RogerS
Established Member
The legacy website that comes with my private email address has only limited storage and no way to increase it. So I started looking around at other offline photo-storage sites. Couldn't get on with Picasa and currently trying out Flickr. Only I find the user interface so so clunky. I can upload photos easily with their desktop Uploadr but then trying to get the image URL to stick in a forum post seems overly complicated. So given its popularity, I must be missing a trick or two.
For example, if I upload an image I get asked to go to the Flickr website. At this point the option is Describe This Upload. OK...useful to add a Title. I see that I have the option to copy image URL but when I display it, it is too small and so of no use for posting as a link. At this point it is unclear where I go next. The menu options are not obvious. 'Organise and Create' is of no interest as all I want to do is get the URL! The best option is 'You' which takes me to 'Your Photostream'.
I click on the image I just uploaded. The right-click option to Copy Image URL has now gone. If I look under Share I can Grab a Link. But that link takes me to the complete page with all the dross such as Faves (yuk ...pass the vomit bucket). So the other option is Actions. Click View All Sizes. Click on the best size for the forum, then Right-Click to Copy Image URL and off we go.
Is there a quicker way as this is a bit of a merry-go-round.
Any other photosharing sites that are slicker to use as far as forum posts go?
In contrast, using the legacy website, I export the photo(s) from iPhoto straight onto an icon that automatically uploads them to the website and opens the main FTP program window (Fetch) and straight to the first image...already highlighted. A quick Copy and Paste into the forum...job done. And because the photos are probably sequential, I can simply copy the whole {image] link and simply tweak a few digits in the photo ID to pick up another one. Quick and simple.
TIA
Rog
For example, if I upload an image I get asked to go to the Flickr website. At this point the option is Describe This Upload. OK...useful to add a Title. I see that I have the option to copy image URL but when I display it, it is too small and so of no use for posting as a link. At this point it is unclear where I go next. The menu options are not obvious. 'Organise and Create' is of no interest as all I want to do is get the URL! The best option is 'You' which takes me to 'Your Photostream'.
I click on the image I just uploaded. The right-click option to Copy Image URL has now gone. If I look under Share I can Grab a Link. But that link takes me to the complete page with all the dross such as Faves (yuk ...pass the vomit bucket). So the other option is Actions. Click View All Sizes. Click on the best size for the forum, then Right-Click to Copy Image URL and off we go.
Is there a quicker way as this is a bit of a merry-go-round.
Any other photosharing sites that are slicker to use as far as forum posts go?
In contrast, using the legacy website, I export the photo(s) from iPhoto straight onto an icon that automatically uploads them to the website and opens the main FTP program window (Fetch) and straight to the first image...already highlighted. A quick Copy and Paste into the forum...job done. And because the photos are probably sequential, I can simply copy the whole {image] link and simply tweak a few digits in the photo ID to pick up another one. Quick and simple.
TIA
Rog