Problem with photo uploader

[Doctordarryl]

Tried to up load pictures of my latest build and neither photo uploader would work. Anyone else have this problem and how did you get around it?

[sjordan2]

What photo uploaders? From the site, or elsewhere? When in doubt, use Photobucket.

Remember, you won't see an image until after you hit the Post button.

Edited August 11, 2012 by sjordan2

[Doctordarryl]

What photo uploaders? From the site, or elsewhere? When in doubt, use Photobucket.

Remember, you won't see an image until after you hit the Post button.

I tried using the site's photo uploaders and neither worked. It never finishes (waited 1/2 hour for one and it was still "going"). It does not matter which browser I use they all behave the same way - no uploads.

If you review the posting you still do not see pictures?

What is Photobucket? I watched the videos on picture posting but neither helped.

[sjordan2]

Photobucket is a free site where you can upload and store your pictures. Once your images are on Photobucket, this is where you go for your source for copying and pasting images into forum posts, just about anywhere.

Go to www.photobucket.com and register. When you're registered, you need to click on New Album and name it. Later on, you may need to open your album on that button at the top of the page. You can create multiple albums for different subjects, but let's not go there just yet.

After that, you will see a green button that says Upload, which will open a window to select an image from your hard drive, folder, desktop, wherever you have the image - (it needs to have been downloaded to your computer, not just on another website). Click on your selected file.

It will pretty much walk you through the process.

When the upload is completed, click on Save and Continue. It will take you to your album page where a copy of the image now resides, shown as a thumbnail.

Put your cursor on top of the thumbnail picture and a menu of fields will open below the picture; click on the bottom IMG field and it will be automatically copied (you'll see the word Copied appear).

You are now ready to paste the image into your post-- go to the line in your forum post window where you are composing and where you want to put the image, then paste it in by holding down your control key and hitting the letter v. You will see the letters and numbers of the link, not the image. Then hit Post under the window.

After you try this, and if there's a problem, go back to the Photobucket tutorial on this site to make sure you're doing it right. Again, you won't see an image in your post until AFTER you have hit the Post button under the window where you are composing your post.

There are shortcuts and other options, but this is pretty basic.

If there's still a problem, send me a PM with your phone number and a time when I can walk you through it.

Edited August 11, 2012 by sjordan2

[Doctordarryl]

Photobucket is a free site where you can upload and store your pictures. Once your images are on Photobucket, this is where you go for your source for copying and pasting images into forum posts, just about anywhere.

Go to www.photobucket.com and register. When you're registered, you need to click on New Album and name it. Later on, you may need to open your album on that button at the top of the page. You can create multiple albums for different subjects, but let's not go there just yet.

After that, you will see a green button that says Upload, which will show you a window to select an image from your hard drive, folder, desktop, wherever you have the image - (it needs to have been downloaded to your computer, not just on another website). Click on your selected file.

It will pretty much walk you through the process.

When the upload is completed, click on Save and Continue. It will take you to your album page where a copy of the image now resides, shown as a thumbnail.

Put your cursor on top of the thumbnail picture and a menu of fields will open below the picture; click on the bottom IMG field and it will be automatically copied (you'll see the word Copied appear).

You are now ready to paste the image into your post-- go to the line in your forum post window where you are composing and where you want to put the image, then paste it in by holding down your control key and hitting the letter v. You will see the letters and numbers of the link, not the image. Then hit Post under the window.

After you try this, and if there's a problem, go back to the Photobucket tutorial on this site to make sure you're doing it right. Again, you won't see an image in your post until AFTER you have hit the Post button under the window where you are composing your post.

There are shortcuts and other options, but this is pretty basic.

If there's still a problem, send me a PM with your phone number.

I already subscribe to Fotki. Is it possible to upload picture to the forum from Fotki?

[Harry P.]

I already subscribe to Fotki. Is it possible to upload picture to the forum from Fotki?

Yes, works pretty much the same way as uploading from Photobucket.

[Harry P.]

In fotki, click on the photo's "Share" link, then go to the bottom of the list and click "More sharing options," then scroll down to the bottom of the page and where it says "Code for forums," copy that code and paste it here into your message window.

[Doctordarryl]

Still having problems with the two (Basic and Advanced) photo up loaders for the forum. Has anyone been able to figure out why their computer won't up load photos using the sites up loaders. It worked yesterday but does not work today. I fdon't have all my pictures on Fotki so linking to Fotki is not a good solution to the problem. Fixing my computer so the forum's up loaders work seems to the best solution.

[Guest G Holding]

How much space is left, and what image size are you trying to upload ? Fokti or photobucket ARE much easier than the forum uploader due to many limitations You can bulk upload to photobucket, a whole folder at once.

[sjordan2]

Don't use this site's uploader. There is a small limit to the amount you can upload and you've probably used it up.

[Doctordarryl]

I think I found the problem. I can not upload pics that are larger than about 1MB even though the directions claim you can upload pics that are up to 10MB in size (maybe they misplaced the decimal point and it should be 1MB instead of 10MB?). When I reduce my image size to less than 1MB (still high resolution images) both site uploaders work great. I am not interested in Photobucket since I already have Fotki as my on-line picture storage source as well as a display "case" for my Scale Auto Details products. I do believe in the KISS principal and it is always best to use what the site offers instead of patches using other sites. No further problems posting pictures and I have a ton more to post over the next week or so.