Image instead of link

[cclowend]

How do I post a picture using photobucket? When I try to post a picture I only get a url link copy option and that's proper boring.

[KiOgon]

I wish I could work out how to do that with dropbox too

[cclowend]

Technophobes aren't we!

[Zenitram]

[$img]url of jpeg here, no spaces, and remove the dollar signs I've used to make the code show up[$/img]

[discreet]

[quote name='cclowend' timestamp='1401735163' post='2466371']
How do I post a picture using photobucket? When I try to post a picture I only get a url link copy option and that's proper boring.
[/quote]

In Photobucket select the pic you want and copy the 'Direct' link. Then click the little green 'image' square (to the right of the 'link' icon in the Basschat post editor), paste the direct link in the box provided, et... violin!

Edited June 2, 2014 by discreet

[cclowend]

This is painful. If I use my laptop the icon in this box blinks weirdly and it takes half an hour to write a scentence and then the blue box for the link wont bugger off!

I give up!

[Zenitram]

Right click on an image. Click on "View image". A new window or tab should open. Copy the resulting URL. Then do as I said above.

[TheGreek]

With Photobucket click on the image, left click "IMG" - it will say "copied" then post the code in the "Reply to topic" box here...easy - even I can do it!!

[JapanAxe]

I tend to put photos I want to share in the Public area of my Dropbox folder - if I put them in the Photo part, the links ask people for a password!

[cclowend]

[URL=http://s1259.photobucket.com/user/dinggremlin/media/WP_20140602_003_zps13a18fa7.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1259.photobucket.com/albums/ii560/dinggremlin/WP_20140602_003_zps13a18fa7.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[cclowend]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!

[Damonjames]

I'll try as I can't seem to get it to work

Edited June 18, 2014 by Damonjames

[Damonjames]

Am I stunted??? I can't get it to work, what am I doing wrong??

[Roland Rock]

Testing post four method on phone...




Fail! :-(

Tried to put this link
https://www.dropbox.com/s/16bb6cbt9zbrh4o/100_2199.JPG
between the

Edited June 18, 2014 by Roland Rock

[Damonjames]

Ok, I can see how to do it on the full site on a pc. Pics are on Flickr which seems to be the problem?

[BigRedX]

[quote name='Damonjames' timestamp='1403082876' post='2479486']
I'll try as I can't seem to get it to work


[/quote]

When I look at that photo on Flickr click on "sharing" and select the BBCode (which is what you need to post it here) I get a message saying that "Sharing is restricted for this photo".

However by looking at the source code for the site I was able to get the URL of the image, so entering:

[code][/code]

should get you this:

Edited June 18, 2014 by BigRedX

[Spoombung]

[b]Flickr drives me MAD[/b] [b]looking for the url code![/b] You have to go through several stages to find it. They changed it a while ago and now no one knows how to link to a .jpeg photo anymore. Mind- bogglingly Idiotic.

[lowdown]

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1403083381' post='2479501']
[url="https://www.dropbox.com/s/16bb6cbt9zbrh4o/100_2199.JPG"]https://www.dropbox....4o/100_2199.JPG[/url]
[/quote]
Good one.
[url="http://s1344.photobucket.com/user/gwcmusic/media/100_2199_zps7a922088.jpg.html"][/url]

Edited June 18, 2014 by lowdown

[BigRedX]

[quote name='Spoombung' timestamp='1403085205' post='2479529']
[b]Flickr drives me MAD[/b] [b]looking for the url code![/b] You have to go through several stages to find it. They changed it a while ago and now no one knows how to link to a .jpeg photo anymore. Mind- bogglingly Idiotic.
[/quote]

The stupid thing is that they make it difficult to supposedly prevent others copying your photographs, but as my previous post shows, accessing the photos is trivial for anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of HTML.

[Damonjames]

[Damonjames]

Thanks guys, that's awesome. Anyone remember when you could just copy and paste on you phone for pics,,,

[Roland Rock]

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1403085752' post='2479537']

Good one.
[url="http://s1344.photobucket.com/user/gwcmusic/media/100_2199_zps7a922088.jpg.html"][/url]
[/quote]

Haha, yeah, my dad's alpacas.
So did you copy that into photo bucket? Do Dropbox links not work like they would if I pasted the link into the 'post image' function (which is not available on my phone/ipad)?

[lowdown]

[quote name='Roland Rock' timestamp='1403087353' post='2479559']
Haha, yeah, my dad's alpacas.
So did you copy that into photo bucket?
[/quote]

I clicked the link, that took me to dropbox, then saved to Photobucket.
In Photobucket, copied the URL link and pasted into my post.
Might be easier ways, but works for me.

[Roland Rock]

[quote name='lowdown' timestamp='1403088755' post='2479573']


I clicked the link, that took me to dropbox, then saved to Photobucket.
In Photobucket, copied the URL link and pasted into my post.
Might be easier ways, but works for me.
[/quote]

Ok thanks. I've previously always used Dropbox, but maybe time to venture into Photobucket

[BigRedX]

It's a question of using the right tools for the job.

Dropbox is fine for sharing files with a limited number of people who are most likely going to view them on their computer or mobile device, but if you want to add images to your forum posts you need an image host, and ideally one that automatically that provides IMG tags.