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problems posting pics here
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 7:51 pm
by Grateful Diver
This just started happening this morning ... my pics get "squared" and the right edge gets cut off ... like this ...
They post normally on other sites, so I'm thinking it's either a user setting or something this board suddenly doesn't like about Photobucket image tags.
Makes it damn difficult for me to post pictures here ... which is mostly what I do here.
Any suggestions?
... Bob (Grateful DIver)
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 8:58 pm
by Mortuus
Hasnt this been going on a while, or is this a new problem? I know I had issues with this last time I went to go post a pic. I tried using the standard bbcode image size adjustment tags, but to no avail. It is definitely annoying...
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:01 pm
by Scubie Doo
Do you have an external site. Can you post an embedded link? When I post a photo linked to smugmug it cuts the right off, but when you click it, it shows full size. I used to upload to the site, but I had to watermark every photo. With smugmug, my photos are automatically watermarked so the link is very convenient. I know that doesn't answer your question in regards to direct upload to the site. But an linked photo is an option.
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:37 pm
by spatman
I'm on my phone, so I can't tell for sure, but I'm guessing its because your images are wider than the content area of this site, which I think is 600px wide. If your images are wider than that and you use the [ img ] tag, they will get cut off.
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:39 pm
by spatman
Mortuus wrote:Hasnt this been going on a while, or is this a new problem? I know I had issues with this last time I went to go post a pic. I tried using the standard bbcode image size adjustment tags, but to no avail. It is definitely annoying...
I'm not familiar with image size tags as a standard for bbcode. Can you point me to an example?
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:30 am
by Grateful Diver
spatman wrote:I'm on my phone, so I can't tell for sure, but I'm guessing its because your images are wider than the content area of this site, which I think is 600px wide. If your images are wider than that and you use the [ img ] tag, they will get cut off.
I'm using the same technique I've been using for years. Nothing has changed except how the pictures display on this site. And this just happened for the first time (to me, anyway) yesterday.
I tried posting the same pictures elsewhere and am not having an issue ... suggesting something has changed on this site.
Unless I can get this addressed, I won't be able to post pictures here any longer.
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 4:37 am
by Grateful Diver
Test ...
... nope ... that didn't work ... so it ain't on the Photobucket side of things. The problem is here.
Images are definitely appearing larger than they used to ... see images I posted as recently as last week in other threads. But all I'm doing is copying and pasting the [IMG] tags from Photobucket ... just like I always have. This test was switching back to the "old" Photobucket, which has worked successfully for me for several years.
... Bob (Grateful DIver)
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 6:41 am
by Mortuus
spatman wrote:Mortuus wrote:Hasnt this been going on a while, or is this a new problem? I know I had issues with this last time I went to go post a pic. I tried using the standard bbcode image size adjustment tags, but to no avail. It is definitely annoying...
I'm not familiar with image size tags as a standard for bbcode. Can you point me to an example?
http://www.bbcode.org/examples/?id=10
So like this:
Code: Select all
[img=100x50]http://www.bbcode.org/images/lubeck_small.jpg[/img]
Or:
Code: Select all
[img width="100" height="50" alt="Lubeck city gate" title="This is one of the medieval city gates of Lubeck"]http://www.bbcode.org/images/lubeck_small.jpg[/img]
As shown by the website. Those do not work here though for resizing. I had to open up photoshop and keep resizing, saving, and uploading until I had one of the right size, which was a pain in the ass
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:09 am
by spatman
Grateful Diver wrote:I'm using the same technique I've been using for years. Nothing has changed except how the pictures display on this site. And this just happened for the first time (to me, anyway) yesterday.
It's not the technique, nor the site. It's the size of the images you are linking to.
Your newer shots are 1024px wide:
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m257 ... 74d434.jpg
Whereas your older ones are 639px wide:
http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m257 ... G_4835.jpg
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 8:17 am
by spatman
Mortuus wrote:http://www.bbcode.org/examples/?id=10
So like this:
Code: Select all
[img=100x50]http://www.bbcode.org/images/lubeck_small.jpg[/img]
Or:
Code: Select all
[img width="100" height="50" alt="Lubeck city gate" title="This is one of the medieval city gates of Lubeck"]http://www.bbcode.org/images/lubeck_small.jpg[/img]
As shown by the website. Those do not work here though for resizing. I had to open up photoshop and keep resizing, saving, and uploading until I had one of the right size, which was a pain in the ass
Unfortunately, those tags are for older versions of phpbb. The latest version (3) doesn't allow inline html, so users specifying image dimensions went out with that. A hard coded img tag with dimensions would be problematic because it would have specific dimensions, where not everyone's images would necessary be in the same aspect ratio, e.g. landscape versus portrait or custom cropping.
