How to post pictures in your blogs or forums 101

Wow Thanks Gary not only are you a master furniture maker but a computer ace also. This is the kind of stuff I fight and fight to figure out, were my sons say its simple.

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

thanks gary
see me soon !

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

Were from the wrong generation Jim for computer skills to come easy!

-- spanky46 -- Never enough clamps...Never enough tools...Never enough time.

Thanks for the info.

-- Mc Bridge Cabinets, Iowa

And if you dont want to do the resize step allow photobucket to do it for you with the reduce to size feature in the upload window. also use the insert image Icon above the window you are typing in and paste the copied direct link of the pic in photobucket.
Just a slightly different way to do the same thing, as there is always many ways to do it.

-- Drink once, cut twice. New website up.... lazylarrywoodworks.com.au

Great writeup, Gary!

This should be required reading for all Lumberjocks- new and old. Martin should put this in the help section!

Lew

thanks Gary … this should be very helpful … I even learned a bit myself …or should I say a better way

-- work from your heart and your spirit will live forever

Thanks Gary, it’s something I have fought with numerous times.

-- Canadian Wood Chuck (Bruce)

Thanks for doing this for us.

-- Father of two sons. Both Eagle Scouts.

You are all very welcome!

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Very easy when explained properly.
Thanks for the walk thru Gary.

-- " If I can make it,so can you" Andy in Oregon

Thank you Garyk for this helpful information. I have failed to do it many times in spite of getting help from couple of LJs. May be I was missing some step. I will try again and hope to succeed.
Sharad

-- patanjali

Thanks Gary. I kept cutting off the right side of my pics, so I gave up and posted links. This will really help.

-- Dale Manning, Carthage, NY

As a FYI, Flickr.com is another service that you could utilize for this purpose, and it automatically resizes the pictures as they are uploaded. The nice feature they have is the pics are resized into S/M/L categories. I use the medium sized pictures for the LJ blogs.

-- //FC - Round Rock, TX - "Experience is what you get just after you need it"

Appreciate the sizing tip Gary. I tried to show pictures with the text in a project before and everything worked except the pictures were way too big. Now I’ve posted my first blog and the sizing came out right thanks to you.

-- Mike, American in Norway

Great info!

Thanks

-- - Ray

Nice presentation. It was recomended to me to reduce the pixels/inch down to 75 for transmission on the web – this reduces the loading time significantly, without too much reduction in quality

-- Tony - All things are possible, just some things are more difficult than others! - SKYPE: Heron2005 (http://www.poydatjatuolit.fi)

Here is my secret formular for getting photos from any site.
You need to have Excel or Open Office (which is free to download & is just as good as Microsoft Office which is not cheap).
Anyway back to posting photos
Firstly you need only two columns in your spreadsheet. One for the URL address on any photo (will talk about that later). Then another column for a formular that concatenates the URL allowing you to copy & past it into a LJ page.
Heres how I do it
Say you find a photo on any web page you want to put on “Grumpy’s Old Barns Site”. Right click on the photo Select properties from the drop down list Highlight the contents of the URL address Right click & select copy.
Now open Excel (or open office) In the first cell A1 past the URl In the cell adjoining, ie cell A2, write this formular-

Now right click on cell A2 and select copy.
Now go to your LJ page and right click and paste the contents
You should now have a copy of that photo pasted into the LJ site & you can do this for any page on the www without first copying it to photobucket or some other compatible site.
As long as the photo is not moved form it’s original source it will stay on the LJ site.
To add links to more photos to your spreadsheet simply copy the formular in cell A2 down the column. Every time you paste a link in the adjoining cell (in column A) the formular will concatenate the link.
This all sounds complex but it is very simple once you perfect it.
If anyone want help with it let me know.

-- Grumpy - "Always look on the bright side of life"- Monty Python

Grumpy, that is one COOL trick!
I will have to try it!!
Thank you!

-- Have Fun! Joe Lyddon - Alta Loma, CA USA - Home: http://www.WoodworkStuff.net ... My Small Gallery: http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?ppuser=1389&cat=500"

Hi Gary,

I put the exclamation point at the beginning and end of my link without any spaces and I got a box with a red “x” in it instead of the picture on the post. Any Ideas what might be wrong? thanks

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

TopamaxSurvivor – It doesn’t look like you are copying the “Direct Link” from photobucket.

From you Holly post your direct link should look like this:

http://s730.photobucket.com/albums/ww302/Dopamax/Holly01.jpg

and with an exclamation point at each end with no spaces you get:

-- Gary, East TX -- The longest journey begins with a single step.

Thanks Gary, There was a lot of stuff between dopamax/ & Holly01 that I edited out. That fixed it. I copied the link from my address bar on the browser. Is there another place to copy it that has it without all the extra garbage?

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

Never mind, I just looked at youir blog again:-)) I see what I missed. It’s in the next to the bottom picture.

-- Debt is nothing more than the 21st Century's form of slavery.

Great blog!! I just wish I’d read it before I posted the “ad” for the staking dado set. ;) Oh well, I’ll know better next time.

-- Dave, Colonie, NY

too many choices photo this flicker that where’s the frigerator i gotta put this away.

-- joseph

http://i878.photobucket.com/albums/ab343/Monkeyboy1_photos/Picture003.jpg just a test

-- MonkeyBoy1 Lex Ky

ha it worked thanks gary

-- MonkeyBoy1 Lex Ky

Congratulations Monkeyboy!

-- Have Fun! Joe Lyddon - Alta Loma, CA USA - Home: http://www.WoodworkStuff.net ... My Small Gallery: http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?ppuser=1389&cat=500"