Is anyone having problems posting photographs since the upgrade?

[Pegasus]

Hi All, we used to have the following as a sticky post under forum notices as posting photos used to be complicated. Since the upgrade, I have been meaning to post a new thread, explaining how to post photographs, however am wondering do we need to as all sees to be intuitive and running smoothly?

How to post photographs onto the forum

There are two ways of posting a photograph on Ukcaving. The first is best for larger or good quality images but they must already be hosted on the web somewhere, the second can be uploaded from your PC but must be small, low resolution images. First way: The image needs to already be on...

ukcaving.com

Thoughts?

...and if we do need to post something, any volunteers?? 😁

Thanks, Pegasus

 

[PeteHall]

Definitely much easier, much more intuitive and more flexible

 

[Fulk]

I don't have problems posting pictures, but they all seem to appear very small on-screen – I'll try one now:

 

[Fulk]

See what I mean?

 

[The Old Ruminator]

I always use Photobucket but its not cheap. Too late to back off now with over 20,000 hosted photos.

 

[PeteHall]

That is because you've added it as an attachment.

You can also just copy and paste your picture straight into the text box, or click on the picture icon and drop the picture in. It will then appear where your cursor is and you can drag to resize.

Or if you attach it as you have, there is an option on the small image to "insert", then drag to resize as before.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

I don't have problems posting pictures, but they all seem to appear very small on-screen – I'll try one now:

Click the image it comes up fine. What appears is just a low res thumbnail

 

[The Old Ruminator]

A bit cheeky but I screen saved the larger file at 1.29mb and uploaded it via Photobucket.

 

[alanw]

I don't have problems posting pictures, but they all seem to appear very small on-screen – I'll try one now:

In a desktop browser, clicking on the image expands it to its full size

 

[PeteHall]

Since this is clearly causing a few issues, I have done a quick "how to" over here: https://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?threads/how-to-upload-photos-on-ukcaving-com.29747/

 

[Fulk]

Cheeky's fine by me , TOR; I'll try copy-and-pasting:

 

[Fulk]

Nada, but maybe I should've tried a Jpeg (not a tiff):

 

[Fulk]

Well, that seems to have worked – thanks, PeteHall and TOR.

 

[Ian P]

Nada, but maybe I should've tried a Jpeg (not a tiff):View attachment 13757

Wezzit ? Jura ?

 

[Cavematt]

Wezzit ? Jura ?

Skyhook, OFD?

 

[Fulk]

It's the Upper Oxbow in OFD II, which I think is accessed via Skyhook.

 

[The Old Ruminator]

A friend of mine uses Postimage which I think is free but therein lies the long term concern.

 

[Badlad]

A friend of mine uses Postimage which I think is free but therein lies the long term concern.

No need for third party hosting anymore, not for here anyway.

Well done to Pete for his 'how to' thread.

 

[Pegasus]

Yes, thanks, Pete - I owe you a beer