Thread: How come . . .

Just testing......

Originally Posted by Davii

Won't work if he's posting them directly from his computer

Nope, from Photobucket. Here's what I mean:




I thought Maxine wouldn't mind modeling for us.



Another one, of my daughter:

Well, that one posted okay. But not all will do that.

Now I'm really confused . .

This one I tried to post in the Humor thread:



This is how it turns out most of the time.
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When you're at photobucket, click the img link and put that link in a post making sure it has them img embedding crap around it

use insert image and post url

like this

Originally Posted by topscribe

Well, that one posted okay. But not all will do that.

Now I'm really confused . .

This one I tried to post in the Humor thread:



This is how it turns out most of the time.
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I'm clearly not needed anymore, good job guys.

To summarize, I think if you host the picture somewhere else (what used to be the only real option) and wrap the link to the picture in [I M G] [/I M G] tags (without those extra spaces), then whatever size the image is on the picture host, it will be displayed. If you upload the image and store it on this server, then it seems to shrink it and display a thumbnail.

To better describe the options, both of which can be done using the "insert picture" button, here are your two options.

In this case, I click the insert image button, choose "From URL" and UNCHECK "Retrieve remote file and reference locally." This means a copy of the picture isn't stored on the server and it is inserted using the old IMG tags:



Here, I click the insert image button, choose "From URL" and CHECK "Retrieve remote file and reference locally." This means a copy of the picture is stored on the server, and instead of IMG tags the ATTACH /ATTACH tags are used and a thumbnail is created.



Now, you could also choose "from computer" and it would also upload a copy of the picture to the server and display a thumbnail.

Originally Posted by Tned

To better describe the options, both of which can be done using the "insert picture" button, here are your two options.

In this case, I click the insert image button, choose "From URL" and UNCHECK "Retrieve remote file and reference locally." This means a copy of the picture isn't stored on the server and it is inserted using the old IMG tags:

Here, I click the insert image button, choose "From URL" and CHECK "Retrieve remote file and reference locally." This means a copy of the picture is stored on the server, and instead of IMG tags the ATTACH /ATTACH tags are used and a thumbnail is created.

The one thing it never occurred to me to do. Thanks, T.
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Originally Posted by topscribe

The one thing it never occurred to me to do. Thanks, T.
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On a side note Top, I always preview the message before I submit it, sometimes I screw up the link, or in a similar scenario youtube doesnt support embedding the video...

Originally Posted by topscribe

The one thing it never occurred to me to do. Thanks, T.
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To be honest, I just now played with the settings to see if you could get it to use the old style IMG tags to pull from the host. Now that I've looked at it, it makes sense, but the last few pictures I've posted, I either manually used the IMG tags or let it attach with the thumbnail. I hadn't really paid attention to that option before.

Originally Posted by topscribe

Well, that one posted okay. But not all will do that.

Now I'm really confused . .

This one I tried to post in the Humor thread:



This is how it turns out most of the time.
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Click quote on your message and notice it has the "attach"tags around it rather than the img tags. Of you use the img tags instead it will work out better for you. Find the url for the image itself and paste it in there, wysiwyg then.

Originally Posted by topscribe

I took the goat away from you because YOU abused it.

Don't blame me for that . . .

Maybe so but Clay still has his mule.

Originally Posted by TXBRONC

Maybe so but Clay still has his mule.

Bigger is better.

Originally Posted by Tned

To better describe the options, both of which can be done using the "insert picture" button, here are your two options.

In this case, I click the insert image button, choose "From URL" and UNCHECK "Retrieve remote file and reference locally." This means a copy of the picture isn't stored on the server and it is inserted using the old IMG tags:

Here, I click the insert image button, choose "From URL" and CHECK "Retrieve remote file and reference locally." This means a copy of the picture is stored on the server, and instead of IMG tags the ATTACH /ATTACH tags are used and a thumbnail is created.

Now, you could also choose "from computer" and it would also upload a copy of the picture to the server and display a thumbnail.

Originally Posted by Davii

Click quote on your message and notice it has the "attach"tags around it rather than the img tags. Of you use the img tags instead it will work out better for you. Find the url for the image itself and paste it in there, wysiwyg then.

What'ya know . . . it's working perfectly now. Thanks!
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