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Title: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 10:21:10
Here's a first try:
(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Busview2.jpg)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 10:21:46
No good - too big and not the photo I was trying to link to!

Another try:

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Abouncyride.jpg)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 10:23:16
Still too big!
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: flatcat on June 08, 2010, 10:24:44
Nice bus - they have been running these all weekend where we live

I use imageshack because I couldn't decide between the two but Photobucket is probably easier as Imageshack is very fiddly and annoying. Please let me know how you get on :)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 10:26:41
Nice bus - they have been running these all weekend where we live

I use imageshack because I couldn't decide between the two but Photobucket is probably easier as Imageshack is very fiddly and annoying. Please let me know how you get on :)

I'll keep you informed, Damo.  So far photobucket is very fiddly and annoying!
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 10:27:06
Well, I've resized it:

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Abouncyride.jpg)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 10:28:59
Another try:

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Abouncyride.jpg)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 10:31:59
Anyone see any difference?

No, I don't either!

Another try after discovering that APPLY just makes the change but doesn't save it and that the button to save is off the screen at the bottom!

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Abouncyride.jpg)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 10:34:03
I've now made it the smallest possible size:

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Abouncyride.jpg)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 10:36:40
And there's no difference!

I thought it could be time consuming resizing images on my pc and then adding them to posts, but at least I'm familiar with that and get some feedback, e.g. the image that wouldn't load because it was just too big now loads because I've made it smaller, but not with photobucket!

End of experiment.
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: skypurr on June 08, 2010, 12:16:30
I use photobucket Gordon and don't have a problem with it, however my images are all full size when I post them.

Elaine
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 12:46:02
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, coming back now, the later photos are much smaller than before!!!!!!

Another attempt:

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Meetthedriver.jpg)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 12:47:36
Now that's better, it fits the post.  Here's another try:

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Breaktime.jpg)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 12:48:51
Nope, too big.

So here's another:

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Admiringtheview.jpg)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: skypurr on June 08, 2010, 12:49:56
All I do Gordon is upload my photos, save them and then copy and paste the IMG code onto my posts and it works OK every time!  :)  (I don't have to change the size at all)

Elaine
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 12:51:44
But what size are the photos when you upload them?  I reduced mine to 640 x 480 but they are still too big, well some are and some aren't.
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: flatcat on June 08, 2010, 12:54:41
On Imageshack when it loads the pics from my computer it sizes them automatically to the preset forum size so when the have uploaded I just copy and paste the code in

But what size are the photos when you upload them?  I reduced mine to 640 x 480 but they are still too big, well some are and some aren't.

That is the size Imageshack does and mine are all that size and they are fine ???
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: skypurr on June 08, 2010, 12:55:11
I just upload them as they are when I transfer them from my camera into My Pictures.  I'm trying to remember if I had to specify a size when I first started with photobucket, but I don't think so.  ???

Elaine
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 13:07:28
On the bulk uploader there is a scale from small to large and it was set on small but the photos aren't fitting into the forum.

I'll try this:

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Sheep1.jpg)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 13:09:36
And now this:

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Sheep1.jpg)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 13:10:50
Now this:

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/OldtrainatHawes.jpg)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 13:11:47
Now a repeat of an earlier one which was too big:

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Breaktime.jpg)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 13:12:22
And that one again:

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Breaktime.jpg)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: skypurr on June 08, 2010, 13:12:30
Great photo with the tree and sheep Gordon : that size looks OK to me.   :clap:

Elaine
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 13:14:56
Great photo with the tree and sheep Gordon : that size looks OK to me.   :clap:

Elaine

Thank you, Elaine.

Now that one is 160kb and the one of them in front of the glass of orange juice is 145kb!

Well those are the sizes of the photos BEFORE uploading them, but on photobucket they are BIGGER than that!
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 14:54:42
Another try:

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Maisieandthesheep.jpg)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 14:56:38
Now that one fits the page even though it's bigger than some of those that don't!

