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[DUF2]

How do I post photos on this forum? All mine are too big, they need to be shrunk to allow posting.

how do I do this?

[Chris1275gt]

You can put them on a remote site and post a link I use the free app >Resize and shrink them to 800 width it’s very easy to use.

[beardylondon]

Upload here and copy and paste the link into the forum

https://imgbb.com/

[timmy850]

If you’re using an iPhone, you can select the file size after picking which picture to upload

You can also email yourself photos and resize them, then save the copies and upload them

Bit of a pain

[stuart bowes]

This should be a sticky

[sonikk4]

If you do a search via Google ref postings pictures on TMF you will find numerous results.

DO NOT use Photobucket. This hosting platform kicked in the teeth of numerous forums who’s members used that platform to host pictures is included.

Use Imgur etc.

[DUF2]

If you’re using an iPhone, you can select the file size after picking which picture to upload

You can also email yourself photos and resize them, then save the copies and upload them

Bit of a pain

 

 

That’s great thanks, I wasn’t aware I could do that.

In the past I have emailed them to myself, but was asked what size before they were sent. I now have an iPhone 13 and this just sends th a s they are.

[stuart bowes]

this is one of the banes of my existence at work when engineers send me pictures of components they need, and the attachment is a 12mb file 120000 x 120000 of a simple label with a part number..  ffs

 

does no-one know how to adjust image quality, i have to save, reduce, forward on, then delete their original so it doesn't make my emails go slow

 

seems petty but you do that 20 times a day and it really starts to wear on you

Edited by stuart bowes, 14 July 2022 - 11:47 AM.

[cooperd70]

this is one of the banes of my existence at work when engineers send me pictures of components they need, and the attachment is a 12mb file 120000 x 120000 of a simple label with a part number.. ffs

does no-one know how to adjust image quality, i have to save, reduce, forward on, then delete their original so it doesn't make my emails go slow

seems petty but you do that 20 times a day and it really starts to wear on you

Join the club!! Working in IT trying to keep storage limits in both mailboxes and file servers this is a constant grind.

[MiniCarJack]

Like many others I use Imgur, you can upload full-size image files there, then simply choose a smaller resized link to post in your thread/reply. "Huge thumbnail" or "large thumbnail" are both reasonable sizes for forum posts, I've found...

 

[DUF2]

Like many others I use Imgur, you can upload full-size image files there, then simply choose a smaller resized link to post in your thread/reply. "Huge thumbnail" or "large thumbnail" are both reasonable sizes for forum posts, I've found...

 

I logged on to Imgur, but couldn’t sus out how to drive it so gave up. I’m just uploading pics as Timmy850 suggested.

[sonikk4]

 

Like many others I use Imgur, you can upload full-size image files there, then simply choose a smaller resized link to post in your thread/reply. "Huge thumbnail" or "large thumbnail" are both reasonable sizes for forum posts, I've found...

 

I logged on to Imgur, but couldn’t sus out how to drive it so gave up. I’m just uploading pics as Timmy850 suggested.

 

 

To clarify this picture, when you have uploaded your picture to Imgur, you then click on the picture you want as in above, change the size as per the ringed area then click on BBcode (message boards and forums) . Hit copy and then paste on here. It sounds long winded but its not. 

[timmy850]

I swapped to imgur after Flickr sold out and started charging $50 a year

I just find imgur is really difficult to get the links on a phone. The app is fine for uploading, but getting the bbcode is a pain using a phone

[roblightbody]

There's various apps for your phone that let you shrink photos so they can be attached.

[Spherix]

I swapped to imgur after Flickr sold out and started charging $50 a year

I just find imgur is really difficult to get the links on a phone. The app is fine for uploading, but getting the bbcode is a pain using a phone

 

I upload from my phone and open the gallery link on my laptop and then post. Not sure why we havn't solved this yet in 2022!