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Giveaway of the Day Forums » User Favorites: scubaguy 6358 Giveaway of the Day Forums » User Favorites: scubaguy en-US Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:16:21 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 <![CDATA[Search]]> q http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/search.php goodgotd on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-65778 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:54:10 +0000 goodgotd 65778@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I'm posting my images (anyone can) over at <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6288">Just a place to post nice pictures on a random basis</a> I thought this was a sticky, but I guess just the avatar topic is stuck. Robert on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-65634 Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:40:50 +0000 Robert 65634@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Hiya goodgotd, Just wanted to tell you I really enjoy your pictures! So let us have some more of these,whenever you feel like sharing your treasures. Thanks. Could some kind mod make a sticky of this topic? :) Bobby on "Could You Use A Laugh?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2541/page/25#post-65580 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:54:47 +0000 Bobby 65580@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ The Toughest Road Surface Of Them All A piece of road walks into a bar and declares to all its occupants: "I'm the hardest bit of bitumen in the whole of this town!" The piano player stops and the bar goes deadly silent. After a brief pause, all eyes drop, the pianist returns to playing and the piece of road saunters up to the bar and orders a beer. At that precise moment, in walks a piece of freeway which says: "I'm the hardest bit of bitumen in the whole country and I'll take you on!" The tension mounts, other drinkers scatter and take cover. The two braggarts stood, staring at each other, for what seemed like an eternity. Once again, the door opens and, into the middle of the stand-off, walks a strange-looking piece of coloured bitumen with a blue stripe. Suddenly, the stand-off is forgotten! The now-sheepish braggarts turn their backs to the door, sit down at the bar and stare quietly into their drinks. The bartender sidles up to them and asks what the problem is. "Shhhh!", says the freeway, "Watch what you say, that guy's a real cycle path." goodgotd on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-64986 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:30:34 +0000 goodgotd 64986@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Ok, here I go again, divshare says the file is still 13 megs, so don't click on "full size" unless you got the bandwidth to spare. at least it fits the first image to your screen when you click the thumbnail. canon a720is panorama of portland from the 16th floor North balcony of OSHU, 19,000x3000 pixels: <a href="http://www.divshare.com/download/8705683-74a"><img src="http://www.divshare.com/img/thumb/8705683-74a.jpg"></a> now that works out rather smooth. the body of water to the east is the willamette river, and the tower and cables leading off to the west is the Portland Aerial Tram. goodgotd on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-64985 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:08:18 +0000 goodgotd 64985@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I was wondering how big the thumbnail would show up as- I prefer having the click-through available for the resolution I crop my pictures to, as I feel the detail is part of what I take pleasure in when I post pix. I'm gonna try divshare next, see how bad it mangles it. well? hmm.. that's a good question, kinda hard to quantify. Whiterabbit-uk on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-64984 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:56:51 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 64984@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I'm using images with 400x 300 pixel on most of my posts (unless I forget to resize). Anything larger and it swamps the thread; however anything smaller will do. I meant to finish off the tutorial over a week ago, but have been enthralled by one of the games I bought recently (called Red Faction Guerilla). I hope all is well with you Goody? WR goodgotd on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-64978 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:38:00 +0000 goodgotd 64978@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ ok, apologies in advance- I just gotta push the envelope and find out what size a 'thumbnail' comes out for a 19,000x3000 pixel panorama of portland from the 16th floor north side balcony of the OSHU building shows up as- <<<strike>warning: full image is 13 megabytes!!</strike>>> ha- the site resampled it down to 1018 wide and 64k. aaaargh! here goes.... <a href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii243/snapfocus/canonportlandpano-16thfloorOSHU-22i.jpg"><img src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii243/snapfocus/th_canonportlandpano-16thfloorOSHU-22i.jpg"></a> huh. that ain't bad- no detail, but not bad. no, it's worse. that is pathetic. If you want the full panorama you'll have to grab it from sendspace: <a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/9yazkc" rel="nofollow">http://www.sendspace.com/file/9yazkc</a> goodgotd on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-64069 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:01:04 +0000 goodgotd 64069@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ well, now I got xs.to to accept my email, lessee how it's thumb link code works: <a href="http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs343&d=09382&f=i1_1414267.jpg"><img