Another:

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Fredandthepirates.jpg)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 08, 2010, 15:01:06
Nope, too big again!

It looks as if it's going to be more trouble using photobucket than resizing my photos and attaching them to posts.  I can never work out why these hosting sites and photo editing software don't all include two basic functions

1.  resize an image to a given size, e.g. 100kb

2.  print an image to a given size, e.g. 5 x 7

Photoshop Elements 3 used to offer the second but when it was "improved" to Elements 4 this option vanished and Elements 3 can't be used with Vista.  So much for "progress".
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: Martin Milner on June 09, 2010, 16:48:06
Nope, too big again!

It looks as if it's going to be more trouble using photobucket than resizing my photos and attaching them to posts.  I can never work out why these hosting sites and photo editing software don't all include two basic functions

1.  resize an image to a given size, e.g. 100kb

2.  print an image to a given size, e.g. 5 x 7

Photoshop Elements 3 used to offer the second but when it was "improved" to Elements 4 this option vanished and Elements 3 can't be used with Vista.  So much for "progress".

Photbucket does offer the second option. All my photos resize to 800x600 pixels as I upload them, and I never have to worry about them fitting on the forum.

Go to the page with the big box saying Upload Images and Videos

Just under that box click on (more options)

Choose 15" screen and save.
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 09, 2010, 16:55:52
Photbucket does offer the second option. All my photos resize to 800x600 pixels as I upload them, and I never have to worry about them fitting on the forum.

Go to the page with the big box saying Upload Images and Videos

Just under that box click on (more options)

Choose 15" screen and save.
Thanks, Martin, I'll try that.  I've only been using the bulk uploader so far.
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: skypurr on June 09, 2010, 19:40:34
Perhaps that's what I did when I first started using photobucket, because I think it may have been Martin who directed me to it for uploading photos.  ???
I did wonder, but couldn't remember  :-[

Elaine
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 13, 2010, 10:16:16
Here, hopefully, is a final test and then Maisie and Fred will have another two adventures posted in the near future.

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Thecabadj.jpg)

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Maisieandthesheep.jpg)

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Hawes.jpg)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 13, 2010, 10:18:12
Well, I set to upload images and videos to a 15 inch screen and it still doesn't work!  :(
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 13, 2010, 10:21:06
Hmmm, checking the settings I'm sure I'd opted for a 15 inch screen, but the settings said 17, so I've reset it and will try again.

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Thecabadj.jpg)

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Maisieandthesheep.jpg)

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Hawes.jpg)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 13, 2010, 10:22:17
Looks as if the resizing can only be done at upload time, so back to square one.
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 14, 2010, 21:04:55
Uploaded now at 15 inch screen setting so let's see what happens.

Here's the cab:

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Thecabadj.jpg)

Now Maisie and the chocolate sheep:

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Maisieandthesheep.jpg)

Finally, the problem one:

(http://i704.photobucket.com/albums/ww48/playmofire/Playmobil/Maisie%20and%20Fred/Maisie%20and%20Fred%20go%20on%20the%20bus/Hawes.jpg)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 14, 2010, 21:06:00
Hmmmm, still a bit too big, but I'll try the story with them.
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmovictorian on June 14, 2010, 22:30:15
I love the pictures and the Driver seems such a nice Chap  :love:

Karim :)
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: skypurr on June 14, 2010, 22:37:52
Looking forward to the story Gordon - will that village be in it? it looks familiar  ???

Elaine
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: playmofire on June 15, 2010, 06:44:28
Looking forward to the story Gordon - will that village be in it? it looks familiar  ???

Elaine

Village!  Village!  That's a town! 

It's where we go for the day, Elaine. Not a lot of photos of it as it was very crowded and full of  traffic that day, but we're going up by the bus again shortly and I'll get some more photos then to show.
Title: Re: Testing linking to photobucket
Post by: flatcat on June 15, 2010, 07:19:15
Those are great pics, Gordon!

I love buses and the one of the village town is great and I can't wait to see the finished piece :)