Photograph storage

[Kirley]

I've been posting my photographs via Photobucket but I'm getting near the end of my free space. Any suggestion for other free sites I can use to upload my photographs?

[BosKonay]

I find Dropbox excellent.

[Dave]

Dropbox is brilliant, all my devices sync to it. If you recommend it to other people you get extra storage space.

[Broithe]

On my other Forum, it doesn't seem possible to embed a picture from Dropbox - does it work on here?

[Garfield]

Tinypic.com is handy...

 

You should be able to embed a Dropbox link. Just don't go moving the original file around on your hard drive, though...

[WRENNEIRE]

Try opening a second Photobucket account?

[Kirley]

Thanks Guys for the suggestions. I tried Dropbox but can't get my images to show, is there something else you do other than copying the link?

[BosKonay]

I -think- they need to be in your public folder?

[BosKonay]

 

Test

[Broithe]

 

Test

 

I can't see that on the Forum, but I can pick up the link and then view it in another window - that's what happens on my other Forum.

[BosKonay]

[BosKonay]

How about that one?

[Broithe]

That's there for me! - I would be very interested to know what you've done, in a form that will be understood by the highly-paid typists that have failed to get past this problem where I spend the other half of my waking hours. Ta.

[BosKonay]

Moved the image to public folder in my Dropbox.

Asked Dropbox for the link to the image. It gave me a direct URL to the jpg

Over here clicked add image.

Choose from URL.

Paste in the Dropbox link

[Broithe]

Right - I'll pass that on - and let you know if it worked over there - thanks.

[Kirley]

I've moved my image to the Public folder

Clicked share

Get link

Link copied to clipboard

 

still does not show when I paste it.

 

You say,

"Add Image" I can't find that, the only one I see is "Insert Image" but that does not work as well? -HELP!

[BosKonay]

The link should be direct to the image file

[Broithe]

Cheers, makes sense really that only the public one is hot linkable.

 

We've tried a few pictures now - and it seems to work for us too - inter-Forum solidarity!!!

 

Thanks again.

[Broithe]

These are Stafford Forum's first directly embedded Dropbox images - http://www.staffordforum.com/xf/index.php?threads/new-pub-opening-hungry-horse-in-stafford.9920/page-18#post-220649 - we know what's important.....

[BosKonay]

Jaysus now that's a burger :)

[BosKonay]

@Kirley - for me I pick "copy public link" and get a URL at dl.dropboxusercontent.com

 

Then click the Insert Image icon, then paste in the URL (you can optionally click the 'retrieve local copy' check box, and the forum will copy it down from dropbox to link locally

[Kirley]

Thanks Stephen, without your help I would never would have got there. It's a bit more cumbersome than Photobucket but as long as it works...

[Broithe]

Thanks Stephen, without your help I would never would have got there.

 

Seconded - sorted out two forums for the price of one.