Basic guide to using the Post Image hosting site.

[onlyMark]

Basic guide to using the Post Image hosting site.

It is a reasonably easy website to use and for me, for now, seems the best option.
When you click on the link to the website you'll be faced with this page –




It is possible to load and link images without joining, but I think it is best, and quite easy, just to sign up. Then it'll be organised for you for the future.
Once doing so you can then use different folders and it is far better than a 'one-off' use for something –




As you can see above, the format is reasonably straight forward and self-explanatory.

I'll approach this from the point of view that you have a series of photos you want to post on a theme/thread and keep them separate from others that aren't relevant.
One of the things though I do is make a general folder, which is the 'Odds and Sods' one on the left. Click first on "My Images" after joining and then "Create a new Gallery". After creating it, upload to it from your computer using the link on the page for that folder –




This folder is for all those photos that are just slipped in a thread and don't form a part of any report. The 'one-off' ones for whatever reason.
Other folders will usually be relevant to just one report/theme.

So you make a folder. Upload to it and for forums it may be best to initially set the size to 800x600and see what you think. It should be big enough for effect. Setting the size to 1024x768 will make the posted images definitely large enough, but may be too large.
There is a way on the forum, once you post the resultant link, to alter the size if you think it is wrong, but that is another subject and it is best to get it right first time. If you want to know if you don't, then see me after class, but bring chocolate and tell your parents you'll be late home –




After uploading to the folder you have just made or have selected, you'll see the following.
A list of links.



You can use the "Codes for all Images" if you need a different kind of link, but as said, leave it as shown for easiest for a forum.
If you want to copy all the links, click the folder symbol to the right. You can adjust how the links are presented to you by columns etc and you can just select individual links by swiping and copy/paste if necessary.

Just then go to the forum reply box you want and paste the links. The forum will then display them as photos.
Or, if preferred, paste them onto a Word document where you can split them up using text relevant to the story between them. Then save the word document, select all the text and links and paste it onto the forum.
Click the "Preview" box on the forum reply/create thread to see if you've done it to your satisfaction before posting.

If you have cause to go to a folder and you can't see the links, click on the "Share" icon and they will magically appear. This is good when you've already uploaded a photo and then want to post it again. You can click on the photo in question, click "Share" and the different types of links will come up. As before, "Hotlink for forums" is the link you want.

[questa]

Hello Mark, Thank you for the time and effort you have given us here. I have a hard time with concentration and memory and can only just understand technical stuff.

My aim is to replace my photos in their original places in each of my threads. I still have these pics stored in order in "My Pictures" library. I will probably cull some of the lesser photos to save time.

Can I... 1/ open photobucket thread 2/ C&P text to Document 3/ open postimage
4/ select photos from "My Pictures" 5/ upload these to postimage as you have outlined. 6/ C&P images to correct place in the text. 7/ Post to Forum

I think this means that I will have a new thread on the board, so will need to delete P/B posts.
My brain is hurting just writing this. I hope it makes sense to you..I have sent a big box of eChocolate for you but don't get eSick.

[onlyMark]

Instructions now held to ransom awaiting a payment from Questa of chocolate. She says below, after I posted them, that my chocolate has been eaten by gremlins.
This I do not believe.

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}Questa, I think I know what you mean but let me clarify as to how I'd do it and see if it is the same. I think it is.

1. Go to thread you want to update.
2. Upload to Postimage the same photos as on the thread, from your computer, and into a separate folder.
3. Click on "Edit" to the top right of the thread.
4. Copy and paste text with links to a Word document.
5. Replace each Photoshitbag link with a new Postimage link on the Word document.
6. Copy and paste the new text over the top of the old text in the forum edit box to replace it in its entirety.
7. Preview to make sure it's right.
8. Post.

Same(ish), yes?
Then there is no need to delete any posts.

[questa]

Thanks again. I think the only way is for me to just do it until I can understand it.
BTW...the gremlins et your chockies...sorry.

[questa]

thI21O01AG I'm too scared to look...have the chockies arrived yet?

[questa]

YO ! Mark, you is THE MAN! A legend!


Mustn't get too excited, that was only a single operation...haven't touched
fukabuket yet.

[onlyMark]

Nice choccies. Thanks.

[spindrift1]

Hello questa
I am impressed that you posted a picture on here. I shall have a try tomorrow ! well done. Mark's instructions seem easy to follow?

[questa]

Just a small addendum to Mark's plan of attack.

Use the small blue 'upload' button on the upper left if this is the first time the picture is being uploaded anywhere.

Use the 'upload by URL' button when rescuing pictures that have been posted elsewhere and are now getting a new URL.

Bleeding obvious, really, but I have to learn the hard way.

[bixaorellana]

Yes, what Questa said.

There is a complete tutorial on capturing the URLs from Photobucket pictures so that they can be re-hosted on Postimage HERE.

[spindrift1]

oh gosh, i have no idea what's been posted before :-(

[questa]

Spindrift, what I did was ...open home page, click on your profile. A click on a heading marked 'recent threads'. Click that and there will be a list of most, if not all, of your threads where you have posted pictures that are now blocked. Now you need to apply the technique as shown to change from Pbucket URLs to postimage URLs

[spindrift1]

Questa - many thanks for your welcome advice! I used to be really good at re-sizing and posting pictures but I've become lazy using the instant techniques of Facebook and What's App.

[bixaorellana]

Sept 3, 2017 16:20:43 GMT spindrift1 said:

oh gosh, i have no idea what's been posted before :-(

Please try to get back into your Spindrift account, so that you can access all your wonderful threads there.