src="http://xs343.xs.to/xs343/09382/i1_1414267.jpg.xs.jpg"></a> works ok. here's my avatar full size. :) <img src="http://xs343.xs.to/xs343/09382/bob01727.jpg"> and now to splice the thumb and direct links: <a href="http://xs343.xs.to/xs343/09382/i1_1446316.jpg"><img src="http://xs343.xs.to/xs343/09382/i1_1446316.jpg.xs.jpg"></a> dead on. cool. goodgotd on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-64025 Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:34:24 +0000 goodgotd 64025@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ trying divshare this time, look sorta like they have the format right for forums... nope, that ain't it? but it sure looked right. <a href="http://www.divshare.com/download/8511596-9e4"><img src="http://www.divshare.com/img/thumb/8511596-9e4.jpg"></a> ah. can't have the 'share' dialog open at the same time as I post the pic. the forum link is right. sloow loading though. hmmm. straaaange. full size gives a *lot* of detail though. sweet. <a href="http://www.xs.to" rel="nofollow">http://www.xs.to</a> (AKA <a href="http://www.iphotos.net" rel="nofollow">http://www.iphotos.net</a>, redirect from old picattic) I'm waiting for a confirmation email from, dunno if fuzzyimagehosting is worth working with.... goodgotd on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-64003 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:34:04 +0000 goodgotd 64003@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ looks fine to me. I snagged my avatar out of a note-movie to myself berating my not taking the accessory lenses and a tripod with me on a walk. (as well as a reminder to add a tripod clip and lens bag to my rollator!) Umm.. rollator. often called a 4 wheel walker. side-folders are spendy, but I need it. <a href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii243/snapfocus/1224rollatoroneeach.jpg"><img src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii243/snapfocus/th_1224rollatoroneeach.jpg"></a> for 300 clams you'd think they'd put usable brakes on the bloody thing. HappyPerson on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-64002 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:18:15 +0000 HappyPerson 64002@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Hi all, I just added my image now via the "gravatar.com" website, recommended by GOTD member (Chip). I hope the image shows up with my post. Keeping my fingers crossed. Happy Person goodgotd on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-64001 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:55:32 +0000 goodgotd 64001@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ hmm. one more time. construct OUTSIDE the fora. closing this one, next try in a bit. gotta find where photobucket keeps the thumb. hmm. Thanks, Buckleysmom- I could read just enough of the links to figure it out- here goes, one pic of autumn crocus via all-thumbs-nail: <a href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii243/snapfocus/I_1480autumncrocus.jpg"><img src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii243/snapfocus/th_I_1480autumncrocus.jpg"></a> by jiminy, I think I got it! now to find where all the other sites I have images *are*, and get the basic framework set in my scratch file. for photobucket it's (dangit, I can't get the code to quote, tried -code- and backticks and it *still* mangles it! take BuBBy's example, and add th_ as a prefix to the full size image to get the thumbnail. AArgh!) BuBBy on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-63995 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:12:34 +0000 BuBBy 63995@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ except for the big picture - use the "Direct Link" ie. <a href="http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj176/Buckleysmom/Buckley/Buckley00101.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj176/Buckleysmom/Buckley/Buckley00101.jpg</a> in URLs that have stuff like ?command=value etc in them - they are basically "running a program" on the webserver - and that program also has some code to display all of the photobucket interface with the results (you just want the picture - usually) Buckleysmom on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-63994 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:51:04 +0000 Buckleysmom 63994@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Trying the thumbnail thing.... <a href="http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj176/Buckleysmom/Buckley/Buckley00233.jpg">[/url] -----edit----- Well.....that didn't work.....hmmmm How about this? -----edit----- Nope....not that either..... One more time..... [URL=http://s272.photobucket.com/albums/jj176/Buckleysmom/Buckley/?action=view&current=MVC-009S.jpg]<img src="http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj176/Buckleysmom/Buckley/th_MVC-009S.jpg"></a> Ahhhh....there we go......except this thumbnail takes you to a different picture......what's up with that????? Back to the drawing board. One more time.....again..... <a href="http://s272.photobucket.com/albums/jj176/Buckleysmom/Buckley/?action=view&current=Buckley00101.jpg"><img src="http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj176/Buckleysmom/Buckley/th_Buckley00101.jpg"></a> HA.....success!!!!!!! I just love it when things work right! Buckleysmom on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-63993 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:46:07 +0000 Buckleysmom 63993@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Thanks BuBBy....that helps. ....and thanks everyone for the compliments on my "baby". He is a baby in that picture above...only about 5-6 months old there. He's 5 yrs now. Copmom.....you are so right! ..... and sometimes these are better behaved than the first ones.... lol BuBBy on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-63991 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:26:36 +0000 BuBBy 63991@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <blockquote>Hey, BuBBy- can you give an example of using a thumbnail the right way?