Posting images

[legion48]

Am I the only one who is becoming fed up with opening imaging threads expecting to find an image, only to be confronted with a link to the image? Why not post the darn image in the thread?

[brianb]

If you post an image much bigger than 800 pixels "in line" it fouls up the formatting of the forum. Linking allows you to post an image of essentially unlimited size. There is also the point that not everyone has fast broadband connection, large images take time to download & some people may consider it an abuse of the forum to post images bigger than about 200 kilobytes.

I usually post a "thumbnail" as well as a link to a large image....

[TheThing]

I'd have thought that most people are on broadband now rather than dial up (unless they are in some remote corner?) and it's pretty easy to resize a picture to fit.

[BlueAstra]

I think there's a limit to how much memory you can use up on the forum with pictures, so a link is one way too avoid it.

[ollypenrice]

I just use the little image icon to link to my smugmug gallery but the image always appears instantly on SGL without clicking. is this not true for everyone?

Olly

[omneferuss]

Yup, hate that! Put a forum-friendly sized image up or don't bother posting.. I never follow vanity-gallery links unless I'm impressed by the image IN THE POST.

Maybe a separate section for "My website" posters to put their links ?

[Starflyer]

I must admit that I rarely open a link to an image if it's posted without a preview image. It's simple enough to post a smaller version on SGL and link to a larger version if you have one that's hosted elsewhere.

[ollypenrice]

Can I repeat my question because I am a bit lost. Do you see a small image here? (It could just have well been a large one.)

This is on my gallery but should appear here as if it were on the forum, am I wrong? No clicking. Anything wrong with that?

Forgive my lack of IT savvy.

Olly

[BlueAstra]

Yes there is a small image there (but big in quality!)

[ollypenrice]

Yes there is a small image there (but big in quality!)

(Swoons.) Will you marry me?

Olly

[omneferuss]

there is a lovely lil image there Olly.. but it doesn't appear to be clickable to me... just a 'thumbnail' without a link embedded...

[gary1968]

How do you do that then Olly, embed a link in a thumbnail, seems like a good compromise to me mate.....

Gary

[ollypenrice]

It does not have to be a thumbnail, I just did not want to hijack the thread with a picture. You can put a fullsize up the same way if you like. You need a gallery site of some kind, like free Flickr, though I pay for a smugmug account because I do a lot of big images and the compression hurts! Vain or just trying to give you a decent image?

Then you click on the yellow icon with sun and mountain and copy the URL - is that the term - into the box that appears. Seems a painless solution to me.

Olly

[Helen]

/http://www.tyseren.net/images/Solar/solarsnake11-7-10-forweb.jpg

I just learnt something new - thanks Ollie!!

Helen

[daz]

Most image hosting sites give the option to copy the HTML code to paste into a post.

I too find it annoying when the image is not included as part of the post....

There is no memory limit on the forum, but there is a size limit, both in terms of file size and image dimensions. This is so the posts do not scroll off to the right when posting a big image - and that it doesn't take too long to view the image.

There are still plenty of people on dial-up connections or "slow" broadband. Despite all the ad's and hyper, a large part of the UK does not have broadband enabled exchanges.