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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 9, 2020 20:07:56 GMT
 But how? Why? 1) Did you note the wavy lines in the bathroom thread? 2) Has anyone else had Postimage mess up the way it has for me? |
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 9, 2020 20:21:18 GMT
I noted the wavy lines, yes. It has happened to me before. Yet not always and I have at times reuploaded a photo and it came out without the wavy lines.
Have you noticed that when you post a Flickr photo, you can't right or left click on it? Your cursor remains a pointer (if that is how you have it).
So you can't open it up, same with Lugg's photos which I presume are also Flickr - (maybe unless you have a Flickr account and are signed in?)
So if you can't right click and then save the image to your computer and then upload it somewhere else, like onto Post Image, how do you foil the system?
Like I did?
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 9, 2020 20:29:38 GMT
Answer - take a screen shot. Copy and paste to Paint. Save and crop out the rest of the computer screen.
In effect, as you can see, the image on here is little different.
Yet also even when I uploaded to Postimage that photo, there were no wavy lines.
I have had photos that in the raw state, when looked closely at on my pad or (old) phone, there were wavy lines. When I put them on the computer, somehow the programme used, like the normal Microsoft photo thing, the wavy lines were not there.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 9, 2020 20:34:42 GMT
Damn and blast.
I've just tried to save image right click on the Post Image photo as well, and that doesn't work either.
Still don't have a good answer then.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 9, 2020 20:45:13 GMT
Just had another thought.
Is it to do with your camera/phone settings as to how large the photo file is? You can alter the pixels or size so you can get more on the device in the lower resolution than the higher.
If the setting is quite low so you can save a lot of photos, maybe something like this specific one with the curved edges on the leaves shows distortion because of the fewer pixels, if you get me.
Yet when seen on a computer, the programme adjusts somewhat for it. Then when uploaded to Postimage, it's back into it's original state.
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Post by fumobici on Apr 10, 2020 14:44:37 GMT
I noted the wavy lines, yes. It has happened to me before. Yet not always and I have at times reuploaded a photo and it came out without the wavy lines. Have you noticed that when you post a Flickr photo, you can't right or left click on it? Your cursor remains a pointer (if that is how you have it). So you can't open it up, same with Lugg's photos which I presume are also Flickr - (maybe unless you have a Flickr account and are signed in?) So if you can't right click and then save the image to your computer and then upload it somewhere else, like onto Post Image, how do you foil the system? Like I did? Right click disabling via javascript can easily be defeated by pasting the following text into your address window and hitting the Enter key- javascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null);
There are also browser add-ons and extensions that allow you to disable javascript on selected pages. This will also allow you to re-access all right click menu functions. Don't feel bad about using these work-arounds, the practice of disabling right click menus is unethical and poor web practice, and there is no reason to respect it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 10, 2020 15:44:23 GMT
Is it to do with your camera/phone settings as to how large the photo file is? You can alter the pixels or size so you can get more on the device in the lower resolution than the higher. If the setting is quite low so you can save a lot of photos, maybe something like this specific one with the curved edges on the leaves shows distortion because of the fewer pixels, if you get me. The camera is set to take the smallest pictures of the size settings available, which is 2736 x 1824. I don't know what size the phone takes. Whatever it is, it's the default setting & seems awfully big to me. I can pretty much right-click & capture any photo on this forum, regardless of which hosting site it used. |
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 10, 2020 15:44:40 GMT
Right click disabling via javascript can easily be defeated by pasting the following text into your address window and hitting the Enter key- javascript:void(document.oncontextmenu=null); Nope. I must be doing something wrong then even though your instructions are clear. If I go to page 1 of this thread, paste that and hit enter, still cannot right click on either of Bixa's photos at post 22. No menu drop down appears. Can you try it and see? |
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 10, 2020 15:48:16 GMT
Bixa, if you right click on my original post photos, can you capture them?
I can't. No menu appears to do so, yet I can on my avatar photo.
For example, on Lugg's recent photos I can neither right nor left click.
On Mick's recent plant photos I can't right click but can left click to go through to his hosting site - then I can right click.
On my photos right at the start of this thread, I can't right clock but can left click, though it just takes me through to the sign in of Postimage, not the image itself.
Weird.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 10, 2020 17:36:32 GMT
Bixa, if you right click on my original post photos, can you capture them? I can't. No menu appears to do so, yet I can on my avatar photo. For example, on Lugg's recent photos I can neither right nor left click. On Mick's recent plant photos I can't right click Yes, yes, and yes. None of them are a problem. Obviously I am a very special person. But seriously ~?~ |
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 10, 2020 18:58:38 GMT
I can only assume it is one of two things - my computer settings are different or, because you are a mod.
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Post by mickthecactus on Apr 10, 2020 19:05:23 GMT
I can only assume it is one of two things - my computer settings are different or, because you are a mod. Or a rocker.
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Post by fumobici on Apr 10, 2020 19:08:09 GMT
Yeah, it looks like my javascript trick doesn't work on photo hosting sites any longer. It's a cat and mouse game. The wavy lines are called "aliasing". |
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Post by lugg on Apr 10, 2020 19:57:52 GMT
I don't think this answers the initial query but I think that for flickr it all depends on your privacy settings as to whether you can right or left click.
