload it to your gallery. This is the subtle part. You select the add photos button in your gallery. Then you select the upload photos button. Then you select the photos. I generally do only two or three at a time. More and it times out and fails. After a bit the photo you want to upload shows up at the bottom. Select done (lower right hand button). Then the photo shows up at the top. This is the step I always missed. There is a SAVE button right below the photo. You have to hit that. Then it’s in your album. After that click on the picture and scroll to the bottom. Copy the entire link in the BB code box and then just paste it in your message.

I did this quickly tonight. I will make another one in a bit where I talk while I am doing it but this should help.

Dan

https://youtu.be/skFs9gpfaJo

[danmas]

A little bit clearer video…


https://youtu.be/qvrpJp5Lco4


https://thefactoryfiveforum.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=218406&d=1756958980

[JeffP]

You can skip a bunch of steps if you don't need them in your gallary and just click the Insert Image icon in the menu bar for your post.

1 - Insert Image
2 - From Computer
3 - Browse to find your image
4 - Click the words "upload file(s)" (it doesn't look like a button, but it is)
5 - Done:
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[rich grsc]

Exactly, I use the insert image, just drag and drop from my desktop. Way easier

[danmas]

Insert image doesn’t show the image full size in the post. In order to see the picture I have to click on the image you inserted. My way displays the image full size, which is why I embed it. Yes, more work but I think it makes the post easier to read. No wrong way to do it and to each their own.

Dan

[PNWTim]

Once you have inserted the image using the method above, double click on it (the image) in the draft post and you can choose what size you want it to be other than a thumbnail.

[danmas]

Once you have inserted the image using the method above, double click on it (the image) in the draft post and you can choose what size you want it to be other than a thumbnail.

I’m not seeing an option to resize. Is this OS specific? Post a screen capture?
Thanks!

[JeffP]

I’m not seeing an option to resize. Is this OS specific? Post a screen capture?
Thanks!

Tim taught me something new too - When you upload the image you get the bbcode [attach...] if you have your "view" set to "source" mode. Click the icon on the far left of the tool bar (looks like 2 A's) and it'll switch to "WYSIWYG" (what you see is what you get) and then you'll see the picture instead of code. You can then double click and change size, alignment, etc.

[BUDFIVE]

Good thread as some of us are a work in progress on this.
Just something to consider on photos shown full size in the post vs small images:
When I check to see which build threads have been updated, I pick one to read and select it, then hit last to see the latest page, then scroll to the bottom to read the new update. If the thread has full size pictures, then as each picture above the last post I’m reading paints, the screen scrolls and I lose where I am. If I have a slow internet connection (reading in a coffee shop with bad WiFi) then I’m stalled while it downloads all the data to paint pictures from past updates that I’m not looking at. So, there are build threads that have full sized pictures in abundance that I don’t read as often, just a fact. With images, I only open the pictures in the latest post which are relevant to my reading. Curious if I’m the only one who sees this downside.?

I use the manage attachments button to upload pics after selecting go advanced for the post. I finally figured out how to fix the rotation issue discribed above and hopefully the pics in my updates aren’t as annoying. :)

Thanks for trying to make this better for us all.

[TrackDay17]

Never posted pictures here before but will be soon when I start my build thread.
I was just going to upload pictures to my SmugMug account and then post, I'm guessing this will be ok ?

[edwardb]

One comment (rebuttal?) about using the image gallery vs. attachments. Once the pictures are in the gallery, they are transportable. Meaning they can be linked in other threads, PM's, etc. I get a lot of questions and PM's and I quite regularly have a picture in the gallery that fits the situation so I can just link it vs. uploading again. Which you can't even do in a PM response. I don't find the process that difficult once you're used to it. Since you can upload five at a time, it goes pretty quickly. The site limits the size of the picture file (whether attachment or gallery) and I typically downsize them to around 300KB. They still show as large in the thread, but not crazy.

I won't cite this an advantage. But just the way I work. I typically write my build thread updates off-line in Word. Easier to edit, spelling/grammar check, etc. I can paste my image links from the gallery into the Word document. Wouldn't be able to do that if I was using attachments. When I'm finished, it's a simple cut and paste to create the forum post. Not for everyone and maybe sounds complicated. But for a long time IT worker like me, it's second nature and goes very quickly. Working on an update right now. :p

[edwardb]

Never posted pictures here before but will be soon when I start my build thread.
I was just going to upload pictures to my SmugMug account and then post, I'm guessing this will be ok ?

It should work if the app allows linking on another site. Some don't. But the bigger question is will the app be around in the future? Bunch of us have been burned by photo sharing apps that either went belly up or made changes, e.g. charging or not allowing external links. Photobucket, which many of us used back in the day, went through a bunch of changes and most of the links are broken. Using the internal forum gallery suggests the pictures should hopefully be around as long as the forum exists.

[PNWTim]

Here are two snips of the process I am talking about:

Picture imported, shown as standard "thumbnail" size
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After double clicking on the picture

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Once you choose whichever size you want, hit OK and there it is

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Hope this helps

[danmas]

Tim taught me something new too - When you upload the image you get the bbcode [attach...] if you have your "view" set to "source" mode. Click the icon on the far left of the tool bar (looks like 2 A's) and it'll switch to "WYSIWYG" (what you see is what you get) and then you'll see the picture instead of code. You can then double click and change size, alignment, etc.

That I didn’t know! The two A’s look like a font button to me. Very good to know..

Thanks!

[JeffP]

Good thread as some of us are a work in progress on this.
Just something to consider on photos shown full size in the post vs small images:
When I check to see which build threads have been updated, I pick one to read and select it, then hit last to see the latest page, then scroll to the bottom to read the new update. If the thread has full size pictures, then as each picture above the last post I’m reading paints, the screen scrolls and I lose where I am. If I have a slow internet connection (reading in a coffee shop with bad WiFi) then I’m stalled while it downloads all the data to paint pictures from past updates that I’m not looking at. So, there are build threads that have full sized pictures in abundance that I don’t read as often, just a fact. With images, I only open the pictures in the latest post which are relevant to my reading. Curious if I’m the only one who sees this downside.?

I use the manage attachments button to upload pics after selecting go advanced for the post. I finally figured out how to fix the rotation issue discribed above and hopefully the pics in my updates aren’t as annoying. :)

Thanks for trying to make this better for us all.

In case you don't already know this - assuming you're logged into the site - If you click "Latest Posts" in the tool bar, and then click the small blue circle to the left of a post Title, it'll take you straight to the latest post that you haven't already read. This way you don't have to goto the end and read backwards. I book marked the "Latest Posts" page and then can go straight to the last post I've read in each thread.