Dear X-Air, macdengig, and WeatherCat fans of photos in forum postings,
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU, macdengig!!! It is maddening to me to see so many images posted here with absolute disregard from the space wasted on Stu?s servers and users workload. We are benefiting from Stu?s great software. This forum is a big bonus! The least we can do is reduce the space used on his servers.
If you want a
"super deluxe" way to manage your forum pictures, there are online photo gallery services and make it easy to insert photos in forum postings. Our own Steve Morris got me hooked on
SmugMug. It is a paid service, but it provides unlimited online storage of your photos and some really nice way to display your photos on a number of social media services. All your photos are uploaded at full resolution, and SmugMug does the scaling for you to order. Here is a screenshot of how you generate the BBS code to insert a photo into a forum posting:
Here is the resulting photo inserted into this forum posting:
Just copy the codes from the SmugMug window and paste it into your forum posting -
done!Flickr used to have a similar capability before they were purchased by SmugMug. One of these days I'm going to see if that functionality has been maintained. If so, that would be a free way to manage your photos online and have an elegant way to insert photos in forum postings.
Cheers, Edouard