I am going to post a pic on Image bank with no privacy settings - I presume you will be able to right or left click on it - let me know.
botanical images
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Post by fumobici on Apr 10, 2020 20:20:52 GMT
I don't think this answers the initial query but I think that for flickr it all depends on your privacy settings as to whether you can right or left click. I am going to post a pic on Image bank with no privacy settings - I presume you will be able to right or left click on it - let me know. botanical images Right-clicking doesn't bring up a menu for the dandelion fuzzy unless I force java scripts not to run.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 10, 2020 20:41:15 GMT
No problem right-clicking on your picture, Lugg.
Since it was suggested that it was my mod/rocker powers that allowed me to right click, I went over to meetingpot to see what would happen. I didn't sign, jut went on as a guest. It was hard to find pictures to click on there, but I found a bunch in one of Mark's Africa threads. Even though they had the ugly photobucket logo superimposed over them, I was able to right click & open them in untainted form. Then I right clicked on various avatar pictures, again with no problem.
I don't know why I can & some of you all can't. For what it's worth, I'm using the most recent Windows 10 & Opera browser.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 10, 2020 21:15:16 GMT
I've just done the same Bixa and dip tested into various threads where I know there to be photos. I can right click on those I tried including a few Flickr ones, photobucket etc, yet cannot on here. As I have little trouble elsewhere that I know of I'm tending towards the forum settings on here that have been set up - if there is such a thing. A not in depth search shows an old question - support.proboards.com/thread/81885/disable-image-right-clickCan you sign out of here and return not signed in at all like you did with the Pot and see if you still can? |
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Post by dolly on Apr 10, 2020 22:20:02 GMT
Hello, this is Bixa in her non-mod, regular member persona.
On meetingpot I am still able to right-click as much as I want.
But either as a regular member or as a guest on anyport, I cannot effectively right-click on any pictures. I can, however, do so on avatars.
In the Paris thread I left-clicked on one of Kerouac's pictures & the picture opened up in another tab. However, when I tried that with one of Mossie's pictures it took me to the Postimage site -- in fact to my own, signed-in Postimage account.
As far as the forum settings -- I can't recall specifically there being a setting to prevent picture snitching, but I do know that if there is such a setting it would have been activated.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 11, 2020 6:50:40 GMT
Well, hello Dolly. You're lookin' swell, Dolly. But either as a regular member or as a guest on anyport, I cannot effectively right-click on any pictures. I can, however, do so on avatars. Same for me. As a guess I'd say the default position when setting up the forum is to be able to grab the photos and something must have actively, inadvertently or otherwise, matters not, been clicked or pro forma code added to 'disenable' that. As K2 isn't here for now, we'll blame him. At least now we know. |
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 11, 2020 7:06:26 GMT
The camera is set to take the smallest pictures of the size settings available, which is 2736 x 1824. I know very little about cameras and displaying the photos on a screen, and via a hosting site - it's all quite complicated with different links in the chain. I tend to think the above is a factor in the wavy edges no matter how big the photo appears to be, as it is still the smallest camera setting, but if you've only had this problem once out of all the thousands you've taken............. maybe just stay with what works. |
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Post by lugg on Apr 11, 2020 10:25:32 GMT
Well that did not work ; I cannot right or left click on the image I posted so its not about privacy settings.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 11, 2020 10:34:06 GMT
Not your own ones, no.
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Post by lugg on Apr 11, 2020 11:13:38 GMT
Well I've just gone back through images from various posters and some I can right click on and some I cant. Sometimes it just gives me the image itself but sometimes I can see a whole photo stream - images that have not been posted but are in the same album I presume . The host sites varied from flickr, image shake and bucket. But there was no rhyme or reason so I could see some flickr images but not all etc etc.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 11, 2020 13:24:06 GMT
It's probably a rare occurrence though for any of us to need to click on a photo so even though it's a curiosity, no great problem.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 11, 2020 17:49:25 GMT
Well I've just gone back through images from various posters and some I can right click on and some I cant. Sometimes it just gives me the image itself but sometimes I can see a whole photo stream - images that have not been posted but are in the same album I presume . The host sites varied from flickr, image shake and bucket. But there was no rhyme or reason so I could see some flickr images but not all etc etc. I believe that is because of the individual user's settings on the hosting site, but who knows. It's probably a rare occurrence though for any of us to need to click on a photo so even though it's a curiosity, no great problem. Ack-shully, it's not that rare for me to have to right-click on someone elses photo. I don't know if you remember, but I once asked the group if anyone objected to my lifting pictures from here in order to use them on Anyport's facebook page. That's because of the eccentric way facebook chooses pictures to display -- often it makes more sense to select the photos that display well on fb and that give a better idea of the photo report being featured. A good example of that is when I lift pictures in order to make a fb slide show so that the sense of a very long report will be better conveyed, as in this one of your tuk-tuk report: www.facebook.com/336199987477/videos/10155409925182478/?t=2 |
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 11, 2020 18:09:04 GMT
Ah yes.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 17, 2020 20:47:35 GMT
I believe this explains why pictures hosted on Postimage aren't as nice as they used to be: postimages.org/plans |
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 17, 2020 21:30:13 GMT
I saw that this afternoon as I loaded a couple of photos and was going to mention it then got tied up with other things and it slipped my mind.
It may be that this is the thin edge of the wedge and at least I ought to start looking all over again.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 17, 2020 21:36:06 GMT
I am considering paying it. My reservation is wondering if they'll really stay in business another three years. I'm already hostage to Flickr for over two more years.
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Post by onlyMark on Apr 18, 2020 6:20:53 GMT
At least it is a bit more realistic than when Phototwats decided to demand money with menaces.
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