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 9:19 am
by Grateful Diver
I don't understand ... I'm doing everything exactly as I've always done.
Is this something Photobucket changed? If so, would it be resolved by switching to a different hosting source?
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 9:30 am
by LCF
Bob, how are you processing your images before you upload them to Photobucket? Are you using Photoshop or Lightroom? If you are using Lightroom, you have settings for exporting your photos that define the size of the images. You can make them 700 pixels in maximum dimension, and then they will display here just fine.
If you're using Photoshop, when you "save" your images after you have cropped them, and "save for web", it will ask you what you want for dimensions. I think you have inadvertently changed something. I had the exact same problem with mine, until I changed the export size to make them a little smaller.
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 10:00 am
by spatman
Grateful Diver wrote:Is this something Photobucket changed? If so, would it be resolved by switching to a different hosting source?
I have zero experience with Photobucket, honestly. Has there been any changes on their end? Are there new settings you might have to adjust? It might be worth a try asking on their support forums.
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:23 pm
by Grateful Diver
Test ...
Ah ... better ... I have some work to do ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:36 pm
by spatman
What did the problem turn out to be, Bob?
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 12:37 pm
by Grateful Diver
Problem solved.
It was on Photobucket's end. They must've done a software upgrade recently ... very recently. The only pictures that had been saved in the larger format were the ones I uploaded there yesterday.
I went in to each of those, edited the image size, and saved. It saved to a new picture, so I had to delete the original ones I had uploaded (hence the blank images above).
I also reset my default upload size to a max width of 760 pixels.
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 2:08 pm
by defied
spatman wrote:
Unfortunately, those tags are for older versions of phpbb. The latest version (3) doesn't allow inline html, so users specifying image dimensions went out with that. A hard coded img tag with dimensions would be problematic because it would have specific dimensions, where not everyone's images would necessary be in the same aspect ratio, e.g. landscape versus portrait or custom cropping.
You can create custom bbcode in this version of phpbb (READ: A user can't, but you can, and a user can use the custom tag they will see has been created).
http://www.110mb.com/forum/index.php?topic=50311.0
I only remember because I was futzing with it on my server.
D
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:24 pm
by spatman
defied wrote:You can create custom bbcode in this version of phpbb (READ: A user can't, but you can, and a user can use the custom tag they will see has been created).
http://www.110mb.com/forum/index.php?topic=50311.0
I only remember because I was futzing with it on my server.
D
Are you referring to the "easy way" he mentions or the section where he edits the files?
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 5:50 pm
by defied
No, was referring to the place where you place bbcode for youtube and Vimeo and the likes in the administration panel under Posting>>bbcodes.
Unless that is what the easy way that was mentioned meant. What I was pointing to was that you could make an [img2][/img2] (or whatever you wanted to name it) that would allow anyone to resize their photo's when linked offsite.
I know you know this. Why are you busting my b@lls? 0]
D
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:57 am
by cardiver
Any ideas as to why I can no longer upload pics? I am signed in but when I hover over the "browse" button I get nothing......
Edit.... I just tried it with Chrome and it worked fine. The problem seems to be with Explorer
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 12:21 pm
by spatman
cardiver wrote:Any ideas as to why I can no longer upload pics? I am signed in but when I hover over the "browse" button I get nothing......
Edit.... I just tried it with Chrome and it worked fine. The problem seems to be with Explorer
Which version of explorer?
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 12:25 pm
by cardiver
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Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 12:26 pm
by Desert Diver
cardiver wrote:Any ideas as to why I can no longer upload pics? I am signed in but when I hover over the "browse" button I get nothing......
Edit.... I just tried it with Chrome and it worked fine. The problem seems to be with Explorer
Ahhh! Internet Explorer. The favorite browser for downloading another browser.
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 12:29 pm
by cardiver
I've never had an issue with it before. It's also putting the browse button at the right hand side of the "file name" box.
Re: problems posting pics here
Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 4:35 pm
by spatman
cardiver wrote:I've never had an issue with it before. It's also putting the browse button at the right hand side of the "file name" box.
So you've been using IE10 for awhile and this is the first time you've noticed these bugs?