[spindrift1]

Oh thanks for reminding me, Bixa. I'll have to work that out!

[onlyMark]

I'm working on this following problem but I'm wondering if anyone else has had it - someone has taken photos but, as you do, has turned the camera around to alter the orientation. They have then loaded them to their computer and orientated them correctly for viewing. But when loaded to the postimage website and then posted, they are all back to their original orientation, i.e. 90 degrees out.

[bixaorellana]

I have to say, I've never done that camera turning thing, so have never needed to flip my pictures.

Mark, when you say you've oriented them correctly for viewing on your computer, I suspect that orientation only applies to seeing them on the computer. When you load them on postimage, that site must be reading the photo information "correctly", i.e., in the original orientation.

Maybe when you were using photobucket there was some place where you could specify that it flip them? I know I've seen that somewhere on one of the sites. If it exists on postimage, I can't find it.

Anyway, one solution might be to use a photo editor to orient the pictures, in effect making them into new originals. I absolutely adore PhotoScape, which I consider the only truly "intuitive" thing I've ever found on the internet. Here is one place to download it. It has a flip feature in both the regular Edit part and in the Bulk Editor.

[onlyMark]

Yes, on photobucket there was something about rotating them as they were downloaded. Using on my computer the Microsoft Picture Manager I can rotate it but, as said, when I then use postimage it comes out upside down again. It's apparently all down to something called the EXIF information.
If I rotate it using a photo editor like Photoscape and then download it to postimage, yes, it comes out the right way up again. But there are people, like the one I'm trying to help, you constantly rotate their camera around and in fact Mrs M is a bugger for always taking them with her, iPad upside down.

So, if I do encounter a load of my photos that need rotating, I'd normally look through them anyway using the inbuilt computer programme like the Picture Manager, rotate them and save them as I go through. Then upload them to postimage and do what I want then with them on a forum maybe. But now I realise I will have to put them through something like Photoscape to do it in such a way that postimage will store them the right way up.
The good thing about postimage is it is quite point and shoot, but it seems that might be a weakness as well.

[fumobici]

Oct 30, 2017 7:22:24 GMT onlyMark said:

I'm working on this following problem but I'm wondering if anyone else has had it - someone has taken photos but, as you do, has turned the camera around to alter the orientation. They have then loaded them to their computer and orientated them correctly for viewing. But when loaded to the postimage website and then posted, they are all back to their original orientation, i.e. 90 degrees out.

When you take a photo a small chip inside the camera with accelerometers finds which way is down and automatically attaches information into the image file telling which way was up/down when the shutter button was snapped.  Changing the position of the camera after the shot is made will have no influence on this positional data, but any even half-decent imaging editor will have the option of reorienting the image, usually as a direction to turn the image ninety degrees either clockwise or counter/anti-clockwise at a step and doing this will rewrite the orientation data attached to each image. Once this is done, the images should always display correctly oriented. This, of course, assumes that both the camera's internal accelerometers and post-production image software employed are working as they should. I've had to correct the orientation in post production enough times that I never assume it will always all work as it is designed to.

[cheerypeabrain]

Every time I try to log into Post Image my computer says that it has encountered aa 'bad gateway' and throws me out....anybody else?

[bixaorellana]

Are you using this link, Cheery? postimages.org

Note its url says postimages, which I didn't realize until just now when I copied it to paste here.

[cheerypeabrain]

Right...I created a postimage accont but all the images that I'm uploading are 'invalid images' I'll persevere but so far things are not looking good....

I have most of my images on disc so I may be able to rescue them long term by uploading them onto Flickr.

[bixaorellana]

I just discovered something discouraging about Postimage .

Recently I did a report on my bathroom renovation, using my phone instead of my camera to take the pictures. Well, when I posted the pictures I noticed that many edges or straight lights came out jagged. I was disappointed, but thought it was the phone's fault, despite the fact that other pictures taken with it came out okay.

So just now I went to Postimage & hosted a photo I took today with my camera.
When I posted it on anyport, it looked like this:


Well, uck! I then went & hosted the same picture on Flickr, and this is what I got:


It's not just the ugly jagged lines, Flickr just produces an overall nicer, crisper picture. Still, Postimage has been very useful & I'm disappointed about how it now messages up images.

[onlyMark]

When you download the photo on to your computer, what does it look like?

I also wonder if, because Postimage is basic and free, if there is a pixel limit and your photos are above that, thus when hosted, they revert to their limit when looks a lesser quality.

[kerouac2]

Those two photos are identical on my screen.

[lugg]

the bottom one from flickr is a better quality on my screen.

[kerouac2]

Yes, now I see it on the leaf outlines.

[bixaorellana]

Apr 9, 2020 6:48:42 GMT onlyMark said:

When you download the photo on to your computer, what does it look like?

I also wonder if, because Postimage is basic and free, if there is a pixel limit and your photos are above that, thus when hosted, they revert to their limit when looks a lesser quality.

If I view the picture on Windows Photo Gallery it looks fine, but not as good as it looks on Windows Photos or in the Flickr version.
In no case does it look as bad as the Postimage hosted version.

The pixel limit idea seems very reasonable, but it must be something recent. I've hosted tons of pictures on Postimage, but only noticed the wavy line problem when I made the bathroom thread. I was thinking the problem had something to do with Postimage changing its url, but that was quite some time ago and I've hosted a bunch of pictures on the site since then. This picture was taken in June of last year and hosted a month or so later. It doesn't have any wavy line problem & seems as crisp as the original.

[onlyMark]

And yet...... your Flickr photo using my Post Image account -

[onlyMark]

Now there's a conundrum.