</blockquote> Sure.. <a href="http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/3413/bestthreadeverbyhomerrl1.jpg"><img src="http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/3413/bestthreadeverbyhomerrl1.th.jpg"></a> <code>[URL=http://site.com/large-pic.jpg][IMG]http://site.com/thumbnail.jpg[/IMG][/URL]</code> goodgotd on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-63971 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:22:20 +0000 goodgotd 63971@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ the winchester, oregon dam top failed- (started back in december 2008, but by august 15 it was toast) here's some pix with links to full width images: top damage under water after collapse <img src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii243/snapfocus/topdamageunderwater.jpg"> here's the hole right after they got the water diverted: <img src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii243/snapfocus/topdamagediverted.jpg"> and here it is as they were fixing it- haven't got a post-repair shot yet. <img src="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii243/snapfocus/topdamagedivertedunderrepair.jpg"> Here are the full-width images of the dam at the 3 stages above: <a href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii243/snapfocus/topdamageunderwaterfull.jpg">dam with a hole fulla water</a> <a href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii243/snapfocus/topdamagedivertedopenfull.jpg">dam with the hole dry, still installing braces</a> <a href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii243/snapfocus/topdamagedivertedunderrepairfull.jpg">dam with the new roof section going in place</a> and I got a shot from the rear of the dam, showing what the structure looks like. <a href="http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii243/snapfocus/rearstructuredivertedunderrepair.jpg">retainment area and rear of dam</a> Incidentally, those are the original century old timbers on the face of the dam, bolted to the original concrete base. 4 repairs in the last 15 years, not too bad. Hey, BuBBy- can you give an example of using a thumbnail the right way? most of the times I've tried this on boards, it chokes! (none of those images are over 400 pixels in any direction, and I'll dig up image compressor to kick 'em under 50k next time.) <ed- no I won't- after I use my standard tools, it makes them *bigger*> mikerb on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-63960 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:00:16 +0000 mikerb 63960@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Aww, great to see Buckley again <img src="http://i383.photobucket.com/albums/oo279/the_flakes/mikerbe/cypheryf2.png"> my Cypher copmom on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-63914 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:29:34 +0000 copmom 63914@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ But Midori.. Buckley IS a person! LOL Once the kids are grown and gone, our pets become our "babies" aka "little people". midori on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-63892 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:46:44 +0000 midori 63892@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ And here I thought Buckley was a person. Lol! But a more deserving recipient of a "mom" I have never seen. :) jenany on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-63885 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:56:59 +0000 jenany 63885@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Buckley is adorable! Robert on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-63870 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:43:20 +0000 Robert 63870@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Wow..Buckley looks great though ! Buckleysmom on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-63869 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:25:58 +0000 Buckleysmom 63869@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Just testing <img src="http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj176/Buckleysmom/Buckley/Buckley00403.jpg"> Ooh....too big! pavid on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-63866 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:09:20 +0000 pavid 63866@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ My eyes, my eyes!!!! :) rezidue on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-63811 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:57:09 +0000 rezidue 63811@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ TEST <img src="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64s/8541919.jpg"> Edit: It Works! BuBBy on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-63810 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 06:39:36 +0000 BuBBy 63810@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Also be considerate of file size & type. The difference between posting a 100kb jpg file versus a 1.3MB bmp file is very significant - especially when multiple images are posted. Keep an eye on the total file size of graphics posted if you are posting multiple images. Not everyone has the fastest broadband available and waiting for a post to load isn't much fun. Some sites such as imageshack.us do allow you to link to a clickable thumbnail of a graphic - only loading the full graphic after you have clicked on the thumbnail. Whiterabbit-uk on "Guide To Forum Image Posting" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6139#post-63804 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:56:45 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 63804@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ To post an image you will firstly have to edit your image to ensure its not going to be to large or small or that the file size isn't too large. Once that's accomplished you will then have to upload the image to an FTP site such as Photobucket, Image Dost, TinyPic, Fileshack or Image Hosting. <center>I’ll post links and additional information later; there are loads of image sharing web sites available, so my list wont be exhaustive, just some examples for you to consider. All offer free limited services, which are ideal for storing images that you want to post in the forums.</center> When posting images it will be important to consider the size of the image you want to post. Too large an image and it will swamp the post and too little and it’ll look insignificant. From experimenting with image size I’d say a 400 x 400 pixels size would be ideal, though going down to around 200 x 200 will be okay. Anything under or over these dimensions will appear too large or too small. And as BuBBy points out below, convert your image to an image type such as GIF or JPEG which tend to be of a much lower file size than say BMP or PNG. Also you can further reduce the file size by reducing the resolution commonly referred to as DPI or dots per inches. Again, most good image editors will allow you to change the resolution of your image. This is probably the best way of reducing the file size and therefore the loading tmes of the page where your image is to be posted, so do try and reduce the file size as much as is possible. If you're not sure, the best way would be to create couple of images with different resolutions and upload them to see what they look like. If you've reduced the resolution too much the image is going to look blurred or wishy washy when showing on the web page. You'll get the hang of it after a few tries., and the community will thank you for the care you've taken in posting your images (lol) The disadvantages of using Gif over jpeg are that the color pallete is rather small so some image degredation may occur; but for the purposes of web based bowsers it's usually acceptable. Most image editors will have a conversion tool as well as the ability to change the image dimensions, but if you are posting a lot of images it may be a better option than JPEG, which although a lot smaller than BMP is much larger than GIF. A good rule of thumb is if there are lots of primary colors in your image stick with GIF, but if you have a massivley multicolored image JPEG would be the better choice. You can see my first post using the image facility as an example of what not to post. The first two images are just over 200 x 200, and as you can see are okay, but the next three images are only 100 x 100 (approx) and obviously much too small for a forum image. The last one is much to large at nearly 600 x 800 pixels. I will update this post to add examples directly, but it’s way past my bed time so will do it later today. :) Pity we can’t use emicons yet. There should be an add on to allow the use of them (hopefully) <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6132#post-63795" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6132#post-63795</a> finally you will find many of the image hosting services already add the coding to the links which are [ img ] and [ / img ] (without the spaces), so you don’t always need to use the buttons situated at the top of the dialogue box. Also you can manually type them in when you post links. You may find this easier as I found using the tool buttons caused the links to be placed at the top of my post and meant I had to cut and past them to the correct place. I’ll add more information and examples of different sizes so that you can see what they look like as well as tidying up my post over the next several days. I’m really busy at the moment. Regards Whiterabbit HappyPerson on "Could You Use A Laugh?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2541/page/25#post-62622 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:46:00 +0000 HappyPerson 62622@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ As quoted from <a href="http://ahajokes.com/ethnic29.html">AhaJokes.com Site</a> "Learning Chinese terms-Crash Course in Speaking Chinese Chinese Phrase English Translation" Ai Bang Mai Ne: I bumped into the coffee table Chin Tu Fat: You need a face lift Gun Pao Der: An ancient Chinese invention Hu Flung Dung: Which one of you fertilized the field? Hu Yu Hai Ding: We have reason to believe you are harboring a fugitive Jan Ne Ka Sun: A former late night talk show host Kum Hia: Approach me Lao Ze Sho: Gilligan's Island Lao Ze: Not very good Lin Ching: An illegal execution Moon Lan Ding: A great achievement of the American space program Ne Ahn: A lighting fixture used in advertising signs Shai Gai: A bashful person Tai Ne Bae Be: A premature infant Tai Ne Po Ne: A small horse Ten Ding Ba: Serving drinks to people Wan Bum Lung: A person with T.B. Yu Mai Te Tan: Your vacation in Hawaii agrees with you Wa Shing Kah: Cleaning an automobile Wai So Dim: Are you trying to save electricity? Wai U Shao Ting: There is no reason to raise your voice Buckleysmom on "Could You Use A Laugh?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2541/page/25#post-62614 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:11:46 +0000 Buckleysmom 62614@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I did not hit you.....I simply high-fived your face. -------------------------------- Some people are like Slinkies, they're really good for nothing.... but they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs. notblocklox on "Could You Use A Laugh?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/2541/page/25#post-62123 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:41:18 +0000 notblocklox 62123@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Oh yes, I really could use a laugh, and this was a very good laugh. Thanks, Nola!